double-track) narrow gauge: 3,600 km 0.750-m and 1.000-m gauge
local industrial lines (1999 est.)

Highways: total: 1.4 million km paved: 271,300 km (with at least 16,000
km of expressways) unpaved: 1,128,700 km (1999)

Waterways: 110,000 km (1999)

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, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Wenzhou, Xiamen, Xingang, Yantai, Zhanjiang
(2001)

Merchant marine: total: 1,764 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
16,915,047 GRT/25,366,296 DWT ships by type: barge carrier 2, bulk 328,
cargo 822, chemical tanker 25, combination bulk 10, combination ore/oil 1,
container 134, liquefied gas 26, multi-functional large-load carrier 6,
passenger 7, passenger/cargo 45, petroleum tanker 263, refrigerated cargo
26, roll on/roll off 23, short-sea passenger 42, specialized tanker 3,
vehicle carrier 1 note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered
here as a flag of convenience: Croatia 1, Germany 1, Hong Kong 16, Japan
2, Panama 2, South Korea 1, Spain 1, Taiwan 9, Tanzania 1, Turkey 1
(2002 est.)

Airports: 489 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: 88 1,524 to 2,437 m: Airports - with
unpaved runways: total: 165 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524
to 2,437 m: 29 914 to 1,523 m: 56 under 914 m: 78 (2001)

Military China

Military branches: People's Liberation Army (PLA): comprises ground
forces, Navy (including naval infantry and naval aviation), Air Force,
and II Artillery Corps (strategic missile force), People's Armed Police
Force (internal security troops, nominally a state security body but
included by the Chinese as part of the "armed forces" and considered to
be an adjunct to the PLA), militia

Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 370,087,489
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49:
203,003,036 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 10,089,458
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $20.048 billion (2002); note -
this is the officially announced figure, but actual defense spending
more likely ranges from $45 billion to $65 billion for 2002

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.6% (2002); note - this is the
officially announc