Xinjiang Reports Rapid Telecom DevelopmentNorthwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region built a modernized telecommunications network in the past two decades, paving way for the region's sustained economic growth.It built a digital microwave telecommunications trunk which links the cities on both sides of the Tianshan Mountain, an fiberoptic cable system leading to neighboring countries with a total length of 25,000 km and 10 satellite ground stations, said Gao Hongqing, general manager of the Xinjiang Telecommunications Co. It has upgraded the program-controled telephone exchange system and expanded the long distance telephone capacity, enabling 98 percent of the townships in Xinjiang to have access to telephone services. The number of telephone users had increased from 19,800 in 1978 to the present 1.7 million. Meanwhile, the region has set up a digital data network, a conference TV system, a smart terminal and a multi-media network. The number of data transmission users have risen to 105,000. |
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