industrial lines
Highways:
total:
1.029 million km
paved:
170,000 km
unpaved:
gravel/improved earth 648,000 km; unimproved earth 211,000 km (1990)
Inland waterways:
138,600 km; about 109,800 km navigable
Pipelines:
crude oil 9,700 km; petroleum products 1,100 km; natural gas 6,200 km
(1990)
Ports:
Dalian, Guangzhou, Huangpu, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Xingang,
Zhanjiang, Ningbo, Xiamen, Tanggu, Shantou
Merchant marine:
1,541 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 14,884,756 GRT/22,475,985
DWT, barge carrier 1, bulk 285, cargo 819, chemical tanker 13,
combination bulk 9, container 85, liquefied gas 4, multifunction/barge
carrier 1, oil tanker 192, passenger 24, passenger-cargo 25,
refrigerated cargo 17, roll-on/roll-off cargo 21, short-sea passenger
43, vehicle carrier 2
note:
China beneficially owns an additional 227 ships (1,000 GRT or over)
totaling approximately 6,187,117 DWT that operate under Panamanian,
British, Hong Kong, Maltese, Liberian, Vanuatu, Cypriot, Saint
Vincent, Bahamian, and Romanian registry
Airports:
total:
330
usable:
330
with permanent-surface runways:
260
with runways over 3,659 m:
fewer than 10
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
90
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
200
Telecommunications:
domestic and international services are increasingly available for
private use; unevenly distributed internal system serves principal
cities, industrial centers, and most townships; 11,000,000 telephones
(December 1989); broadcast stations - 274 AM, unknown FM, 202 (2,050
repeaters) TV; more than 215 million radio receivers; 75 million TVs;
satellite earth stations - 4 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean
INTELSAT, 1 INMARSAT, and 55 domestic

@China, Defense Forces

Branches:
People's Liberation Army (PLA), PLA Navy (including Marines), PLA Air
Force, Second Artillery Corps (the strategic missle 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 war
time)
Manpower availability:
males age 15-49 347,458,052; fit for military service 192,546,413;
reach military age (18) annually 10,256,181 (1994 est.)
Defense expenditures:
defense budget - 52.04 billion yuan, NA% of GDP (1994 est.); note -
conversion of the defense budget into US dollars using the curr