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          China Communications Services Corporation Limited Annual Report 2015
        
        
          
            BUSINESS OVERVIEW
          
        
        
          The Group provides Network Maintenance services for
        
        
          telecommunications operators covering fiber optic cables, electric
        
        
          cables, base stations, network equipment and user terminals. The
        
        
          market space of maintenance services continues to expand along
        
        
          with the growth of network scale, increasing volume of
        
        
          maintenance outsourcing business and new demands of
        
        
          maintenance business from domestic telecommunications
        
        
          operators. In 2015, the Group proactively undertook on-site
        
        
          i n t e g r a t e d ma i n t e n a n c e s e r v i c e s f r om d ome s t i c
        
        
          telecommunications operators, facilitated the organization
        
        
          optimization of maintenance business and continuously improved
        
        
          efficiency and effectiveness. The Group realized revenue of
        
        
          RMB9,756 million from the Network Maintenance business,
        
        
          representing a rapid increase of 19.8%, and maintaining a growth
        
        
          rate of over 18% for two consecutive years and was the second
        
        
          largest contributor to the total incremental revenues.
        
        
          
            Business Process Outsourcing Services
          
        
        
          The Group is the largest integrated provider of business process
        
        
          outsourcing services in the communications industry in China. We kept
        
        
          extending our business scope along the communications business
        
        
          value chain, providing major services include management of
        
        
          infrastructure for information technology (“Network Maintenance”),
        
        
          distribution of telecommunications services and products
        
        
          (“Distribution”) and general facilities management. The targets of
        
        
          our services include domestic and overseas telecommunications
        
        
          operator customers, government agencies and enterprises
        
        
          customers. In 2015, the Group focused on the OPEX-driven business
        
        
          of domestic telecommunications operators, and strengthened the
        
        
          synergistic operation and brand building of OPEX-driven business,
        
        
          whilst controlling the development of businesses with low efficiency.
        
        
          Revenue from business process outsourcing services amounted to
        
        
          RMB33,014 million, representing a year-on-year growth of 5.8%.
        
        
          Optical network restoration project
        
        
          The Group undertook data centre project