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Chinese Transportation and Communication (China) |
 | | The major inland navigable rivers in China are the Yangtze, the Pearl, the Heilongjiang, the Huaihe, the Qiantang, the Minjiang, and the Huangpu, not forgetting the Grand Canal between Beijing and Hangzhou. |
 | | In 1998, navigable inland waterways in China totaled 110,000 km, the volume of cargo transportation was 1940.6 billion tons/km, and the volume of passenger transportation was 12 billion persons/km. |
 | | The total number of telephone users in China reached 110 million in 1998, accounting for 10.6 percent of the nation's population, while the percentage in 1978 was 0.38 percent; and in urban areas, the percentage in 1998 was 27.7 percent, while in 1978 it was only 1.9 percent. |
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