16-8  Business Volume of Telecommunication Services 1978 to 2009
Year	Business  Volume of Telecommunication Services (10 000 Yuan)	Telegraph (10 000 copies)	Lines of Long-distance Calls (line)	Long-distance Calls (10 000 times)	Local Telephones (10 000 subscribers)	Rural  Telephones (10 000 subscribers)
1978	10058	588	1082	1308	6.3	3.8
1979	10515	632	1177	1428	7.1	4.3
1980	11030	711	1282	1525	7.5	4.4
1981	11291	789	1415	1532	8.0	4.5
1982	11629	805	1532	1649	8.5	4.6
1983	12529	917	1653	1789	9.4	4.8
1984	13751	908	1929	1963	10.7	5.1
1985	16186	1132	2190	2325	12.1	5.2
1986	17735	1203	2638	2569	13.4	5.5
1987	20719	1519	3341	2984	15.2	5.9
1988	27124	1918	4392	3987	18.5	6.4
1989	32153	1812	5694	4693	22.3	6.9
1990	39401	1634	7436	5800	26.5	7.3
1991	103322	1651	12675	8724	32.9	8.1
1992	156134	1673	18422	16978	45.8	9.5
1993	274917	1412	32615	32273	69.6	12.8
1994	404027	987	47589	52719	84.8	19.2
1995	537135	667	40634	55755	165.8	46.1
1996	697719	458	54179	61409	227.0	80.0
1997	957400	324	67834	79719	283.5	128.6
1998	1338886	226	98760	97077	346.7	179.6
1999	1411800	202	163381	96553	413.8	283.8
2000	1865000	178	222500	96010	547.0	559.0
2001	2300200	138	108000	101682	661.0	827.0
2002	2759820		135000	99470	790.0	950.0
2003	3325632		268530	149245	1008.0	1085.0
2004	4846250		510000	121275	1314.0	1198.0
2005	6754670		290996	152883	1410.9	1275.7
2006	9286877		462662	148631	1380.5	1256.7
2007	11799357		350028	157152	1377.6	1211.5
2008	14262026		413082	124858	1398.4	1053.7
2009	15867854		1238400	123510	1291.3	965.0