In the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households), the investment in the primary industry was 900.4 billion yuan, up by 32.2 percent; that in the secondary industry was 15,867.2 billion yuan, up by 20.2 percent; and that in the tertiary industry was 19,715.9 billion yuan, up by 20.6 percent.

In 2012, the investment in real estate development was 7,180.4 billion yuan, up by 16.2 percent. Of this total, the investment in residential buildings reached 4,937.4 billion yuan, an increase of 11.4 percent, that in office buildings was 336.7 billion yuan, up by 31.6 percent, and that in buildings for commercial business was 931.2 billion yuan, up by 25.4 percent.

In 2012, the newly started construction of affordable housing projects in urban areas amounted to 7.81 million units (households), and the affordable housing projects in urban areas basically completed were 6.01 million units.

In 2012, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 21,030.7 billion yuan, a growth of 14.3 percent over the previous year, or a real growth of 12.1 percent after deducting price factors. An analysis on different areas showed that the retail sales of consumer goods in urban areas stood at 18,241.4 billion yuan, up by 14.3 percent, and that in rural areas reached 2,789.3 billion yuan, up by 14.5 percent. Grouped by consumption patterns, the income of retail sales of commodities was 18,685.9 billion yuan, up by 14.4 percent, and that of catering industry was 2,344.8 billion yuan, up by 13.6 percent.

Of the total retail sales of commodities by enterprises above designated size, the year-on-year growth of sales for motor vehicles was 7.3 percent, that for grain and oil was 19.9 percent, for meat and eggs 18.0 percent, for clothing 17.7 percent, for daily necessities 17.5 percent, for cultural and office goods 17.7 percent. The sales of telecommunication equipment increased by 28.9 percent. The growth of sales for cosmetics was 17.0 percent, for gold, silver and jewelry 16.0 percent, for traditional Chinese drugs and western drugs 23.0 percent, for electric and electronic appliances for household use and audio-video equipment 7.2 percent, for furniture 27.0 percent and building and decoration materials 24.6 percent.

VI. Foreign Economic Relations

The total value of imports and exports in 2012 reached 3,866.8 billion US dollars, up by 6.2 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the value of goods export was 2,048.9 billion US dollars, increased by 7.9 percent, and the value of goods import was 1,817.8 billion US dollars, up by 4.3 percent. The balance of imports and exports was (exports minus imports) 231.1 billion US dollars, an increase of 76.2 billion US dollars over the previous year.

The year 2012 witnessed the establishment of 24,925 enterprises with foreign direct investment in non-financial sectors, down by 10.1 percent over the previous year; and the foreign capital actually utilized was 111.7 billion US dollars, down by 3.7 percent.

In 2012, the overseas direct investment (non-financial sectors) by Chinese investors was 77.2 billion US dollars, up by 28.6 percent over the previous year.

In 2012, the accomplished business revenue through contracted overseas engineering projects was 116.6 billion US dollars, up by 12.7 percent, and the number of labor forces sent abroad through overseas labor contracts was 512 thousand, an increase of 13.3 percent.

VII. Transportation, Post, Telecommunications and Tourism

In 2012, the total freight traffic reached 41.2 billion tons, up by 11.5 percent over the previous year, and the freight flows were 17,314.5 billion ton-kilometers, grew by 8.7 percent. The volume of freight handled by ports above the designated size throughout the year totaled 9.74 billion tons, up 6.8 percent over the previous year, of which freight for foreign trade was 3.01 billion tons, up 8.8 percent. Container shipping of ports above the designated size reached 176.51 million standard containers, up by 8.1 percent.

In 2012, the total passenger traffic reached 37.9 billion persons, up by 7.6 percent over 2011, and the passenger flows were 3,336.9 billion person-kilometers, grew by 7.7 percent.

