The robust national economy has boosted the development of domestic mobile communications industry, with the number of Chinese handset users topping 300 million by the end of May this year, the Beijing Youth Post reported today.
According to the Ministry of Information Industry yesterday, by the end of last month, the number of Chinese fixed-line phone users hit 290.401 million, with more than 30 percent in suburban areas.
There is a growing demand for mobile phones, with the number of Chinese handset users exceeding that of landline phone users for the first time in October last year.
There were only more than 700 handset users in 1987 when the first set of mobile communications facilities was introduced to China. It took ten years for the number to soar from 700 to 10 million and only less than four years to jump from 10 million to 100 million.