With the principle of user-friendliness and improving the quality of people's living environment, Zhongshan government carries out the urban construction with high standards and efficiency. In recent years, Zhongshan city is taking on a new look with each passing day with the improvement of its infrastructures, providing its citizens with an environment comfortable to live, learn and work. At present, the green area within the city proper reaches 920 hectares, common green area per capita 11 sq. meters and the green coverage 38%. Zhongshan successively won the titles of National Clean City, National Model City for Urban Planning and Management, National Garden City, National Model City for Environmental Protection, China's Top City of Tourism, National Model City in Implementing the Easy-traffic Project, and the 1997 Habitat Scroll of Honor Award by the United Nations.

A convenient road network of 1,345 kilometers has formed in Zhongshan, extending to all directions from its backbone the national trunk roads, the local trunk roads and the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway. Within a radius of 90 kilometers, there are 5 big airports in the vicinity of Zhongshan, located respectively in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Hong Kong and Macao. Railways have access to all parts of China via Guangzhou. A Triangle of Ports has taken shape with the opening of the southern Shenwan Port plus the eastern Zhongshan Port and the northern Xiaolan Port. The Zhongshan Port ranks among the top ten national ports and top 100 international ports in terms of container handling capacity. It takes only 75 minutes from Zhongshan Port to Hong Kong by hydrofoil, nine shuttle voyages a day.

Zhongshan has abundant supplies of water and electricity. And the Zhongshan Information Highway, a broadband network of information with high speed and large capacity, has been established, linking the pivotal city proper to all township institutions as well as large- and medium-sized enterprises.