| 16-39 Telecommunication Services Available | |||||
| Year Region |
Popularization Rate | Popularization | Public Telephone | Percentage of | Internet User |
| of Telephone | Rate of | Owned Per | Administrative Village | per 100 Person | |
| (Include Mobile | Mobile Telephone | 1 000 Persons | with Access to the | ||
| Telephone) | Internet by Broadband | ||||
| (sets/100 persons) | (sets/100 persons) | (set) | (%) | (%) | |
| 1978 | 0.38 | ||||
| 1980 | 0.43 | ||||
| 1985 | 0.60 | ||||
| 1990 | 1.11 | ||||
| 1991 | 1.29 | ||||
| 1992 | 1.61 | 0.02 | |||
| 1993 | 2.20 | 0.05 | |||
| 1994 | 3.20 | 0.13 | |||
| 1995 | 4.66 | 0.30 | |||
| 1996 | 6.33 | 0.59 | |||
| 1997 | 8.11 | 1.07 | |||
| 1998 | 9.95 | 1.93 | |||
| 1999 | 13.12 | 3.47 | |||
| 2000 | 19.10 | 6.72 | 2.20 | ||
| 2001 | 26.55 | 11.47 | 2.71 | ||
| 2002 | 33.67 | 16.14 | 7.67 | 4.6 | |
| 2003 | 42.16 | 21.02 | 12.20 | 6.2 | |
| 2004 | 50.03 | 25.91 | 17.14 | 7.3 | |
| 2005 | 57.22 | 30.26 | 20.63 | 8.5 | |
| 2006 | 63.40 | 35.30 | 22.64 | 10.5 | |
| 2007 | 69.45 | 41.64 | 22.76 | 16.0 | |
| 2008 | 74.29 | 48.53 | 20.98 | 22.6 | |
| 2009 | 79.89 | 56.27 | 20.40 | 28.9 | |
| 2010 | 86.41 | 64.36 | 19.45 | 80.11 | 34.3 |
| Beijing | 171.82 | 121.36 | 53.28 | 100.00 | 69.4 |
| Tianjin | 118.62 | 88.75 | 22.06 | 100.00 | 52.7 |
| Hebei | 79.68 | 61.89 | 11.80 | 95.10 | 31.2 |
| Shanxi | 85.38 | 64.35 | 20.18 | 99.55 | 36.5 |
| Inner Mongolia | 101.08 | 83.98 | 12.56 | 41.40 | 30.8 |
| Liaoning | 110.43 | 77.37 | 22.88 | 93.40 | 44.4 |
| Jilin | 87.61 | 65.89 | 17.03 | 84.90 | 32.2 |
| Heilongjiang | 75.42 | 54.16 | 15.91 | 91.00 | 29.5 |
| Shanghai | 171.43 | 122.93 | 21.98 | 100.00 | 64.5 |
| Jiangsu | 109.02 | 76.67 | 22.67 | 100.00 | 42.8 |
| Zhejiang | 135.77 | 97.44 | 42.53 | 100.00 | 53.8 |
| Anhui | 65.73 | 45.65 | 12.83 | 100.00 | 22.7 |
| Fujian | 112.14 | 83.31 | 22.83 | 96.50 | 50.9 |
| Jiangxi | 56.88 | 40.87 | 14.46 | 99.90 | 20.2 |
| Shandong | 86.41 | 65.37 | 19.22 | 100.00 | 35.2 |
| Henan | 61.44 | 46.40 | 14.87 | 100.00 | 25.5 |
| Hubei | 78.34 | 60.40 | 18.67 | 83.39 | 33.3 |
| Hunan | 67.65 | 50.84 | 15.40 | 65.00 | 27.3 |
| Guangdong | 132.74 | 99.86 | 39.10 | 100.00 | 55.3 |
| Guangxi | 60.20 | 45.60 | 11.82 | 78.56 | 25.2 |
| Hainan | 89.60 | 68.79 | 19.12 | 84.00 | 35.1 |
| Chongqing | 78.60 | 58.22 | 14.04 | 79.30 | 34.6 |
| Sichuan | 68.12 | 50.78 | 12.15 | 55.00 | 24.4 |
| Guizhou | 58.76 | 47.41 | 10.34 | 35.00 | 19.8 |
| Yunnan | 61.41 | 49.10 | 15.01 | 60.00 | 22.3 |
| Tibet | 69.49 | 54.36 | 15.47 | 9.98 | 27.9 |
| Shaanxi | 87.49 | 66.76 | 19.07 | 73.00 | 34.3 |
| Gansu | 68.38 | 52.75 | 19.81 | 46.00 | 24.8 |
| Qinghai | 89.94 | 71.42 | 11.11 | 43.51 | 33.6 |
| Ningxia | 87.87 | 69.97 | 13.80 | 100.00 | 28.0 |
| Xinjiang | 87.44 | 62.99 | 24.52 | 64.20 | 37.9 |