China's National Development and Reform Commission on Thursday submitted a report on the implementation of the country's 2008 national economic and social development plan and on the 2009 draft development plan to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature.

Following are some key figures from the 38-page report:

Achievements in 2008:

-- China's GDP topped 30 trillion yuan in 2008, a year-on-year increase of 9.0 percent, more than five percentage points higher than the average world economic growth rate.

-- Retail sales of consumer goods rose 21.6 percent to 10.85 trillion yuan, up 4.8 percentage points.

-- Fixed asset investment across the country totaled 17.23 trillion yuan, up 25.5 percent.

-- National revenue reached 6.13 trillion yuan in 2008, up 19.5 percent year on year.

-- Energy consumption per unit of GDP continued to decline in 2008, down 4.59 percent.

-- Water consumption per 10,000 yuan of value-added by industry dropped by 7.0 percent.

-- The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 5.9 percent for 2008.

-- Central government funding to agriculture, rural areas and farmers rose 37.9 percent to 595.55 billion yuan in 2008.

-- Total grain production rose 5.4 percent to 528.5 million tons, a record high for both total output and yield per unit area, the fifth consecutive annual rise.

-- A total of nearly 100,000 kilometers of highways, including 6,433 kilometers of expressways, were opened to traffic in 2008.

-- A total of 1,719 kilometers of newly built railway lines, 1,935 kilometers of double-track rail lines, and 1,955 kilometers of electric rail lines were put into operation.

-- The value-added of tertiary industry rose 9.5 percent to 12.05 trillion yuan in 2008, the first time since 2003 that it grew faster than secondary industry.

-- Total imports and exports for the year reached 2.5616 trillion U.S. dollars, up 17.8 percent over 2007.

-- China's direct investment in overseas in 2008 (excluding that in the banking, securities and insurance sectors) amounted to 92.4 billion U.S. dollars, 23.6 percent more than the previous year.

-- The foreign exchange reserves reached 1.95 trillion U.S. dollars.