邮电业是国民经济中办理通信业务的社会生产部门。它与政治经济、国防军事、社会民生紧密相关。近代广州的邮电业诞生于19世纪下半叶,其起步与发展,推动了近代广州城市近代化的进程。 Post and telecommunications industry is the social production department that handles communications business in the national economy. It is closely related to the political economy, national defense and military affairs and social livelihood. Modern post and telecommunications industry in Guangzhou was born in the second half of the 19th century, its start and development, and promote the modernization of modern Guangzhou city in the process of modernization.