12-11 Postal and Telecommunications Services in main years
Year	Business Volume of Post and			Number of	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-	Number of Subscribers of	Number of Subscribers of	Number of Urban Telephone
	Telecommunications	Business	Business Volume of	Letters  (10 000 pcs)	Mail Services	(10 000 copies)	(10 000 pieces)	Telephone Calls	Pageing Services	Subscribers	mail Services	Internet Services	Local Telephone	NuSubscribers	Residential	Rural Telephone	Residential	Public Telephone
	(10 000 yuan)	Volume of Post	Telecommunications		(pcs)			(10 000 times)	(subscriber)	(subscriber)	(subscriber)	(subscriber)	at Year-end (subscriber)	(subscriber)	Telephone Subscribers	(subscriber)	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			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	9606.1	10867.2	7422.5	92336	456.7	1899.3	1075.8	4624				107188	96073	19028	11115	297	281
1992	28781.9	11800	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	9750.2	266808	465	2767.2	2833.2	47435	4604			179328	161792	60006	17536	2596	734
1994	56082	15103	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	1022472	422.3	3634.2	19465	196343	42461		57	704725	697925	495127	6800	2577	11819
1997	171552	42144	129408	6985	960000	376	4497	24078	317276	75288			950080	726539	540166	223541	185607	22808
1998	250595	49296	201299	6582.1	960000	370.6	6412	29857.8	428447	156537			1193631	881020	653079	312611	266253	38795
1999	347000	56717	290283	6524	1030000	595.6	7537	35739.4	610000	326000			1475383	1067373	795426	408010	354898	46856
2000	473000	59370	413630	7148	1240000	534.5	5766	34712	1675000	780000			1910256	1362838	1011204	547418	482275	70753
2001	634338	62265	572073	5601	1470000	358	5491	89844	2010000	1809000		128000	2626000	1961000	1243341	665000	577707	84309
2002	947000	68032	878968	6814	1630000	399	4620	45769	1389000	2970000		173000	3375000	2383000	1799000	795000	734000	166000
2003	1144837.5	72006.5	1072831	5987	1990000	587.3	3112.8	35554.2	413580	4212013		607872	4310000	2938893	1799600	934570	886139	281632
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.