China's Number of Value-added Telecom Service Enterprises Exceeds 85,600
CAICT, 7/10/20
As of the end of June 2020, China's total number of enterprises holding a value-added telecommunications service license reached 85,648, up 1.91% month-on-month, reports the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), a department of China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT). Of this total, 20,661 were cross-regional enterprises licensed by the MIIT, up 1.32% MoM, and 64,987 were local enterprises licensed by provincial (regional, municipal) communications administrations, up 2.10% MoM.
Regionally, China's value-added telecommunications industry is currently characterized by uneven development. Among the 20,661 cross-regional enterprises, 4,998 are registered in Beijing, 4,226 in Guangdong, and 2,080 in Shanghai, for a combined total of 54.7%.
Among the 64,987 local enterprises, 12,978 are registered in Beijing, 7,893 in Guangdong, and 6,808 in Zhejiang, comprising a combined 42.6% of the nation's total local value-added telecom service enterprises. The next largest concentrations are in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Henan, and Sichuan, which, combined, comprise another 23.4% of the total, meaning that 66.0% of China's local value-added telecommunications companies are concentrated in these 7 provinces; in contrast, the combined number of local value-added telecommunications enterprises spread out across China's 12 western provinces accounted for only 12.6% of the country's total.
In terms of the main service categories provided by China's 20,661 cross-regional value-added telecommunications service enterprises, the top three were non-Internet information services (12,024 operators), domestic call center services (7,695 operators), and Internet access services (4,296 operators).
The range in the amount of registered capital across China's 20,661 cross-regional value-added telecommunications service enterprises is substantial, but with the majority (69.7%) clustered at RMB 10 mln. Those with registered capital greater than RMB 10 mln but less than RMB 50 mln comprised 17.1%, those with RMB 50 mln to RMB 100 mln comprised 7.2%, and those with RMB 100 mln or more comprised 5.7%. A small percentage (0.4%) had registered capital of less than RMB 10 mln.
Currently, the sources of investment and financing in China's value-added telecommunications field have become increasingly diversified, and private capital has developed into a major force. As of the end of June 2020, among China's 20,661 cross-regional value-added telecommunications service enterprises, 804 (3.9%) were state-owned, 19,664 (95.1%) were privately held, and 213 (1.0%) were foreign-invested enterprises.
Editor's Note: China's 12 western provinces include Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Ganxu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Xinjiang.
Keywords: wireless ISP Internet telecom MIIT call center Internet access value-added CAICT private investment national statistics
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