China's Telecom Capacity Among the World Largest

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China's Telecom Capacity Among the World Largest

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China now boasts a fast-expanding telecom capacity which is among the world largest, thanks to investment in high-technology equipment and expansion of the network, senior information ministry officials said Tuesday.

China's fixed and mobile phone networks capacity both ranks second in the world, and will move to the top in five years. whilethe number of its Internet users in the country is also among the highest and continues to rise sharply, according to the Ministry of Inforamtion Industry.

"We have built a high-speed, large capacity, secure and reliable telecom network with access to every part of the country and elsewhere in the world," Vice-Minister Zhang Chunjian told a recent meeting here.

China's telecommunications transmission had been almost entirely digitalized, and information exchanges had all been program-controlled, according to Su Jinsheng, director of the telecommunications administration under the Information Ministry.

By October, China had over two million kilometers of optical fiber cable, including 444,000 kilometers of long-distance cable. Domestic backbone Internet networks had an interchange bandwidth of more than 100 megabytes and the Internet access bandwidth to and from was over 10,000 megabytes, Su said.

Over the past few years, China's information industry had grownat an over 20 percent rate each year, or three times the growth rate of the country's gross domestic product in the same period, and it has become a driving force for national economic growth, experts said.

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