POSTAL AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
	Business Volum	Number of	Number of	Newspapers	Number of	Number of
Year	of Post and	Letter	Parcels	and	Long Distance	Local Urban	Residential
	Telecommu-			Magazines	Telephone	Telephone	Telephone
	nication	(100 million	(10000 pcs)	Circulation	Calls	Subscribers	Subscribers
	(100 million yuan)	pcs)		(10000copies)	(10000 sheets)	(year-end)
						(subscribers)
1949	2.58	5.99	277.1		902	21.77
1950	2.89	6.46	522.3	300	1019	22.54
1951	3.95	7.72	969.4	771	1543	27.36
1952	4.36	8.09	1395.8	1363	1628	29.53
1953	5.26	9.46	1996.2	1605	1987	33.21
1954	5.80	10.37	2025.2	2087	2560	35.61
1955	6.32	11.50	2169.8	2825	2606	37.52
1956	7.90	14.38	2591.6	3423	2808	44.41
1957	7.79	16.41	2517.5	3264	2090	46.45
1958	11.08	17.34	2566.4	7922	3896	51.54
1959	16.49	23.15	3831.4	5965	5851	59.19
1960	21.20	28.28	4818.8	4009	8042	65.93
1961	18.90	25.55	4068.1	2590	7700	7034
1962	16.92	22.75	3938.4	2492	7123	69.95
1963	16.04	20.21	3020.3	3455	7301	72.16
1964	16.28	19.96	2875.4	4689	8200	74.80
1965	16.66	21.76	2996.0	5621	8869	77.11
1966	17.25	22.39	3119.1	4385	8957	79.95
1967	16.34	21.69	3537.4	3387	7631	80.64
1968	15.20	20.72	3761.8	2672	6349	75.77
1969	16.51	22.68	4991.2	2973	7041	75.77
1970	18.21	23.70	5822.3	3307	8570	78.41
1971	20.29	24.38	6039.8	4697	10117	81.17
1972	21.92	25.04	6246.9	5285	12185	88.40
1973	23.33	26.35	6450.9	5894	13795	93.62
1974	24.04	26.11	6470.2	6917	14239	97.96
1975	25.39	27.34	6880.0	7823	15151	103.28
1976	28.17	27.79	6874.4	8806	15756	107.9
1977	29.55	28.50	7397.3	8707	16709	112.73
1978	30.90	28.35	7400.5	11250	18574	119.15
1979	33.29	30.80	7074.6	12680	20587	127.02
1980	35.38	33.13	7153.2	16431	21404	134.17
1981	37.18	33.88	7133.0	18124	22049	142.64
1982	38.88	33.94	6754.6	19598	23574	153.87
1983	42.41	35.21	6958.4	22933	26556	168.86
1984	47.68	39.48	7175.3	28141	31501	191.07
1985	56.39	46.78	7612.7	30172	38254	218.96
1986	62.60	49.59	8448.3	28731	42303	250.51
1987	73.99	54.79	9806.8	31005	51525	293.04
1988	102.87	59.77	10546.2	27443	64617	362.30
1989	123.46	57.28	9939.9	17704	78462	439.62	89.56
1990	155.54	54.87	9690.1	20078	116292	538.45	152.72
1991	204.38	52.11	9590.9	23277	172921	670.83	239.00
1992	290.94	57.18	10948.0	25104	287380	920.57	415.41
1993	462.71	68.70	13964.6	25511	506853	1407.37	800.38
1994	688.19	76.50	15908.2	24096	757639	2246.78	1489.40
1995	988.85	79.55	15641.2	21689	1013966	3263.56	2358.40
1996	1342.04	78.68	14920.0	21157	1273951	4277.82	3224.62
1997	1773.29	68.55	9715.3	21875	1554026	5244.40	4057.16
1998	2431.21	65.51	9726.5	22989	1825941	6259.81	4911.08
1999	3330.82	60.52	9741.9	25035	1782532	7460.30	5894.40
注∶邮电业务总量按1990年不变价格计算。
a)Figures on postal and telecommunication services were calculated at 1990 constant prices.