An increasingly advanced transportation system is handling massive human and cargo movements within China. Here is a collection of transport statistics. All data for 2007 unless otherwise stated.
Highways: World's second-largest system at 3.58 million km, of which 53,900 km were expressways. Passenger capacity exceeded 20.5 billion and freight volume reached 16.4 billion tonnes.
Railways: Total length 78,000 km, of which 24,400 km were electrified, ranking third after Russia and Germany. Length in service 6 percent of world total but carried 25 percent of world traffic. Ridership was 1.36 billion, up 8 percent year-on-year. Freight volume 3.12 billion tonnes, up 8.6 percent.
Fastest train runs 350 km (217 miles) per hour between the capital, Beijing, and neighboring Tianjin.
Subways: Six cities have subways -- Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Taipei and Nanjing. Systems under construction in eight other cities.
Beijing system ridership exceed 613 million.
Ports: Thirteen ports, each with annual throughput exceeding 100 million tonnes; eight among world's top 50 container ports (including Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian and Qingdao). Total throughput at Shanghai 560 million tonnes. More than 3,800 port berths, of which more than 1,000 are above 1,000 tonnes.
Merchant fleet total deadweight tonnage 60 million, fourth in world.
Airlines: Routes total 1,506, of which 1,216 were domestic and 290 were international connecting 91 cities. Airports total 152, handling 185.8 million persons, 4.02 million tonnes of cargo.
Five privately-run airlines and six joint ventures.
Source:Xinhua
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