China to add 25,000 km of oil and gas pipelines by 2010

China plans to build another 25,000 kilometers of oil and gas pipelines by
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2010 to support economic development, said the China Petroleum Pipeline Bureau
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__I+\`r.Vz| 40,000kilometers at present, said Su Shifeng, director of the CPPLB, which is a
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