| 16-41  Basic Conditions of Post and
  Telecommunication Services |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | |||||
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|   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 |   | |||||||
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  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 |   | |||||||
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  times) |   |   |   | ||||||||||
|   Number of Subscribers of Pagering
  Service at  | 4674.5 | 4884.3 | 3606.4 | 1872.1 | 1057.6 |   | |||||||
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  (10 000 subscribers) |   |   | |||||||||||
|   Number of Mobile Telephone
  Subscribers at   | 4329.6 | 8453.3 | 14522.2 | 20600.5 | 26995.3 |   | |||||||
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  (10 000 subscribers) |   |   | |||||||||||
|   Local Telephone Subscribers of at
  Year-end   | 10871.6 | 14482.9 | 18036.8 | 21422.2 | 26274.7 |   | |||||||
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  subscribers) |   |   | |||||||||||
|   Local (Urban) Telephone Subscribers
  at      
   | 7463.3 | 9311.6 | 11193.7 | 13579.1 | 17109.7 |   | |||||||
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  (10 000 subscribers) |   |   | |||||||||||
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  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 |   | |||||||
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  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 |   | |||||||
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|  Capacity of automatic toll switching
  systems      | 503.20 | 563.55 | 703.58 | 773.01 | 869.40 |   | |||||||
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  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 |   | |||||||
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| 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.  |   |   |   | ||||||||||
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