|
Over the past years, remarkable improvement has been achieved in the moderately future-oriented development of infrastructures.
■Highways.
Anhui Province has built a total mileage of 148,400 km highways, including 2206 km expressways. Within a range of 500 kms around the provincial capital city of Hefei, there locate quite a number of large and medium-sized cities including Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou, Changzhou, Wuxi, Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Hangzhou, Jiujiang, Nanchang, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and Jinan etc, which can be reached within 2 to 5 hours’ drive. During “the Eleventh-Five-Year Plan”, Anhui Province will invest some RMB 100 billion yuan in road construction including 1,800 km expressways, so that the total expressway mileage would be extended to over 3500 km by 2010.
■Railways.
With the truck railway lines of Beijing-Shanghai, Beijing-Kowloon, Euro-Asia Continental Bridge & Nanjing-Xi’an passing through Anhui, the province is recorded the greatest in railway density and the longest in railway mileage.
|
 |
■Airways.
There are 2 international airports in Anhui Province: Hefei Airport, Huangshan Airport, and six airports such as An’qing Airport, Fuyang Airport, which provide direct flight services to many large and medium-sized cities.
■Water transportation.
There are three major river systems of Changjiang, Huaihe and Xin’anjiang in Anhui, which provides great potential for inland water transportation development. Along the approximately 400 km premium watercourse of the Changjiang River, there are 5 international ports: Ma'anshan port ,Wuhu port, Tongling port,Chizhou port and Anqing port .
■ Telecommunications.
Anhui Province has built an advanced principal telecommunications network based on program-controlled telephone network, long-distance digital transmission network and cellular service network etc. In 2007, there are 14.943 million fixed-line telephone subscribers,14.1 million cellular service subscribers and 1.559 million internet users.
■ Power supply.
The installed generating capacity is up to 19.05 million kw in 2007, with power generation of 86.8 billion kwh.
|
