16-41  Basic Conditions of Post and Telecommunication Services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Business Volume of Post and Telecommunications

3330.82

4792.70

4556.26

5695.80

7019.79

 

      Service           (100 million yuan)

 

 

  Number of Letters           (100 million pcs)

60.52

77.71

86.93

106.01

103.84

 

  Pieces of Express Mail Services  (10 000 pcs)

9091.3

11031.4

12652.7

14036.2

17237.8

 

  Number of Newspapers and Magazines         

25035.2

20089.7

21811.1

17620.0

16594.4

 

      Circulation                 (10 000 copies)

 

 

  Philately Business    (10 000 pcs)

522475

453500

344114

244159

183421

 

  Number of Long-distance Calls              

178.25

210.75

219.98

192.79

196.0283

 

      (100 million times)

 

 

 

  Number of Subscribers of Pagering Service at

4674.5

4884.3

3606.4

1872.1

1057.6

 

    Year-end               (10 000 subscribers)

 

 

  Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at 

4329.6

8453.3

14522.2

20600.5

26995.3

 

    Year-end                      (10 000 subscribers)

 

 

  Local Telephone Subscribers of at Year-end 

10871.6

14482.9

18036.8

21422.2

26274.7

 

     (10 000 subscribers)

 

 

  Local (Urban) Telephone Subscribers at      

7463.3

9311.6

11193.7

13579.1

17109.7

 

    Year-end               (10 000 subscribers)

 

 

        Residential Telephone Subscribers          

5894.4

7219.4

8535.3

10196.7

12533.9

 

  Number of Rural Telephones Subscribers at  

3408.4

5171.3

6843.1

7843.1

9165.0

 

    Year-end                      (10 000 subscribers)

 

 

        Residential Telephone Subscribers          

2949.2

4597.8

6197.7

7183.8

8389.7

 

  Number of Post & Telecommunications Offices (unit)

66649

58437

57136

76358

63555

 

  Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery 

 

 

    Routes             (10 000 km)

632.71

643.78

659.53

659.22

680.20

 

 Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines 

23.97

28.66

39.91

48.77

59.43

 

 10 000 km

 

 

 Capacity of automatic toll switching systems    

503.20

563.55

703.58

773.01

869.40

 

      (10 000 lines)

 

 

 Capacity of C.O. switches 10000 lines  

15346

17826

25566

28657

35083

 

Capacity of  PBXs   10000 lines  

1672.2

1587.6

1514.5

1370.5

1294.1

 

 Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges (10 000 subscribers)  

8136.0

13985.6

21926.3

27400.3

33698.4

 

   Number of Telephone Sets   (10 000 units)

17567.4

25606.6

35334.7

42972.2

54155.3

 

      Number of Fixed Telephones

13237.8

17153.3

20812.5

22371.7

27160.0

 

      Number of Mobile Telephones

4329.6

8453.3

14522.2

20600.5

26995.3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 comparable 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.