15-42 TELECOMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES
(year-end)
	Capacity of Long-distance	Capacity of Local Office			Number of
Year Region	Telephone Exchanges	Telephone Exchanges	Central	Local	Telephone	Central	Local
	(circuit)	(10 000line)	State-owned	State-owned	（10 000 sets)	State-owned	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	1,034.69	667.95	366.74	1,089.33	868.38	220.95
1990	161370	1,231.82	826.05	405.77	1,233.16	1,026.10	205.23
1991	286325	1,492.18	1,033.14	459.03	1,459.18	1,215.68	238.74
1992	521885	1,915.06	1,355.50	559.56	1,863.65	1,544.94	301.02
1993	1206091	3,040.78	2,210.25	830.53	2,631.28	2,147.51	419.94
1994	2416296	4,926.24	3,723.39	1,202.86	3,958.64	3,148.11	653.75
1995	3518781	7,203.59	5,456.35	1,747.24	5,762.26	4,346.32	1,152.06
1996	4162009	9,291.22	6,923.67	2,367.56	7,732.03	5,537.78	1,508.97
1997	4368305	11,269.18	8,406.80	2,862.37	10,111.12	6,745.23	2,042.61
1998	4491595	13,823.66	9,951.35	3,872.31	13,123.44	7,963.29	2,773.86
Beijing	108400	504.05	504.05		522.50	423.14
Tianjin	65000	244.76	228.60	16.17	259.58	202.07	9.91
Hebei	163770	621.11	420.24	200.87	538.37	316.67	130.13
Shanxi	86820	259.09	208.08	51.01	228.99	160.63	26.22
Inner Mongolia	92200	188.97	188.97		175.96	150.07
Liaoning	246260	681.79	516.31	165.48	688.10	445.49	113.83
Jilin	141024	365.63	279.36	86.28	337.41	224.14	53.28
Heilongjiang	111665	510.56	410.39	100.17	485.90	318.57	62.13
Shanghai	113000	618.42	618.42		753.41	627.44
Jiangsu	331626	1,292.37	772.35	520.02	1,300.52	601.22	559.20
Zhejiang	243553	834.48	448.94	385.55	901.78	405.31	345.76
Anhui	121000	430.42	276.41	154.01	355.54	212.19	85.04
Fujian	196860	546.95	312.98	233.97	550.56	247.52	156.57
Jiangxi	136880	322.73	228.62	94.11	247.91	155.95	48.69
Shandong	311534	854.43	532.45	321.99	812.26	462.53	200.37
Henan	171450	723.20	521.24	201.96	616.82	395.86	102.32
Hubei	175060	601.71	418.18	183.53	533.40	325.64	124.52
Hunan	211530	449.65	315.37	134.29	413.33	246.54	91.49
Guangdong	541150	1,393.84	823.65	570.20	1,507.88	709.01	436.17
Guangxi	148120	289.48	216.70	72.78	246.20	162.14	33.32
Hainan	42420	66.79	53.29	13.50	70.65	42.91	8.25
Chongqing	40500	266.21	198.04	68.17	204.36	135.99	31.14
Sichuan	192670	513.06	403.82	109.23	396.85	253.71	57.94
Guizhou	53120	151.51	134.48	17.03	112.70	85.02	8.94
Yunnan	128094	313.06	242.96	70.10	248.46	165.96	38.92
Tibet	7800	14.93	14.93		8.03	6.85	0.03
Shaanxi	92380	285.08	221.97	63.11	241.46	169.75	34.53
Gansu	46365	159.28	133.54	25.73	124.85	100.69	9.95
Qinghai	29820	31.18	29.67	1.51	28.09	23.62	0.94
Ningxia	27290	67.30	55.91	11.39	48.35	39.17	4.19
Xinjiang	114234	221.60	221.45	0.15	163.24	147.53	0.06
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.

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