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　Operating costs

Operating costs are key concerns for selecting plant or office locations. Compared with coastal cities in the east, Changsha has maintained its operating cost advantages.

There is an obvious economic location advantage with Changsha. It is a hinge to connect the inland to Guangdong & Guangxi Provinces, coastal areas in the east and the southwest boarder areas and it is also the joint part of the Yangtze economic belt and south China economic ring, enjoying the unique qualifications of conducting close economic and trading cooperation with two major economic regions. In recent years, Changsha has developed into a base to support developed regions along the coast and the Yangtze and a pilot city to promote development of inland and the west. It has become one of the major distributing centers for export of production factors including capital, product, technology, information and talents to the province, adjacent provinces in the southwest, Guangdong and Hong Kong and is playing a key role of connecting the east to the west and the south to the north in the national arrangement of economic strategy.

　Transportation

Cost and time of sea transportation
Destination	Cost (USD)	Days
Hong Kong	600	10
Osaka	600	11
Los Angeles	1,800	20
Rotterdam	2,100	40
Hamburg	2,100	40
New York	3,000	40

Changsha’s Xianing port is one of 23 main inland ports in China

·Xianing port has an annual handling capacity of 93,000 twenty-foot equivalent units
·River transport is the most cost-effective method of long-distance domestic transport. Normally goods are transported via Shanghai to other coastal cities such as Guangzhou, Qingdao and Tianjin
·The price to ship a 20-foot container of general cargo from Changsha port to Shanghai is USD 380, inclusive of all port charges. The transit time is around seven days

·For international shipping, Shanghai and Shenzhen are the major transit ports

Note: Cost of sea freight represents the tariff for shipping a 20 foot container of general cargo from Changsha to the selected destinations; cost might vary depending whether shipment is through Shenzhen or Shanghai
Source: Hunan COSCO

Changsha is well served by rail and highways, with easy access to main national railway lines and highways
·Changsha is a large hub of railway transportation in China. Three major railway lines pass through Changsha: the Beijing-Guangzhou, Zhuzhou-Guiyang and Hangzhou-Zhuzhou lines

·Changsha is connected to the national highway network, although long distance container transport is not common

Cost and time of highway and railway transportation
Destination	Highway		Railway
Destination	Cost (USD)	Days	Cost (USD)	Days
Guangzhou	495	1-2	308	4
Shanghai	770	1-2	395	4

Note: Cost of railway freight represents the tariff for shipping a 20 foot container of general cargo
from Changsha to the selected destinations
Sources: (1) Changsha Train Bureau
(2) Changsha Container Transportation Co., Ltd.

It takes three days for airfreight shipments from Changsha to reach the west coast of the US
· Many companies, such as COSCO Express or DHL, provide domestic and international airfreight express from Changsha to destinations all over the world
· It takes two days for cargo to reach other Asian cities from Changsha, three days to Australia and the west coast of the US, and four days to the east coast of the US and Europe

Cost of air express transportation for general cargo (USD)
Destination	<=0.5公斤	Every additional 0.5kg
Hong Kong	6	2
Japan	13	5
Korea, Taiwan	12	5
Australia	19	6
Western Europe	20	8
US and Canada	19	8

Source: China Air Express (Hunan) Co., Ltd.