Fujian Infrastructure
Fujian Aviation
Fujian has two international airports, i.e Fuzhou airport and Xiamen airport. There are four branch airports in Wuyi Mountain, Jinjiang, Liancheng and Shanming. Fujian has already opened more than 200 domestic and international routes. Over 300 aircrafts operate on these routes. The airport in Xiamen became the fifth city in China to open air routes to America, following Beijing,Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
Fujian Harbors
Over 160 commercial shipping linesoperate from the Fujian province. Fujian has the most advantageous conditions in China to construct deep water harbours. Over 47 kilometres of the coastline is favourable to the installation of large deep sea ports, with 80 berths for ships of up to 200,000 tons. The largest deep water ports are in Xiamen, Fuzhou, Meizhou Bay and Sanduao, among which the Xiamen Harbor is one of the ten largest harbors in China. Furthermore, 54 other ports can accommodate ships of 10,000 tons or more and they provide easy commercial shipping to all the domestic ports. Fuzhou and Xiamen offer direct sailing services to Taiwan and Gaoxiong. The coastal areas have regular daily ferry services to Jinmen and Mazu islands.
Road Transport
Up to the end of 2005, the road network totalled 58,286 kilometres. Most counties and urban areas are connected to a major highway within one hour drive. Nine prefecture-level cities in Fujian are all within four hours drive to the capital city. Fujian benefits from 1,210 kilometres of divided highways: the Fujian part of the Tong-San highway (i.e.Tongjiang, Heilongjiang Province to Sanya, Hainan Province) to Guangzhou, the Fujian section of the Fujian C Beijing expressway, and the Tianjing-Fujian, Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Zhao'an and Xiamen-Kunming expressways.
Railways
Fujian has 7 national railway lines linked to national railway network, totalled 1,630 kilometres, including the Ying-Xia, Heng-Nan, Mei-Kan and Gan-Long provincial railways. The volume of passenger traffic is 14.86 million people, and the freight amount is 36.01 million tones. There are five provincial railways serving within the province. In addition to those, two high-speed lines, the Fu-Xia (Fuzhou to Xiamen) has been started and the Long-Xia (Longyan to Xiamen) railway will be started as well.
Electricity
Fujian is rich in natural resources to generate electricity power, and thus has abundant electricity supply. The Fujian electricity network connects with the East national network. The supply of electric power is abundant. In 2005 the installed capacity was 17,580,000 kilowatts. Plentiful electricity power resources make Fujian an exporter of electricity to other provinces.
Telecom
The telecom services in Fujian occupy a national leading position. In 2005, Fujian had 13,990,000 line phone subscribers in all urban and rural areas which could dial direct calls to more than 180 regions and countries. The mobile phone network covers the whole province. The number of mobile phone users reached 13,020,000. The market penetration for users of line phones and mobile phones was 39.85 percent and 37.08 percent respectively.
Internet
The whole Fujian province has built 34 optical cable lines and 20 digital microwave lines are already. The total length of optical cable is 10,000 kilometres which connect all counties and cities. Fujian has over 3,190,000 Internet users.
Source : Ministry of Commerce People's Republic of China
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