China's Number of Value-added Telecom Service Enterprises Exceeds 65,600
CAICT, 4/11/19
As of the end of March 2019, China's total number of enterprises holding a value-added telecommunications business license reached 65,601, representing a 1.34% month-on-month increase, 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, 14,426 were cross-regional enterprises licensed by the MIIT, up 2.10% MoM, and 51,175 were local enterprises licensed by provincial (regional, municipal) communications administrations, up 1.13% MoM.
Regionally, China's value-added telecommunications industry is currently characterized by uneven development. Among the 14,426 cross-regional enterprises, 4,025 are registered in Beijing, 2,861 in Guangdong, and 1,498 in Shanghai, for a combined total of 58.1%. In contrast, the number of cross-regional enterprises in some of China's western provinces remains in the single digits.
Among the 51,175 local enterprises, 10,793 are registered in Beijing, 6,158 in Guangdong, and 5,696 in Zhejiang, comprising a combined 44.1% of the nation's total local value-added telecom service enterprises. The next largest concentrations are in Jiangsu, Sichuan, and Shanghai, which, combined, comprise another 18.0% of the total, meaning that 62.1% of China's local value-added telecommunications companies are concentrated in these 6 provinces; in contrast, the combined number of local value-added telecommunications enterprises spread out across China's 12 western provinces accounted for only 13.4% of the country's total.
According to the value-added telecommunications business classification in the 2015 edition of China's Telecommunication Service Catalogue, China's 65,601 value-added telecommunications companies have a total of 79,812 licensed projects. Among them, 39,314 are Internet information service projects, 14,133 are non-Internet information service projects, 8,275 are online data processing and transaction processing services, 8,019 are domestic call center services, 4,805 are Internet access provision ("ISP") services, 2,429 are Internet data center ("IDC") services, and 2,837 other businesses.
In terms of the main service categories provided by China's 14,426 cross-regional value-added telecommunications service enterprises, the top three were mobile information services (8,441 operators), domestic call center services (5,608 operators), and Internet access services (2,710 operators).
The range in the amount of registered capital across China's 14,426 cross-regional value-added telecommunications service enterprises is substantial, but with the majority (66.9%) clustered at RMB 10 mln. Those with registered capital greater than RMB 10 mln but less than RMB 50 mln comprised 18.8%, those with RMB 50 mln or more, but less than RMB 100 mln comprised 7.9%, and those with RMB 100 mln or more comprised 6.1%. 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 March 2019, among China's 14,426 cross-regional value-added telecommunications service enterprises, 451 (3.1%) were state-owned, 13,883 (96.2%) were privately held, and 92 (0.7%) were foreign-invested enterprises.
Keywords: wireless Internet telecom MIIT call center Internet access Internet data center value-added ISP CAICT private investment national statistics
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