Shanghai Transportation

As the most metropolitan city in china, shanghai is very accessible. shanghai can be reachable by air, by land and by water.

By Air

shanghai is served by pudong international airport and hong qiao shanghai airport. they are direct international flights between shanghai and some european and us cities.

shanghai pudong interdomestic airport - with an area of 40 square kilometers, pudong interdomestic airport is in the eastern part of shanghai, 30km from the center of the city and 40km from the rainbow bridge airport. after the finish of the first-step reform project, the pudong airport will be of the capacity of 300,000 aircraft handling and treat 36,500,000 passengers which can satisfy the need before the second waiting room was put into use in 2008.

shanghai hongqiao international airport - located in the west of shanghai, 13kms form the city center. the rainbow bridge airport has been considered as the port of shanghai airport flights for years. since 1996, it has got several first prizes in the activities like "the civil aviation in the travelers' eyes" organized by the civil aviation department. it treats 8 million passenger per year. with an area of 820,000 square meters, the waiting room of the airport consists of 15 waiting halls, 18 vip waiting halls and 15 luggage transmission system. at present, the aircraft movement of the rainbow bridge airport is about 540 per day with greater safety. a waiting building and b waiting building are connected closely to each other. as an important service window, the large waiting hall has the function of being in charge of the arriving and departing the travelers as well as landing the flights, ensuring the safety of airport production and ground service, guaranteeing the right time of the flights.

To the airports - the two airports are connected by the "guest road" (a1road) and the beltway (a20 road) of shanghai both of which take us 45 minutes by car. there are many ways to pu dong airport from the city as follows:

1. Seven special ways to the airport.
2. Take no 2 subway to the long yang station and then take no 3 airport line to the airport within 40 minutes.
3. Drive to the airport directly along inner-ring road, luo hill road, the beltway road (a20road), and the "guest road" (a1 road).
4. Get to the long yang road first and then take a taxi to the airport which costs you about 80 yuan.
   if you want to go to the rainbow bridge airport, besides the seven special lines to the airports, you can drive along the yan'an skyway and to the end of it. or you can take a taxi from the people's square which will take you 40 yuan.

Another important transportation to pu dong airport is the magnetic suspension train. the details are as follows:
operating time: 7:00am-21:00pm with intervals of 15 minutes
address: long yang station. no 2100 long yang road (near the bai yang road, no3 and no4 exit of the long yang station along no2 subway, the fifth line of the nan pu bridge, the sixth line of the nan pu bridge, the shenjiang line.)
the maglev airport stop: the east side of the waiting room of the shanghai pudong interdomestic airport (connected directly with 300-metered corridor)
Ordinary ticket: 50rmb for one-way ticket, 80rmb for return ticket.
Vip ticket: 100 rmb for one-way ticket, 160rmb for return ticket.

Shanghai Railway Station

the hu ning (between shanghai and ningbo) and the hu hang (between shanghai and hangzhou) railways lead shanghai to the other places of china. there are shanghai station (locally called the new station), shanghai west station in shanghai (the former zhen ru station) and shanghai south station(the former new long hua station) among which shanghai station to be the main station with 70 couples of trains coming from and going to the big and middle cities in china.

By highway

the main highways in shanghai are as follows:

1. the three national roads line 312(from shanghai to yi ning, xin jiang), line 318(from shanghai to zhangmu, tibet) and line 320 (from shanghai to ruili, yunnan) lead to the western part of china.
2. the national road 204(tongjiang, hei longjiang-san ya, hai nan) which passing shanghai goes through most of the beautiful cities along the coastline of eastern china.
3. the hu ning (a11 road), hu hang (a8 road), hu jialiu (a12 road), hu qingping (a9 road) connected the main cities around shanghai.

kind reminder: so many long distance bus stations in shanghai help a lot for those who go to jiangsu, zhejiang areas and the bus tickets are available ahead of time within three days.
the address of the main long distance bus station:
no.1662 zhong xing road. (the north square of shanghai station)
tel: 021-66051111 021-66050000

City Transport

shanghai boasts one of the finest city transportation in china. there are the following options for visitors to get around shanghai, public bus, taxi, and maglev train.

By waterway

located in the center of the north and south coast line of china, shanghai is the biggest port city in china and the third largest port in the world. the steamers there are connected with more than 400 ports in the world. because of the speed, the steamer business is not quite brilliant with only some of them running like the steamer to dalian, shen yang at the interval of 4 days from the fair road dock while the other long distance shipping along the coastline have been stopped. there are scheduled steamers to near places like nan tong, ding hai and pu tuo at sixteenth pu wharf. if you want to go to zhou shan islands, you should first take a bus at sixteenth pu and to lu chao port or gold mountain port to board a steamer. travelers going to chang xing island and hengsha island should board the steamer at wusong dock. make the boarding place clear before going to chong ming island. besides, travelers who want to inchon and pusan in korea or osaka and kobe in japan would board the interdomestic steamer at the out rainbow wharf.