The Chinese Ministry of Communications has given the green light to emergency coal transportation on roads and waterways linking coal centers with the major parts of the country, and with the two newly opened road expressways.

　　The MOC said in Beijing yesterday that the two expressways for emergency coal transportation both start at Datong in Shanxi Province, one of China's coal cities, extending north via different cities to Beijing, and then to the Tianjin harbor, where the coal will be dispatched to the coastal areas in eastern or southern China by vessels.