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Infrastructures
Environmental Protection
Gardening and greening up
The Hexi New City Area
Transportation
Railway
Highway
Waterways
Nanjing No.3 Yangtze River Bridge
Civil aviation
Pipeline
In-city Transportation
Post, Telephone and
Telecommunication
Characteristics are becoming more outstanding; and the living environment is getting better with each passing day. In 2002, an investment of 18.1 billion yuan, a record high investment, was made in the urban construction, used for a total of 170 projects, of which 150 projects were the infrastructure projects. In redeveloping the old city, the historical sites and buildings have been well preserved and repaired, which have now shown even greater their historical values. The new city and the three new districts are growing up rapidly around the old.
Environmental Protection
Very remarkable results have been achieved in the comprehensive treatment of the environmental pollution in Nanjing. The level of increasing greenery to, beautifying and lighting up the city has been raised to a new high. The comprehensive control of the the environmental infrastructure construction has met the requirements of the urban development; and the emission and discharge of industrial pollutants have been initially brought up to the standard. In recent years, big investment has been made into the environmental protection. Over 700 pollution treatment facilities (plants) have been constructed, such as the Xuanwu Lake project and the Inner Qinhuai River project. All the lakes and rivers have been dredged, and the wastewater blocked from discharging il protection in 2003. 10 big environmental protection projects will be constructed, and efforts will be made to attain the goal of building Nanjing into an ideal city for people to live and work in. The natural scenic spots preservation areas will be expanded.
Gardening and greening up
In 2002, an area of 2.64 million square meters of the greens was increased. The green per capita is 9.5 square meters now. The above figures are at the top of all the municipals and provincial capitals in China.
In recent years many green civic squares have been built. Now there are over 50 of them, such as the Hanzhongmen Square, the Sun Light Square and the Moon Light Square, with a total coverage of over 1 million square meters. The civic squares are of difference.
The Hexi New City Area
The new city area at the west side of the Qinhuai River covers an area of 56 square kilometers. Everything is set high for it: high starting point for its planning, high standard for its construction, high investment into its infrastructures, and high effective management; through joint development and integration, the new city area will become a model area of the new and modern Nanjing after 5-10 year construction.
Up to now, 1.7 billion yuan of investment have been used in the planning, infrastructure construction and projects development for the new city area.
Transportation
Nanjing is at the key juncture of the railways in East China; the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, the Nanjing No.2 Yangtze River Bridge and the largest electrified and mechanized modern marshal yard for freight trains connect the railways and highways on both sides of the Yangtze River. The four trunk railways of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Railway, Nanjing-Tongling Railway and Anhui-Jiangxi Railway all meet in Nanjing, linking up all the national trunk railways and the big and medium-sized cities. Therefore, it is an important railway hub connecting the Central China, East China and North China. The railway transportation volume is rising each year, and all the passenger and freight trains have accelerated their speed. The passenger trains (including the passengers changing their trains in Nanjing) are running from Nanjing to over 20 municipalities, provinces and autonomous regions in China, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong Province, Heilongjiang Province and Xinjiang Autonomous Region.
Highway
A network of expressways has been built up, one after the other, such as the new expressways of Shanghai-Nanjing, Nanjing-Ma'anshan-Wuhu, and Nanjing-Gaocun. The road rebuilding projects of the Nanjing-Luhe Highway, the Nanjing-Lianyungang Highway and the Nanjing-Nantong Highway have been completed, having upgraded the grades of those highways have been upgraded and more built up, a modern highway network has initially formed, which is based on the pattern of the expressways plus Grade I highways.
Waterways
The special railway is 1 kilometer long; 7500 meters are for loading and unloading inside the yard. The oil transportation dock, the coal dock and the dock for foreign trade are the largest on the Yangtze River.
Now under construction is the containers loading and unloading dock at Longtan, into which an investment of over 1 billion yuan will be made. It is planned to build 3 berths for 10000t class vessels, and 2 berths for 1000t class vessels, with a design capacity of handling 520,000 standard containers a year. The construction is scheduled to complete in 2003.
