Harbin Favorable Infrastructure Facilities

Transportation:6 international and domestic main railway stems join here in Harbin . 19 highways pass through Harbin and radially stretch to all parts of the country. 58 international and domestic air routes can send passengers and cargoes from Harbin to over 200 airports in more than 100 countries and regions. Up to the end of 2001, 3,365 commercial traffic vehicles are in operation in 100 public lines in Harbin . The super highway especially to Harbin Airport , the second belt highway have been joined up.

Harbor: Harbin Harbor is one of the eight largest in land river ports,situated at the central position of Songhua River system. Ships from the harbor can sail directly to 4 cities in Russia . Songhua River , also called Golden Water Route , can take ships through seas to Japan , Korean Peninsula and different ports inSoutheast Asia . Especially in 1997, the first railway freight transport port within China was founded in Harbin, which is the only firstª²class inland port. In Harbin Inland Port , just as in all the coastal ports, all the business formalities can be directly gone through here, such as customs clearance, customs inspection and transportation for imports and exports.

Telecommunications:Now Harbin has been equipped with such advanced equipment as stored program controlled telephone switching system, automatic reversing direction, direct distance dialing, data transmission, etc. The total volume of local telephone switching system is 2.33 million meters.

Power supply: Harbin 's power industry develops very rapidly. The total installed capacity of its power plants has reached 1.561 million KW. The daily average power generated is 37.46 million KW/h. The power distributed to Harbin can basically meet the needs of its economic development.

Water supply: Harbin is abundant in water sources and good in water quality.Now Harbin has 7 water plants with annual water supply capacity of 340 million tons, including 210 million tons for the residents.

Gas supply:The total volume of gas supply through pipelines is 300 million M3. The total length of gas pipelines is 17.04Km. The rate of popularization of gas supply is 67.0%.