Telecommunications Services (table 1)
Year
Region 		Business
Volume of		   Number
of Letters
(100
million
pcs) 		Pieces of
Express Mail
Services
(10 000 pcs) 		Newspaper
and
Magazine
Circulation
(10 000 copies) 		Philately
(10 000
pieces) 		Number
of Long
Distance
Telephone
Calls
(10 000
times) 		Number of
Subscribers
of Pagering
Services
(10 000
subscribers)
Posts and
Telecom-
munications
Services
(100 million yuan)

Business
Volume
of Postst
Services

Business
Volume of
Telecom-
munications
Services
1978 34.09     28.35   11250   18574  
1980 39.03     33.13   16431   21404  
1985 62.21     46.78   30172   38254  
1990 155.54     54.87 343.3 20078 71233 116292 43.7
1991 204.39 52.75 151.63 52.11 566.7 23277 123523 172921 87.4
1992 290.94 64.36 226.57 57.18 959.2 25104 167303 287380 222.0
1993 462.71 80.26 382.45 68.70 2156.2 25511 210885 506853 561.4
1994 688.19 95.89 592.30 76.50 4019.5 24096 236849 757639 1033.0
1995 988.85 113.34 875.51 79.55 5562.7 21689 239250 1013966 1739.2
1996 1342.04 133.29 1208.75 78.68 7096.6 21157 303436 1273951 2536.2
1997 1773.29 144.34 1628.95 68.55 6878.9 21875 451729 1554026 3254.6
1998 2431.21 166.28 2264.94 65.51 7331.8 22989 502850 1825941 3908.2
1999 3330.82 198.44 3132.38 60.52 9091.3 25035 522475 1782529 4674.5
2000 4792.70 232.80 4559.90 77.71 11031.4 20090 453500 2107542 4884.3
2001 4556.26 457.42 4098.84 86.93 12652.7 21811 344114 2199823 3606.4
2002 5546.41 494.76 5051.65 106.10 14062.30 17620 244406 1929800 1872
Beijing 215.89 30.08 185.81 6.40 990.7 1171 30120 89013 56.2
Tianjin 71.11 8.04 63.07 1.71 254.3 222 7446 38466 52.0
Hebei 167.71 17.41 150.30 3.30 507.2 635 8708 87506 102.1
Shanxi 86.00 10.05 75.95 1.58 154.8 381 8060 49833 70.4
Inner Mongolia 60.35 7.60 52.75 1.22 129.1 268 6062 27453 45.1
Liaoning
219.85 16.00 203.85 2.27 466.6 440 12014 91065 229.3
Jilin 95.53 9.19 86.34 1.09 218.8 204 6455 39462 69.6
Heilong
jiang 		145.52 16.58 128.94 1.61 246.2 435 7717 53201 182.5
Shanghai 221.79 25.92 195.87 7.99 847.5 875 8877 65439 69.6
Jiangsu 294.58 35.20 259.38 6.18 1004.0 1551 25994 141618 167.5
Zhejiang 290.21 22.21 268.00 5.30 823.6 1183 16888 144213 244.9
Anhui 119.98 16.18 103.80 2.33 401.3 782 22968 61046 88.9
Fujian 197.13 17.71 179.42 4.05 743.8 595 8871 66111 191.9
Jiangxi 89.68 11.02 78.66 2.32 285.3 346 7595 42752 64.9
Shandong 259.23 29.04 230.19 4.20 673.4 1324 17389 103508 184.7
Henan 175.91 20.86 155.05 3.72 538.8 1061 12326 93402 165.2
Hubei 133.84 20.15 113.69 4.83 490.9 1588 32118 63866 92.1
Hunan 144.50 19.23 125.27 3.95 398.6 1022 20258 59602 324.6
Guangdong 782.63 42.14 740.49 10.91 1488.4 1109 18829 492755 286.5
Guangxi 95.36 8.93 86.43 1.88 215.2 411 4048 46222 178.2
Hainan 32.50 3.28 29.22 0.37 62.9 74 2426 9645 84.7
Chongqing 71.54 7.10 64.44 1.36 259.9 249 4665 26493 51.4
Sichuan 167.51 16.11 151.40 2.56 557.7 3403 11450 86430 208.9
Guizhou 48.52 4.77 43.75 0.62 116.0 238 3666 25099 46.0
Yunnan 103.72 7.60 96.12 0.89 153.3 459 6334 33969 92.8
Tibet 6.80 0.73 6.07 0.09 16.5 156 608 5564 2.9
Shaanxi 96.24 11.29 84.95 2.09 284.5 386 8559 66697 120.5
Gansu 49.44 6.74 42.70 1.00 103.5 803 8110 31798 37.7
Qinghai 13.21 1.41 11.80 0.30 31.4 45 1761 9605 6.6
Ningxia 16.21 1.93 14.28 0.26 41.9 49 3173 9095 17.4
Xinjiang 64.62 6.23 58.39 0.56 146.4 348 5464 38897 71.3
Not Classified 19.16 6.71 12.45       5158