There is 1 berth for 10000t class ships and 1 berth for 1000t class ships at the Xinshengwei harbor in Nanjing for buses roll on-off ferryboats. Its designed handling capacity is 363,000 vehicles, which is largest of its kind on the Yangtze River, and is the important passage for vehicles transportation. Nanjing Harbor has good facilities for concentrating and dispersing goods, with various transport means. Through the waterway, it connects the Yangtze River and many branch rivers; it has established close business connections with many foreign ports; there are scheduled containers-carrying ships between the international ports of Japan, South Korea and some other countries. The port railway connects with the national railway network; its highway connects all the highways, and the Shangdong-Nanjing oil pipeline ends at the port. Nanjing Harbor has connections with 165 ports in 80 countries and regions; a rapid development has been seen in the transportation of export goods and containers.
Nanjing Changjiang Oil Transportation Corporation is a large state-owned backbone shipment enterprise that is engaged in transporting oil and oil products for ocean-going, coastal and on the Yangtze River. It possesses 370 boats of various kinds, with a total dead weight tonnage of 1.4 million tons. It has an annual shipment capacity of 40 million tons, and a total asset of 4.5 billion yuan. While striving to expand its international oil transportation business, it is also actively developing business of oil storage, distribution, agency, and trade.
The Nanjing No.3 Yangtze River Bridge
The construction of the Nanjing No.3 Yangtze River Bridge broke the ground at the end of 2002. The No.3 Bridge is located at the site of 19 kilometers up-river from the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge. The construction of the No.3 Bridge will have great signiYangtze River, and for enhancing economic connections between the east, the central and the west parts of China.
Civil Aviation
Nanjing airport is one of the important airports in China. On the domestic aviation network, there are 78 air flight routes connecting over 40 cities in over 20 municipalities, provinces and autonomous regions and Hong Kong and Macao. The major Chinese airliners have main through-flights between Nanjing Lukou Airport and the airports in large and medium cities. The Hong Kong Dragon Airline Co., Ltd. and the Macao Airline Co., Ltd. have flights from Nanjing to Hong Kong, Macao, Taipei and Kaosiung. The Korea Asian Airline and the Eastern Airline Jiangsu branch, have passenger flights from Nanjing to Seoul (South Korea) twice a week. There are at least 2 flights every day from Nanjing to Hong Kong; unscheduled chartered flights can fly from Nanjing to Nagoya and Miyazahi (Japan). There are freight flights from Nanjing to Winnipeg (Canada) and to Moscow (Russia); and the international tourism chartered flights are also flown from Nanjing to Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok.
In 2002, 3.17 million passengers boarded their flights at Nanjing Lukou Airport. Its throughput cargo and mails was 67900 tons. Nanjing Lukou International Airport has become one of the important trunk line airports in China, a backup airport for the Hongqiao and Pudong Airports of Shanghai, and one of the important freight airports in East China.
In-city Transportation
The transportation infrastructure in Nanjing city has been remarkably upgraded. The road construction and the quality maintenance are in the lead in the whole province. The total length of the urban roads amounts to 2468 kilometers; its position as a central city in the region has initially established. The total length of the public transportation routes is 1638 kilometers; there are 3890 public buses running daily. Nanjing is appraised as a city of first rate in managing the transportation in the nationalfixed telecommunication services, local wireless circuit, the telecommunication network-based communication of spoken languages, data and images, and multimedia communication and information services. Through the earth satellite, important sports games can be relayed to all parts of the country and every country in the world. Nanjing is the first city in China to open the wide band LAN service, and high-speed access to Internet is being spread to all parts of the city. Now the total capacity of the switchers amounts to 2.46 million phones, and there are 1.82 million actual phone users; the Internet users are more than 400,000 now. Equipped with multiple communication modes, the city has really entered an era of multimedia communication. Nanjing has also established business relationships of express mail service with over 200 countries and regions; and an airmail transit station has been set up at the Nanjing Lukou International Airport.
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