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| CHINESE TRANSPORTATION STATS: |
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Aircraft departures
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840,900 |
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[3rd of 155]
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Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m
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22 |
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[19th of 117]
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Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
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36 |
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[8th of 99]
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Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m
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40 |
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[25th of 137]
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Highways > Paved
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314,204 km |
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[7th of 171]
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Highways > Total
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1,402,700 km |
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[4th of 181]
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Motor vehicles
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10 motor vehicles per 100 p |
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[108th of 134]
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Ports and harbors
Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou, Huangpu, Lianyungang, Nanjing, Nantong, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shantou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wenzhou, Xiamen, Xingang, Yantai, Zhanjiang (2001) |
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Roads, goods transported > million ton-km
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869,320 million ton-km
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[1st of 52]
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Roads, passengers carried > million passenger-km
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769,560 million passenger-km
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[5th of 33]
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Roads, paved > % of total roads
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82.5 %
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[2nd of 163]
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Roads, total network > km
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1,930,543 km
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[1st of 172]
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Roadways > Paved
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1,515,797 km
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[3rd of 205]
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Roadways > Total
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1,870,661 km
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[3rd of 222]
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Roadways > Unpaved
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354,864 km
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[6th of 175]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
involved in complex dispute with Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, and possibly Brunei over the Spratly Islands; the 2002 "Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea" has eased tensions but falls short of a legally binding "code of conduct" desired by several of the disputants; most of the rugged, militarized boundary with India is in dispute, but the two sides are committed to begin resolution with discussions on the least disputed Middle Sector; Kashmir remains the world's largest and highly militarized territorial dispute with portions under the de facto administration of China (Aksai Chin), India (Jammu and Kashmir), and Pakistan (Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas), but recent discussion and confidence-building measures among parties are beginning to defuse tensions, India does not recognize Pakistan's ceding lands to China in a 1964 boundary agreement; China and Taiwan continue to assert their claims to the Japanese-administered Senkaku Islands (Diaoyu Tai) with increased media coverage and protest actions; certain islands in Yalu and Tumen rivers are in an uncontested dispute with North Korea and a section of boundary around Mount Paektu is indefinite - China has been attempting to manage illegal migration of North Koreans into northern China; China and Russia in 2004 resolved their last border dispute over islands in the Amur and Argun Rivers, but details on demarcation have not yet been worked-out; boundary delimitation agreements signed in 2002 with Tajikistan cedes 1,000 sq km of Pamir Mountain range to China in return for China's relinquishing claims to 28,000 sq km, but demarcation has not commenced; agreements with Vietnam demarcating maritime boundaries and fisheries cooperation in the Gulf of Tonkin were ratified in June, and demarcation of the land boundary continues; China occupies some of the Paracel Islands also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan; in response to groups in Burma and Thailand expressing concern over China's plans to construct 13 hydroelectric dams on the Nu River in Yunnan Province (Salween River in Burma), Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao suspended the project to conduct an environmental impact assessment, a smaller scale version of only 4 dams is now scheduled to move forward |
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Travel services > % of commercial service exports
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39.64 %
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[79th of 153]
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Travel services > % of commercial service imports
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26.16 %
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[61st of 153]
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Vehicle abundance
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1.77 per square km |
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[93rd of 141]
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Waterways
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123,964 km
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[1st of 106]
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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
China, People's Republic of China, Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo, Zhong Guo, China; Peoples Republic of, China, People's Republic, China, People's Rep, China, People's Rep. of, China PR
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