Transportation

By railway:

Zhejiang is served by a railway transport network with Hangzhou as the hub and consisting of several railway lines, respectively running between Shanghai and Hangzhou, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, Xiaoshan and Ningbo, Xuancheng and Hangzhou, Jinhua and Wenzhou and so on. By the end of 2002, 1,207 kilometers of railways had been put into operation, in which 593 kilometers had double tracks.

By highways:

Preparation for key projects including the second phase of the Jinhua-Lishui-Wenzhou Expressway, the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the Wenzhou-Fuzhou Railway and the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou Railway has achieved important progress. The length of the existing six national highways and 66 provincial highways totaled 45,000 kilometers, of which 1,307 kilometers were expressways. The "four-hour highway ring" connecting the provincial capital of Hangzhou with all prefectural cities on the land area has been realized. Zhejiang is served with seven airports located in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Zhoushan, Yiwu, Taizhou and Quzhou and linked up with the outside by 185 domestic and international air routes. The first-phase project of the Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport with a handling capacity of 14.5 million passengers annually has been commissioned.

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