Business Volume of Post and Telecommunications

1773.29

2431.21

3330.82

4792.70

4556.26

  Service           (100 million yuan)

  Number of Letters           (100 million pcs)

68.55

65.51

60.52

77.71

86.93

  Pieces of Express Mail Services(10 000 pcs)

6878.9

7331.8

9091.3

11031.4

12652.7

  Number of Newspapers and Magazines          

21875.2

22989.3

25035.2

20089.7

21811.1

  Circulation                 (10 000 copies)

  Philately Business(10 000 pcs)

451729

502850

522475

453500

34414

  Number of Long-distance Calls               

155.40

182.59

178.25

210.75

219.98

  (100 million times)

  Number of Subscribers of Pagering Service at 

3254.6

3908.2

4674.5

4884.3

3606.4

  Year-end               (10 000 subscribers)

  Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at  

1323.3

2386.3

4329.6

8453.3

14522.2

  Year-end                      (10 000 subscribers)

  Local Telephone Subscribers of at Year-end  

7031.0

8742.1

10871.6

14482.9

18036.8

  (10 000 subscribers)

  Local (Urban) Telephone Subscribers at       

5244.4

6259.8

7463.3

9311.6

11193.7

  Year-end               (10 000 subscribers)

  Residential Telephone Subscribers           

4057.2

4911.1

5894.4

7219.4

8535.3

  Number of Rural Telephones Subscribers at   

1786.6

2482.3

3408.4

5171.3

6843.1

  Year-end                      (10 000 subscribers)

  Residential Telephone Subscribers           

1406.6

2070.7

2949.2

4597.8

6197.7

  Number of Post & Telecommunications Offices (unit)

79273

102225

66649

58437

57136

  Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery  

  Routes             (10 000 km)

576.61

621.54

632.71

643.78

659.53

  Number of Long-distance Telephone Lines     

114.61

157.65

186.97

220.17

339.33

  (10 000 lines)

  Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines  

15.08

19.41

23.97

28.66

39.91

  £¨10 000 km£©

  Capacity of Long-distance Telephone Exchanges    

436.83

449.16

503.20

563.55

703.58

  (10 000 lines)

  Capacity of Office Telephone Exchanges    

11269

13824

15346

17826

20570

  (10 000 lines)

  Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges (10 000 subscribers)   

2585.7

4706.7

8136.0

13985.6

21926.3

  Number of Telephone Sets(10 000 units)

10111.1

13123.4

17567.4

25606.6

35334.7

  Number of Fixed Telephones

8787.8

10737.1

13237.8

17153.3

20812.5

  Number of Mobile Telephones

1323.3

2386.3

4329.6

8453.3

14522.2

  a) The business volume of post and telecommunication services before 2000 was calculated at 1990's constant prices and that in 2001 was calculated

  at 2000's constant prices. The increase rate at comparable price in 2001 was 27.6 %. 

  b)Number of postal and telecommunications offices refers to number of postal offices before 1999. The same as the following table.