Located in central China, Hubei is named after its location north of the Dongting Lake in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The total area is 185,900 square kilometers. Hubei Province abuts on Anhui Province in the east, touches Jiangxi and Hunan provinces in the south and lies next to Chongqing in the west. Its northwestern neighbor is Shanxi and Henan Province is to the north. Wuhan is the biggest city in Central China.

Telecommunication industry is booming fast in Hubei Province. In 2001, the total business revenue in the sector amounted to 14.405 billion, a 23.5% increase over the previous year. The total length of optical cable trunk lines jumped to 11,026 kilometers. New subscribers in the year numbered 958,000, which makes the total number of local users soared to 6.389 million. This year also witnessed an increase of 2.009 million in the new users, making the total number of users up to 4.26 million. The fixed telephone exchange capacity was 7.528 million, an increase of 349,000 sets. Mobile capacity grew by 2.917 million and amounted to 7.69 million in total. In 2001, Hubei Mobile Co. Ltd had over 1 million users, an increase of 814,000 users over the previous year. The diffusion rate of telephone across the province is 17.85 sets per 100 people. There are 21,000 data telecommunication users, and 1.03 million internet subscribers. The Digital Hubei Project has been in full swing.

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