| Communications | China |
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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294.383 million (2010) |
Telephones - main lines in use density:
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221 Telephones - main lines in use per 1000 people |
Telephones - mobile cellular:
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859 million (2010) |
Telephones - mobile cellular - density:
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643 mobile cellular telephones in use per 1000 capita |
Telephone system:
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general assessment: domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns; China continues to develop its telecommunications infrastructure, and is partnering with foreign providers to expand its global reach; China in the summer of 2008 began a major restructuring of its telecommunications industry, resulting in the consolidation of its six telecom service operators to three, China Telecom, China Mobile and China Unicom, each providing both fixed-line and mobile services
domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; mobile-cellular subscribership is increasing rapidly; the number of Internet users exceeded 250 million by summer 2008; a domestic satellite system with 55 earth stations is in place
international: country code - 86; a number of submarine cables provide connectivity to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the US; satellite earth stations - 7 (5 Intelsat - 4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean; 1 Intersputnik - Indian Ocean region; and 1 Inmarsat - Pacific and Indian Ocean regions) (2008) |
Broadcast media:
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all broadcast media are owned by, or affiliated with, the Communist Party of China or a government agency; no privately-owned television or radio stations with state-run Chinese Central TV, provincial, and municipal stations offering more than 2,000 channels; the Central Propaganda Department lists subjects that are off limits to domestic broadcast media with the government maintaining authority to approve all programming; foreign-made TV programs must be approved prior to broadcast (2008) |
Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998) |
Radio broadcast stations AM density:
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3,622,543 people per AM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations FM density:
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5,161,074 people per FM Radio broadcast station |
Radio broadcast stations shortwave density:
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29,704,845 people per shortwave Radio broadcast station |
Television broadcast stations:
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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) |
Television broadcast stations density:
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412,568 people per Television broadcast station |
Internet country code:
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.cn |
Internet hosts:
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15.251 million (2010) |
Internet users:
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389 million (2009) |
Internet users - density:
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292 internet users per 1000 capita |
Communications - note:
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void |
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