China Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: networks total about 52,500 route km common carrier lines; about 600 km 1.000-meter gauge; rest 1.435-meter standard gauge; all single track except approximately 9,500 km double track on standard gauge lines; approximately 4,200 km electrified, about 10,000 km industrial lines (gauges range from 0.762 to 1.067 meters)

Highways: about 950,000 km all types roads; about 240,000 km unimproved natural earth roads and tracks, 540,000 km improved earth roads, 150,000 km paved roads

Inland waterways: 138,600 km; about 108,900 km navigable

Pipelines: crude, 6,500 km; refined products, 1,100 km, natural gas, 4,200 km

Ports: 15 major, approximately 180 minor

Airfields: 325 total; 266 with iiermanent-surface runways; 11 with runways 3,500 m and over; 80 with runways 2,500 to 3,499 m; 203 with runways 1,200 to 2,499 m; 28 with

runways less than 1,200 m; 2 seaplane stations, 1 heliports, 5 airfields under construction

Telecommunications: domestic and international services exist primarily for official purposes; unevenly distributed internal system serves principal cities, industrial cen ters, and most townships; services in interior and border regions limited, nearly 3 million equipped telephone exchange lines, including 30,000 long-distance telephone exchange lines with direct, automatic service to 24 cities; 5.2 million telephones (3-5 telephones per 100 popl. in large cities, 1 telephone per 200 popl. national average); 50,000 i«st and telegraph offices with about 700 main telegraph centers capable of general message service at the county level and above; subscriber teleprinter exchange (telex) services available in 25 main metropolitan areas; unknown number of facsimile and data information transfer points; domestic audio radio broadcast coverage provided by 122 main AM centers and about 525 transmitter relay stations; unknown number of FM radio and wired rebroadcast stations with 215 million receivers; at least 52 TV centers; about 400 local and network TV relay transmitter stations; 7 000 supplementary video recorder and redistribution facilities; 40 million monochrome and color TV receiver sets; 2 major international switching centers; satellite communications, long-haui point-to-point radio circuits, regional cable and wire landlines, directional radio-relay, and seabed coaxial telephone cable (damaged' permit linkage with most countries; direct voice and message communications with 46 countries and regions; TV exchange to major cities on 5 continents through INTELSAT Pacific and Indian Ocean earth satellite; AM radio broadcasts in 38 languages to 140 countries and regions

NOTE: The information regarding China on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of China 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about China 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.