| 16-40 Telecommunication Services Available | |||||
| Year | Popularization Rate | Popularization | Public Telephone | Percentage of | Popularization |
| Region | of Telephone | Rate of | owned Per | Administrative Village | Rate of |
| (Include Mobile | Mobile Telephone | 1 000 Person | with Access to the | Internet | |
| 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 |
| 2011 | 94.81 | 73.55 | 18.41 | 84.00 | 38.3 |
| Beijing | 176.34 | 131.29 | 48.53 | 100.00 | 70.3 |
| Tianjin | 120.82 | 95.12 | 21.77 | 100.00 | 55.6 |
| Hebei | 88.09 | 70.82 | 10.52 | 95.70 | 36.1 |
| Shanxi | 87.55 | 68.46 | 17.36 | 99.88 | 39.3 |
| Inner Mongolia | 109.05 | 93.70 | 11.29 | 47.00 | 34.6 |
| Liaoning | 118.60 | 87.69 | 21.75 | 100.00 | 47.8 |
| Jilin | 94.05 | 72.96 | 16.55 | 91.40 | 35.2 |
| Heilongjiang | 82.70 | 62.00 | 14.98 | 92.00 | 31.5 |
| Shanghai | 154.02 | 113.79 | 17.39 | 100.00 | 66.2 |
| Jiangsu | 115.08 | 84.95 | 20.90 | 100.00 | 46.8 |
| Zhejiang | 141.43 | 105.67 | 39.88 | 100.00 | 56.1 |
| Anhui | 75.60 | 54.72 | 12.47 | 100.00 | 26.6 |
| Fujian | 123.69 | 96.21 | 21.02 | 96.00 | 57.0 |
| Jiangxi | 67.14 | 52.04 | 13.36 | 97.30 | 24.4 |
| Shandong | 94.02 | 74.24 | 18.06 | 100.00 | 37.8 |
| Henan | 68.08 | 53.82 | 14.32 | 100.00 | 27.5 |
| Hubei | 86.83 | 69.02 | 18.09 | 90.00 | 37.2 |
| Hunan | 72.46 | 57.06 | 14.61 | 87.00 | 29.5 |
| Guangdong | 133.51 | 103.37 | 35.67 | 100.00 | 60.4 |
| Guangxi | 69.06 | 54.94 | 10.30 | 84.60 | 29.4 |
| Hainan | 97.43 | 77.29 | 17.07 | 90.00 | 38.9 |
| Chongqing | 82.23 | 62.43 | 11.56 | 94.50 | 37.0 |
| Sichuan | 77.08 | 59.89 | 11.45 | 61.00 | 27.7 |
| Guizhou | 70.37 | 58.76 | 9.96 | 53.80 | 24.2 |
| Yunnan | 68.01 | 56.27 | 14.60 | 68.00 | 24.8 |
| Tibet | 78.72 | 65.25 | 11.64 | 26.90 | 29.9 |
| Shaanxi | 98.60 | 77.84 | 17.01 | 71.60 | 38.3 |
| Gansu | 78.56 | 63.07 | 19.58 | 46.00 | 27.4 |
| Qinghai | 100.83 | 82.32 | 10.07 | 78.10 | 36.9 |
| Ningxia | 99.35 | 82.22 | 12.56 | 100.00 | 32.8 |
| Xinjiang | 100.19 | 76.47 | 21.81 | 71.80 | 40.4 |