Transport, postal and telecom services 2022

The total freight traffic in 2022 reached 50.6 billion tons. The freight flows were 22,612.2 billion ton-kilometers. The volume of freight handled by ports throughout the year totaled 15.7 billion tons, up by 0.9 percent over the previous year, of which the freight for foreign trade was 4.6 billion tons, down by 1.9 percent. Container shipping of ports reached 295.87 million standard containers, up by 4.7 percent.

In 2022, the total passenger traffic was 5.6 billion person-times, down by 32.7 percent over 2021, and the passenger flows were 1,292.1 billion person-kilometers, down by 34.6 percent.

The total number of motor vehicles for civilian use reached 319.03 million (including 7.19 million tri-wheel motor vehicles and low-speed trucks) by the end of 2022, up by 17.52 million over that at the end of 2021, of which the privately-owned vehicles numbered 278.73 million, an increase of 16.27 million.

The total number of cars for civilian use was 177.40 million, an increase of 10.03 million, of which the privately-owned cars numbered 166.85 million, an increase of 9.54 million.

The turnover of post services totaled 1,431.7 billion yuan, up by 4.5 percent over the previous year. In 2022, the number of mail delivery was 0.94 billion; that of parcel delivery was 0.02 billion; and that of express delivery was 110.58 billion with a revenue reaching 1,056.7 billion yuan.

The turnover of telecommunication services totaled 1,749.8 billion yuan, up by 21.3 percent over the previous year. By the end of 2022, there were 10.83 million mobile phone base stations, among which the number of 4G base stations reached 6.03 million and that of 5G base stations was 2.31 million.

There were 1,862.86 million phone subscribers in China, of whom 1,683.44 million were mobile phone subscribers. The mobile phone coverage was 119.2 sets per 100 persons. The number of fixed broadband internet users reached 589.65 million, an increase of 53.86 million over that at the end of the previous year.

Of this total, users of broadband with the speed of 100M and above amounted to 553.80 million, an increase of 55.13 million. Users of cellular internet of things terminals totaled 1.845 billion, an increase of 0.447 billion. The number of internet users was 1.067 billion, 1.065 billion of which were mobile internet surfers.

The coverage of internet was 75.6 percent, and 61.9 percent in rural areas. The mobile internet traffic in 2022 was 261.8 billion gigabytes, up by 18.1 percent over the previous year. Software revenue of software and information technology services industry in 2022 was 10,812.6 billion yuan, up by 11.2 percent over 2021 on a comparable basis.