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March 8, 2014
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Communications in the People's Republic of China

Wikipedia

 
This article is about Communications in mainland China.

For Hong Kong and Macau, see Communications in Hong Kong and Communications in Macau.

For the Republic of China|Republic of China (Taiwan), see Communications in the Republic of China.

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Telephones - main lines in use
345 million (2005 Q3)

Telephones - mobile cellular
377 million (2005 Q3) - expected to hit 402 million by end of 2005

Telephone system
domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns. In early 2004 China overtook the U.S. as the largest communication country in the world. According to the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), as of September 2005, its combined main lines and mobile lines exceeded 723 million. On average, China's mobile subscribers increased by 4.78 million each month.
<br>domestic
interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place
<br>international
satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik (Indian Ocean region) and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean regions); several international fiber-optic links to Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Russia, and Germany (2000)

Operators include:
  • China Mobile

  • China Netcom

  • China Railcom

  • China Satcom

  • China Telecom

  • China Unicom


See also:
  • China telephone numbering plan





Radio broadcast stations
AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)

Radios
428 million (2000)




Television broadcast stations 3,240 (of which 209 are operated by China Central Television, 31 are provincial TV stations and nearly 3,000 are local city stations) (1997)

Televisions
448 million (2000)

See also:
  • List of Chinese language television channels




Main article: Internet in the People's Republic of China

Internet Service Providers (ISPs) 3 (2000)

Internet users 103 million (July, 2005)

Internet China's internet user or netizens topped 103 million in July of 2005, making China the second largest internet user after the United States, according to China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII). As of 2004, the largest concentration of internet users are from Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shandong and Hubei. Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin also have a high concentration of internet users, with 28% of Beijing's population having access to internet.
Also, according to the China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), in July of 2005, China's broadband users have reached 53 million, outnumbering its dial up users for the first time.

Country codes CN

See also:
  • Internet censorship in mainland China




  • communications in Hong Kong

  • communications in Macau

  • communications in the Republic of China

  • media in China


Category:Communications by country|China
Category:People's Republic of China

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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Communications in the People's Republic of China".


Last Modified:   2005-11-04


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