16-38 Main Communication Capacity of Telecommunications (Year-end)
	Capacity of	Capacity of	Capacity of	Length of Long	Broad Band
Year	Long-distance	Office	Mobile	Distance Optical	Subscribers
	Telephone	Telephone	Telephone	Cable Lines	Port
Region	Exchanges	Exchanges	Exchanges		of Internet
	(circuit)	(10 000 lines)	(10 000 subscribers)	(km)	(10 000 ports)
1978	1863	405.9
1980	1969	443.2
1985	11522	613.4
1990	161370	1231.8	5.1	3334
1991	286325	1492.2	10.5	6490
1992	521885	1915.1	45.3	14388
1993	1206091	3040.8	156.1	38666
1994	2416296	4926.2	371.6	73290
1995	3518781	7203.6	796.7	106882
1996	4162009	9291.2	1536.2	130159
1997	4368305	11269.2	2585.7	150754
1998	4491595	13823.7	4706.7	194100
1999	5032026	15346.1	8136.0	239735
2000	5635498	17825.6	13985.6	286642
2001	7035769	25566.3	21926.3	399082
2002	7730133	28656.8	27400.3	487684
2003	10610724	35082.5	33698.4	594303	1802.3
2004	12629982	42346.9	39684.3	695271	3578.1
2005	13716307	47196.1	48241.7	723040	4874.7
2006	14423427	50279.9	61032.0	722439	6486.4
2007	17092213	51034.6	85496.1	792154	8539.3
2008	16907188	50863.2	114531.4	797979	10890.4
2009	16849027	49265.6	144084.7	831011	13835.7
Beijing	544710	1483.1	3814.0	3717	563.2
Tianjin	137246	617.3	1840.0	3110	184.5
Hebei	342990	2050.1	7843.0	29925	724.0
Shanxi	322104	1069.6	4223.5	26096	377.7
Inner Mongolia	248814	713.8	4122.0	42626	179.8
Liaoning	488583	2108.0	4449.8	23997	596.8
Jilin	276018	857.1	3103.0	20161	288.1
Heilongjiang	482924	1384.2	4229.6	41304	367.4
Shanghai	670854	1386.9	4548.0	4297	662.4
Jiangsu	1132342	4465.5	7950.4	32137	1092.5
Zhejiang	914657	3109.7	8170.7	22955	947.3
Anhui	716721	1603.3	4584.5	23674	471.9
Fujian	650859	1924.7	5741.2	19553	471.8
Jiangxi	542348	1208.5	3574.8	21589	281.8
Shandong	484801	3410.5	10538.7	30067	1028.9
Henan	1058034	2312.7	7288.3	36431	693.2
Hubei	577630	1733.3	5296.7	29242	433.3
Hunan	567148	1745.0	4392.5	35218	389.9
Guangdong	3091375	5426.1	16623.9	45710	1733.4
Guangxi	633555	1401.8	3770.5	36525	402.4
Hainan	86674	289.0	864.4	803	77.3
Chongqing	238846	1147.3	2340.2	11143	291.7
Sichuan	710030	2363.5	9611.0	77292	507.7
Guizhou	285437	850.7	2332.2	28612	163.6
Yunnan	370062	1039.7	3670.9	33978	247.1
Tibet	57304	127.5	184.0	20419	15.7
Shaanxi	409802	1330.8	3636.6	26489	273.9
Gansu	243536	799.1	1719.0	30106	121.4
Qinghai	128113	162.9	438.0	25550	32.8
Ningxia	73490	225.2	722.4	9885	38.9
Xinjiang	316388	916.8	2461.0	38403	175.1
Not Classified	45632
by Region
a)The capacity of exchanges in this table do not includes the capacity of exchanges owned by users.