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Transportation, Postal and Telecommunications
Services |
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Brief Introduction |
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I. Data in this chapter cover
mainly the basic conditions of the development of transportation, post and telecommunications
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Data of transport cover mainly
the length of the routes of five means of transportation, the ownership of
the transport equipment, the technological quality, the freight traffic and passenger
traffic accomplished by various means of transportation, the composition of
the fixed assets and main financial conditions in the railway transport, the length
of major ports and the situation of births, and cargo handled at principal
sea ports. |
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Data of post and telecommunications
cover mainly the situation of post and telecommunications offices and postal
routes, the telephone lines, telegraph lines and the ownership of the telecommunication
facilities, the principal postal and telecommunications services rendered,
main financial indicators of postal and telecommunications enterprises, and
the level of the development of the postal and telecommunications services,
etc. |
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II. Data in this chapter are
prepared and edited by the Department of Industrial and Transport Statistics,
NBS. Data on transport come from the Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Communications,
Civil Aviation Administration of China, Ministry of Public Security, China
National Petroleum and Natural Gas Corporation Group, China Petrochemical
Corporation Group and statistical bureaus of provinces, autonomous regions
and municipalities directly under the central government. Data on posts and telecommunications
come from the Ministry of Information Industry. |
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III. the statistical coverage
and statistical units of the various data: |
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(1) Data on railways cover the operation and
management of the national and local railways, not including the railways for
military purpose, industrial lines and special railways. The data on the operation
and management of the national railways come from the railway sub-bureaus and
the transport enterprises subordinate to them. The data on the operation and management
of local railways come from the provincial administrative departments of the local
railways, and are collected by the China Association of Local Railways. |
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(2) Data on highways,
waterways and ports: the length of highways and waterways refer to the length
open to traffic or navigation at the end of the year, not including the highways
and waterways under construction but not officially put into use. The data
mentioned above are provided by the Ministry of Communications. The data on
the ownership of the highway vehicles are provided by the divisions of vehicle
management under the provincial departments of public security, subordinate
to the Traffic Management Bureau, Ministry of Public Security, to the provincial
statistical bureaus. the data on the ownership of ships
are provided by the divisions of navigation or ports management under the provincial
departments of communications, subordinate to the Ministry of Communications,
to the provincial statistical bureaus. the provincial
statistical bureaus examined, processed and tabulated the data. the data on
the passenger traffic and freight traffic by highways and waterways are
collected and prepared separately by the Ministry of Communications and the National
Bureau of Statistics in accordance with the “Provisions on the Statistical
Work of the Whole Trades of Highway and Waterway Transport”, jointly issued
by the Ministry of Communications and the National Bureau of Statistics in 1992.
The statistical data of the whole trades of highway and waterway transport
are collected by the method of complete enumeration and the method of sample
survey. Statistical coverage: All the units and individuals (including
joint-households) registered in the People’s Republic of China and engaged in
highway or waterway freight or passenger transport business or those engaged
in non-business freight or passenger transport within the boundary of the People’s
Republic of China, whatever their subordinate relationships and ownership
are, are included in the coverage of transport statistics. The Ministry of Communications
is responsible for collecting the statistical data on the handling capacity
of the seaports and inland river ports and the volume of freight handled. |
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(3) Data on the pipeline transport: the statistics
of pipeline transport cover the length, transport capacity and the volume
transported of the petroleum (crude oil) pipelines, petroleum products
(refined oil) pipelines, natural gas pipelines and other gas pipelines. the coverage
of statistics of pipeline transport includes the pipelines leading directly
from the enterprises of oil fields or gas fields to the users such as refineries,
chemical plants, power stations, etc. and to the loading stations and ports
or piers, the petroleum products pipelines leading from the refineries to the
users (including the oil depots of the commercial oil companies) and the pipelines
leading from the enterprises engaged in pipeline transport with independent
accounting system to the users and causeways and ports or piers. The data
sources of the pipeline transport statistics are mainly the enterprises
engaged in the pipeline transport subordinate to the China National Petroleum
and Natural Gas Corporation Group and China Petrochemical Corporation Group. The
two corporations collect and examine the statistical data from the units
subordinate to them respectively. |
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(4) Data on the civil aviation
transport: the statistical units of the civil aviation transport include the enterprises
engaged in the civil aviation transport flights and flights for general
purpose, including the enterprises directly under the Civil Aviation
Administration of China or not under the CAAC, but excluding the foreign
companies. the statistical data cover the air lines
and transport volume of the domestic transport, the transport between |
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(5) Data on post and telecommunications:
the business volume of post and telecommunications is classified by business
area into the domestic volume, the volume between |