National Air Transport System

Number of registered air carriers: 56 (2020)
Inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 2,890
Annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 436,183,969 (2018)
Annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 611,439,830 mt-km (2018)

Civil aircraft registration country code prefix: B

Airports

Total: 507 (2013)

Country comparison to the world: 13

Airports - With paved runways

Total: 510
Over 3,047 m: 87
2,438 to 3,047 m: 187
1,524 to 2,437 m: 109
914 to 1,523 m: 43
Under 914 m: 84 (2019)

Airports - With unpaved runways

Total: 23
Over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 0
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 7
Under 914 m: 13 (2013)

Heliports

39 (2019)

Pipelines

76000 km gas, 30400 km crude oil, 27700 km refined petroleum products, 797000 km water (2018)

Railways

Total: 131,000 km 1.435-m gauge (80,000 km electrified);

102,000 traditional, 29,000 high-speed (2018)

Country comparison to the world: 2

Roadways

Total: 4,960,600 km (2017)
Paved: 4,338,600 km (includes 136,500 km of expressways) (2017)
Unpaved: 622,000 km (2017)

Country comparison to the world: 2

Waterways

110,000 km (navigable waterways) (2011)

Country comparison to the world: 1

Merchant marine

Total: 6,197
By type: Bulk carrier 1,515, container ship 322, general cargo 862, oil tanker 968, other 2,530 (2020)

Country comparison to the world: 3

Ports and terminals

Major seaport(s): Dalian, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin

Container port(s) (TEUs): Dalian (8,760,000), Guangzhou (23,236,200), Ningbo (27,530,000), Qingdao (21,010,000), Shanghai (43,303,000), Shenzhen (25,770,000), Tianjin (17,264,000) (2019)

LNG terminal(s) (import): Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Shanghai, Tangshan, Zhejiang

River port(s): Guangzhou (Pearl)

Note: Seven of the world’s ten largest container ports are in China.

(Source: The CIA World Factbook)