News and Policies
Communication over the past 4 decades
Updated: Nov 13, 2018
Print
Share - WeChat
Communicating by letter and telegram was previously the norm. Anyone who wanted to notify people in their local area of an event would need to cycle from door to door; to communicate with people further away, letters and telegrams were the only means. [Photo/IC]
During the 1980s, payphones started to appear in urban areas. [Photo/IC]
MOST POPULAR
- 1 China to give visa-free treatment to another 9 countries
- 2 China fully opens manufacturing sector to foreign investors in landmark opening up move
- 3 China's import expo attracts record-breaking participating countries, exhibitors
- 4 China's door opening even wider to foreign visitors, businesses
- 5 China revises rules to ease foreign strategic investment in listed firms
Editors' Picks
Video:
Peru sees new port open
Infographic:
China's public holidays for 2025
Infographic:
Basic facts of APEC
Infographic:
Wrapping up the 7th CIIE: Data recap
