General Country Information
Capital: Beijing
Population: 1,321,851,888 (July 2007)
Form of Government: Communist State
Telephone and Internet Communications in real numbers
Telephone- main lines: 350.433 million (2005)
Telephone- mobile: 437.48 million (2006)
Internet hosts: 232,780 (2006)
Internet users: 123 million (2006)
Country Ranking
DOI* 2005/2006: 0.45
World Rank 2005/2006: 77
*The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) evaluates the opportunity, infrastructure and utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) worldwide and was created by the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The DOI is based on a scale of 0-1, where 1 is ideal, and the World Rank is taken into consideration out of 181 countries, based on the DOI.
Disability Organizations and Contact Information:
China Association of the Deaf
no contact information currently available
China Disabled Persons' Federation (CDPF)
no contact information currently available
China Fund for the Handicapped
no contact information currently available
China Rehabilitation Research Center (CRRC)
crrc@public.bta.net.cn
Chinese Academy of Science or the Chinese Association for the Blind
no contact information currently available