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16-39 Basic Conditions of Post and Telecommunication Services

Item 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
 
Business Volume of Post and Telecommunications 4792.70 4556.26 5695.80 7019.79 9712.29
Service (100 million yuan)
Number of Letters (100 million pcs) 77.71 86.93 106.01 103.84 82.81
Pieces of Express Mail Services (10 000 pcs) 11031.4 12652.7 14036.2 17237.8 19771.9
Issue of Newspapers and Magazines 20089.7 21811.1 17620.0 16594.4 14789.3
  (10 000 copies)
Stamps for Collection (10 000 pcs) 453500 344114 244159 183421 149178
Number of Long-distance Calls 210.75 219.98 192.79 196.03 226.22
  (100 million times)
Number of Subscribers of Wireless Paging Services at 4884.3 3606.4 1872.1 1057.6 395.2
Year-end (10 000 subscribers)
Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at 8453.3 14522.2 20600.5 26995.3 33482.4
Year-end (10 000 subscribers)
Local Telephone Subscribers of at Year-end 14482.9 18036.8 21422.2 26274.7 31175.6
  (10 000 subscribers)
Local (Urban) Telephone Subscribers at 9311.6 11193.7 13579.1 17109.7 21025.1
Year-end (10 000 subscribers)
Household Telephone Subscribers 7219.4 8535.3 10196.7 12533.9 15246.5
Rural Telephones Subscribers at Year-end 5171.3 6843.1 7843.1 9165.0 10150.5
  (10 000 subscribers)
Household Telephone Subscribers 4597.8 6197.7 7183.8 8389.7 9240.5
Number of Post & Telecommunications Offices(unit) 58437 57136 76358 63555 66393
Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery
Routes (10 000 km) 643.78 659.53 659.22 680.20 686.70
Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines 28.66 39.91 48.77 59.43 69.53
  (10 000 km)
Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges 563.55 703.58 773.01 869.40 1263.00
  (10 000 lines)
Capacity of Office Telephone Exchange(10000 lines) 17826 25566 28657 35082 42347
Capacity of  PBXs (10000 lines) 1587.6 1514.5 1370.5 1294.1 1420.0
Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges 13985.6 21926.3 27400.3 33698.4 39684.3
  (10 000 subscribers)
 

a) The business volume of post and telecommunication services before 2000 was calculated at 1990's constant prices and that in 2001 was calculated
at 2000's constant prices. The increase rate at constant price in 2001 was 27.6 %.
b) Number of postal and telecommunications offices refers to number of postal offices before 1998. That refers to the postal marketing station,
including the postal offices and the postal deputy station, since 2002. The same as the following table.



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These tables are based on figures supplied by the National Bureau Of Statistics of the The Peoples Republic Of China and are subject to revision by the National Bureau of Statistics of China.

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