The total number of motor vehicles for civilian use reached 120.89 million (including 11.45 million tri-wheel motor vehicles and low-speed trucks) by the end of 2012, up 14.3 percent, of which private-owned vehicles numbered 93.09 million, up 18.3 percent. The total number of cars for civilian use stood at 59.89 million, up by 20.7 percent, of which private-owned cars numbered 53.08 million, up by 22.8 percent.

The turnover of post and telecommunication services[14] totaled 1,502.2 billion yuan, up 13.0 percent over the previous year. Of this total, post services accounted for 203.7 billion yuan, up 26.7 percent, and telecommunication services 1,298.5 billion yuan, up 11.1 percent. In post services, the number of mail delivery reached 7.074 billion, parcel delivery 69 million and express delivery 5.685 billion. In 2012, with an increase of 4.78 million lines of office switchboards, the total capacity stood at 439.06 million lines. The newly increased capacity of mobile phone switchboard[15] was 112.34 million lines with the total capacity reaching 1,828.70 million lines. The year also saw 278.15 million fixed telephone subscribers. This included 188.93 million urban subscribers and 89.22 million rural subscribers. Mobile phone users numbered 1,112.16 million by the end of 2012, with 125.90 million new subscribers in the year. Of this total, the number of 3G mobile phone users[16] reached 232.80 million. In total, the number of fixed and mobile phone users reached 1,390.31 million, an increase of 118.96 million as compared with that at the end of 2011. Phone coverage was 103.2 sets per 100 persons. The number of Internet users was 564 million, of which wide-band users was 530 million, and the coverage rate of Internet was 42.1 percent.

The year 2012 saw 2.96 billion domestic tourists, up 12.1 percent over the previous year. The revenue from domestic tourism totaled 2,270.6 billion yuan, up 17.6 percent. The number of inbound visitors to China totaled 132.41 million, a year-on-year decrease of 2.2 percent. Of this total, 27.19 million were foreigners, up 0.3 percent; and 105.21 million were Chinese compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, down by 2.9 percent. Of all the inbound tourists, overnight visitors counted 57.72 million, up 0.3 percent. Foreign exchange earnings from international tourism topped 50.0 billion US dollars, up 3.1 percent. The number of China’s outbound visitors totaled 83.18 million, up 18.4 percent. Of this total, 77.06 million were on private visits, a year-on-year rise of 20.2 percent, or 92.6 percent of all outgoing visitors.

VIII. Financial Intermediation

By the end of 2012, money supply of broad sense (M2) was 97.4 trillion yuan, reflecting a year-on-year increase of 13.8 percent. Money supply of narrow sense (M1) was 30.9 trillion yuan, up 6.5 percent. Cash in circulation (M0) was 5.5 trillion yuan, up 7.7 percent.

Savings deposit in Renminbi and foreign currencies in all items of financial institutions totaled 94.3 trillion yuan at the end of 2012, an increase of 11.6 trillion yuan. Of this total, the savings deposit in Renminbi stood at 91.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.8 trillion yuan. Loans in Renminbi and foreign currencies in all items of financial institutions reached 67.3 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.1 trillion yuan. Of this total, that in Renminbi was 63.0 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.2 trillion yuan. In 2012, the total social financing[17] reached 15.8 trillion yuan, or 2.9 trillion yuan more than that in 2011 on a comparable basis.

Loans in Renminbi from rural financial institutions (i.e. rural credit cooperatives, rural cooperation banks, and rural commercial banks) totaled 7,832.0 billion yuan by the end of 2012, an increase of 1,154.4 billion yuan as compared with the beginning of the year. The loans in Renminbi for consumption use from all financial institutions totaled 10,435.7 billion yuan, an increase of 1,565.6 billion yuan. Of all consumption loans, short-term loans for individuals totaled 1,936.7 billion yuan, an increase of 582.6 billion yuan, and medium- and long-term loans for individuals reached 8,499.0 billion yuan, an increase of 983.0 billion yuan.

