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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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. Mii is the well-endowed star of the anime called Jungle de Ikou! Her humongous breasts are said to represent Earths life-giving energy, and grow larger as Mii increases in strength. ...

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) Intelsat, Ltd. ... Inmarsat is an international telecommunications company founded in 1979, originally as an intergovernmental organization. ...

Operators include:

• China Mobile
• China Netcom
• China Railcom
• China Satcom
• China Telecom
• China Unicom

See also: To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... China Netcom, full name China Netcom Corporation Limited (CNC), was originally formed in August 1999 to build high speed Internet communications in China. ... China Telecom (HKSE: 728) is the largest fixed service telecommunications provider in China, which includes data, Internet and, unusually, the PAS wireless system which is classfied as fixed line. ... China Unicom, full name China United Telecommunications Corporation, is a state-owned telecommunication operator in the Peoples Republic of China. ...

• China telephone numbering plan
• Telecommunications industry in China

The Chinese Telephone Code Plan is the way to group telephone numbers in mainland China. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Radio

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

Radios: 428 million (2000)

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)

See also:

• List of Chinese language television channels

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Internet

Main article: Internet in the People's Republic of China The first connection of the Peoples Republic of China with the Internet was established in March 28, 1988 between ICA Beijing and Karlsruhe University in Germany, under the leadership of Prof. ...

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (2000)

Internet users: 123 million (June, 2006) - expected to hit 180 million by 2010

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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.

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Country codes: CN

See also:

• Internet censorship in mainland China

The National Peoples Congress of the Peoples Republic of China has passed an Internet censorship law in mainland China[1]. In accordance with this law, several regulations were made by the PRC government, and a censorship system is implemented variously by provincial branches of state-owned ISPs, business...

See also

• Communications in Hong Kong
• Communications in Macau
• Communications in the Republic of China
• Media in China
• Telecommunications industry in China
• China Technology Industry Search Engine (Swiki)