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China at a
Glance
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China’s GDP rose from 7.4 trillion Yuan (U.S.$891.6 billion) in 1997 to
10.2 trillion Yuan (U.S. $1.2 trillion) in 2001- an average annual
increase of 7.7 percent.
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Total fiscal revenue rose from 865.1
billion Yuan (US$104.2 billion) in 1997 to 1.8914 trillion Yuan (U.S.
$227.9 billion) in2002, an annual average annual increase of 205.3
billion Yuan (U.S.$24.7 billion).
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Foreign exchange reserves climbed from
U.S.$139.9 billion to U.S.$286.4 billion.
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In these five years,
China
invested 1.2343 trillion Yuan (U.S. $148.7 billion) in highway building,
which was equal to 1.7 times the figure for period from 1950 to 1997.
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The total length of highways open to
traffic increased from 1.23 million kilometers in 1997 to 1.76 million
K.M. in 2002, of which express ways increase from 4.771 K.M. to
25,200 KM, lifting China from 39th
to the second place in the world.
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Railway length increased from 65,969 KM
to 75,500 KM, over the years, construction of 5,944 KM of new railway
lines, of which4,603 KM are doubt track and 5,704 KM are electrified was
completed.
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A total of 50 airports were either newly
built or expanded.
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The number of fixed line and mobile phone
subscribes increased from 83.54 million to 421 million, ranking
China
first in the world.
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Six forest ecological projects
reforesting formerly cultivated land, protecting natural forests and
controlling the sources of dust storms affecting
Beijing on Tianjin- were called out in full.
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During this five years, an additional 27.87 million hectares of land was
covered with trees; 31.53 million hectares covered of hills were
cordoned off for afforest ration, and about 3.82 million hectares of
formerly cultivated lands were returned to forests.
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Soil erosion on 266,000 Sq K.M. of land and desertification on about 5.7
million hectares of land were brought under control.
* All
eligible urban residents were by our large provider for social security
programmes.
* New
co-operative medical care system in rural areas were launched.
* The
combine volume of imports and exports increased from U.S.$ 325.2 billion
in 1997 to U.S.$ 620.8 billion in 2002 raising China from the tenth to
the fifth place in the world.
* A
detailed map of rice genome was completed.
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Illiteracy among the young and middle-aged had been basically eliminated
accounted for 65 percent of Chinese population in 1997. The figure rose
to 91 percent in 2002.
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2002 the student population in institutions of higher learning was 16
million, 2.3 times the 1997 figure.
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Medical care continue to improve. Life expectancy reaching 71.8 years in
2002.
Prepared by E.A.Vidyaskera
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