!!!China: Communication
||Telephones - fixed lines|''total subscriptions'': 230.996 million \\ ''subscriptions per 100 inhabitants'': 17 (July 2015 est.) \\ 
||Telephones - mobile cellular|''total'': 1,305.738 million \\ ''subscriptions per 100 inhabitants'': 95 (July 2015 est.) \\ 
||Telephone system|''general assessment'': domestic and international services are increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and many towns; China continues to develop its telecommunications infrastructure; China in th \\ ''domestic'': interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular telephone systems have been installed; mobile-cellular subscribership is increasing rapidly; the number of Internet users now over 50% of the population; a domestic satellite system with several earth s \\ ''international'': country code - 86; a number of submarine cables provide connectivity to Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the US; satellite earth stations - 7 (5 Intelsat - 4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean; 1 Intersputnik - Indian Ocean region; and 1 Inmarsat - Pacifi (2012) \\ 
||Broadcast media|all broadcast media are owned by, or affiliated with, the Communist Party of China or a government agency; no privately owned TV or radio stations; state-run Chinese Central TV, provincial, and municipal stations offer more than 2,000 channels; the Centra
||Internet country code|.cn
||Internet users|''total'': 687.845 million \\ ''percent of population'': 50.3% (July 2015 est.) \\