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| 16-41 Basic Conditions of Post and Telecommunication Services | |||||||||||||
| Item | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | ||||||||
| Business Volume of Post and Telecommunications | 3330.82 | 4792.70 | 4556.26 | 5695.80 | 7019.79 | ||||||||
| Service (100 million yuan) | |||||||||||||
| Number of Letters (100 million pcs) | 60.52 | 77.71 | 86.93 | 106.01 | 103.84 | ||||||||
| Pieces of Express Mail Services (10 000 pcs) | 9091.3 | 11031.4 | 12652.7 | 14036.2 | 17237.8 | ||||||||
| Number of Newspapers and Magazines | 25035.2 | 20089.7 | 21811.1 | 17620.0 | 16594.4 | ||||||||
| Circulation (10 000 copies) | |||||||||||||
| Philately Business (10 000 pcs) | 522475 | 453500 | 344114 | 244159 | 183421 | ||||||||
| Number of Long-distance Calls | 178.25 | 210.75 | 219.98 | 192.79 | 196.0283 | ||||||||
| (100 million times) | |||||||||||||
| Number of Subscribers of Pagering Service at | 4674.5 | 4884.3 | 3606.4 | 1872.1 | 1057.6 | ||||||||
| Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | |||||||||||||
| Number of Mobile Telephone Subscribers at | 4329.6 | 8453.3 | 14522.2 | 20600.5 | 26995.3 | ||||||||
| Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | |||||||||||||
| Local Telephone Subscribers of at Year-end | 10871.6 | 14482.9 | 18036.8 | 21422.2 | 26274.7 | ||||||||
| (10 000 subscribers) | |||||||||||||
| Local (Urban) Telephone Subscribers at | 7463.3 | 9311.6 | 11193.7 | 13579.1 | 17109.7 | ||||||||
| Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | |||||||||||||
| Residential Telephone Subscribers | 5894.4 | 7219.4 | 8535.3 | 10196.7 | 12533.9 | ||||||||
| Number of Rural Telephones Subscribers at | 3408.4 | 5171.3 | 6843.1 | 7843.1 | 9165.0 | ||||||||
| Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | |||||||||||||
| Residential Telephone Subscribers | 2949.2 | 4597.8 | 6197.7 | 7183.8 | 8389.7 | ||||||||
| Number of Post & Telecommunications Offices (unit) | 66649 | 58437 | 57136 | 76358 | 63555 | ||||||||
| Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery | |||||||||||||
| Routes (10 000 km) | 632.71 | 643.78 | 659.53 | 659.22 | 680.20 | ||||||||
| Length of Long-distance Optical Cable Lines | 23.97 | 28.66 | 39.91 | 48.77 | 59.43 | ||||||||
| （10 000 km） | |||||||||||||
| Capacity of automatic toll switching systems | 503.20 | 563.55 | 703.58 | 773.01 | 869.40 | ||||||||
| (10 000 lines) | |||||||||||||
| Capacity of C.O. switches （10000 lines） | 15346 | 17826 | 25566 | 28657 | 35083 | ||||||||
| Capacity of PBXs （10000 lines） | 1672.2 | 1587.6 | 1514.5 | 1370.5 | 1294.1 | ||||||||
| Capacity of Mobile Telephone Exchanges (10 000 subscribers) | 8136.0 | 13985.6 | 21926.3 | 27400.3 | 33698.4 | ||||||||
| Number of Telephone Sets (10 000 units) | 17567.4 | 25606.6 | 35334.7 | 42972.2 | 54155.3 | ||||||||
| Number of Fixed Telephones | 13237.8 | 17153.3 | 20812.5 | 22371.7 | 27160.0 | ||||||||
| Number of Mobile Telephones | 4329.6 | 8453.3 | 14522.2 | 20600.5 | 26995.3 | ||||||||
| a) The business volume of post and telecommunication services before 2000 was calculated at 1990's constant prices and that in 2001 was calculated | |||||||||||||
| at 2000's constant prices. The increase rate at comparable price in 2001 was 27.6 %. | |||||||||||||
| b) Number of postal and telecommunications offices refers to number of postal offices before 1998. That refers to the postal marketing station, | |||||||||||||
| including the postal offices and the postal deputy station, since 2002. The same as the following table. | |||||||||||||