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Zhabei is located in the northern part towards Shanghai center area with Hongkou to its east and Putuo to the west. It is the north gate of Shanghai land as well as an important distribution center for goods and merchandises. Having also been regarded as a hub of railway, road and cargo transportation, Zhabei is pointed as the leader of Shanghai's nine urban areas concerned with the comprehensive traffic conditions.

To & From Zhabei

Railway

Within Shanghai land, two railway stations-Shanghai Railway Station and the Northern Suburbs Railway Station (Principal Freight Station) have enjoyed most reputation.

Shanghai Railway Station is called as "Shanghai Station" or "New Customer Station" to differ from the old Shanghai Station, i.e. the Old North Station. Shanghai Railway Station has two squares with its south square leading a path to Metro Line One. Because Metro Line 1, 3, 4 all pass the Station, Shanghai Railway Station is also a station name for the Subway Transportation.

The Northern Suburbs Railway Station is the Principal freight station that is controlled directly by the Shanghai Railway Bureau. Its jurisdiction areas consist of the Shanghai South railway hub and Beijiao, Taopu, Zhang Temple, Yanghang, Hejiawan, Yinhang, Jiangwan station and Yangpu running workshops which are on the North Yang Line.

The flow rates of the railway passenger and freight transportation amount to 48 percent and 5.9 percent respectively accounted for the city transport. These two railways are of great significance accounted for the whole transportation network.

In & Around Zhabei

Metro

Metro Line One now contains the Shanghai Railway Station and Hanzhong Road station. While at the end of the year, North extension project will be achieved as five new stations would be added on the list- Zhongshan North Road Station, Yanan Road Station, Shanghai Circus City Station, Wenshui Road stations, and Pengpu New Village Station. And?Metro Line 3 now consists of Shanghai Railway Station and Baoshan Station. Both of the lines have made great contributions to the convenience of people's daily life.

Bus & Couch

Besides, over 10 Couch Bus Companies are operated in Shanghai, running 998 lines among Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Henan, Jiangxi, Fujian, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Beijing etc. There are all together 75 specialized and sidelined Long-haul freight transport companies as well as 262 Individual transport operators, occupying more than 50% of the city's long-distance passenger and freight transport. Shanghai Railway Station, the North Bus Terminal, Pengpu New Village Station and North Station area have become four vital Public transport hubs.

Zhabei Elevated Road

The Gonghe New elevated Road, which is close to the New Area, is the first integration overhead in China. With Viaduct on the top, the track line in the middle and the ground roads on the bottom, it is connected with the Inner Ring and the North-South elevated Road and is situated less than 20 kilometers away from the Hongqiao International Airport. The super convenient transportation creates unlimited appreciation space for Shanghai North Industrial Area space.

Zhabei has contained China's second largest railway terminal and the largest less-than-truckload (LTL) freight railway station as well as Asia's largest long-distance bus terminal. At present, those transportation hubs have formed large-scale passenger flow and logistics, creating unlimited business opportunities. The inner loop which runs through the whole region, the North-South Elevated Viaduct together with the completed and forthcoming completion of the four subway and light rail lines have been fully developed to form a convenient and speedy transport network.

The number and the traffic volume of the regional rail freight and passenger transport, subway, elevated, long-distance passenger transport, as well as the public bus transport have been ranked first in the city. Nevertheless, Zhabei's gathering of more than 390 transport enterprises and those agencies of Shanghai Railway Bureau, the Mass Transit Railway Corporation and the Rail Transport Tunnel Corporation have shown the obvious modern transportation advantages. Therefore, the core competitiveness advantage of Zhabei is its well-developed land transport network.

To further enhance this advantage, Zhabei District will construct a series of transport projects for the railway, subway, bus and long-distance passenger transport sites so as to reflect the economic characteristics of Zhabei District.

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