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Infrastructure

1. Energy supply.
The energy, such as coal, electric power, petroleum, liquefied gas, etc. in Wuhan are in abundance supply, reasonable price, can meet production of industry and agriculture and people's life need. City gas form three town have of one's own system, basic overall arrangement and many kinds of source of the gas that rely mainly on the fact that the pipeline is coexist already, Market pattern that many kinds of air supply way develops simultaneously. The whole city have state-owned large- scale gas 4 of enterprise, bottled gas supplies 116 units; Make 1,450,000 cubic meters per day of ability artificially, adjust gas storage of peak 700,000 cubic meters of ability; There is liquefied gas that stores 57,100 cubic meters of ability, pour into the 20,000 bottles of ability per day; Have 1801 kilometers of pipe networks of various kinds of air supply. Have annual to unload ability ton of liquefied gas single user wharf and annual turnover ability ton of petroleum single user wharves. At present, Wuhan implement the project of" Sichuan natural gas transport to the east ", have 3 billion cubic meters natural gas enter Wuhan to will it be every year 2003 from Sichuan.
2.Transportation
Wuhan is one of the national railway traffic main pivots. There are four railway trunk lines Beijin-guangzhou, Beijing-koulong, Wuhan-daye, Hankou-danjiangkou intersect Wuhan. Open mileage reach 1078 kilometers, reach and deliver passenger rank at 80.5 by train, 85 of goods train arrange every day. It can reach 70 large and medium-sized cities of 24 province, municipality and cities directly under the jurisdiction of nation. Within 1000 km, trains can start in the morning and arrive in the evening.
There are four National highways as 106#, 107#, 316#, 318# and two freeways as Beijing-zhuhai and Shanghai-chengdu across Wuhan. Passenger-cargo of highway radiate 21 provinces and municipality and large city.
Wuhan is one of the largest freshwater port cities of the whole country, has 615 port berths, Annual 44 million of handling capacities, and all kinds of 2080 of ships with general 1,500,000 tons of loading capacity, handling capacity of passengers 60,000 portions of locations. The cargo ship can go in Russia, Japan, Korea S., Southeast Asian countries and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region direct.
Wuhan is the important aviation command centre of the whole country and one of the most important air harbors. The course can reach 57 large and medium cities in the whole country, and has opened to Hong Kong, Macao, Japan's Fukuoka, Korea S. Clear state, Seoul, Thailand's Bangkok, Vietnam Ha Noi, Ho Chi Minh City, Indonesian Jakarta, The international course for Russia is in course of preparing.
The traffic condition in the city is better. At present, there are already 4 bridges stretch over the Changjiang River Wuhan, 7 bridges across Han River, and become the whole country across river most large city of bridge. Theses have three towns joined together closely, and as the construction of city’s expressway of inner ring and middle ring and out ring, a ring-type network of city’s traffic skeleton come into being. The network of Wuhan public transport optimizes. Will it be the end 2000, Wuhan have public 243 of traffic routes, line network 723 of length. Owning 5506 vehicles of public vapor, trolley bus in common, the number of passenger traffic taxi is 12137, total amount of transportation occupies the leading place in national big city. The light rail traffic of Wuhan is in course of paying close attention to construction too at present.
3、post & telecommunication
Wuhan post office is one of the seven first class centre offices and one of centres of deliver by mail of eight major aviation of the whole country, and the collecting and distributing centre of communication and postal service of seven provinces (Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Kweichow) in the South of China. Accessible by postal communication with more than 200 countries and regions, have run the special delivery business with more than 130 countries and regions, 380 cities (EMS).
At the same time, telecommunication develops quickly in Wuhan. Wuhan is the main telecommunication pivots of china, and Beijing-Guangzhou-Wuhan coaxial cable communication main line and Shanghai-Nanjing-Wuhan-Chongqing optics cable main line intersect Wuhan. Now, a modern communication framework has come into being which can make telephone with 150 countries & areas directly. Telephone, mobile and internet have become a part of citizen’s life.
By the end of 2000 year, the telephone user had reached 1.61 million, mobile user about 1.7 million, internet user about 0.26 million. There are 26 telephone sets per hundred citizens.
4.Water supply
There are 3 water supply enterprises in the city area having 13 sets water supply works in all which can supply water of 3,630,000 cubic meters per day, cover area of 508 sq. km. The whole city supplies water ability is only second to Shanghai, Guangzhou and occupies the third in the whole country.
5.Medicine & health service
Healthcare in Wuhan developed continuously. Healthcare network in city and towns has gradually fulfilled. Kinds of medical care, disease protection, health care for women and children, medical education and scientific research have been formed in certain mode. This afforded a good premise for ensuring the people’s health. Separated management system reform of hospitals has been carried out smoothly and new medical supervisor system has been formed.
By the end of 2000 year, there are 2274 medicine & health service frameworks in all kinds, in which includes 220 hospitals and 1919 clinics.
6. Environment quality
Waste processing. In 2000, 90.8% of industrial waste water reached national standard, 73.6% of processed industrial waste water reached reutilizing standard, all of the emission of sulfur dioxide, smoke and dust, industry dust met the requires of national control.
Forest coverage. Forest coverage rate of city is 16.1%, 33.2% of coverage rate of forest of building up area among them.
Drinking water. 96% of drinking water meet the national standard in the water quality and water resources.
Education & technology
Being the technology, culture and education center in center china, the comprehensive technology research and education strength of Wuhan is ranked as third in the country, just bellowing Beijing and Shanghai.
By the end of 2000, there are 30 universities with 252 thousands students study there, 20 adult schools, 495 secondary schools and 275 technology schools in Wuhan. Lots of world famous universities such as Wuhan university, Centre china university of science and technology in Wuhan in which there are doctorates that confers 296, master's degree confers 780.
As The scientific and technological centre in China, there are 736 scientific research and design units, 10 national-level key laboratories in Wuhan. With the complete facility and strong technical support ability, the foundation of scientific research and education to be rich. In 2000, scientists work in Wuhan win 11 national progress prize in scientific and technologies, 23 technological invention awards.
Scientific and technical result begin to take shape already and it forms to be at East lake high-tech development zone, China of Wuhan optics valley for the head by industrialization, A lot of scientific and technological industrial gardens develop pattern for the scientific and technological industrialization of supporting. In 2000, the new high-tech industry of the whole city complete 33,200 million yuan of output value, increase by 28.3% compared with last year; The private-run scientific and technological enterprises complete 12 billion yuan of output value.
Human resource
At the end of 2000, the registered population of Wuhan is 7,491,900 people in which include 4178 thousands of labour forces, among them, are engaged in 1,489,500 industrial workers of the secondary industry. College students, 252 thousands of students learning in universities in which 43 thousands graduate in that year; University of adult students, 150 thousands of learning in school in which 38,200 of graduate in that year; The medium-sized students, 182,000 of vocational technical school, graduated from 77,700 people in that year. The manpower resources are abundant, and the energy structure is rational.
By the way, the cost of manpower in Wuhan is relatively lower. At the end of 2000, the average annual salaries of worker are 7628 Yuan and its productivities reached 46,400 Yuan per people.
 
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