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- 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 (Taiwan), see Communications in the Republic of China.
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[edit] Telephone
Telephones - main lines in use: 363 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 420 million (end of May, 2006) - expected to hit 520 million by 2008 and 600 million by 2010
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 December 2005, its combined main lines and mobile lines exceeded 743 million.
China imported its first mobile phone telecommunication facilities in 1987 and it took a decade for the number of subscribers to reach 10 million. Four years later, the country had the largest number of mobile phone subscribers in the world.
On average, China's mobile subscribers increased by 4.78 million each month.
domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place
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
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[edit] Radio
Radio broadcast stations: AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)
Radios: 428 million (2000)
[edit] Television
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)
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[edit] Internet
Main article: Internet in the People's Republic of China
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (2000)
Internet users: 123 million (June, 2006) - expected to hit 180 million by 2010
Internet: China's internet user or netizens topped 123 million by June of 2006, 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), by June of 2006, China's broadband users have reached 77 million or about two-thirds of the total online population, up 45% from a year ago. The number of websites also rose by more than 110,000 to a total of 788,400.
There exists a wide gap between Internet use in cities and rural areas, the statistics show. Penetration rate is still just 9.4%.
The CNNIC survey showed 82.3 per cent of people using the Internet in China are below 35 years old and almost 40 per cent of the netizens are aged 18 to 24.
There are 19.31 million netizens in the rural areas, making up only 2.6 percent of the rural population. There are around 91.69 million netizens in cities, making up 16.9 percent of the urban population, according to the CNNIC.
QQ is a popular form of instant messaging on the internet.
Country codes: CN
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