During the past twenty years, 27.4 billion RMB have been invested in the infra-structure construction, and this has made great changes on the municipal construction in Shantou.

Today ten-thousand-ton-ships can sail directly into Shantou port, our railways have been connected with the national railway network, the supply of electric power is adequate and our post and telecommunications have stepped into the national front. The sea transportation combines with the land and air transportation to form a three-dimensional communication network. High-level planning, large-scale investment and rapid construction have greatly improved the investment environment of our city.

SEAPORT

Shantou Port is one of the 20 pivotal ports confirmed by the Ministry of Communications. It owns thirty-one 5,000-ton berths, including nine 10,000-ton deep-water berths. The total annual handling capacity reaches22,150 thousand tons and it can handle 725 thousand containers every year. Shantou Port has cargo business with 210 ports of 53 countries and regions in the world.

The completion and operation of Guangzhou-Meizhou-Shantou Railway and Meizhou-Kanshi Railway has made Shantou the railway communication center in east Guangdong connecting Shenzhen and Guangzhou to the west, Zhanzhou and Xiamen to the east, directly to Beijing to the north and the deep-water port in the city. Trains go to all parts of the country every day. The national highways No.324 and No.206 pass across Shantou and spread to all parts of our country. The Gulf Bridge and Shenzhen-Shantou Expressway connect three special economic zones of Shantou, Xiamen and Shenzhen, forming an important part of the backbone railways on southeastern coast. The highway density of our city is 83 km per hundred sq/km. All national and provincial highways have been paved cement. There are 176 passenger transportation lines and 3,400 buses running to the main cities in south China, east China and southwest China

Shantou Airport has become one of the domestic main airports after reconstruction, suitable for large planes like Boeing 737 and 757. There are 44 airlines from Shantou to 40 domestic cities and 4 countries and regions such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, which have the annual transportation capacity of 3 million passengers. In 2000, it transported 1.044 million passengers. Shantou has set up Shantou Civil Aviation Co. Ltd., which is affiliated to China South Civil Aviation (Group) and owns four Boeing 737 planes.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Shantou has established a telecommunication structure with large capacity digital transmission by optical fiber cables, microwaves, satellite telecommunications, telephones program-exchanged, terminals intelligence-controlled and business computer-managed. It owns a modern and multifunctional telecommunication network. New telecommunication business has been opened and developed rapidly, such as group telephones exchanging, digital data transmission, E-mail and internet.

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