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China National Highway 108

road in China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ1726486
Source-derived summary

China National Highway 108 (G108) is a National Highway which connects Beijing through Chengdu to Kunming. In Beijing it is known as Jingyuan Road.

It leaves Beijing at Fuxingmen and heads for Yamenkou, before heading into hillier terrain and leaving Beijing altogether. It runs for approximately 3331 km. Both Tanzhe Temple and Jietai Temple are located nearby.

The section to the 4th Ring Road (Beijing) is under construction as a city express road, and the same applies for the stretch to the 6th Ring Road.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “China National Highway 108” is road in China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through China, National and Highway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 85-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, China, National and Highway is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “road in China” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1726486. Authority coordinates are 36.098, 111.519. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from China National Highway 108” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.