Transport, postal and telecom services 2016

Transportation

In 2016, total freight traffic reached 44.0 billion tons, up by 5.7 percent from 2015, and freight flows were 18.53 trillion ton-kilometers, up by 4.0 percent. The volume of freight handled throughout the year by ports above a designated size totaled 11.83 billion tons, up 3.2 percent from the previous year. Of this total, freight for foreign trade was 3.76 billion tons, up 4.1 percent. Container shipping at ports above a designated size reached 217.98 million standard containers, up by 3.6 percent.

The total passenger traffic in 2016 reached 19.2 billion people, down by 1.2 percent from 2015, and passenger flows were 3,130.6 billion person-kilometers, up by 4.1 percent.

The total number of motor vehicles for civilian use reached 194.40 million (including 8.81 million tri-wheel motor vehicles and low-speed trucks) by the end of 2016, up 12.8 percent, of which privately-owned vehicles numbered 165.59 million, up 15.0 percent. The total number of cars for civilian use stood at 108.76 million, up 14.4 percent, of which privately-owned cars numbered 101.52 million, up 15.5 percent.

Post and telecommunication services

The turnover of post and telecommunication service totaled 4.33 trillion yuan in 2016, up 52.7 percent from the previous year. Of this total, post services amounted to 739.7 billion yuan, up 45.7 percent, and telecommunication services 3.59 trillion yuan, up 54.2 percent.

With regards to post services, the number of mail deliveries reached 3.62 billion, parcel deliveries 30 million and express deliveries 31.28 billion. The revenue from express deliveries reached 397.4 billion yuan.

In telecommunication services, the newly-increased capacity of the mobile phone switchboard was 73.18 million lines with the total capacity reaching 2,183.84 million lines. By the end of 2016, there were 1,528.56 million phone subscribers in China, of which 1,321.93 million were mobile phone users.

Mobile phone coverage rose to 96.2 sets per 100 people. The number of fixed broadband internet users reached 297.21 million, an increase of 37.74 million from the previous year. Of this total, fixed fiber-optic broadband internet users amounted to 227.66 million, an increase of 79.41 million. The number of the mobile broadband users was 940.75 million, an increase of 234.64 million.

Mobile internet traffic was 9.36 billion gigabytes, up 123.7 percent from the previous year. The number of internet users was 731 million, up by 42.99 million. Of this total, 695 million were mobile internet surfers, an increase of 75.50 million. The coverage of the internet was 53.2 percent nationwide and 33.1 percent in rural areas. Software revenue of the software and IT services industry totaled 4.85 trillion yuan, up 14.9 percent.