Infrastructure
Jiangsu has coordinated efforts in advancing the pilot project of boosting China’s strength in transportation and building a transportation modernization demonstration zone. The province has accelerated steps to develop a comprehensive modern transportation system with the first batch of pilot projects to build China into a transport country all passing the acceptance, moving further toward a leading province in transportation.
The comprehensive transportation network has been further improved. Highways now interconnect all counties and towns with a population of over 100,000. The province has topped the country with the highest proportion of national and provincial level trunk roads. Our highway network spanned 159,000 km, of which 5,128 km was expressway. Railway infrastructure has expanded to 4623.2 km, with 2541.4 km dedicated to high-speed rail. All 13 cities have been connected through bulletin trains and a comprehensive railway system has basically taken shape. A total of 35 urban rail transit lines have been opened in nine cities, totaling 1,085.6 km in length. We now have nine transport airports and eight A1 general airports in operation. The Lianyungang - Xuzhou – Huai’an integrated hub has made into the second batch of cities to bolster and supplement the industrial and logistic chains in support of national comprehensive freight hubs.
Water transport is characterized by more distinctive features. The inland waterway network spanned approximately 24,000 km, accounting for about 1/5 of the national total, of which waterways at Level Ⅰ to Ⅶ covered 8,814 km, accounting for about 1/7 of the national total, ranking first in both mileage and density. The Yangtze River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal are two national water transport arteries traversing the province. Spanning 365 km from east to west, the Yangtze River, alongside the 687 km Beijing-Hangzhou Canal running from north to south, formed integral part of the highly efficient “Golden Waterway” network. The Jiangsu section of the Yangtze River takes up 1/7 of its total mileage, handling 70% of the total transportation volume. The trunk waterway at Level III and above spanned 2,576 km, connecting 85% of the cities at county level and above and 57% of the development zones at provincial level and above. Up to 86% of the province’s planned route mileage has been incorporated into the national port and channel masterplan. The province boasts 6,695 production berths, including 584 berths accommodating vessels of 10,000-tonnage and above, and seven ports each with an annual throughput exceeding 200 million tons. The comprehensive annual handling capacity of these ports reached 2.81 billion tons,with an actual annual throughout of 3.51 billion tons. A total of 18 cross-Yangtze River passageways have been built, with 10 more underway, facilitating connectivity across all cities by the River.
Rural roads have been upgraded following high standard. We have carried out demonstrations of rural road construction in 15 counties, cities and districts. A total of 3,064 km of rural roads has been upgraded or newly built. The total mileage of rural roads is about 140,000 km, and the accessibility rate of two-lane four-level roads in villages is planned to reach 98.4%. Thirty counties (cities and districts) have become national demonstration counties of high-quality rural roads. The pilot project of high-quality development of rural roads took the lead in passing the acceptance and was rated as “excellent”. We promoted the integrated development of rural roads with industry, ecology and culture, significantly improved the traffic conditions and road environment, and further reinforced the construction, maintenance and transportation system.
Mobility Service
New breakthroughs have been made in integrating rural and urban transport. Jiangsu has topped the country in terms of the sheer number of buses, routes and operating mileages. All counties (cities and districts) have achieved AAAAA ratings in urban-rural transport integration. Up to 74 inter-provincial bus routes in the Yangtze River Delta have been put into operation, reaching 73.7% of the neighboring counties (cities and districts) within the province. Nanjing, Suzhou, Kunshan, Changzhou and Yangzhou have been honored as “National Demonstration City for the Development of Public Transportation in Urban Areas”. Yixing, Yangzhong, Haimen, Yandu and Taicang have become national demonstration counties for the integration of urban and rural transport. Jiangsu has been among the top in terms of people’s satisfaction with public transport for many years.
Green transport has been advanced across the board. A total of 59 service areas on national and provincial highways have been built under the brand of “Highway Post House”. There were another 158 ordinary service areas on national and provincial highways, and 68.3% of them were equipped with charging devices for electric vehicles. A total of 115 highway service areas had accessibility facilities on both sides of the highways. All the 439 highway toll stations in the province issued electronic receipts. Intelligent sensing facilities have been built up for all the main waterways, such as the Jiangsu section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Huaihe River estuary channel. A total of 4,000 kilometers of electronic waterway charts for inland rivers have been drawn, including those for all the main waterways at Grade III or above in the province. A waterway transportation control and monitoring system has been built, enabling main inland waterways across the province to be monitored and controlled. Nanjing and other ten cities were awarded as national green transport cities. Nanjing Port Longtan Container Corporation Limited was honored a five-star China Green Port, becoming the country’s first inland port to receive such award.
