Nanjing is an important industrial base of China where a multi-producing industrial system taking electronics,automobiles, chemicals and a number of special products as the leading factors and having 36 industrial trades,over 200 industrial branches and more than 2,000 categories of products have been established. The industrial output value of the whole city in 1995 amounted to 81,800 million yuan,a 24.4% increase over the previous year,and the ratio of output to sales reached 96. 4% which took the lead throughout the province.

Commerce and Finance

Nanjing is a major intenational commercial port in the Yangtse delta region, second only to Shanghai. The total turnover of retail sales of the social consumer goods in 1995 amounted to 24 billion yuan, a 27% growth over the previous year,ranking among ten major cities of the country. The monetary market plays an important controlling role in the economic operation of the city.

Transportation and Communication

Five means of transportation such as railway, highway, waterway, air transport and piping constitute a three-dimensional and mass transport volume traffic network in an all-round way. Nanjing Port is a port for foreign trade leading to the ocean. The port area is 98 kilometers in full length and has 64 berths including 16 berths for ships with a tonnage of more than 10,000. Within the boundary of Nanjing, there are over 60 highway long- distance passenger traffic lines leading to all parts of the province the Tianjin-Pukou, Shanghai-Nanjing and Nanjing- Wuhu Trunk Railways meet in Nanjing which has become an Important hub of railways linking north China, east China with central China. After extension, the Nanjing Airport has more than 20 air lines leading to all major cities in the country. With the start of construction of the new airport, Nanjing will have an international modernized airport. Being one of six major telecommunication hubs in the country, Nanjing has a telecommunication network which is composed of multiple modes and linking with all parts of the country and all countries in the world.