Every four Chinese will have one mobile phone by the end of 2004, according to the Ministry of Information Industry.

Around 24.5% of Chinese will have mobile phones, the ministry source said at an international mobile telecommunication forum held in Beijing on June 6. The mobile business has contributed to almost half of the telecom industry's operating revenue in China–in the first four months of this year, China's mobile phone users rose by 27.06 million people to 295.75 million.

So far 20.8% of Chinese have mobile phones.