Capacity of Telecommunications Facilities at Year-end
Year	Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges (circuit)	Capacity of
		Local Office Telephone Exchanges (10 000 lines)	Central State-owned	Local State-owned	Number of Telephones (10 000 sets)	Central State-owned	Local State-owned
1978	1863	405.88	174.94	230.94	368.82	236.40	132.42
1980	1969	443.20	200.29	242.91	418.64	284.07	134.57
1985	11522	613.44	336.54	276.91	625.98	476.11	149.87
1986	20689	672.36	380.49	291.86	705.91	544.14	161.77
1987	42773	773.93	464.50	309.43	805.72	628.28	177.44
1988	62484	887.22	555.84	331.38	941.79	745.10	196.70
1989	103269	1034.69	667.95	366.74	1089.33	868.38	220.95
1990	161370	1231.82	826.05	405.77	1233.16	1026.10	205.23
1991	286325	1492.18	1033.14	459.03	1459.18	1215.68	238.74
1992	521885	1915.06	1355.50	559.56	1863.65	1544.94	301.02
1993	1206091	3040.78	2210.25	830.53	2631.28	2147.51	419.94
1994	2416296	4926.24	3723.39	1202.86	3958.64	3148.11	653.75
1995	3518781	7203.59	5456.35	1747.24	5762.26	4346.32	1152.06
1996	4162009	9291.22	6923.67	2367.56	7732.03	5537.78	1508.97
1997	4368305	11269.18	8406.80	2862.37	10111.12	6745.23	2042.61
1998	4491595	13823.66	9951.35	3872.31	13123.44	7963.29	2773.86
1999	5032026	15346.13	11094.08	4252.05	17567.44	9505.43	3732.41
2000	5635498	17825.63	13306.16	4519.47	25606.55	12634.36	4518.89
2001	7035769	20532.20			35338.50
2002	7763000	28358.40			42103.50
The capacity of exchanges in this table excludes the capacity of exchanges owned by users. Since 1990,
total number of telephone sets has included mobile phones.