page_title: China Mobile
section_title: Rural subscriber base
hierarchical_section_title: China Mobile / History / Rural subscriber base
caption_attribution_description: TIANJIN/CHINA, 28SEPT08 - Wang Jianzhou, Chairman and Chief Executive of China Mobile Communications Corporation, speaks during the Market Insight: Frontier Markets plenary session in Tianjin, China 28 September 2008. Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org)/Photo by Adam Nadel
context_page_description: China Mobile is the trade name of both China Mobile Limited and its ultimate controlling shareholder, China Mobile Communications Group Co., Ltd., a Chinese state-owned company. China Mobile Limited provides mobile voice and multimedia services through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network across mainland China and Hong Kong.
  China Mobile Limited is listed on both the NYSE and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. It is the largest mobile telecommunications corporation by market capitalisation, and also the world's largest mobile network operator by total number of subscribers, with over 902 million subscribers as of June 2018. As of August 2017, China Mobile Limited's total market value stood at RMB 1.57 trillion.
context_section_description: China Mobile has historically held a greater share of the rural market than competitors. By 2006, its network had expanded to provide reception to 97% of the Chinese population, and the company has since seen a sustained stream of new, rural mobile customers.
  It also offers services targeted at the rural market including an agricultural information service, which facilitates a variety of activities such as the sale and purchase of agricultural products, access to market prices for produce and crops, wire transfers, bank withdrawals, and payments, etc.
caption: Wang Jianzhou, Chairman and CEO during the Market Insight: Frontier Markets plenary session in Tianjin, China, 28 September 2008.[16]
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