Nanjing, being accessible both by river and sea, is an important hub of communications and telecommunications in the Eastern China. Railroads, Highways, Water-transportation, air-transportation and pipelines constitute a all-direction, three-dimentional huge-capacity traffic and transportation network.

	Nanjing is one of the big telecommunication hubs in the coutry. Its telecommunication network works in a variety of transmission modes, and can reach anywhere in the country and in the world. The City's telephone switching capacity reaches over one million lines, and the main line usage rate is over 22%. It is the second province-capital in the country that has a whole-net program-controlled telephone network.
	The extended Nanjing Airport already has over 20 routes that can reach major cities in the country. And after the construction of the new airport, Nanjing will have a modern international airport by October 1997.
	The biggest inland river port. Nanjing Port is a foreign commerce port, having access to both river and sea. Now it has 64 berths, 16 of which are 10-thousand-ton berths. In 1995, the capacity of freight handled in the Nanjing Port was 50.40 million tons, making it number 8 in the country.
	Nanjing has over 60 long-distance bus lines that goes to other places in the country.
	Tianjin-Nanjing, Shanghai-Nanjing, and Nanjing-Wuhu three rail-road lines intersects here, making Nanjing an important rail-road hub connecting Central China, Eastern China and Northern China.
	Power-supply in Nanjing develops in a relative quick pace. Up to 1995, the power network in Nanjing has 112 transformer stations which are over 35 KV, the main transformer with 3.76 million KVA, transmission lines 2982 km., and the capacity of 10-KV distribution transformers attains 11.83 million KVA. In 1995, the peak load reached 1.50 million KW, and the total power consumption was 9.6 billion kwhs.
	Nanjing's water-supply has also improved a great deal. By the end of the 8th Five-years Plan, the extensions of Beihekou and Pukou Waterplants and the reconstruction of Dachang Town Waterplant had been completed. Now the City has 22 Waterplants, with daily water output capaccity 3.797 million tons, including 7 inner-city public waterplants, with daily water output capacity 1.52 million tons.
	Nanjing will also construct many infrastructures such as the Second Nanjing Changjiang Bridge.