Transportation Network

Land transportation:

East---West:

318 National Highway: (Shanghai---Lhasa, Tibet)

Suhong Road: (Suzhou---Hongqiao International Airport)

A9 Hu Qingping Expressway: (Shanghai---Qingpu--- Pingwang)

A8 Huhang Expressway: (Shanghai---Hangzhou)

A12 Huning Expressway: (Shanghai- Nanjing)

Huning Railway: (Shanghai-Nanjing)

320 National Highway: (Shanghai-Yunnan)

North---South:

Wai Qingsong Road: (Waigang, Jiading-Qingpu-Songjiang)

Tongsn National Road: (Tongjiang, Heilongjiang-Sanjia, Hainan) 

Jiasong Road: (Jiading-Qingpu-Songjaing)

Air Transportation:

Qingpu is only 6km away from Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport and 40km from Shanghai Pudong International Airport. 

Ocean Transportation:

Qingpu is only 45km away form Shanghai Port and about 50km from Shanghai Container Wharf. Goods containers can be exported directly.

Water Transportation:

Dianpu River, Maojing River, Taipu River, and Shangda River flow east-west while Xi Daying River, Dong Daying River, Youdun Harbor flow north-south. All of them are navigation channels above Class 6. These channels connect Suzhou River in the north and Dianpu River in the south; and they join navigation channels of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, etc. There are 16 channels through which 500-tonnage ships can navigate. Dianshan Lake and Taipu River are golden waterways joining Huangpu River. 

Water supply: The number of running water plants in Qingpu District reached 14 with an overall capacity of 460 thousand tons per day, supplying water of 110.26 million tons per year. The rate of access to tap water in all urban and rural areas is 100%, and qualified rate of water quality is above 99%.

Power Supply: There are 3 substations/6 sets of 110kv with a capacity of 378 mega-volt-ampere, and 20 substations/41 sets of 35kv with a capacity of 650 mega-volt-amperes. Also the district has 67.4km 110kv high-tension lines, 363.2km 35kv high-tension lines, 1696.1km 10kv high-tension lines, and 4542.3km 0.38kv low-tension lines. The number of transformers altogether records 4810 substations/5051 sets with a capacity of 1422.9 mega-volt-amperes. In 2002 the amount of electrical consumers registered 242 thousand, installed capacity reached 1,827 thousand kW, and the amount of selling electricity was 1.84 billion kWh. 

Gas supply: The artificial gas storage of the whole district reached 2200 tons, gas pipe length 140.7 km, coal gas volume 5,450 thousand cubic meters and the number of gas consumers 32212. The supply of LPG totaled 13966 tons for 118773 households. Gas and LPG supply covered 99% households of Qingpu. 

 Sewage Disposal: Qingpu District has 9 sewage plants in total, namely the first sewage plant of Qingpu, the second sewage plant of Qingpu, Liantang, Xujing, Zhujiajiao, Da Guanyuan and Zhaotun. The designed treatment capacity is 130 thousand tons per day, and the real treatment capacity is 63 thousand tons per day. In 2004, the district treated 22995 thousand tons of sewage.  

Telecommunication:

By the end of 2004, the total installed capacity of telephones had reached 233.7 thousand; and both local and remote public communication networks had realized stored-program controlling exchange and digitalized transmission. Optical cables, SDH transmission equipment and wavelength division multiplexing had been widely used in transmission medium. The number of fixed-line subscribers had reached 202.041 thousand with residential telephones penetration rate of 136.9% and a main line penetration rate of 40.61% (per 100 persons).  N—ISDM and local internet had been opened in all the counties in the district. And the length of optical cables reached 797 kilometers spreading all over the counties and administrative villages of the district, FTTB (Fibber to the Building), FTTC (Fiber to the Curb), FTTZ (Fiber to the Zone), FTTR (Fiber to the Remote), and with a penetration rate reaching 100%. The broadband access for metropolitan area networks established in 2000 had covered 3 ATM core switching points and 132 edge points. The capacity of core switching points reached 30G interconnected with 622Mbps, and edge points were connected to core points with 155 Mbps. ADSL and FTTx were widely used in high-speed data transmission, VDO, local area network, remote education and etc because of their promptness, convenience and economy.