Post and Telecommunications Services
Year Business
Volume of Post
and Telecomm-
unications
Services (100
million yuan)		   Number of
Letters (100 million pcs)		 Pieces of
Express
Mail Services
(10000 pcs)		 Newspaper
and Magazine
Circulation
(10000 copies)		  
Business
Volume
of Post		 Business
Volume of
Telecomm-
unications
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 7019.79 541.04 6478.75 103.84 17237.8 16594
2004 9791.20 566.40 9224.80 82.80 19772.0 14789
a) The business volumes of post and telecommunication services before 2000 were calculated at 1990's constant prices and these since 2000 were calculated at 2000's constant prices. The increase rate at comparable price in 2001 was 27.6%.
 
Post and Telecommunications Services
Year Philately
(10000 pieces)		 Number of
Long-distance
Telephone Calls
(10000 times)		 Number of
Subscribers
of Pagering Services
(10000 subscribers)		 Number of Mobile
Telephone
Subscribers
(10000 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  
1996 303436 1273951 2536.2 685.3  
1997 451729 1554026 3254.6 1323.3  
1998 502850 1825941 3908.2 2386.3  
1999 522475 1782529 4674.5 4329.6  
2000 453500 2107542 4884.3 8453.3  
2001 344114 2199823 3606.4 14522.2  
2002 244159 1927910 1872.1 20600.5  
2003 183421 1960283 1057.6 26995.3 7950
2004 149178 2257147 298.7 33482.4 9400
a) Number of subscribers of Internet services includes dial-up subscribers and ISDN subscribers.
 
Post and Telecommunications Services
Year Number of Local Telephone
Subscribers at
Year-end
(10000 subscribers)		   Public Telephone
(10000
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 26274.7 17109.7 12533.9 9165.0 8389.7 1561.4
2004 31244.3 21084.8 15304.4 10159.5 9246.3 2213.7
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.