: satellite earth stations-5 Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean
and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean Region) and 1
Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean Regions); several international
fiber-optic links to Japan, South Korea, and Hong Kong

Radio broadcast stations: AM 274, FM NA, shortwave 0

Radios: 216.5 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 202 (repeaters 2,050)

Televisions: 75 million

@China:Transportation

Railways:
total: 64,900 km (including 5,400 km of provincial "local" rails)
standard gauge: 61,300 km 1.435-m gauge (10,400 km electrified; 18,540
km double track)
narrow gauge: 3,600 km 0.750-m gauge local industrial lines (1998
est.)

Highways:
total: 1.18 million km
paved: 241,300 km
unpaved: 938,700 km (1998 est.)

Waterways: 138,600 km; about 110,600 km navigable

Pipelines: crude oil 9,070 km; petroleum products 560 km; natural gas
9,383 km (1998)

Ports and harbors: Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou, Huangpu,
Lianyungang, Nanjing, Nantong, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai,
Shantou, Tianjin, Xiamen, Xingang, Yantai, Zhanjiang

Merchant marine:
total: 1,708 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 16,139,185
GRT/24,154,260 DWT
ships by type: barge carrier 2, bulk 313, cargo 858, chemical tanker
15, combination bulk 10, container 118, liquefied gas tanker 13,
multifunction large-load carrier 5, oil tanker 231, passenger 6,
passenger-cargo 45, refrigerated cargo 25, roll-on/roll-off cargo 24,
short-sea passenger 43
note: China owns an additional 307 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
11,648,133 DWT operating under the registries of Cyprus, Hong Kong,
Liberia, Malta, Marshall Islands, Panama, Singapore, Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines, and Vanuatu (1997 est.)

Airports: 206 (1996 est.)

Airports-with paved runways:
total: 192
over 3,047 m: 18
2,438 to 3,047 m: 65
1,524 to 2,437 m: 90
914 to 1,523 m: 13
under 914 m: 6 (1996 est.)

Airports-with unpaved runways:
total: 14
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 1 (1996 est.)

@China:Military

Military branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA), which includes the
Ground Forces, Navy (includes Marines and Naval Aviation), Air Force,
Second Artillery Corps (the strategic missile force), People's Armed
Police (internal security troops, nominally subordinate to Ministry of
Public Security, but included by the Chinese as part of the "armed
forces" and considered to be an adjunct to the PLA in wartime)

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