Anhui is located inland and the construction of its transportation facilities started rather late compared with other provinces in east China. However, it developed so fast that the whole province has formed a complete transportation network of water, land and air. Of all of them, the most developed is the railway transportation with rail mileage exceeding 2,500 km, ranking first in East China.

Anhui Transportation Website: http://www.ahjt.gov.cn

Air

Hefei is the aviation center in Anhui Province. The Luogang Airport is nine km southwest of the city, with 23 inbound trunk lines Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shantou, Shenzhen, Haikou, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Xi'an, Chengdu, Wuhan, Zhengzhou and Ji'nan, and regular charter nights to Hong Kong, as well as flight routes leading to Huangshan and Fuyang in the province. The famous scenic area, Huangshan Mountain, also serves as an important aviation hub to the outside, with direct nights to 18 domestic cities. In addition, Anqing, Fuyang, Wuhu and Bengbu also have civil airports.

Anhui Civil Airport Group

Telephone for domestic air tickets:

0086-551-2886626

Telephone for international air tickets:

0086-551-2886662

Website: http://www.ahjp.com.cn

Railways

Anhui has 15 railways, and is run through by the Beijing-Shanghai Railway, Beijing-Kowloon Railway and Lianyungang-Lanzhou Railway. Other major trunk lines in the province include the Huainan-Wuhu Railway for transporting the coal of Huainan, the Nanjing-Tongling Railway which connects the cities in the industrial corridor on the southern bank of the Yangtze River, the Wuhu-Yingtan Railway cutting through the mountainous area of South Anhui, the Suixi-Fuyang, Fuyang-Huainan and Luohe-Fuyang railways connecting with the Beijing-Kowloon Railway at Fuyang, the Hefei-Jiujiang Railway connecting Anhui with Jiangxi and Hubei provinces, and the Xuanzhou-Hangzhou Railway, known as the "Second Passage in East China". The Tongling-Jiujiang Railway is a trunk line stretching along the Yangtze River from Shanghai at the eastern end to Wuhan at the western end. The Xi'an-Hefei Railway, one of the "Ten Key Projects of Western Development", and the "brand-new Lianyungang-Lanzhou Railway", which starts from Shanghai in the east and ends in Zhongwei of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in the west are important railways, with Hefei, Bengbu and Fuyang being key railway hubs.

Highways

The capital Hefei is the general hub where highways extend from, reaching Huainan, Fuyang, Bengbu, Suzhou, Wuhu, Anqing, Xuanzhou and Huangshan, with the highways' ramified over the province. There are nine national highways and 66 provincial highways totaling 12,200 km in length. The Hefei-Nanjing, Hefei-Wuhu, Hefei-Tongling-Huangshan Hefei-Wuhan and Hefei-Jingdezhen expressways as well as Tongling Yangtze Highway Bridge and Wuhu Yangtze Highway-Railway Dual-purpose Bridge are all open to traffic.

Anhui Highway Administration Bureau

Website: http://www.ahglj.com

Anhui Provincial Expressway Corporation

Telephone: 0086-551-96566

Website: http://www.anhigh.com

Waterways

So far as the waterway traffic is concerned, Anhui has its main navigation routes on the Yangtze and Huaihe rivers. Wuhu, Tongling, Ma'anshan and Anqing along the Yangtze River are listed as the national first-class ports while Chizhou is the second-class one. The Zhujiaqiao Wharf of Wuhu specializing in foreign trade has a capacity of berthing a 10,000-ton ocean liner, and Yuxikou is a major port on the Yangtze River to transport coal. The navigation route on the Huaihe River stretches some 370 km from Sanhejian in the west, via Zhengyang Pass Fengtai, Huainan, Bengbu and Wuhe to Hongze Lake near Hongshantou. In the sec- tion between Zhengyang Pass and the Yangtze River, ships can pass all year round, while Bengbu and Huainan serve as major passenger ports along the Huaihe River.

Anhui Provincial Maritime Safety Administration

Website: http://www.msa.ah.cn

Source: Anhui Travel Guide