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Up to 40,000 trucks and cars were stuck bumper-to-bumper in Beijing, in a traffic jam that lasted nine days and stretched up to 100km.
The stalled traffic was stretched between Jining in Inner Mongolia and Huai'an in Hebei province, north-west of Beijing, according to the BBC .
The congestion had been caused by maintenance work on an expressway that had another month's worth of construction left to complete.
The repair work was necessary due to an increase in lorries carrying coal using the road from inner Mongolia.
Local entrepreneurs had cashed in on the jam, selling stuck motorists over-priced food and water.
However, the situation had "basically returned to normal," the BBC quoted China's state television as saying.
