报刊零售是邮电部门办理向读者宣传、介绍和直接销售报刊的一种业务,是各地邮电局发行报刊的基本方式之一。近几年来,随着我国社会经济、文化的发展和人民物质文化生活水平的提高,广大读者对报刊的需求量不断增加,报刊零售业务呈现出迅速增长的势头。1989年全国城乡零售流转额逾5亿元,较1980年恢复 Newspapers and Periodicals Retail is one of the businesses that the post and telecommunications departments handle to propagandize, introduce and directly sell newspapers and periodicals to readers. It is one of the basic ways for newspapers and periodicals to be distributed to newspapers and periodicals throughout the country. In recent years, as China’s socio-economic and cultural development and improvement of people’s material and cultural life, the demand for newspapers and periodicals by readers has been constantly increasing, and the newspaper and periodical retail business has shown a rapid growth momentum. In 1989, the urban-rural retail turnover in the country exceeded 500 million yuan, recovering from 1980