Funds raised in 2012 by enterprises through issuing stocks and share rights on stock market amounted to 584.1 billion yuan, a decrease of 93.9 billion yuan from the previous year. Of this total, 154 A-shares were issued, receiving 103.4 billion yuan worth of capital altogether, a decrease of 179.1 billion yuan. The refinancing of A-shares (including rationing shares, public newly issued, nonpublic newly issued[18] and warrants) received 209.3 billion yuan worth of capital altogether, a decrease of 15.5 billion yuan from 2011. The listed companies financed 271.3 billion yuan through convertible bonds, bonds with attached warrants and corporate bonds, an increase of 100.6 billion yuan. A total of 74 growth enterprise board stocks were issued, receiving 35.1 billion yuan.

In 2012, 3.7 trillion yuan corporate debenture bonds[19] were issued, an increase of 1.4 trillion yuan over the previous year.

The premium[20] received by the insurance companies totaled 1,548.8 billion yuan in 2012, up 8.0 percent over the previous year. Of this total, life insurance premium amounted to 890.8 billion yuan, health and casualty insurance premium 124.9 billion yuan, and property insurance premium 533.1 billion yuan. Insurance companies paid an indemnity worth of 471.6 billion yuan, of which, life insurance indemnity was 150.5 billion yuan, health and casualty insurance indemnity 39.5 billion yuan, and property insurance indemnity 281.6 billion yuan.

IX. Education, Science & Technology and Culture

In 2012, the post-graduate education enrollment was 1.720 million students with 590 thousand new students and 486 thousand graduates. The general tertiary education enrollment was 23.913 million students with 6.888 million new students and 6.247 million graduates. Vocational secondary schools of various types had 21.203 million enrolled students, including 7.610 million new entrants, and 6.736 million graduates. Senior secondary schools had 24.672 million enrolled students, including 8.446 million new entrants, and 7.915 million graduates. Students enrolled in junior secondary schools totaled 47.631 million, including 15.708 million new entrants, and 16.608 million graduates. The country had a primary education enrollment of 96.959 million students, including 17.147 million new entrants, and 16.416 million graduates. There were 379 thousand students enrolled in special education schools, with 66 thousand new entrants and 49 thousand graduates. Kindergartens accommodated 36.858 million children.

The amount of expenditures on research and development activities (R&D) was worth 1,024.0 billion yuan in 2012, up 17.9 percent over 2011, accounting for 1.97 percent of GDP. Of this total, 49.8 billion yuan was appropriated for fundamental research programs. A total number of 1,701 projects under the National Key Technology Research and Development Program and 1,165 projects under the Hi-tech Research and Development Program (the 863 Program) were implemented. The year 2012 saw a total of 130 national engineering research centers, 128 national engineering laboratories, 149 national and local joint engineering research centers and 180 national and local joint engineering laboratories. The number of state validated enterprise technical centers reached 887 and the technical centers at the provincial level numbered 8,137. Venture capital investment plan[21] had been implemented to boost new emerging industries, accumulatively 102 venture investment enterprises were supported to be established with nearly 29 billion yuan, and 238 venture businesses were invested. Some 2,051 thousand patent applications were accepted from home and abroad, of which 1,886 thousand were domestic applications, accounting for 91.9 percent of the total. A total number of 653 thousand patent applications for new inventions were accepted, of which 523 thousand were from domestic applicants or 80.1 percent of the total. A total of 1,255 thousand patents were authorized in 2012, of which 1,144 thousand were domestic patents, accounting for 91.1 percent of the total. A total of 217 thousand patents for new inventions were authorized, of which 137 thousand were domestic ones, accounting for 63.2 percent. Till the end of year 2012, the number of patents in force was 3.509 million, of which 2.899 million patents were domestic ones, accounting for 82.6 percent; the number of patents in force for inventions was 875 thousand, of which 435 thousand were domestic ones, accounting for 49.7 percent. A total of 282 thousand technology transfer contracts were signed, representing 643.71 billion yuan in value, up 35.1 percent over the previous year. The year 2012 saw 19 times of successful launch of satellites. Shenzhou IX Spacecraft and Tiangong-1 Target Spacecraft completed the first space rendezvous and docking mission successfully in 2012. Beidou-2 Navigation Satellite System completed regional networking and started to offer services. The manned submersible Jiaolong achieved 7,000 meters sea trial test successfully.

