In the recent years, the post and telecommunication has grown rapidly in Guangzhou. Yearly income in the field of post and telecommunication reached 7 billion US dollars (70.98 billion yuan) in 1997 and has been increasing at the ratio of 22.7% steadily every since then. On 8th June 1996, Guangzhou successfully installed eight digit phone system becoming the third city in China after Beijing and Shanghai to make advantage of eight digit phone numbers.

Ever since then, the resources of the phone numbers increased 10 times. Phone exchange capacity in Guangzhou at the beginning of year 2000 reached around 3 million while the telephone installation number topped 3 million including 2.5 million as inner city phones making Guangzhou the number one city in China in the same field. There are over 250 thousand public phone stalls with over 300 thousand phone sets. Mobile phone number increases steadily at 38% every year and reached at the end of year 1999 the number of 1.2 million while Pager number increased to 2.2 million at the same time.

At present, there has been opened over 150 thousand lines used for long distance calls, within which 6 thousand lines designed for international cities, Hong Kong and Macau. Regarding Internet information service, there are more than 50 ISPs connecting Guangzhou to the world. By 2010 as shown on the government schedule, high speed internet service will be available to every private home for conveniences in every respect.