16-40  Postal Services Available
Year Region	Average People	Annual Average	Annual Average	Percentage of
	Served by Every	Number of Letters	Number of	Administrative
	Postal Office	Mailed per Capita	Newspaper and	Village with
	(10 000 persons)	(piece)	Magazine Subscribed	Posts
			per 100 Persons	(%)
			(piece)
1978	1.94	2.95	11.7
1980	1.98	3.36	16.7	96.5
1985	1.97	4.48	28.8	96.3
1990	2.13	4.82	17.6	96.4
1991	2.14	4.52	20.1	96.4
1992	2.11	4.92	22.2	95.9
1993	2.08	5.82	21.8	96.0
1994	1.98	6.40	20.1	96.2
1995	1.95	6.61	18.0
1996	1.65	6.62	17.6
1997	1.56	5.56	17.7
1998	1.22	5.27	18.4
1999	1.87	4.90	20.1
2000	1.77	6.40	16.4
2001	2.20	6.90	17.2	94.5
2002	1.70	8.30	13.9	97.8
2003	2.03	8.08	12.9	98.0
2004	1.95	6.41	11.4	97.7
2005	1.97	5.66	11.2	99.0
2006	2.09	5.50	11.2	99.4
2007	1.90	5.30	9.9	98.4
2008	1.90	5.60	11.9	98.5
2009	2.03	5.66	10.4	98.8
2010	1.77	5.52	12.8	99.0
Beijing	0.89	34.50	37.0	96.7
Tianjin	1.73	8.16	16.3	100.0
Hebei	3.05	3.39	7.1	100.0
Shanxi	2.38	2.17	9.7	99.4
Inner Mongolia	1.43	1.36	7.7	97.5
Liaoning	2.01	1.93	8.8	99.9
Jilin	2.11	3.39	6.7	100.0
Heilongjiang	1.94	2.43	9.6	100.0
Shanghai	0.55	50.65	42.6	100.0
Jiangsu	1.64	11.90	13.9	100.0
Zhejiang	1.46	15.59	19.3	100.0
Anhui	2.58	3.55	10.1	98.7
Fujian	1.64	6.83	13.6	98.9
Jiangxi	2.18	4.03	8.1	100.0
Shandong	2.28	5.63	16.9	100.0
Henan	2.41	2.63	8.5	100.0
Hubei	2.36	1.73	9.7	98.8
Hunan	2.12	1.27	10.9	98.3
Guangdong	1.22	7.32	18.3	100.0
Guangxi	2.65	1.57	7.8	97.0
Hainan	1.78	1.41	9.7	99.1
Chongqing	0.96	1.88	39.3	97.0
Sichuan	1.52	2.80	7.2	99.5
Guizhou	1.93	1.71	5.6	90.7
Yunnan	2.06	1.20	6.5	100.0
Tibet	0.99	0.97	13.9	99.2
Shaanxi	1.93	2.61	13.9	100.0
Gansu	1.99	1.49	8.2	100.0
Qinghai	2.49	0.84	8.4	73.8
Ningxia	1.36	2.75	44.1	84.0
Xinjiang	1.49	1.34	14.1	99.6