The Shitai Expressway links Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang

Shijiazhuang is the capital and largest city of North China's Hebei province. Administratively a prefecture-level city, it is about south of Beijing...

, capital of China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

's Hebei

Hebei

' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...

 province, to Taiyuan

Taiyuan

Taiyuan is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province in North China. At the 2010 census, it had a total population of 4,201,591 inhabitants on 6959 km² whom 3,212,500 are urban on 1,460 km². The name of the city literally means "Great Plains", referring to the location where the Fen River...

 in the west, capital of Shanxi

Shanxi

' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....

 province.

Spanning a distance of over 150 kilometres, it passes through Jiuguan, Niangzi Pass, Pingding, Yangquan

Yangquan

Yangquan is a prefecture-level city in the Shanxi province of China. Situated to the west side of Taihang Mountain, Yangquan occupies a total area of 4,470 square kilometers and is home to a population of about 1.3 million . Yangquan is rich in mineral resources and is famous for its smokeless coal...

, Shouyang and Jinzhong

Jinzhong

Jinzhong is a prefecture-level city with 3,249,425 inhabitants at the 2010 census in east central Shanxi province of the People's Republic of China.-Administrative divisions:...

 before arriving at Taiyuan.

It is also known in Shanxi as the Taijiu Expressway (from Taiyuan to Jiuguan).

It links with the ring road expressway near Taiyuan, ultimately linking north to the Dayun Expressway

Dayun Expressway

Dayun Expressway is the largest expressway structure in China's Shanxi province.It enters Shanxi as the Xuanda Expressway until approaching Datong , becoming the Dayun Expressway afterwards. It ultimately ends at Rongcheng .The expressway passes through Datong, Shuozhou, Taiyuan, Lüliang,...

 heading toward Datong

Datong

Datong is a prefecture-level city in northern Shanxi Province of North China, located a few hundred kilometres west by rail from Beijing with an elevation of...

, and southwest toward the Jiaofen Expressway and the Dayun Expressway

Dayun Expressway

Dayun Expressway is the largest expressway structure in China's Shanxi province.It enters Shanxi as the Xuanda Expressway until approaching Datong , becoming the Dayun Expressway afterwards. It ultimately ends at Rongcheng .The expressway passes through Datong, Shuozhou, Taiyuan, Lüliang,...

 heading south toward Yuncheng.