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Communications
Railroads: total about 54,000 km common carrier lines; 53,400
km 1.435-meter standard gauge; 600 km 1.000-meter gauge;
all single track except 11,200 km double track on standard-gauge
lines; 6,500 km electrified; 10,000 km industrial lines
(gauges range from 0.762 to 1.067 meters).
Highways: about 980,000 km all types roads; 162,000 km paved
roads, 617,200 km gravel/improved earth roads, 200,800 km
unimproved natural earth roads and tracks.
Inland waterways: 138,600 km; about 109,800 km navigable.
Pipelines: crude, 6,500 km; refined products, 1,100 km;
natural gas, 6,200 km.
Ports: Dalian, Guangzhou, Huangpu, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao,
Shanghai, Xingang, Zhanjiang, Ningbo.
Merchant marine: 1,373 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
13,303,685 GRT/20,092,833 DWT; includes 25 passenger, 41
short-sea passenger, 17 passenger-cargo, 7 cargo/training,
766 cargo, 10 refrigerated cargo, 65 container, 17 roll-on/roll-off
cargo, 3 multifunction barge carriers, 173 petroleum, oils, and
lubricants (POL) tanker, 9 chemical tanker, 237 bulk, 2 vehicle
carrier, 1 liquefied gas; note--China beneficially owns an additional
175 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling approximately 5,380,415 DWT
that operate under the registry of Panama, UK, Hong Kong, Liberia,
and Malta.
Airports: 330 total, 330 usable; 260 with permanent-surface
runways; fewer than 10 with runways over 3,500 m; 90 with
runways 2,440-3,659 m; 200 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: domestic and international services
are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed
internal system serves principal cities, industrial centers,
and most townships; 11,000,000 telephones (December 1989);
stations--274 AM, unknown FM, 202 (2,050 relays) TV; more
than 215 million radio receivers; 75 million TVs; satellite
earth stations--4 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean
INTELSAT, and 55 domestic.