16-39  Basic Conditions of Post and Telecommunication Services

Item

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

  Business Volume of Post and Telecommunication

4556.26

5695.80

7019.79

9712.29

12028.54

      Service                                       (100 million yuan)

  Number of Letters                            (100 million pcs)

86.93

106.01

103.84

82.81

73.51

  Pieces of Express Mail Services              (10 000 pcs)

12652.7

14036.2

17237.8

19771.9

22880.3

  Issue of Newspapers and Magazines

21811.1

17620.0

16594.4

14789.3

14601.3

                                                              (10 000 copies)

  Stamps for Collection                              (10 000 pcs)

344114

244159

183421

149178

121214

  Number of Long-distance Calls

219.98

192.79

196.03

226.22

259.24

                                                        (100 million times)

  Number of Subscribers of Wireless Paging Services at

3606.4

1872.1

1057.6

395.2

97.1

    Year-end                                   (10 000 subscribers)

  Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at

14522.2

20600.5

26995.3

33482.4

39340.6

    Year-end                                   (10 000 subscribers)

  Local Telephone Subscribers of at Year-end

18036.8

21422.2

26274.7

31175.6

35044.5

                                                      (10 000 subscribers)

  Local (Urban) Telephone Subscribers at

11193.7

13579.1

17109.7

21025.1

23975.3

    Year-end                                   (10 000 subscribers)

        Household Telephone Subscribers

8535.3

10196.7

12533.9

15246.5

17201.2

  Rural Telephones Subscribers at Year-end

6843.1

7843.1

9165.0

10150.5

11069.2

                                                      (10 000 subscribers)

        Household Telephone Subscribers

6197.7

7183.8

8389.7

9240.5

10023.9

  Number of Post & Telecommunications Offices(unit)

57136

76358

63555

66393

65917

  Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery

    Routes                                                    (10 000 km)

659.53

659.22

680.20

686.70

697.15

 Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines

39.91

48.77

59.43

69.53

72.30

                                                                   (10 000 km)

 Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges

703.58

773.01

869.40

1263.00

1371.63

                                                                 (10 000 lines)

 Capacity of Office Telephone Exchange (10000 lines)

25566

28657

35082

42347

47196

 Capacity of  PBXs                                   (10000 lines)

1514.5

1370.5

1294.1

1420.0

1413.9

 Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges

21926.3

27400.3

33698.4

39684.3

48241.7

                                                      (10 000 subscribers)

a) The business volume of post and telecommunication services before 2000 was calculated at 1990's constant prices and that since 2001 was calculated at 2000's constant prices. The increase rate at constant 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.