The National Bureau
of Statistics (NBS) pronounced on October 14 that China's GDP
rose 9.3 percent in 2003 over that in 2002. The speed is 0.2
percent faster than it had been originally thought.
The national income, standing at 11.66 trillion yuan, increased
by 10 percent in 2003 than the previous year. The GDP registered
11.7252 trillion yuan which was 55.8 biliion yuan more than the
figure announced before.
The first, second and the tertiary industry valued 1.7092
trillion yuan, 6.1274 trillion yuan, and 3.8886 trillion yuan
respectively. The GDP based on the expenditure approach reached 12.
1511 trillion yuan.
The revised statistics also recorded 5.5567 trillion yuan worth
of fixed assets investment in 2003, 44.9 billion yuan higher than
the previously released data. The national revenue stood at 2.1717
trillion yuan while the expenditure amounted to 2.4650 trillion
yuan.
The state-owned sector and non state-owned sector above the
specific scale created production value of 14.2271 trillion yuan
and added value of 4.199 trillion yuan.
The architecture generated production value of 2.3084 trillion
yuan. More than 2.59 billion square meters of space is under
construction and more than 1.228 billion square meters have been
completed.
(China Daily October 17, 2004)