|
Communications
|
| |
Inland shipping figures prominently in the transport system of Guangdong whose rivers have a navigable length of 16,000 kilometers. With the Zhujiang River as the trunk, the radiating water transport network composed of the Xijiang, Beijiang, Dongjiang and the numerous other rivers on the Zhujiang Delta serves half of the province's regions. Guangdong has a maritime transport service which serves its coastal regions as well as foreign trade. Of its 100 or more harbors, the major ones are Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Shantou, Basuo, Haikou and Sanya. Huangpu Port at Guangzhou and the newly built Zhanjiang Port are important foreign trade ports in south China. The Huangpu and Zhanjiang harbors each have 12 and 8 berths capable of accommodating ships above the.10,000-ton class. Railway mileage is not long in Guangdong where there are the Beijing-Guangzhou, Guangzhou-Kowloon, Litang-Zhanjiang and Guangzhou-Sanshui railways. Guangdong with its road mileage of 31,000 kilometers is among the provinces with the most developed highway systems where practically all the rural people's communes can be reached by bus. Communications between Guangzhou and Hongkong are very convenient.
(china.org.cn)
|
|
|
