Transport, postal and telecom services 2015

Transportation

In 2015, total freight traffic reached 41.7 billion tons, up by 0.2 percent from 2014, and freight flows were 17.74 trillion ton-kilometers, down by 1.9 percent. The volume of freight handled throughout the year by ports above a designated size totaled 11.43 billion tons, up 1.6 percent from the previous year. Of this total, freight for foreign trade was 3.59 billion tons, up 1.1 percent. Container shipping at ports above a designated size reached 209.59 million standard containers, up by 4.1 percent.

The total passenger traffic in 2015 reached 19.4 billion people, down by 4.4 percent from 2014, and passenger flows were 3,004.7 billion person-kilometers, up by 4.9 percent.

The total number of motor vehicles for civilian use reached 172.28 million (including 9.55 million tri-wheel motor vehicles and low-speed trucks) by the end of 2015, up 11.5 percent, of which privately-owned vehicles numbered 143.99 million, up 14.4 percent. The total number of cars for civilian use stood at 95.08 million, up 14.6 percent, of which privately-owned cars numbered 87.93 million, up 15.8 percent.

Post and telecommunication services

The turnover of post and telecommunication services totaled 2.82 trillion yuan in 2015, up 29.2 percent from the previous year. Of this total, post services amounted to 507.9 billion yuan, up 37.4 percent, and telecommunication services 2.31 trillion yuan, up 27.5 percent.

With regards to post services, the number of mail deliveries reached 4.58 billion, parcel deliveries 40 million and express deliveries 20.67 billion. The revenue from express deliveries reached 277.0 billion yuan.

In telecommunication services, the newly-increased capacity of the mobile phone switchboard was 65.29 million lines with the total capacity reaching 2,110.66 million lines. By the end of 2015, there were 1,536.73 million phone subscribers in China, of which 1,305.74 million were mobile phone users. Mobile phone coverage rose to 95.5 sets per 100 people. The number of fixed broadband internet users reached 213.37 million, an increase of 12.89 million from the previous year; while that of mobile broadband users was 785.33 million, an increase of 202.79 million. Mobile internet traffic was 4.19 billion gigabytes up 103 percent from the previous year.

The number of internet users was 688 million, up by 39.51 million. Of this total, 620 million were mobile internet surfers, an increase of 63.03 million. The coverage of the internet was 50.3 percent. Software revenue of the software and IT services industry totaled 4,324.9 billion yuan, up 16.6 percent.