15-41 Telecommunication Services
Year	Business			Number of	Pieces of	Newspapers	Philately	Number of	Number of	Number of	Number of	Number of	Number of					Public
	Volume of	Business	Business	Letters	Express	and		Long Distance	Subscribers	Mobile	Subscribers	Subscribers	Subscribers	Number of		Rural		Telephone
	Post and	Volume of	Volume of	(100 million	Mail	Magazines		Telephone	of Pageing	Telephone	of E-mail	of Internet	of Local	Urban	Residential	Telephone	Residential	(Subscribers)
	Telecommunications	Post	Telecommunications	pcs)	Services	Circulation		Calls	Services	Subscribers	Services	Services	Telephone	Telephone	Telephone	Subscribers	Telephone
	(100 million yuan)				(10 000 pcs)	(10 000 copies)		(10 000	(10 000	(10 000	(subscriber)	(subscriber)	at Year-end	Subscribers	Subscribers		Subscribers
								times)	subscribers)	subscribers)			(subscribers)
1978	34.09			28.35		11250		18574					192.54	119.15		73.39		1.16
1979	36.73			30.80		12680		20587					203.30	127.02		76.28		1.27
1980	39.03			33.13		16431		21404					214.08	134.17		79.90		1.40
1981	41.02			33.88		18124		22049					222.09	142.64		79.45		1.54
1982	42.89			33.94		19598		23574					234.25	153.87		80.38		1.75
1983	46.79			35.21		22933		26556					250.76	168.86		81.90		2.03
1984	52.60			39.48		28141		31553					277.43	191.07		86.36		2.45
1985	62.21			46.78		30172		38254					312.03	218.96	4.08	93.07	2.05	2.75
1986	69.06			49.59		28731		42303					350.38	250.51	7.36	99.87	3.61	2.99
1987	81.63			54.79		31005		51525	3.09				390.72	293.04	17.17	97.68	6.91	3.27
1988	102.88			59.77	153.0	27443		64617	9.72	0.32			472.70	362.30	37.83	110.39	12.69	3.66
1989	123.46			57.28	247.3	17704		78462	23.73	0.98			568.04	439.62	89.56	128.42	21.34	3.99
1990	155.54			54.87	343.3	20078	71233	116292	43.70	1.83			685.03	538.45	152.72	146.58	30.66	4.60
1991	204.39	52.75	151.63	52.11	566.7	23277	123523	172921	87.38	4.75			845.06	670.83	239.00	174.23	49.55	5.38
1992	290.94	64.36	226.57	57.18	959.2	25104	167303	287380	222.02	17.69			1146.91	920.57	415.41	226.34	79.01	8.41
1993	462.71	80.26	382.45	68.70	2156.2	25511	210885	506853	561.40	63.93			1733.16	1407.37	800.38	325.79	139.55	15.84
1994	688.19	95.89	592.30	76.50	4019.5	24096	236849	757639	1033.00	156.78	2329		2729.53	2246.78	1489.40	482.75	274.86	38.66
1995	988.85	113.34	875.51	79.55	5562.7	21689	239250	1013966	1739.15	362.94	6068	7213	4070.57	3263.56	2358.40	807.00	551.37	84.98
1996	1342.04	133.29	1208.75	78.68	7096.6	21157	303436	1273951	2536.20	685.28	10107	35652	5494.74	4277.82	3224.62	1216.92	907.27	138.04
1997	1773.29	144.34	1628.95	68.55	6878.9	21875	451729	1554026	3254.61	1323.29	15246	160157	7031.04	5244.40	4057.16	1786.63	1406.56	193.94
1998	2431.21	166.28	2264.94	65.51	7331.8	22989	502850	1825941	3908.16	2386.29	20959	676755	8742.09	6259.81	4911.08	2482.28	2070.75	259.49
1999	3330.82	198.44	3132.38	60.52	9091.3	25035	522475	1782529	4674.47	4329.60	19855	3014518	10871.60	7463.30	5894.40	3408.40	2949.20	297.40
2000	4792.70	232.80	4559.90	77.71	11031.4	20090	453500	2107542	4884.30	8453.30		9021717	14482.90	9311.60	7219.40	5171.30	4597.80	352.00
a)The business volume of post and telecommunications before 1981 was calculated at 1970's constant prices. That from 1981 to 1990 was calculated
at 1980's constant prices. That since 1990 was calculated at 1990's constant prices.
b)The business volume of post and telecommunications in 1980 at 1980's constant prices was 1.857 million yuan. That in 1990 at 1990's constant
prices was 15.544 million yuan.
c) Number of subscribers of Internet service includes dial-up subscribers and ISDN subscribers.