By the end of 2012, there were altogether 28,128 laboratories for product inspection, including 509 national inspection centers. There were 173 organizations for product certification and management system certification, which accumulatively certified products in 105,224 enterprises. A total of 3,496 authorized measurement institutions enforced compulsory inspection on 62.67 million measurement instruments in the year. A total of 1,986 national standards were developed or revised in the year, including 1,375 new standards. There were 5,123 weather warning signals sent by national and provincial meteorological stations, and 4,049 weather alerts. There were 1,687 seismological monitor stations and 32 regional seismological monitor network stations. The number of oceanic observation stations was 79. Mapping and geographic information departments published 1,662 maps.

At the end of 2012, there were 2,089 art-performing groups, 2,838 museums, 2,975 public libraries and 3,286 culture centers in the cultural system throughout China. There were totally 2,579 radio and television broadcasting institutions of various types. Subscribers to cable television programs numbered 214 million. Subscribers to digital cable television programs were 143 million. Radio broadcasting and television broadcasting coverage rates were 97.5 percent and 98.2 percent respectively. Totally 17,703 episodes of 506 TV series and 222,838 minutes of TV cartoons were made in 2012. The country produced 745 feature movies and 148 science, educational, documentary, cartoon and special movies[22]. A total of 47.6 billion copies of newspapers and 3.4 billion copies of magazines were issued, and 8.1 billion copies of books were published. By the end of the year, there were 4,107 archives in China and 116.62 million documents were made accessible to the public.

In 2012, Chinese athletes won 107 world championships on 24 sports events and broke 14 world records. On the London Olympic Games, China won 88 medals with 38 gold medals, winning the second place in the gold medal tally and overall medal table. On London Para Olympic Games, Chinese athletes won 95 gold medals, topping both the gold medal tally and overall medal standings.

X. Public Health and Social Services

By the end of 2012, there were 961,830 medical and health institutions in China, including 23,005 general hospitals, 37,128 township health centers, 33,646 community health service centers, 179,644 clinics, 663,355 village clinics, 3,506 epidemic disease prevention centers and 3,037 health monitoring institutions. There were 6.50 million health workers in China, including 2.52 million practicing doctors and assistant practicing doctors and 2.42 million registered nurses. The medical and health institutions in China possessed 5.57 million beds, of which, general hospitals possessed 4.03 million and township health centers had 1.06 million. In 2012, 3.217 million people were infected by A or B class infectious diseases, with 16,721 reported deaths. The incidence of infectious disease was 238.76 per 100 thousand, with the death rate standing at 1.24 per 100 thousand.

By the end of 2012, there were all together 47 thousand social welfare institutions[23] of various types providing 4.298 million beds, accommodating 2,967 thousand inmates. Of this total, 42 thousand were elder-caring organizations providing 3.810 million beds, accommodating 2,620 thousand inmates. There were 16 thousand community service centers and 72 thousand community service stations. By the end of 2012, minimum living allowances were granted to 21.425 million urban residents and 53.409 million rural residents, and 5.459 million rural residents received five-guarantees supporting[24]. Medical aid was provided to 6,664 thousand needy people in cities and 19,084 thousand needy people in rural areas. Another 11.589 million needy people in urban areas were financed to participate in urban medical insurance system, and 39.151 million needy people in rural areas were financed to participate in new type of rural cooperative medical care system.

