Recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Post Bureau have respectively released the industry operation data for the first ten months of 2025. Among the figures, the accumulated revenue from telecommunications services reached 1.467 trillion yuan in the first ten months, representing a year - on - year increase of 0.9%. Meanwhile, the total revenue of the postal sector hit 1.47005 trillion yuan, with a year - on - year growth rate of 7.7%. This marks a historic moment when the postal sector's revenue has surpassed that of the telecommunications industry for the first time.
Back in 2020, the annual revenue from telecommunications services stood at 1.36 trillion yuan, rising by 3.6% from the previous year, whereas the postal sector's revenue totaled 1.10378 trillion yuan, a year - on - year surge of 14.5%. In 2024, the telecommunications industry recorded an accumulated revenue of 1.74 trillion yuan, up 3.2% year - on - year, while the postal sector achieved 1.7 trillion yuan in revenue with a 10.7% year - on - year growth. In the first nine months of this year, telecommunications services generated 1.327 trillion yuan in revenue, exceeding the postal sector's 1.31363 trillion yuan during the same period. Nevertheless, the postal sector has maintained a much stronger growth momentum.
Data shows that the postal and telecommunications sectors separated in 1998, and the former post and telecommunications bureaus were restructured into independent postal bureaus and telecommunications bureaus. In 2000, the telecommunications bureaus completed the transformation from government - run institutions to market - oriented enterprises. The establishment of China Mobile Communications Group and China Telecom Group kicked off a magnificent phase of development for China's telecommunications industry, which has since built the world's largest information infrastructure network.