Jiangxi Province is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Southeast China. Its eastern neighbors are Zhejiang and Fujian Provinces while Guangdong province is adjacent to Jiangxi in the south. In the west is Hunan Province and the northern neighbors are Hubei and Anhui, with the Yangtze River running between them. Jiangxi Province is in the central part of the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta and the Southern Fujian Delta. The total land area of the province is 166,900 square kilometers. There are 11 prefectures and municipalities, which in turn have 99 counties, cities and regions under their respective jurisdiction. The provincial capital is Nanchang.

Telecommunication industry is booming fast in the province and new business sectors are emerging and taking shape. At the yearend of 2001, the total business revenue for the provincial telecommunication sector stood at 6.3 billion yuan, a 22.2% increase over the previous year; fixed telephone exchange capacity increased to 5.6729 million sets including the newly increased 600,000 sets. The mobile exchange capacity shot to 4.62 million sets. The total length of optical fiber was 54,000 kilometers. There were 781,000

new subscribers of fixed telephones and the users totaled 4.33 million. There were 2.2 million new mobile users, making the total number increase to 3.74 million. The diffusion rate was 18.7%. There were 214,000 internet users and 670,000 digital data users. The voice and data transmission quality improved remarkably.

Futong Group sets up a customer service center in Nanchang for the purpose of taking the advantage of the locality to offer quality products and fast services to telecommunication carriers in the Province.