Transportation & Communication

Transportation and communication in Yichang are developing rapidly. Yichang arterial highways extend to every corner, No.318 National Highway crosses the whole Yichang City,through which you may reach Shanghai in the east and Tibet in the west."The Golden Water Route" of the Yangtze runs through Yichang and it reaches Wanzhou City,Chongqing City in the west and Wuhan City, Shanghai City in the east. The express from Yichang to Wuhan, Beijing,Xi'an and the railway from Yichang to Zhenzhou City,Wuxi City,Huaihua City,Guangzhou City were put into use long ago and an international railway container transport network was also established. Air transport conditions are advantageous.Yichang civil airliners can fly to China's 23 large and middle cities ,such as Beijing ,Shanghai, Guangzhou,Shenzhen.The international temporary air-liners was opened,too.

Yichang's post and telecommunications has currently formed a multidimensional communication network with the involvement of various means like satellite, light diaphragm convey, numeral microwave, mobile phone, wireless notification and so on.The international multimedia information network "The Three Gorges Hot Line" has also been opened to use.