15-38  Basic Conditions of Postal and Telecommunication Services
Item	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Business Volume of Postal and Telecommunication	9712.29	12028.54	15325.87	19805.06	23649.52
Services                                           (100 million yuan)
Number of Letters                                 (100 million pcs)	82.81	73.51	71.31	69.50	73.63
Pieces of Express Mail Services                   (10 000 pcs)	19771.9	22880.3	26988.0	120189.6	151329.3
Issue of Newspapers and Magazines       (10 000 copies)	14789.3	14601.3	14372.7	13030.6	15658.3
Stamps for Collection                                   (10 000 pcs)	149178	121214	104581	113657	131873
Length of Long-distance Calls of Fixed Telephone	741.6	894.2	976.1	1040.6	970.7
(100 million minutes)
Length of Long-distance Calls of Mobile Telephone	609.2	719.2	986.5	1572.5	1912.3
(100 million minutes)
Length of IP Calls                          (100 million minutes)	1149.0	1340.2	1492.2	1494.9	1399.3
Short Message Services               (100 million messages)	2170.5	3046.3	4295.4	5945.8	6996.9
Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at Year-end	33482.4	39340.6	46105.8	54730.6	64124.5
(10 000 subscribers)
Number of Fixed Telephone Subscribers at Year-end	31175.6	35044.5	36778.6	36563.7	34035.9
(10 000 subscribers)
Urban Fixed Telephone Subscribers(10 000 subscribers)	21025.1	23975.3	25132.9	24859.8	23155.9
Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers	15246.5	17201.2	17697.6	16988.2	15588.3
Rural Fixed Telephone Subscribers (10 000 subscribers)	10150.5	11069.2	11645.6	11704.0	10880.0
Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers	9240.5	10023.9	10561.5	10533.1	9612.2
Number of Postal Offices                                        (unit)	66393	65917	62799	70655	69146
Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery Routes	686.70	697.15	693.64	717.05	735.00
(10 000 km)
Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines(10 000 km)	69.53	72.30	72.24	79.22	79.80
Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges	1263.00	1371.63	1442.34	1709.22	1690.72
(10 000 lines)
Capacity of Office Telephone Exchanges   (10 000 lines)	42347	47196	50280	51035	50863
Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges	39684.3	48241.7	61032.0	85496.1	114531.4
(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.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 2001,
it included postal offices and postal sub-stations from 2002 to 2006, and was postal enterprises above designated size since 2007. The same applies
to the table following.