Transportation in ancient China was in poor condition. People traveled mainly on foot. It took several months for a candidate who expected to take the imperial examination to be a government official to go from home to the capital on foot. People also rode horses when traveling from town to town. For short-distance trips, man-carried sedans and carriages or oxcart were also used. Needless to say, all these means of transportation are in very low speed.

The average Chinese person today travels by bicycle, public transportation, or by gas or electric scooter. In the larger cities the public transportation includes underground and above ground subways. Although you will experience a lot of automobile traffic when in the large cities, know this... China has roughly 1.3 billion people, but there are only 17,527,780 privately owned cars in China (*for proof*).

Since 1949 the Chinese government, in order to improve their country, created a comprehensive transportation system. It consists of railways, highways, and Airplanes and Airports. Tibet, one of most inaccessible regions in the world even can be reached via train since the completion of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway , in May, 2006.