China Statistics
2004 Statistical Recap
January, '05Overview
GDP: 13,651.5 billion Yuan, up by 9.5% over 2003
Consumer Price Index up by 3.9%
Service items up 2.3%
Commodities up 2.8%
Manufactured goods up 6.1%
Raw Materials and fuels up 11.4%
Employment up by 9.8m jobs.
Unemployment rate 4.2%, down 0.1% from 2003.
Foreign Exchange Reserve at 609.9B US dollars, up 206.7B from 2003.
Tax income totaled 2,571.8 billion Yuan, not counting agricultural taxes and tariffs.
Agricultural
2004 total of sown areas of grain 101.61 million hectares, 2.2m more than 2003.
Sown areas of cotton was 5.69 million hectares, an increase of 0.58 million hectares.
Sown area of oil-bearing crops was 14.53 million hectares, a decrease of 0.47 million.
Sugar crops equaled 1.57 million hectares, and vegetables 17.67 million hectares, at a total decline of 0.38 million.
The total output of grain in 2004 was 468.47 million tons, up 38.77 million tons from 2003.
China produced 6.32 million tons of cotton, an increase of 30 percent.
Oil-bearing crops: 30.57 million tons, up by 8.8%.
Overall 980,000 hectares of land was converted into farmland.
Industrial
2004 output of primary energy reached 1.85 billion tons of coal, up 15.2%
The total electricity generated was 2.187 trillion kw-hours, up 14.5%
The output of coal was 1.956 billion tons, up 17.3%
Output of crude oil reached 175m tons, up 2.9%
Smelting and pressing of ferrous metals saw a revenue increase of 26.8%. That of nonferrous metals was up 22.4%.
Raw chemical materials and chemical products increased 18.2%
Sulfuric acid, soda ash, caustic soda, ethylene, and major chemical products were up from 2.3% to 18.5%.
Equipment manufacturing revenue increased by 22.2% over 2003.
Electronic machinery and equipment manufacturing was up 17.7% and transport equipment manufacturing was up 14%.
The production of motor vehicles was 5,074,000, an increase of 14.2%.
The High Tech industry was up 23.1%, including a 26.9% growth of telecommunication equipment, computers, and other electronics manufacturing.
Fixed Assets
The total investment in fixed assets of China in 2004 equaled 7 trillion Yuan, up by 25.8% over 2003.
It was up 27.6% in urban areas, and 17.4% in rural areas.
In the east, the investment reached 4 trillion Yuan, up 26.6%, in the center of the country, 1.5 trillion Yuan, up 30.2%, in the west of the country, the investment was 1.4 trillion Yuan, up 26.6%.
The investment in real estate development was 1.32 trillion Yuan, up 28.1%. The total sale of commercial buildings for 224 was over 1 trillion Yuan, up 30.3%.
Domestic Trade
In 2004, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 5.395 billion Yuan, up by 13.3%.
In urban areas, the sale of retail goods was 3.557 trillion Yuan, up 14.7%
The retail and wholesale industry reached 4.5 trillion Yuan, the catering industry reached 748 billion Yuan, and other industries totaled 162 billion Yuan.
The sale of telecommunication equipment was up by 41.27%, household appliances and video equipment was up 13.7%, building and decoration materials was up 27.1 percent, furniture was up 21.8 percent.
Food, beverages and tobacco, and liquor were up 17.9%, while clothing and textile was up 18.7%
Motor vehicles were up 23.4% and petroleum related products were up 45.9%.
Foreign Economic Relations
Total value of import and export in 2004 reached 1,154.8 billion US dollars, up 35.7%.
The total value of export was $593 billion, and imports were valued at $561 billion.
China's trade surplus was $32 billion, an increase of $6.5 billion compared with 2003.
43,664 foreign direct investment business were approved in China in 2004, up 6.3%.
The total foreign investment was $153.5 billion, up 33.4%.
Transportation, Communications, and Tourism
The revenue of transportation, communications and tourism reached 777.7 billion yuan in 2004, up 14.9%.
The passenger flow by all means of transportation was 1,632.4 billion passenger-kilometers, up 18.2%, of which rail passage was 571 billion p-km, highways was 876.5 billion p-km, waterways was 6.5 billion p-km, and civil aviation was 178.2 billion p-km, up 42%.
The total number of civilian motor vehicles reached 27.42 million, up 15%.
Communications revenue equaled 979.1 billion Yuan, up 35%.
Postal services accounted for 56.6 billion Yuan, telecommunication for 922.5 billion.
There were 49.7 million new telephone subscribers in 2004, bringing the total number of subscribers to 312.44 million.
A total of 109.04 million international visitors came to China for business and pleasure, an increase of 19%. Of this total 16.93 million were foreigners, up 48.5%, 92.11 million were Chinese compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
Of all the international tourists, overnight visitors accounted for 41.76 million.
Foreign exchange earnings from international tourism was $25.7 billion, up 47.9%.
Revenue from domestic tourism totaled 471 billion Yuan, up 37%.
Education, Science, Tech
326,000 new postgraduate students enrolled in china in 2004, for a total of 820,000 students.
The enrollment of regular undergrads was 13,335,000 including 4,473,000 new entrants and 2,391,000 graduates.
Vocational and secondary schools had an enrollment of 13,679,000 students.
Regular senior secondary schools had 22,203,000 enrolled students.
184.3 billion Yuan was spent on research and development activities, up 19.7%.
The number of professionals and technicians of all specializations working in state-owned enterprises and institutions stood at 27,163,000.
10 new national engineering research centers and 40 projects of updating key national laboratories were enacted in 2004.
About 354,000 patent applications were received from home and abroad; 190,000 patents were authorized.
A total of 265,000 tech transfer contracts were signed, entailing 133.4 billion Yuan in transactions.
Society
At the end of 2004 there were 2,599 art-performing groups, 2,858 cultural centers, 2,710 public libraries, and 1,509 museums in China.
There were 282 radio broadcasting stations, 214 TV stations, and 60 education television stations in China.
Subscribers to cable TV programs equaled 114.7 million.
Digital cable television service covered 30 cities in China with 1.22 million subscribers.
Radio broadcasting coverage rate was 94.1%, and television broadcasting coverage rates was 95.3%.
China produced 212 feature movies, 44 science, educational, documentary and cartoon movies.
A total of 2,577 billion copies of national and provincial newspapers and 2.69 billion magazines were printed.
By the end of 2004 there were 277,000 health care institutions in China, including 62,000 general hospitals and healthcare stations, 3,000 maternal and childbirth healthcare institutions, and 1,718 specialized health institutions.
General hospitals and health care institutions held a total of 3,004,000 beds.
In 2004, the per capita annual net income of rural households was 2,936 Yuan.
The per capita disposable income of urban households was 9,422 Yuan.
The sector of rural population that lived in what the government defines as poverty (with annual per capita net income less than 669 Yuan, or 80 dollars) was 26.1 million, a decline of 2.9 million from 2003.
The low income population in rural areas (income between 669 Yuan and 924 Yuan) was 49.77 million, a decline of 6.4 million.
By the end of 2004, 163.42 billion people participated in the basic pension programs.
A total of 105.84 million participated in unemployment insurance programs, and increase of 2,11 million.
The population covered by basic health insurance programs was 123.86 million, less than 10% of the total population.