China : Explore One of the biggest and largest transportations movement in the world

Image of 20 high-speed trains inside rail maintenance station in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Expects the official authorities in China that there will be 3 billion a journey between the cities in China during the current holiday period, which begins on Saturday and ends on the 21st of the month next February.This nomadic include transportation such as trains and planes, local buses that reach the villages in China and used by the 1.4 billion Chinese citizens.

Beijing International Airport, or Beijing Capital

It has three terminals, the third one was inaugurated on 29 February 2008.

With a traffic of approximately 73.9 million passengers, the airport ranked second in the world in 2010, behind the Atlanta airport, a gain of 6 seats and an increase of more than 32% in passenger traffic. Compared to 2008. Since 2009, it has also become the first Asian airport, passing Tokyo Haneda. However, its activity is essentially domestic, the international remaining at the second level.

The Donghai Bridge "Great Eastern Sea Bridge") in China was the longest sea bridge in the world in 2005 (the Hangzhou Bay Bridge opened in June 2008 is 35.6 km long and the Haiwan Bridge in the Jiaozhou Bay in Yellow Sea opened in 2010 measures 41.85 km).

It connects the city of Shanghai to the Yangshan Islands, on which the port of Yangshan, the largest deep-water port of Yangshan, is being built on 32.5 km - of which 26 km is continuous over the sea. world. It was inaugurated on 1 December 2005.

Much of the transport system in China has been built since the creation of the People's Republic in 1949 and especially since the early 1980s. Rail, which is the main mode of transport in the country before 1950, Had 21,800 km of railway lines. In 2009, the railway network has since been extended to 86,000 km. Air transport has also grown strongly since the late 1990s. At the same time, the government expanded the motorway network to more than 65,000 km in 2009. China thus has the second largest motorway network in the world, after the United States.

However, the equipment of the country in these infrastructures varies greatly according to the region, with important local disparities, the less well equipped regions are thus the west of the country, notably the Tibet by its relief then Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Yunnan. The most served regions are the urban areas of the west, in the region between the metropolises of Wuhan, Shanghai, Xi'an and Harbin.

In 2005, the passenger traffic, in person kilometers traveled, is 53% in the road, including transport by bus, 34% in the railway and 13% in the air. Freight in tonne-kilometers is 55% in rail, 24% in road, 15% in cabotage, 5% in river transport and 1% in oil and gas pipelines.