RAILWAYS: A railway transportation network, with the capital city¡ªHangzhou¡ªas its center, has been formed in Zhejiang by intensive railway lines including Shanghai-Hangzhou, Zhejiang-Jiangxi, Xiaoshan-Ningbo, Xuancheng (Anhui)-Hangzhou, Jinhua-Wenzhou, and Jinhua-Qiandaohu (Chun¡¯an), etc.
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WATER TRANSPORTATION: With 9,893 km inland waterways, Zhejiang has 5,495 inland harbor berths and 958 seaport berths, among which 71 can berth 10 thousand tonnages and above. There are five major ports, namely Ningbo, Zhoushan, Wenzhou, Taizhou and Jiaxing. The total handling capacity of seaports reaches 310 million tons.

Communication and post
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In 2005, the business output of the posts and telecommunications reached RMB 83.5 billion, with an increase of 24.8% than last year. That of the posts reached RMB 3.14 billion, with an increase of 8.2%, and that of the telecommunications reached RMB 80.35 billion, with an increase of 25.6%. The urban and rural fixed telephone switching system has a total capacity of 28.702 million sets. The urban and rural fixed telephone subscribers reached 22.318 million. The urban and rural mobile telephone subscribers reached 26.863 million, with the popularity of 59.0 sets per hundred capita. The registered Internet users, including Broad Band Users, reached 6.89 million.

Energy sources
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As one of the provinces that make better use of waterpower, firepower, wind power, tide and nuclear energy and some other energy sources in China, Zhejiang has built some large-scale thermal power plants, such as Beilun, Zhenhai, Taizhou, Wenzhou, Jiaxing, Changxing etc, and a group of middle-sized hydropower stations, such as Xin¡¯an River, Fuchun River, Wuxi River, Jinshui Beach etc. The construction of the electric power has entered the stage of modern electric power industry characterized mostly by ¡°big units, large power plants, great grids, super high voltage and high automation¡±.

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