Editing Qinhuangdao (section)

==Economy==
[[File:Admiralty Chart No 2357 Chinwangtao Road, Published 1911, New Edition 1929.jpg|thumb|275px|1929 nautical chart of Qinhuangdao, showing the Pekiing-Mukden railway and the coal yards.]]
[[File:Qinhuangdao.jpg|thumb|Looking south along Minzu Road from the top floor of the International Trade Hotel]]
[[Qinhuangdao Port]] is a strategically important port and is the largest coal shipping port in the country, much of which is shipped to [[power plant]]s elsewhere in China. With recent expansion, its capacity has reached 209 million metric tons. The harbor is adding a further six berths to add capacity and is increasingly being invested in by other port operators, such as South Africa's [[Port of Richards Bay]], who have announced plans to invest US$150&nbsp;million to increase capacity by at least 28 percent.

China is the world's third largest [[Coal in China|coal exporter]], and Qinhuangdao is expected to handle much of the nation's coal exports. Rail links from [[Shanxi]] (China's largest coal producer) to Qinhuangdao Port are being upgraded, which should allow for Qinhuangdao to ultimately increase its throughput to 400 million tonnes of coal per annum from its current level of about 250&nbsp;million tons by 2015. In 2018, the updated railway reached a record annual throughput of 451 million tons.<ref>{{Cite web |title="中国重载第一路"大秦铁路2023年货运量超4亿吨-中新网 |url=https://www.chinanews.com.cn/cj/2024/01-04/10140410.shtml |access-date=2024-01-29 |website=www.chinanews.com.cn}}</ref>

Other Chinese and foreign service suppliers are moving to Qinhuangdao to support this. [[China Ocean Shipping]] (Group) Co, China's biggest shipping company, expects US$49&nbsp;billion of spending on ports over the next five years as the industry tackles bottlenecks created by the nation's unprecedented economic boom.<ref name="China Briefing Business Guide">{{Cite web |year=2009 |title=China Briefing Business Guide |url=http://www.china-briefing.com/download.php?download_file=ChinaBriefing_200807_EN.pdf |access-date=February 8, 2009 |publisher=China Briefing}}{{Dead link|date=November 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Qinhuangdao is on the [[Beijing−Shenyang Expressway|Jingshen Expressway]] which links Beijing with [[Shenyang]], Liaoning. The city is served by [[Qinhuangdao Beidaihe Airport]].