Telecommunications Facilities at the Year-end
Year		Capacity of Longdistance Telephone Exchanges (circuit)
				Capacity of Local Office Telephone Exchanges (10 000 lines)		Central Stateowned		Local Stateowned		Number of Telephone (10 000 sets)		Central Stateowned		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
a) The capacity of exchanges in this table excludes the capacity of exchanges owned by users. Since 1990,
total number of telephone sets include mobile phones.