SCALE AND STRENGTH

SCALE AND STRENGTH

35-1.jpg (22957 bytes) Total pay-roll staff: 480,000
Fixed assets in original value: 59.9 billion yuan
Investment capital:17 billion yuan
Post offices:84,134 (4861 newly added in 1998)
Operating area:20.23 billion m² (8.54 billion m² newly expanded in 1998)
35-2.jpg (17480 bytes) Post routes:23272 (length of mail trunk routes: 2.85 million km, 490,000 km newly expanded in 1998)
Length of air mail routes:1,480,000 km (self-owned routes: 2)
Water mail routes: 2
Post trucks:33233 (3081 newly purchased in 1998)

Business Performance

Item	Unit	As of the end of 1998
Turnover	yuan in hundred millions	166.2
Turnover in international services	yuan in hundred millions	5.3
Turnover in different services
Letter	pieces in ten thousands	660467.4
Domestic letter	pieces in ten thousands	651223.3
Correspondence for international, HK and Macau	pieces in ten thousands	9244.1
Confidential documents	pieces in ten thousands	2009.2
Parcel	pieces in ten thousands	9746.9
Domestic parcel	pieces in ten thousands	9687.5
Parcel for international,HK and Macau	pieces in ten thousands	59.4
EMS	pieces in ten thousands	7675.2
Domestic EMS	pieces in ten thousands	7339.2
EMS for international,HK and Macau	pieces in ten thousands	336.0
Money order	pieces in ten thousands	23040.9
Accumulated pieces of newspapers subscribed and distributed	pieces in ten thousands	2007819.1
Accumulated pieces of periodicals subscribed and distributed	pieces in ten thousands	120618.3
Average remaining sum of postal savings	yuan in hundred millions	3133.3
Philately	pieces in ten thousands	518377.9
Revenue from renting and others	yuan in ten thousands	87679.4