Transportation, Post And Telecommunications

The added value of transportation, warehousing, post and telecommunications sectors reached 1,380.5 billion yuan in 2005, up 12.4 percent over the previous year.

Volume Completed by Various Means of Transportation, 2005

Item	Unit	Volume	Increase over 2004 (%)
Total freight traffic	100m tons	183.7	7.7
Railways	100m tons	27	8.2
Highways	100m tons	132.9	6.7
Waterways	100m tons	21.1	12.8
Civil aviation	10,000 tons	306.7	10.8
Pipelines	100m tons	2.7	10.6
Total freight ton-km	100m tons-km	78329.8	12.8
Railways	100m tons-km	20730.5	7.5
Highways	100m tons-km	8573.8	9.3
Waterways	100m tons-km	48057.6	16.0
Civil aviation	100m tons-km	78.9	9.9
Pipelines	100m tons-km	889	12.4
Total passenger traffic	100m persons	182.2	4.2
Railways	100m persons	11.6	3.4
Highways	100m persons	169.2	4.2
Waterways	100m persons	2	3.6
Civil aviation	10,000 persons	13827	14.1
Total passenger-km	100m persons-km	17473	7.1
Railways	100m persons-km	6061.8	6.1
Highways	100m persons-km	9299.1	6.3
Waterways	100m persons-km	67.1	1.3
Civil aviation	100m persons-km	2044.9	14.7

The volume of freight handled by ports throughout the country totaled 4.9 billion tons, up 17.7 percent over the previous year, of which, freight for foreign trade accounted for 1.36 billion tons, up 18.0 percent.

The total number of motor vehicles for civilian use (including 11.49 million tri-wheel cars and low-speed trucks) reached 43.29 million units at the end of 2005, up 20.6 percent, of which, private-owned vehicles numbered 23.65 million, up 22 percent.

The turnover of post and telecommunications services totaled 1,219.9 billion yuan, up 24.6 percent over the previous year. Of this total, post services accounted for 62.4 billion yuan, up 10.1 percent, and telecommunication services 1,157.5 billion yuan, up 25.4 percent. At the end of 2005, with 46.08 million newly installed lines of office switchboards, the total capacity reached 470 million lines. The year also saw the addition of 38.68 million fixed-line telephone subscribers to bring the total number to 350.43 million at the end of the year. This included 239.77 million urban subscribers and 110.66 million rural subscribers. Mobile phone users numbered 393.43 million at the end of 2005, with 58.6 million new subscribers. In total, the number of fixed-line and mobile phone users reached 743.86 million, an increase of 97.28 million compared with that at the end of 2004. On average, phone coverage rate is 57 sets per 100 Chinese population.