Cell phone revolution in China (From telephone to cell phone)

Telephone was introduced to Taiwan in 1877. Taiwan was the first country in China that had telephone. At the beginning, phones were only for people who lived in main cities such as Taipei and Kaohsiung, and those were used for government to communicate and contact with other cities. At that time, people still use telegram often; since they were not familiar to telephone, they didn’t trust that telephone can submit their voice to people who were far away from them. They thought that talking to a telephone is stupid and awkward. One day, a rich man who lived in Taipei bought the first telephone in the whole city. Everybody wanted to see how telephone looked like; therefore, they went to his house to see how telephone worked. The rich man called his friend who was worked in government. And as his friend picked up, they talked for a while and everybody was amazed!!! From that time on, people were all crazy about telephone, they thought it was some magic tools, and everybody tried to get one. The old telephone looked like this; it had turntable on it and we dailed it by rolling the turntable. Telephone became more and more popular in China.
Almost a hundred years after telephone was developed, the cell phone finally apeared. In 1973, the first cell phone was introduced to the world. It was huge and heavy; also, the connection was not as good as one now. In the beginning, cell phones were used in military in China just like telephones. Because of the political issue, cell phone can not be widely used in China. Government used it to control and to update the last news from military. At that time, China was in a guarded situation, it refused to absorb or exchange any new techonology or informations with other countries, and therefore, it was being regressed. On the other hand, the other government in China was moved to Taiwan. Although they were also in guarded situation, they didn’t refuse the information coming from other countries. Gradually, people found out that cell phone were more convinent than telephone, you could use it any where and any time you want. There was a huge change in China after 1978, Chian opened its door for people to invest and visit. A lot of cell phone companies were established just like the mushrooms after rain. And now, according to the data, almost 75% of Chinese has a cell phone in hand.