--- SEARCH ---
WEATHER
CHINA
INTERNATIONAL
BUSINESS
CULTURE
GOVERNMENT
SCI-TECH
ENVIRONMENT
LIFE
PEOPLE
TRAVEL
WEEKLY REVIEW
Learning Chinese
Learn to Cook Chinese Dishes
Exchange Rates
Hotel Service


Hot Links
China Development Gateway
Chinese Embassies

China Has 230 Million Phone Subscribers
China now has 230 million fixed-line and mobile telephone subscribers, with availability of telephone service in the country standing at 20.1 percent, and 22.5 million Chinese now subscribe to the Internet.

The statistics were announced by Wu Jichuan, Chinese minister of information industry, in a speech delivered at Sino-ASEAN Symposium on Information and Telecom Technology which opened Tuesday in Shenzhen City of south China's Guangdong Province.

ASEAN stands for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

According to Wu, China has spent 800 billion yuan (about US$96.4 billion) in the construction of telecom infrastructure in the past five years and the country now has a telecom network supported by technologies ranging from fiber-optic, digital microwave, satellite, computer-controlled switchboards, mobile and digital telecom, to Internet.

The country has also made remarkable progress in information technology, said Wu, adding it is now capable of producing technological equipment with China's own intellectual property in fields such as computers, systematic integration, information treatment and application technology, digital and computer-controlled switchboards, optic telecommunications, and the third-generation mobile telecommunications.

The progress in basic network and technological equipment has markedly advanced the development of the national economy and informatization of society.

To date, more than 100 applied information networks have been set up throughout the nation, involving such sectors as finance, customs, taxation and foreign trade.

E-business has also been expanding rapidly across the country, while various kinds of information application programs like long-distance education, medical care and on-line media have mushroomed.

(Xinhua 04/10/2001)

Phone Users Uncertain About Billing Reform
China Boasts 200 Million Telephone Subscribers
Reform and Restructuring Drove Growth and Telephone Subscribers in China Rose Up to 200 Million
China to Become World's Largest Phone Market
Print This Page
|
Email This Page
About Us SiteMap Feedback
Copyright © China Internet Information Center. All Rights Reserved
E-mail: webmaster@china.org.cn Tel: 86-10-68326688