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15-38 BASIC CONDITIONS OF POST AND TELECOMMUNCATIONS SERVICES
Item | 1995 | 1996 | 1998 | 1998
Business Volume of Post and Telecommunications Service (100 million yuan) | 988.85 | 1342.04 | 1773.29 | 2431.21
Number of Letters (100 million pcs) | 79.55 | 78.68 | 68.55 | 65.51
Number of Parcels (10 000 pcs) | 15641.2 | 14920 | 9715.3 | 9726.5
Pieces of Courier Services (10 000 pcs) | 45057 | 44437.5 | 33247.8 | 16438.3
Pieces of Express Mail Services (10 000 pcs) | 5562.7 | 7096.6 | 6878.9 | 7331.8
Number of Newspapers and Magazines Circulation (10 000 copies) | 21688.6 | 21157.4 | 21875.2 | 22989.3
Number of Telegrams (10 000 pcs) | 13287.6 | 9610.7 | 6580.6 |
Number of Faxes | 4423080 | 5650000 | 7118000 |
Number of Long-distance Calls | 1013966 | 1273951 | 1554026 | 1825941
Local Telephone Subscribers of at Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | 4070.6 | 5494.7 | 7031.0 | 8742.1
Local(Urban) Telephone Subscribers at Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | 3263.6 | 4277.8 | 5244.4 | 6259.8
Residencial Telephone Subscribers | 2358.4 | 3224.6 | 4057.2 | 4911.1
Number of Subscribers of Pageing Service at Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | 1739.2 | 2536.2 | 2969 | 3908.2
Number of Mobile Telephones Subscribers at Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | 3629416 | 6852752 | 13232876 | 23862874
Number of Rural Telephones Subscribers at Year-end (10 000 subscribers) | 8070047 | 12169172 | 17866341 | 24822816
Number of Post & Telecommunications Offices | 61898 | 72496 | 79273 | 102225
Length of Postal Routes and Rural Delivery Routes (km) | 5231930 | 5476991 | 5766054 | 6215426
#Highway Routes | 819412 | 917151 | 873688 | 930622
Railway Routes | 183036 | 183884 | 186382 | 189652
Number of Long-distance Telephone Lines (line) | 735545 | 998287 | 1146121 | 1576483
Number of Telegraph Lines (line) | 12250 | 11569 | 12624 | 11715
Telecommunications Facilites |  |  |  |
Capacity of Office Telephone Exchanges (10 000 lines) | 7203.59 | 9291.23 | 11269.17 | 13823.66
Central State-owned | 5456.35 | 6923.67 | 8406.8 | 9951.35
Local State-owned | 1747.24 | 2367.56 | 2862.37 | 3872.31
Number of Telephone Sets (10 000 units) | 5762.26 | 7732.03 | 10111.12 | 13123.43
Central State-owned | 4346.32 | 5537.78 | 6745.23 | 7963.28
Local State-owned | 1152.06 | 1508.97 | 2042.61 | 2773.86
a)The business volume of post and telecommunications is calculated at 1990 constant prices. |  |  |  |
b)Since 1997 figure of local telephone subscribers refers to telephone subscribers in urban areas, and rural |  |  |  |
telephone subscribers refers to subscribers of townships and village. |  |  |  |