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FUJIAN, CHINA

Source: Ministry of Commerce Website

Communications and Infrastructure

Aviation

Fujian has two international airports,i.e Fuzhou airport and Xiamen airport. In 2005, their transportation ability reached to 3,391,800 and 6,285,700 people respectively.There are four branch airports in Wuyi Mountain, Jinjiang, Liancheng and Shanming.Fujian has already opened more than 200 domestic and international routes. Over 300 aircrafts operate on these routes. The airport in Xiamen became the fifth city in China to open air routes to America, following Beijing,Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Harbors

Over 160 commercial shipping linesoperate from the Fujian province. Fujian has the most advantageous conditions in China to construct deep water harbours. Over 47 kilometres of the coastline is favourable to the installation of large deep sea ports, with 80 berths for ships of up to 200,000 tons.The largest deep water ports are in Xiamen,Fuzhou, Meizhou Bay and Sanduao, among which the Xiamen Harbor is one of the ten largest harbors in China. Furthermore,54 other ports can accommodate ships of 10,000 tons or more and they provide easy commercial shipping to all the domestic ports. Fuzhou and Xiamen offer direct sailing services to Taiwan and Gaoxiong.The coastal areas have regular daily ferry services to Jinmen and Mazu islands. Taking advantage of those features, the throughput reached 196 million tons with over 4.9248 million standard containers in 2005.

Road Transport

Up to the end of 2005, the road network totalled 58,286 kilometres. Most counties and urban areas are connected to a major highway within one hour drive.Nine prefecture-level cities in Fujian are all within four hours drive to the capital city. Fujian benefi ts from 1,210 kilometres of divided highways: the Fujian part of the Tong-San highway (i.e.Tongjiang,Heilongjiang Province to Sanya, Hainan Province) to Guangzhou, the Fujian section of the Fujian �C Beijing expressway, and the Tianjing-Fujian, Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou-Zhao’an and Xiamen-Kunming expressways.

Railways

Fujian has 7 national railway linesl inkedtonat ionalrailwaynetwork ,totalled 1,630 kilometres, including the Ying-Xia, Heng-Nan, Mei-Kan and Gan-Long provincial railways. The volume of passenger traffic is 14.86 million people,and the freight amount is 36.01 million tones. There are fi ve 5 provincial railways serving within the province. In addition to those, two high-speed lines, the Fu-Xia (Fuzhou to Xiamen) has been started and the Long-Xia (Longyan to Xiamnen) railway will be started as well.

Finance and Insurance

At the end of 2005, there were over 5,673 banking financial institutions and agencies in Fujian, employing 80,100 people. The total assets had reached over RMB 1.0376 trillion, with RMB 765.4 billion in deposits and a loan balance of RMB 541.3 billion.

The insurance industry is healthy and developing well. There are 20 insurance companies in the Fujian market. Among

them, 10 are property insurance and 9 are life insurance companies. There are 52 insurance professional intermediaries and 317 branch organizations.