| Traffic and Communications
The total goods traffic amount are 158,520,000 tons, an increase of 5.4% over the previous year, in which, railway traffic amount is 8,260,000 tons, road traffic amount is 150,200,000 tons and civil aviation traffic amount is 57,000 tons. The travelers transported are 86,290,000 person-times, an increase of 7.7%, in which 28,860,000 person-times by railway, 54,320,000 person-times by road and 3,107,000 person-times by civil aviation. 
The quantity of possessed motor vehicles is 382,000 including 258,000 passenger automobiles and 98,000 autotrucks.
Shenyang has opened air traffic with 19 international cities and 45 domestic cities (regions) and possesses 11 international airlines and 53 domestic airlines with 42,000 takeoffs and landings of civil airline transportation.
The city has opened 23 kinds of postal businesses, and postal coverage length (including village mailing) totals 17,700 kilometers accessing to 195 nations and regions. Postal operational gross of whole year realizes RMB11.51 billion yuan, 21.1% higher than the previous year. Of which RMB 11 billion yuan in telecom, an increase of 21.3%; gross postal operation is RMB 0.51 billion yuan, an increase of 16.1%. Postal letter (including the confidential letter) realizes 42.41 million, an increase of 7%; postal express is 2.348 million, a decrease of 3.3%.
The aggregate capacity of fixed telephone exchanger is 4.45 million, an increase of 0.2% over the previous year. There are 3.62 million sets of urban and rural fixed telephones, an increase of 14.3%, including 2.95 million home phones, an increase of 16.6%. Aggregate capacity of PAS network is 1.02 million lines, users are 980,000, an increase of 41.8%. The aggregate capacity of Mobile communication business is 4.39 million, newly increased 370,000 mobile phone users, an increase of 9.1%; mobile phone subscriber reaches 3.48 million with 430,000 new, an increase of 14.2%. Internet registered users reaches 757,000, including 495,000 wide band access users, an increase of 33.5%. Popularity rate of fixed telephone is 52 sets/hundred persons and 160 sets/hundred households; popularity rate of mobile phone is 50 sets/hundred persons.
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