XI. Population, Living Conditions and Social Security

By the end of 2012, the total number of Chinese population at the mainland reached 1,354.04 million, an increase of 6.69 million over that at the end of 2011. Of this total, urban population numbered 711.82 million, accounting for 52.6 percent, or 1.3 percentage points higher than that at the end of the previous year. The year 2012 saw 16.35 million births, a crude birth rate of 12.10 per thousand, and 9.66 million deaths, or a crude death rate of 7.15 per thousand. The natural growth rate was 4.95 per thousand. The sex ratio at birth was 117.70. The number of population aged 0-14 (under the age of 15) was 222.87 million, accounting for 16.5 percent of the total population, which was 0.01 percentage point higher than that at the end of 2011; the number of working-age population aged 15-59 (under the age of 60) was 937.27 million, accounting for 69.2 percent of the total, or 0.60 percentage point lower, which was a decrease of 3.45 million compared with that at the end of 2011; and the number of population aged 60 and over reached 193.90 million, accounting for 14.3 percent of the total, which was 0.59 percentage point higher than that at the end of 2011. The number of population that are separated from their household registration[25] reached 279 million, of which 236 million were floating population[26].

In 2012, the annual per capita net income of rural households was 7,917 yuan, up by 13.5 percent, or a real increase of 10.7 percent over the previous year when the factors of price increase were deducted. The median of per capita net income[27] of rural households was 7,019 yuan, up by 13.3 percent. The annual per capita disposable income of urban households was 24,565 yuan, up by 12.6 percent, or a real increase of 9.6 percent. The median of per capita disposable income of urban households was 21,986 yuan, up by 15.0 percent. The proportion of expenditure on food to the total expenditure of households was 39.3 percent for rural households and 36.2 percent for urban households.

At the end of 2012, a total of 303.79 million people participated in urban basic pension program for staff and workers, a year-on-year increase of 19.88 million. Of this total, 229.78 million were staff and workers, and 74.01 million were retirees. A total of 483.70 million people participated in social pension insurance program for urban and rural residents, an increase of 151.87 million, of whom 130.75 million received pension. A total of 535.89 million people participated in urban basic health insurance program, an increase of 62.46 million, of whom 264.67 million people participated in urban basic health insurance program for staff and workers[28], and 271.22 million people participated in programs for residents. A total of 49.96 million people participated in urban basic health insurance programs were migrant workers coming from the rural areas, an increase of 3.55 million. Some 152.25 million people participated in unemployment insurance programs, an increase of 9.08 million. The number of people receiving unemployment insurance payment stood at 2.04 million. A total of 189.93 million people participated in work accident insurance, an increase of 12.97 million, of which 71.73 million were migrant workers coming from the rural areas, an increase of 3.45 million. A total of 154.45 million people participated in maternity insurance programs, an increase of 15.53 million. By the end of the year 2012, a total of 2,566 counties (cities, districts) conducted the new cooperative medical care system in rural areas, with a participation rate of 98.1 percent. In the first nine months of 2012, the total expenditure[29] of the new cooperative medical care system in rural areas reached 171.7 billion yuan, benefiting 1.15 billion people. In 2012, according to the rural poverty line of annual per capita net income below 2,300 yuan (2010 constant prices), the population in poverty in rural areas numbered 98.99 million at the end of the year, or 23.39 million less than that at the end of 2011.

XII. Resources, Environment and Work Safety

In 2012, the total supply of state-owned land for construction use[30] was 690 thousand hectares, a growth of 17.5 percent over the previous year. Of this total, that for mining storage, 203 thousand hectares, up 5.6 percent; for real estate[31], 160 thousand hectares, down 4.2 percent; and for infrastructure facilities, 327 thousand hectares, up 43.4 percent.

