China's fiscal revenue in August rose 36.1 percent over the same month last year to 523.75 billion yuan (76.68 billion U.S. dollars), the Ministry of Finance said Friday.

Fiscal revenue in the first eight months topped 4.59 trillion yuan, an increase of 2.6 percent from the same period last year.

Fiscal expenditure in August rose 17.4 percent from a year earlier to 473.71 billion yuan.

This brought total fiscal expenditure in the first eight months to 3.86 trillion yuan, an increase of 22.7 percent compared with the same period last year.

(Xinhua News Agency September 11, 2009)