● Chongqing is the transportation center in southwest part of China with exceptionally convenient water and land transport facilities.
Airway
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport is about twenty-one km northeast of Chongqing in Lianglu Town, Yubei District. Covering an area of about 2,860,000 square meters (707 acres), the airport has a 4E standard flight area; a 1,050 square meter (11,302 square feet) terminal building; a 3,200 meter (3500 yards) runway and thirty-one gate positions. The airport offers about seventy air routes and connects over fifty domestic cities and four foreign cities.
Passengers can take taxi or the airport bus to get to Chongqing downtown.
Ticket of airport bus: RMB16/one person
Taxi: RMB100
Railway
In railway transport, the Chengdu-Chongqing, Xiangfan-Chongqing, Guiyang-Chongqing, Dachuan-Wanzhou, Chongqing-Huaihua, Wanzhou-Yichang, Chongqing-Suining and Chongqing-Lanzhou (now under construction) railway lines converage to Chongqing from the east, west, south and north.
Water
In water transport, the River Port of Chongqing is the largest one on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and also the starting point to the world-famous Three Gorges along the Yangtze River and from here passenger ships can sail all the way down to Shanghai. At present, there are more than 60 luxurious cruisers in operation on this water route.
● Transportation in the city
Bus: RMB1-2.5
Light Rail: 1-5 (from xinshancun to Jiefangbei)
Taxi：The flag-fall price is RMB 6 which covers the first 3 kilometres of a trip
In highway transport
Chongqing boasts an efficient highway network, of which the Chengdu-Chongqing and Chongqing-Fuling, Chongqing-Hechuan and Chongqing-Guiyang expressways have been completed and opened to traffic. The ring expressway of the city totalling 80 km in length has been built and the Chongqing-Wanzhou and Guangan-Chongqing expressways currently under construction will be completed and opened to traffic by 2004. The light-rail transport system is being constructed and will be completed and put into operation in 2004.
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