Being the provincial capital, Nanjing is also the political, economic and cultural center of Jiangsu Province and an important central city in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Lying adjacent to the coastal open area, Nanjing is at the intersection of China coastal and the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

It is one of the four central cities in the Yangtze River Valley and also one of the three central cities in the Yangtze River Delta. It is playing an important role in the strategy of the open policy in China. It not only has the first-rate Lukou International Airport, the largest inland foreign trade river port in China, but also a major hub in the railway, highway, airway, expressway and pipe systems in China.

With the advanced telecommunication networks, program-controlled and mobile telephones, micro-wave, fiber-optical and broad-band communications and other modern communication networks, Nanjing has become an important comprehensive transportation and communication hubs in East China.