Abstract :
The total business volume of China´s telecom industry was RMB 687.02 billion ($111.8 billion)1 in the first half of 2013, showing an increase of 7.9% from that of the first half of 2012 and a 0.3 percentage point increase from the GDP growth. The revenue showed an 8.9% year-on-year increase and reached RMB 564.26 billion. Further, the number of telephone subscribers increased by 58.46 million, to a total of 1449 million.