Indicators on Proportions and Efficiency in National Economic and Social Development
 
Item
1985 1990 1995 1999 2000
Population and Employment




 
Population




 
Birth Rate (%o) 21.04 21.06 17.12 15.23  
Death Rate (%o)
6.78 6.67 6.57 6.46  
Natural Growth Rate (%o)
14.26 14.39 10.55 8.77  
Employment




 
Dependency Ratio
1.12 0.79 0.78 0.78 0.56
Employment Ratio by Type of Industry




 
(Employment in primary industry=100)




 
Primary Industry
100 100 100 100 100
Secondary Industry
33.5 35.5 44.1 45.9 45.0
Tertiary Industry
26.8 30.8 47.5 53.7 55.0
Unemployment Rate in Urban Areas (%)
1.8 2.5 2.9 3.1 3.1
Macro Economy




 
National Accounting




 
Ratio of Value added by Type of Industry




 
(Value added in primary industry=100)




 
Primary Industry
100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100
Secondary Industry
152.1 153.8 238.0 279.6 320.1
Tertiary Industry
100.6 115.9 149.6 187.0 209.0
Overall Labor Productivity (yuan/person)
1797 2902 8606 11604 12566
Primary Industry
817 1306 3381 4088 3995
Secondary Industry
3711 5652 18261 24896 28414
Tertiary Industry
3061 4915 10651 14239 15181
Per Capita GDP (yuan)
853 1634 4854 6534 7078
Investment in Fixed Assets




 
Proportion of Investment in Fixed Assets to GDP (%)
20.2 24.4 34.2 36.4 36.8
Rate of Total Floor Space of Buildings Completed in Construction (%)
82.0 78.6 67.7 71.2 68.6
Rate of Fixed Assets Completed in Capital          
Construction and Put into Use (%)
68.2 80.0 63.7 76.4 77.7
Rate of Projects Completed in Capital
         
Construction and Put into Use (%)
50.7 53.8 57.0 58.8 57.7
Finance




 
Proportion of Government Revenue to GDP (%)
22.4 15.8 10.7 14.0 15.0
Proportion of Government Expenditures to




 
GDP (%)
22.4 16.6 11.7 16.1 17.8
Proportion of Local Government Revenue to
         
Central Government Revenue (%)
160.5 196.0 91.7 95.7 91.7
Proportion of Local Government Expenditure to
         
Central Government Expenditure (%)
152 207 242 218 188
Proportion of Extra-budgetary Receipt to




 
Government Revenue (%)
76.3 92.2 38.6 31.2  
Price Index




 
Overall Industrial and Farm Products Price
         
Parity Index (use 1978=100 index)
66.6 62.8 52.0 66.1 67.8
Utilization of Foreign Capital




 
Proportion of Foreign Capital Actually Used to




 
Total Amount of Foreign Capital for Utilization
         
by Signed Contracts or Agreements (%)
47.1 85.1 46.6 101.2 114.1
Production and Consumption of Energy




 
Elasticity Ratio of Energy Production
0.73 0.58 0.83 -  
Elasticity Ratio of Energy Consumption
0.60 0.47 0.66 -  
Energy Consumption per 10 000 yuan GDP(ton)
8.6 5.2 2.2 1.5 1.4
Agriculture




 
Per Capita Cultivated Land (hectare)
0.09 0.08 0.08
 
Cultivated Land per Agricultural Laborer(hectare)
0.33 0.29 0.29
 
Total Power of Agricultural Machinery per          
Hectare of Cultivated Land (kw)
2.09 3 3.8
 
Electric Power Consumption per Hectare of Cultivated Land (kwh)
510 883 1743
 
Chemical Fertilizer Consumption per Hectare of Cultivated Land (kg)
178 271 378
 
Agricultural Output Value per Hectare of Cultivated Land (yuan)
2510 5178 12514
 
Output of Farm Products per Agricultural Laborer (kg)




 
Grain
1222 1357 1435 1551 1405
Cotton
13.4 13.7 14.7 11.7 13.4
Oil-bearing Crops
50.9 49.1 69.2 79.4 89.8
Meat



181.5 186.2
Aquatic Products
22.7 37.6 77.4 125.8 130.1
Output of Farm Crops per Hectare of Sown Area (kg)




 
Grain
3483 3933 4240 4493 4261
Cotton
810 810 879 1028 1093
Oil-bearing Crops
1338 1480 1572 1871 1919
Economic Efficiency of Industry




 
Ratio of Total Assets to Industrial Output Value (%)


9.19 7.45 9.00
Assets-Liability Ratio (%)


65.31 61.83 60.81
Ratio of Profits to Industrial Cost (%)


3.21 3.42 5.56
Number of Times of Annual of Turnover Circulating Funds (times/year)


1.58 1.47 1.62
Overall Labor Productivity (yuan/person-year)


18477 37148 45679
Construction




 
Value of Machinery per Laborer (yuan/person)

