16-35  Basic Conditions of Postal and Telecommunication Services
Item	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Business Volume of Postal and Telecommunication	19805.1	23649.5	27193.5	31978.5	13333.5
Services                                      (100 million yuan)
Business Volume of Postal Services  (100 million yuan)	1213.7	1401.8	1639.9	1985.3	1607.7
Business Volume of Telecommunication Services	18591.3	22247.7	25553.6	29993.2	11725.8
(100 million yuan)
Business Volume of Postal Services
Number of Letters                                (100 million pcs)	69.5	73.6	75.3	74.0	73.8
Package                                                       (10 000 pcs)	9103.3	7936.7	7229.6	6642.5	6883.0
Pieces of Express Mail Services                  (10 000 pcs)	120189.6	151329.3	185784.8	233892.0	367311.1
Issue of Newspapers and Magazines      (10 000 copies)	13030.6	15658.3	13909.5	17158.3	15007.7
Postal Order                                              (10 000 times)	22875.2	26404.2	27177.4	28043.2	26474.3
Stamps for Collection                                  (10 000 pcs)	113656.7	131873.0	110088.5	114622.5	102857.5
Number of Offices                                                  (unit)	70655	69146	65672	75739	78667
Average Area Served by Every Postal Office      (sq.km)	135.9	138.8	146.2	126.8	122.0
Length of Postal Routes                               (10 000 km)	353.3	369.3	402.8	463.6	514.0
Rural Delivery Routes                                  (10 000 km)	363.8	365.7	367.6	369.1	363.3
Urban Delivery Routes                                (10 000 km)	102.4	111.2	132.4	146.1	117.1
Business Volume of Telecommunication Services
Volume of Local Calls of Fixed Telephone	6771.4	6185.9	5401.8	4369.1	3581.7
(100 million times)
Length of Local Calls of Fixed Telephone					4227.4
(100 million minutes)
Length of Long-distance Calls of Fixed Telephone	1756.7	1655.8	1314.6	1068.9	856.9
(100 million minutes)
Length of Calls of Mobile Telephone	23061.3	29355.6	35351.0	43261.2	50472.6
(100 million minutes)
Length of IP Calls                         (100 million minutes)	1494.9	1399.3	1164.8	988.8	855.9
Short Message Services              (100 million messages)	5945.8	6996.9	7726.5	8277.5	8790.0
Number of Internet Users                     (10 000 persons)	21000	29800	38400	45730	51310
Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at Year-end	54730.6	64124.5	74721.4	85900.3	98625.3
(10 000 subscribers)
3G Mobile Phone Subscribers      (10 000 subscribers)			1232.2	4705.1	12842.4
Countries(regions) with Mobile Phone Roaming    (unit)	231	237	237	239	258
Number of Fixed Telephone Subscribers at Year-end	36563.7	34035.9	31373.2	29434.2	28509.8
(10 000 subscribers)
Urban Fixed Telephone Subscribers(10 000 subscribers)	24859.8	23155.9	21190.0	19658.1	19121.7
Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers	16988.2	15588.3	12969.5	11973.4	11411.6
Rural Fixed Telephone Subscribers(10 000 subscribers)	11704.0	10880.0	10183.2	9776.1	9388.1
Household Fixed Telephone Subscribers	10533.1	9612.2	8813.3	8325.0	7861.2
Public Telephone                         (10 000 subscribers)	2991.9	2771.5	2708.8	2595.9	2468.3
Capacity of Long Distance Telephone Exchanges	1709.2	1690.7	1684.9	1641.5	1602.3
(10 000 lines)
Capacity of Office Telephone Exchanges  (10 000 lines)	51034.6	50863.2	49265.6	46537.3	43428.4
Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges	85496.1	114531.4	144084.7	150284.9	171636.0
(10 000 subscribers)
Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines(10 000 km)	79.2	79.8	83.1	81.8	84.2
Broad Band Subscribers Port of Internet   (10 000 ports)	8539.3	10890.4	13835.7	18781.1	23239.4
Number of IPv4 Addresses                         (10 000 units)	13527.5	18127.3	23244.6	27763.7	33044.0
International Internet Bandwidth                           (Mbps)	368927	640287	866367	1098957	1389529
a) The business volume of postal and telecommunication services before 2000 was calculated at 1990 constant prices and that from 2001 to 2010 was
calculated at 2000 constant prices. The rate of increase at constant prices was 27.6% in 2001. In 2011, it was calculated at constant prices, the rate
of increase at constatnt prices was 16.3%. 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 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.