16-39Basic
Conditions of Post and Telecommunication Services
Item
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
Business Volume of Post and
Telecommunications
4792.70
4556.26
5695.80
7019.79
9712.29
Service
(100 million yuan)
Number of Letters
(100 million pcs)
77.71
86.93
106.01
103.84
82.81
Pieces of Express Mail Services
(10 000 pcs)
11031.4
12652.7
14036.2
17237.8
19771.9
Issue of Newspapers and Magazines
20089.7
21811.1
17620.0
16594.4
14789.3
(10 000 copies)
Stamps for Collection
(10 000 pcs)
453500
344114
244159
183421
149178
Number of Long-distance Calls
210.75
219.98
192.79
196.03
226.22
(100 million times)
Number of Subscribers of Wireless
Paging Services at
4884.3
3606.4
1872.1
1057.6
395.2
Year-end
(10 000 subscribers)
Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers
at
8453.3
14522.2
20600.5
26995.3
33482.4
Year-end
(10 000 subscribers)
Local Telephone Subscribers of at
Year-end
14482.9
18036.8
21422.2
26274.7
31175.6
(10 000 subscribers)
Local (Urban) Telephone Subscribers at
9311.6
11193.7
13579.1
17109.7
21025.1
Year-end
(10 000 subscribers)
Household Telephone Subscribers
7219.4
8535.3
10196.7
12533.9
15246.5
Rural Telephones Subscribers at
Year-end
5171.3
6843.1
7843.1
9165.0
10150.5
(10 000 subscribers)
Household Telephone Subscribers
4597.8
6197.7
7183.8
8389.7
9240.5
Number of Post &
Telecommunications Offices(unit)
58437
57136
76358
63555
66393
Length of Postal Routes and Rural
Delivery
Routes
(10 000 km)
643.78
659.53
659.22
680.20
686.70
Length of Long-distance Optical Cable
Lines
28.66
39.91
48.77
59.43
69.53
(10 000 km)
Capacity of Long Distance Telephone
Exchanges
563.55
703.58
773.01
869.40
1263.00
(10 000 lines)
Capacity of Office Telephone
Exchange(10000 lines)
17826
25566
28657
35082
42347
Capacity ofPBXs
(10000 lines)
1587.6
1514.5
1370.5
1294.1
1420.0
Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges
13985.6
21926.3
27400.3
33698.4
39684.3
(10 000 subscribers)
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 constant price in 2001 was 27.6 %.
b)
Number of postal and telecommunications offices refers to number of postal
offices before 1998. That refers to the postal marketing station, including the postal
offices and the postal deputy station, since 2002. The same as the following
table.
