Transportation,Postal
and Telecommunications Services |
Brief Introduction |
I.
Data in this chapter cover mainly the basic conditions of the development of transportation,
post and telecommunications in |
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. |
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. |
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. |
III. The statistical
coverage and statistical units of the various data: |
(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. |
(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. |
(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. |
(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 |
(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 |