cargo capacity
3.The newly-increased annual production capacity in 1998 through capital construction projects included: 3.51 million tons of coal mining, 16.9 million kilowatts of power generation by large and medium-sized generators, 47.26 million kilovolt-amperes of power transformer equipment (including 7.79 million kilovolt-amperes of updated power grid in urban and rural areas), 13.78 million tons of oil extraction, and 2.4 billion cubic meters of natural gas. The year 1998 also saw the operation of 900 kilometers of new trunk railways, 596 kilometers of double-track railways, 995 kilometers of electrified railways, 1,478 kilometers of newly constructed express highways, 14.0 million tons of cargo-handling capacity of coastal harbors, 30,000 kilometers of long distance optical-fiber cable and 10,000 kilometers of newly constructed microwave digital telecommunication lines.

