Infrastructure construction in Sichuan province remains unremittingly improving, and an all-round communications network integrating high ways, railways, civil aviation, inland navigation altogether has been established.
A characteristic highway traffic has been formed, putting Chengdu City at the core, equipped with a highway network supported by national highways and provincial highways as the skeleton and a far-fetching highway network jointed by small and medium sized cities, and the overall mileage open to traffic stretches as far as more than 110,000 km, leading among all China¡¯s provinces, Municipalities and autonomous regions, which includes the 1,785 km-long expressway network and 2867 km of railway. The railway network comprises five railway arteries, eight laterals, and four regional railways, so three major channels are available to enter Sichuan province by train; in terms of navigation in Sichuan, over 60 rivers are used for traveling, measuring about 6,000 km; turning to the air transport, ten airports are running in Sichuan province now, airplanes flying back and forth along more than 150 flight courses. Chengdu Shuangliu International airport has become the fifth largest airport in Mainland China.
The capital of Sichuan province, Chengdu City is the largest financial center in Western China. Daqu Branch of People¡¯s Bank of China and over 2,500 financial organizations have set up in Chengdu, besides, 12 foreign financial organizations and offices and nearly 100 negotiable securities sites locate here, forming a financial network reaching to the entire Western China and bringing the vast Western China forward.
The public information network construction in Sichuan develops ahead in the country: websites in connection with medicine industry that have already erected include medicine information web by the municipal drug administration and ¡°TCM1¡± by Chengdu Hoist Inc. Ltd in cooperation with several companies under joint funds.
Sichuan province has the third biggest population in China, so that the labor resources are quite sufficient but at low cost. From the angle of labor force, the labors in Sichuan province are characterized by high quality, low cost and vast supply. Employees in Sichuan province earn much less salaries than their counterparts doing the same work in coastal cities, revealing overwhelming advantages. The annual average salary of workers on the job was poorly RMB 12,441 Yuan in 2003, lagging far behind Shanghai, Beijing and Zhejiang Province with their annual salaries standing at 27,304 Yuan, 25,312 Yuan and 21,367 Yuan respectively, also lower than the average 14,040 Yuan of major cities in China. In this sense, the medicine industry in Sichuan province is more favorable to attract investments from both home and overseas and more beneficial for enterprises to be founded here. |
