11-10  Postal and Telecommunications Services in main years
                                     
 Year Business Volume of Post and     Number of Letters Pieces of Express Newspapers and Magazines Circulation Philately Number of Long Distance Number of Subscribers of Number of Mobile Telephone Number of Subscribers of E-mail Number of Subscribers of Number of Subscribers of Local Number of Urban   Rural Telephone   Public Telephone
Telecommunications (10 000 yuan) Business Volume of Post Business Volume of Telecommunications (10 000 pcs) Mail Services (pcs) (10 000 copies) (10 000) Telephone Calls (10 000 times) Pageing Services  (subscriber) Subscribers (subscriber) Services (subscriber) Internet Services (subscriber) Telephone at Year-end (subscriber) Telephone Subscribers #Residential Telephone Subscribers Subscribers #Residential Telephone Subscribers (subscriber)
1978 2122.4   4842.7 223.8 258.8 29126 18594 10532
1980 2331.9 5890.8 329.6 276.5 31664 21483 10181
1985 4709.0 7032.6 578.9 425.1 47176 37385 9791
1990 17371.6 8203.2 8311.8 7380.5 26 805.7 1034.5 762.5 1836 89397 78879 11500 10518 257
1991 21445.0 9606.1 10867.2 7422.5 92336 456.7 1899.3 1075.8 4624 107188 96073 19028 11115 297 281
1992 28781.9 11800.0 15700.4 8070.7 202192 476.1 22933.3 1734.2 18528 8 132779 119818 31593 12961 665 415
1993 39969.4 13894.6 24357.0 9750.2 266808 465.0 2767.2 2833.2 47435 4604 179328 161792 60006 17536 2596 734
1994 56082.0 15103.0 39087.2 9947.2 649351 466.8 3367.5 5280.6 69845 13398 269024 252554 122620 16470 3839 1874
1995 90225.5 17322.2 71219.8 9041.8 936418 478.1 3086.6 11705.9 123970 26879 446226 420361 260498 25865 11500 5612
1996 132128.5 20545.6 111582.9 8373.0 1022472 422.3 3634.2 19465.0 196343 42461 57 704725 697925 495127 6800 2577 11819
1997 171552.0 42144.0 129408.0 6985.0 960000 376.0 4497.0 24078.0 317276 75288 950080 726539 540166 223541 185607 22808
1998 250595.0 49296.0 201299.0 6582.1 960000 370.6 6412.0 29857.8 428447 156537 1193631 881020 653079 312611 266253 38795
1999 347000.0 56717.0 290283.0 6524.0 1030000 595.6 7537.0 35739.4 610000 326000 1475383 1067373 795426 408010 354898 46856
2000 473000.0 59370.0 413630.0 7148.0 1240000 534.5 5766.0 34712.0 1675000 780000 1910256 1362838 1011204 547418 482275 70753
2001 634338.0 62265.0 572073.0 5601.0 1470000 358.0 5491.0 89844.0 2010000 1809000 128000 2626000 1961000 1243341 665000 577707 84309
2002 947000.0 68032.0 878968.0 6814.0 1630000 399.0 4620.0 45769.0 1389000 2970000   173000 3375000 2383000 1799000 795000 734000 166000
Note: From 1997 on, greater readjustment has been made on the Statistic Method about the number of telephone Subscribers and the number of rural Subscribers has gone up by a bigger margin.