BASIC ESTABLISHMENT

  Linyi is a new modern city with perfect functions and complete infrastructure and supporting utilities. Program-controlled telephone, optical-fiber telecommunications, digital microwave, cellular phone systems and wireless paging systems cover both the urban and rural areas. Internet postal services such as Worldwide Express Mail Service, etc. are readily available. Linyi has a total installed power generating capacity of 540.000 KW. The construction of a large 4x300, 000 KW power plant is in full swing. At present. Linyi has one 5.000 KV and eight 220 KV power substations, as has formed a modem electric power network characterized by high voltage, large capacity and high parameters with the 220 KV high tension lines as the backbones. Linyi has formulated a three-dimensional transportation setup of land, sea and air. Jing-Hu Expressway and the Asia-Euro Land Bridge Railway cross here. Ri-Dong Expressway passes through Linyi from east to west and the coastal railway crosses its hinterland. Linyi City proper connects 4 national highways and 18 provincial highways, which form a net. Linyi City is 100
　　km from Rizhao, Lanshan and Lianyungang ports, and 200 km from Qingdao Port, which are connected by high-grade highways and provide convenient sea transportation. Linyi has the largest airport in South Shandong,which has flight connections to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou,Wenzhou, Wuhan, Dalian,Shenyang, Xi'an, Nanjing, Jinan, Qingdao, Yantai, to list a few. It will have flights to Xiamen, Yiwu,Ningbo, Kunming, Chengdu,Chongqing, Harbin and so forth. The airport's 4E grade facilities and the 80,000-sqm waiting lounge building can handle large passenger planes such as B747, 767, A310 to name a few.