Huaihua is a national comprehensive transportation hub, an important node city to jointly build a new land and sea channel in the west, an international land and sea channel facing the Indian Ocean, and the "the Belt and Road". It has been approved as a national logistics hub for business services and a national composite circulation fulcrum city. Relying on Huaihua International Land Port, Huaihua has opened up four international major channels including China Laos, China Vietnam, and China Myanmar, opened up four main sea ports, and opened up 98 international and domestic transportation routes, forming a new pattern of internal and external opening up that relies on dual channels, connects with two oceans, and serves dual circulation. In 2024, four international railway sea intermodal transportation channels and seven international railway logistics channels including China Laos, China Vietnam, and China Myanmar will be opened through Beibu Gulf Port, Guangzhou Port, Shenzhen Port, and Zhanjiang Port. China Laos scheduled train routes will be approved first in the central region, and trade will reach 119 countries and regions including ASEAN, Europe, and America. By 2024, the number of trains in operation will exceed 1000.
Huaihuanan Railway Station is a railway station located in Huaihua City, Hunan Province, China. It belongs to China Railway Guangzhou Group Co., Ltd. and is also a hub station for the intersection of Shanghai Kunming High speed Railway, Huaiheng Railway, and Zhangjihuai High speed Railway. The total construction area of Huaihua South Station is 54156 square meters, with a platform scale of 8 platforms and 19 tracks. Huaihua South Station was established in October 2012; Completed the main construction project in June 2013; Built and officially put into operation in December 2014.
Huaihua Zhijiang Airport was the second strategic airport of the Allied Far East during the Anti Japanese War and has been restored into a modern civilian airport. Zhijiang Airport operates 7 routes, connecting 12 important domestic economic and tourist cities such as Beijing, Sanya, Xi'an, Haikou, Hangzhou, Lijiang, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Kunming, and Nanjing, with an annual throughput of 400000 passengers.