According to official Chinese Communist statistics, there are seven to eight million stamp collectors in mainland China (one must have a permit to buy and sell stamp collector's items, so that the registered number is probably not too far from the number of actual dealers).
據中共官方統計，大陸集郵人口大約有七、八百萬人（大陸必須有登記證才能購買集郵票品，因此統計人數與實際人數應不致相差太遠）。