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By railway: Zhejiang is served by a railway transport network with Hangzhou as the hub
and consisting of several railway lines, respectively running between Shanghai
and Hangzhou, Zhejiang and Jiangxi, Xiaoshan and Ningbo, Xuancheng and Hangzhou,
Jinhua and Wenzhou and more. By the end of 2002, 1,207 kilometers of railways
had been put into operation, in which 593 kilometers had double tracks. By highways: Preparation for key projects including the second phase of the Jinhua-Lishui-Wenzhou
Expressway, the Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the Wenzhou-Fuzhou Railway and the Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou
Railway has achieved important progress. The length of the existing six national
highways and 66 provincial highways totaled 45,000 kilometers, of which 1,307
kilometers were expressways. There is a "four-hour highway ring" connecting the provincial
capital of Hangzhou with all prefecture cities on the land area. Zhejiang is served with seven airports located in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou,
Zhoushan, Yiwu, Taizhou and Quzhou and linked up with the outside by 185 domestic
and international air routes. The first-phase project of the Hangzhou Xiaoshan
International Airport with a handling capacity of 14.5 million passengers annually
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