[Brazil will invest more than 70 billion reais in road and rears] Transport Minister Renan Filo said public investment in roads and railways could reach 70 billion reais over the next four years after the government's new fiscal framework is launched. To this end, the federal government will announce a new concession model to achieve breakthroughs in infrastructure projects. The transport minister stressed that the first thing is to stop the deterioration of infrastructure. Re-improving the condition of existing roads can achieve the purpose of ensuring competitiveness to a certain extent. Today 66 percent of Brazil's roads are rated as poor or very poor, and we hope to reduce that to 20 percent by the end of Lula's current term. The billions budgeted for public works in the coming years also include PPP (public-private partnership) projects, which are spread across the country and number in the thousands. Most of them are highway projects, Renan said, These include BR 116 (Rio Grande do Sul), BR 101 (from Rio Grande do Sul to southern Brazil), BR 158 and BR 242 (Mato Grosso), BR 364 (through Rondonia and Acre) and the Transamazonica Highway. The railway project will be dominated by private investment, and only the Fiol project will be led by government investment. Editor/Xu Shengpeng

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