| 16-38 Basic Conditions of Postal and Telecommunication Services | ||||||
| Item | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |
| Business Volume of Postal and Telecommunication | 5695.80 | 7019.79 | 9712.29 | 12028.54 | 15325.87 | |
| Services (100 million yuan) | ||||||
| Number of Letters (100 million pcs) | 106.01 | 103.84 | 82.81 | 73.51 | 71.31 | |
| Pieces of Express Mail Services (10 000 pcs) | 14036.2 | 17237.8 | 19771.9 | 22880.3 | 26988.0 | |
| Issue of Newspapers and Magazines | 17620.0 | 16594.4 | 14789.3 | 14601.3 | 14372.7 | |
| (10 000 copies) | ||||||
| Stamps for Collection (10 000 pcs) | 244159 | 183421 | 149178 | 121214 | 104581 | |
| Length of Long-distace Calls (100 million minutes) | 539.9 | 587.5 | 741.6 | 894.2 | 976.1 | |
| Length of Long-distace Calls (100 million minutes) | 428.6 | 473.4 | 609.2 | 719.2 | 986.5 | |
| Length of IP Calls (100 million minutes) | 591.6 | 834.2 | 1149.0 | 1340.2 | 1492.2 | |
| Short Message Services (100 million messages) | 583.3 | 1386.3 | 2170.5 | 3046.3 | 4295.4 | |
| Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at | 20600.5 | 26995.3 | 33482.4 | 39340.6 | 46105.8 | |
| Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | ||||||
| Fixed Telephone Subscribers of at Year-end | 21422.2 | 26274.7 | 31175.6 | 35044.5 | 36778.6 | |
| (10 000 subscribers) | ||||||
| Urban Fixed Telephone Subscribers (10 000 subscribers) | 13579.1 | 17109.7 | 21025.1 | 23975.3 | 25132.9 | |
| Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers | 10196.7 | 12533.9 | 15246.5 | 17201.2 | 17697.6 | |
| Rural Fixed Telephone Subscribers (10 000 subscribers) | 7843.1 | 9165.0 | 10150.5 | 11069.2 | 11645.6 | |
| Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers | 7183.8 | 8389.7 | 9240.5 | 10023.9 | 10561.5 | |
| Number of Postal Offices (unit) | 76358 | 63555 | 66393 | 65917 | 62799 | |
| Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery | ||||||
| Routes (10 000 km) | 659.22 | 680.20 | 686.70 | 697.15 | 693.64 | |
| Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines | 48.77 | 59.43 | 69.53 | 72.30 | 72.24 | |
| (10 000 km) | ||||||
| Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges | 773.01 | 869.40 | 1263.00 | 1371.63 | 1442.30 | |
| (10 000 lines) | ||||||
| Capacity of Office Telephone Exchange (10000 lines) | 28657 | 35082 | 42347 | 47196 | 50280 | |
| Capacity of PBXs (10000 lines) | 1370.5 | 1294.1 | 1420.0 | 1413.9 | 1512.1 | |
| Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges | 27400.3 | 33698.4 | 39684.3 | 48241.7 | 61032.0 | |
| (10 000 subscribers) | ||||||
| a) The business volume of postal and telecommunication services before 2000 was calculated at 1990 constant prices and that in 2001 was calculated | ||||||
| at 2000 constant prices. The rate of increase at constant prices was 27.6 % in 2001. | ||||||
| b) Number of postal offices refers to number of postal and telecommunication offices before 1998. Since 2002, that refers to postal marketing stations, | ||||||
| including the postal offices and the postal sub-stations. The same aplies to the tables following . | ||||||