2467 4264 5756 6304
Ratio of Per-tax Profits to Gross Output Value (%)

5.4 4.2 4.4 4.6
Overall Labor Productivity (yuan/person)




 
(in terms of gross output value per employee)

13109 38680 53328 59585
Transportation




 
Elasticity of Passenger Traffic
1.26 - 0.69 0.15 0.75
Elasticity of Freight Traffic
0.3 - 0.44 0.28 0.63
Railway Density (km/10000 sq.km)
54 56 57 60 71.6
Highway Density (km/10000 sq.km)
982 1071 1205 1408 1461
Railway Freight Traffic Density (ton/km)
25088 28217 30376 28877 25913
Highway Freight Traffic Density (ton/km)
5709 7041 8128 7327 7406
Cargo Handled at Seaports per Berth (10 000 tons)
84 50 63 76 86
Elasticity of Postal and Telecommunications Services
1.35 33.15 4.16 5.21 5.49
Access to Telephones, National(set/100 persons) 0.6 1.1 4.7 13.0 20.1
Access to Telephones, Urban (set/100 persons)
3.2 6.4 15.8 19.2 39.2
Domestic Trade




 
Per Capita Retail Sales of Consumer Goods (yuan)
17681 25852 50213 66272 72380
Foreign Trade




 
Proportion of Total Imports & Exports to




 
GDP (%)
23.1 30 40.2 36.5 43.9
International Tourism




 
Expenditure per International Tourist in China (USD)
70 81 188 194 194
Finance and Insurance




 
Bank Deposits as Percentage of GDP (%)



132.8 138.5
Bank Loans as Percentage of GDP (%)



114.4 111.1
Proportion of Cash Outlay to Cash Receipt




 
in State Banking System (%)
103.6 101.7 100.6 101.0 100.4
Education, Science and Technology and Culture




 
Education




 
Rate of School-age Children Enrollment (%)
96.0 97.8 98.5 99.1 99.1
Rate of Graduates of Primary Schools
Entering Junior Secondary Schools (%)
68.4 74.6 90.8 94.4 94.9
Rate of Graduates of Junior Secondary
Schools Entering Senior Secondary Schools (%)
41.7 40.6 48.3 50.0 51.1
Student-teacher Ratio(in percentage) (%)




 
Colleges and Universities
5.0 5.2 7.2 9.7 12.0
Secondary Schools
17.2 14.6 15.9 17.4 18.0
Primary Schools
24.9 21.9 23.3 23.1 22.2
Science and Technology




 
R&D Expenditures as Percentage of GDP (%)

0.71 0.60 0.83 1.00
Culture




 
Number of Troupes per Million Persons
3.13 2.45 2.21 2.09 2.08
Number of Public Libraries per Million Persons
2.21 2.21 2.16 2.20 2.11
Number of Museums per Million Persons
0.67 0.89 0.99 1.08 1.10
Family, People's Livelihood and Environment




 
Family




 
Dependency Ratio of Children (%)
43.73* 41.52 40.16 34.99 32.64
Dependency Ratio of the Aged (%)
8.33* 8.37 10.06 11.15 9.92
Marriages and Divorces




 
Divorce Rate (ë)
0.88 1.38 1.75 1.91 1.91
People's Livelihood




 
Proportion of Growth Rate of Annual Income of Urban
         
Residents to the Growth Rate of Annual
0.36 0.46 0.67 0.70 0.74
Net Income of Rural Residents (1978=100)




 
Welfare




 
Insurance & Welfare Funds of Staff and
24.0 31.8 29.2
25.6
Workers as Percentage of Total Wages (%)




 
Proportion of the Number of Workers Who Have Retired or
         
Resigned to the Number of
13.2 16.4 20.8 31.7 34.4
Employed Ones (%)




 
Health Care




 
Number of Hospitals per 10 000 Persons (unit)
0.56 0.55 0.56 0.53 0.53
Number of Doctors per 10 000 Persons (unit)
13.3 15.4 15.8 16.7 16.8
Number of Hospital Beds per 10 000 Persons (unit)
21.1 23 23.4 23.9 23.8
Utilization Rate of Hospital Beds (%)
82.7 80.9 66.9 59.8 60.8
City Construction




 
Percentage of Households with Access to Tap Water (%)
81.0 89.2 93.0 96.3 96.7
Percentage of Households with Access to Tap Gas (%)
22.4 42.2 70.0 81.7 84.2
Public Green Areas per 10 000 Persons(hectare)
13.7 32.2 36.7 38.6 41.3
Environment and Disasters




 
Average Loss of per Fire Disaster (yuan)
8121 8932 29022 7968 8046
Average Loss of per Traffic Accident (yuan)
676 1413 5601 5145 4326
Average Loss per Pollution Accident (yuan)




 



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a)Figures of dependency ratio of children and the aged with (*) were data in 1987.
b)Since 1993, data on extrabudgetary receipt excluded the revenue of state-owned enterprises and
their responsible departments.