15-38  Basic Conditions of Postal and Telecommunication Services
Item	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Business Volume of Postal and Telecommunication	7019.79	9712.29	12028.54	15325.87	19805.06
Services                                           (100 million yuan)
Number of Letters                                 (100 million pcs)	103.84	82.81	73.51	71.31	69.50
Pieces of Express Mail Services                   (10 000 pcs)	17237.8	19771.9	22880.3	26988.0	120189.6
Issue of Newspapers and Magazines       (10 000 copies)	16594.4	14789.3	14601.3	14372.7	13030.6
Stamps for Collection                                   (10 000 pcs)	183421	149178	121214	104581	113657
Length of Long-distance Calls of Fixed Telephone   (100 million minutes)	587.5	741.6	894.2	976.1	1040.6
Length of Long-distance Calls of Mobile Telephone  (100 million minutes)	473.5	609.2	719.2	986.5	1572.5
Length of IP Calls                          (100 million minutes)	834.2	1149.0	1340.2	1492.2	1494.9
Short Message Services               (100 million messages)	1386.3	2170.5	3046.3	4295.4	5945.8
Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at Year-end  (10 000 subscribers)	26995.3	33482.4	39340.6	46105.8	54730.6
Number of Fixed Telephone Subscribers at Year-end  (10 000 subscribers)	26274.7	31175.6	35044.5	36778.6	36563.7
Urban Fixed Telephone Subscribers(10 000 subscribers)	17109.7	21025.1	23975.3	25132.9	24859.8
Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers	12533.9	15246.5	17201.2	17697.6	16988.2
Rural Fixed Telephone Subscribers (10 000 subscribers)	9165.0	10150.5	11069.2	11645.6	11704.0
Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers	8389.7	9240.5	10023.9	10561.5	10533.1
Number of Postal Offices                                        (unit)	63555	66393	65917	62799	70655
Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery Routes    (10 000 km)	680.20	686.70	697.15	693.64	717.05
Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines(10 000 km)	59.43	69.53	72.30	72.24	79.22
Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges   (10 000 lines)	869.40	1263.00	1371.63	1442.34	1709.22
Capacity of Office Telephone Exchanges   (10 000 lines)	35083	42347	47196	50280	51035
Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges   (10 000 subscribers)	33698.4	39684.3	48241.7	61032.0	85496.1
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.The same applies to the table following.
b) Statistical coverages of business volume of postal and telecommunication services and pieces of express mail services are China Post Group before
2006, and postal enterprises above designated size (with annual business revenue above 2 million yuan). The same applies to the table following.
c) The indicator of number of postal offices referred to postal and communication offices before 1998, and referred to postal offices from 1999 to 2006;
It included postal offices and postal sub-stations since 2002, and was postal enterprises above designated size since 2007. The same applies to the
table following.