Shanghai Transportation

by air
shanghai is served by pudong international airport and hong qiao shanghai airport. they are direct international flights between shanghai and some european and us cities.

shanghai pudong interdomestic airport - with an area of 40 square kilometers, pudong interdomestic airport is in the eastern part of shanghai, 30km from the center of the city and 40km from the rainbow bridge airport. after the finish of the first-step reform project, the pudong airport will be of the capacity of 300,000 aircraft handling and treat 36,500,000 passengers which can satisfy the need before the second waiting room was put into use in 2008.

shanghai hongqiao international airport - located in the west of shanghai, 13kms form the city center. the rainbow bridge airport has been considered as the port of shanghai airport flights for years. since 1996, it has got several first prizes in the activities like “the civil aviation in the travelers’ eyes” organized by the civil aviation department. it treats 8 million passenger per year. with an area of 820,000 square meters, the waiting room of the airport consists of 15 waiting halls, 18 vip waiting halls and 15 luggage transmission system. at present, the aircraft movement of the rainbow bridge airport is about 540 per day with greater safety. a waiting building and b waiting building are connected closely to each other. as an important service window, the large waiting hall has the function of being in charge of the arriving and departing the travelers as well as landing the flights, ensuring the safety of airport production and ground service, guaranteeing the right time of the flights.

by railway
the hu ning (between shanghai and ningbo) and the hu hang (between shanghai and hangzhou) railways lead shanghai to the other places of china. there are shanghai station (locally called the new station), shanghai west station in shanghai (the former zhen ru station) and shanghai south station(the former new long hua station) among which shanghai station to be the main station with 70 couples of trains coming from and going to the big and middle cities in china.

by waterway
located in the center of the north and south coast line of china, shanghai is the biggest port city in china and the third largest port in the world. the steamers there are connected with more than 400 ports in the world. because of the speed, the steamer business is not quite brilliant with only some of them running like the steamer to dalian, shen yang at the interval of 4 days from the fair road dock while the other long distance shipping along the coastline have been stopped. there are scheduled steamers to near places like nan tong, ding hai and pu tuo at sixteenth pu wharf. if you want to go to zhou shan islands, you should first take a bus at sixteenth pu and to lu chao port or gold mountain port to board a steamer. travelers going to chang xing island and hengsha island should board the steamer at wusong dock. make the boarding place clear before going to chong ming island. besides, travelers who want to inchon and pusan in korea or osaka and kobe in japan would board the interdomestic steamer at the out rainbow wharf.