Greater transport facilities fuel city's growth

The 400,000-dead-weight tonnage channel of Zhanjiang Port and 400,000-DWT bulk cargo terminal in the Xiashan port area were put into use in 2021.

Zhanjiang Port began 27 domestic container routes and 16 container lines connecting to regions such as Singapore and Malaysia by the end of 2021.

It offered navigation to more than 150 countries and regions by that time.

Xuwen Port's roll-on roll-off passenger and freight wharf started operation in 2020 and has facilitated traveling from Zhanjiang to Hainan Free Trade Port.

Regarding railway networks, the Jiangmen-Zhanjiang section of the Shenzhen-Zhanjiang High-speed Railway opened traffic on July 1,2018.

The Hepu-Zhanjiang High-speed Railway and Zhanjiang-Haikou High-speed Railway are now ready for construction.

In terms of air transportation, Zhanjiang Wuchuan Airport, one of Guangdong's four regional hub airports, offers traffic to more than 60 cities and benefits more than 15 million people in western Guangdong.

Transportation has advanced Zhanjiang's living environment over the past decade.

People can travel within downtown Zhanjiang in 15-20 minutes while the Leizhou Peninsula, where the city is located, realized a one-hour living circle.

According to the development planning of Zhanjiang's comprehensive transportation system for the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-25), the city will improve its airports, high-speed railways, expressways and sea ports by the end of 2025.

Travel times between Zhanjiang and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the Beibu Gulf will be within two hours by high-speed trains by 2025.

People will enjoy more convenient commutes in Zhanjiang which can also allow them to travel faster to other domestic and foreign regions by the end of 2035.