Phone subscribers in south China's economic engine of
Guangdong Province reached more than 100 million by Sunday,
taking lead in the sector of the country.
This included nearly 35 million fixed telephone subscribers and
more than 65 million mobile phone subscribers. The figure of the
subscribers surpasses the total population of Guangdong's permanent
residents, according to the statistics with provincial
administration of telecommunications industry.
It took just a decade for Guangdong to develop from 10 million
phone subscribers to the current 100 million, said Jiang Yaoping,
vice minister of information industry, at Monday's celebration of
the milestone Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong.
Statistics show that one eighth of China's phone subscribers
come from Guangdong, which in turn creates one sixth of the
country's business turnover in the telecommunications industry.
(Xinhua News Agency February 21, 2006)