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When talking about something about past difficulties in making a phone call must sound like recounting an impossible old story to young people in China today as they have gotten themselves used to a life surfing online and going on fixed and mobile phones.
A life that seems impossible, it has all come true. Since the 4th Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee, information industry has gained the speediest development in China. There are already no difficulties to speak of when or whenever people want to get on a phone to his dearest in today's China now with the largest number of phones on line and air.
By the end of July this year, over 200 million fixed and near 200 million mobile phones users have been reported putting China atop the world, with a popularization rate of over 30 percent.
The great changes made in people's communications in China just tell one side of various successes made in advancing China's communications work. Over the past 13 years, spectacular advances have been reported in China's information industry. A pillar industry, it has helped push China's economic growth.
(People's Daily October 18, 2002)
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