Editing Kinmen (section)

===Submarine telecommunication cable===
In August 2012, Kinmen and [[Xiamen]] established the first submarine telecommunication cable between the two sides. On Taiwan side, the infrastructure was constructed by [[Chunghwa Telecom]], while on mainland China's side was done by [[China Telecom]], [[China Unicom]] and [[China Mobile]]. The project began in 1996 and took 16 years to build.<ref name="taipeitimes1">{{Cite news |date=22 August 2012 |title=Chunghwa Telecom Hails Submarine Cable to Xiamen |page=3 |work=Taipei Times |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/08/22/2003540904 |url-status=live |access-date=19 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140511102354/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/08/22/2003540904 |archive-date=11 May 2014}}</ref>

The telecommunication system consists of two cables, one is an {{convert|11|km|abbr=on}} long cable that runs from Kinmen's Lake Tzu and Xiamen's Mount Guanyin, and the other is a {{convert|9.7|km|abbr=on}} long cable that runs from Guningtou on Greater Kinmen Island (ROC) to Dadeng Island (PRC). The system is a non-repeater system with a bilateral transmission capacity of 90&nbsp;Gbit/s, which might be expanded in the future if demand arises.<ref name="taipeitimes1" />