16-35 Basic Conditions of Postal and Telecommunication Services
Item	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Business Volume of Postal and Telecommunication	15325.9	19805.1	23649.5	27193.5	31978.5
Services                                           (100 million yuan)
Number of Letters                                 (100 million pcs)	71.3	69.5	73.6	75.3	74.0
Package                                                        (10 000 pcs)	9317.5	9103.3	7936.7	7229.6	6642.5
Pieces of Express Mail Services                   (10 000 pcs)	26988.0	120189.6	151329.3	185784.8	233892.0
Issue of Newspapers and Magazines       (10 000 copies)	14372.7	13030.6	15658.3	13909.5	17158.3
Postal Order                                               (10 000 times)	18928.0	22875.2	26404.2	27177.4	28043.2
Stamps for Collection                                   (10 000 pcs)	104580.9	113656.7	131873.0	110088.5	114622.5
Number of Offices                                                    (unit)	62799	70655	69146	65672	75739
Average Area Served by Every Postal Office      (sq.km)	152.9	135.9	138.8	146.2	126.8
Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery Routes	693.6	717.1	735.0	770.4	832.6
(10 000 km)
Number of Calls of Local Fixed Telephone	7008.0	6771.4	6185.9	5401.8	4369.1
(100 million times)
Length of Long-distance Calls of Fixed Telephone	976.1	1040.6	970.7	823.4	734.9
(100 million minutes)
Length of Calls of Mobile Telephone	16870.7	23061.3	29355.6	35351.0	43261.2
(100 million minutes)
Length of IP Calls                          (100 million minutes)	1492.2	1494.9	1399.3	1164.8	988.8
Short Message Services               (100 million messages)	4295.4	5945.8	6996.9	7726.5	8277.5
Number of Internet Users                      (10 000 persons)	13700	21000	29800	38400	45730
Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at Year-end	46105.8	54730.6	64124.5	74721.4	85900.3
(10 000 subscribers)
3G Mobile Phone Subscribers (10 000 subscribers)				1232.2	4705.1
Number of Country (Territory) Roamed through	219	231	237	237	239
Mobile Telephone                                                 (unit)
Number of Fixed Telephone Subscribers at Year-end	36778.6	36563.7	34035.9	31373.2	29434.2
(10 000 subscribers)
Urban Fixed Telephone Subscribers(10 000 subscribers)	25132.9	24859.8	23155.9	21190.0	19658.1
Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers	17697.6	16988.2	15588.3	12969.5	11973.4
Rural Fixed Telephone Subscribers (10 000 subscribers)	11645.6	11704.0	10880.0	10183.2	9776.1
Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers	10561.5	10533.1	9612.2	8813.3	8325.0
Public Telephone                            (10 000 subscribers)	2960.7	2991.9	2771.5	2708.8	2595.9
Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges	1442.3	1709.2	1690.7	1684.9	1641.5
(10 000 lines)
Capacity of Office Telephone Exchanges   (10 000 lines)	50279.9	51034.6	50863.2	49265.6	46537.3
Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges	61032.0	85496.1	114531.4	144084.7	150284.9
(10 000 subscribers)
Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines(10 000 km)	72.2	79.2	79.8	83.1	81.8
Broad Band Subscribers Port of Internet     (10 000 ports)	6486.4	8539.3	10890.4	13835.7	18781.1
a) 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.
b) 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 the business sites of postal enterprises above designated size since 2007. The
same applies to the table following.