Post and Telecommunications Services
Year Business Volume of
Post and
Telecommunications
Services
(100 million yuan)		   Number of
Letters
(100 million pcs)		 Pieces of
Express
Mail
Services
(10 000 pcs)		 Newspaper
and Magazine
Circulation
(10 000 copies)		  
Business
Volume of
Post		 Business
Volume of
Telecommunications
Services
1978 34.09     28.35   11250
1980 39.03     33.13   16431
1985 62.21     46.78   30172
1989 123.46     57.28 247.3 17704
1990 155.54 45.95 109.59 54.87 343.3 20078
1991 204.39 52.75 151.63 52.11 566.7 23277
1992 290.94 64.36 226.57 57.18 959.2 25104
1993 462.71 80.26 382.45 68.70 2156.2 25511
1994 688.19 95.89 592.30 76.50 4019.5 24096
1995 988.85 113.34 875.51 79.55 5562.7 21689
1996 1342.04 133.29 1208.75 78.68 7096.6 21157
1997 1773.29 144.34 1628.95 68.55 6878.9 21875
1998 2431.21 166.28 2264.94 65.51 7331.8 22989
1999 3330.82 198.44 3132.38 60.52 9091.3 25035
2000 4792.70 232.80 4559.90 77.71 11031.4 20090
2001 4556.26 457.42 4098.84 86.93 12652.7 21811
2002 5695.80 494.69 5201.12 106.01 14036.2 17620
2003 7281.80 542.50 6739.30 103.80 17237.8 16594
a) The business volumes of post and telecommunications services before 2000 were calculated at 1990 constant prices and these since 2000 were calculated at 2000 constant prices. The increase rate at comparable prices in 2001 was 27.6%.
 
Year Philately
(10 000 pieces)		 Number of
Long Distance
Telephone Calls
(10 000 times)		 Number of
Subscribers
of Pagering Services
(10 000 subscribers)		 Number of Mobile
Telephone
Subscribers
(10 000 subscribers)		 Number of
Subscribers of Internet
Services (subscriber)
1978   18574      
1980   21404      
1985   38254      
1989   78462 23.7 1.0  
1990 71233 116292 43.7 1.8  
1991 123523 172921 87.4 4.8  
1992 167303 287380 222.0 17.7  
1993 210885 506853 561.4 63.9  
1994 236849 757639 1033.0 156.8  
1995 239250 1013966 1739.2 362.9 7213
1996 303436 1273951 2536.2 685.3 35652
1997 451729 1554026 3254.6 1323.3 160157
1998 502850 1825941 3908.2 2386.3 676755
1999 522475 1782529 4674.5 4329.6 3014518
2000 453500 2107542 4884.3 8453.3 9021717
2001 344114 2199823 3606.4 14522.2 36562356
2002 244159 1927910 1872.1 20600.5 52541679
2003 183421   870.6 26869.3 5365.7
a) Number of subscribers of Internet services includes dial-up subscribers and ISDN subscribers.
 
Year Number of Local Telephone Subscribers at
Year-end
(10 000 subscribers)		   Public Telephone
(10 000 subscribers)
Number of
Urban Telephone
Subscribers		   Rural
Telephone
Subscribers		  
Residential
Telephone
Subscribers		 Residential
Telephone
Subscribers
1978 192.5 119.2   73.4   1.2
1980 214.1 134.2   79.9   1.4
1985 312.0 219.0 4.1 93.1 2.0 2.7
1989 568.0 439.6 89.6 128.4 21.3 4.0
1990 685.0 538.4 152.7 146.6 30.7 4.6
1991 845.1 670.8 239.0 174.2 49.5 5.4
1992 1146.9 920.6 415.4 226.3 79.0 8.4
1993 1733.2 1407.4 800.4 325.8 139.5 15.8
1994 2729.5 2246.8 1489.4 482.7 274.9 38.7
1995 4070.6 3263.6 2358.4 807.0 551.4 85.0
1996 5494.7 4277.8 3224.6 1216.9 907.3 138.0
1997 7031.0 5244.4 4057.2 1786.6 1406.6 193.9
1998 8742.1 6259.8 4911.1 2482.3 2070.7 259.5
1999 10871.6 7463.3 5894.4 3408.4 2949.2 297.4
2000 14482.9 9311.6 7219.4 5171.3 4597.8 352.0
2001 18036.8 11193.7 8535.3 6843.1 6197.7 346.2
2002 21422.2 13579.1 10196.7 7843.1 7183.8 985.5
2003 26330.5 17129.2 12467.9 9201.3 8415.4 1535.8
a) Number of subscribers of public telephone in 2002 included the smart net special end-users that were installed at public spatials, such as streets. The data are not comparable with the previous years.