The total stock of water resources in 2012 was 2,841.0 billion cubic meters. The annual average precipitation was 676 millimeters. At the end of 2012, 422 large reservoirs in China stored 212.0 billion cubic meters of water, or 16.4 billion cubic meters more than that at the end of 2011. Total water consumption maintained the same level as 2011 and reached 611.0 billion cubic meters, of which water consumption for living purposes rose by 3.2 percent, for industrial use dropped by 0.8 percent, for agricultural use down by 0.5 percent, and for ecological water supplement grew by 7.2 percent. Water consumption for every 10 thousand yuan worth of GDP produced[32] was 129 cubic meters, a decline of 7.2 percent. Water consumption for every 10 thousand yuan worth of industrial value added was 76 cubic meters, down by 8.0 percent. Per capita water consumption was 452 cubic meters, down by 0.4 percent.

In 2012, a total of 6.01 million hectares of forests were planted, of which 4.10 million were afforested by manpower. Some 2.74 million hectares were afforested through key afforestation projects, accounting for 45.6 percent of the total planted area of the year. By the end of 2012, there were 2,640 natural reserves including 363 national ones. A total of 42 thousand square kilometers of eroded land was put under treatment programs, and 26 thousand square kilometers of land was closed for nurture and protection in areas suffering water and soil erosion. By the end of 2012, the total forest areas with set ownership were 180 million hectares, of this total, 171.87 million hectares obtained the forest ownership certifications.

The average temperature in 2012 was 9.4℃. Typhoon hit China 7 times in 2012.

Preliminary estimation indicated that the total energy consumption in 2012 amounted to 3.62 billion tons of standard coal equivalent, up 3.9 percent over 2011. The consumption of coal grew by 2.5 percent; crude oil, up 6.0 percent; natural gas, up 10.2 percent; and electric power, up 5.5 percent. The national energy consumption per 10,000 yuan worth of GDP went down by 3.6 percent.

Monitoring of water quality on 571 sections of the 7 major water systems in China showed that 63.9 percent of the sections met the national quality standard from Grade I to Grade III for surface water; and 12.4 percent were worse than Grade V. Generally, the water quality in the 7 major water systems kept stable with light pollution.

Monitoring of oceanic water quality at 301 offshore monitoring stations indicated that oceanic water met the national quality standard Grade I and II in 69.4 percent of the stations; water quality at 6.6 percent of the stations met Grade III standard; and water of Grade IV or inferior quality was found at 23.9 percent of the stations.

Of the 316 cities subject to noise monitoring program, 3.5 percent enjoyed fairly good environment, 75.9 percent had good environment, 20.3 percent had light noise pollution, and 0.3 percent experienced medium noise pollution in downtown areas.

At the end of 2012, the daily treatment capacity of city sewage reached 118.58 million cubic meters, up 4.9 percent over that in 2011. City sewage treatment rate was 84.9 percent, up 1.3 percentage points. The floor space with central heating systems in urban area amounted to 4.92 billion square meters, up 3.8 percent. Greenery coverage reached 35.5 percent of the urban area, up 0.2 percentage point.

In 2012, natural disasters hit 24.96 million hectares of crops, down by 23.1 percent, of which 1.83 million hectares of crops were demolished, down by 36.9 percent. Flood and waterlog caused a direct economic loss of 166.1 billion yuan, an increase of 31.8 percent. Drought caused a direct economic loss of 24.4 billion yuan, down by 73.7 percent. Disasters from low temperature, frost and snow made a total direct economic loss of 6.1 billion yuan, down by 79.0 percent. Oceanic disasters caused a direct economic loss of 15.5 billion yuan, up by 150 percent. The country recorded 16 earthquakes with magnitude 5 and over, 11 of which caused disasters, causing a direct economic loss of 8.3 billion yuan. The year 2012 witnessed 3,966 forest fires, down by 28.5 percent.

The death toll due to work accidents amounted to 71,983 people, a year-on-year decrease of 4.7 percent. The death toll from work accidents every 100 million yuan worth of GDP was 0.142 people, a decline of 17.9 percent. Work accidents in industrial, mining and commercial enterprises caused 1.64 deaths out of every 100 thousand employees, down 12.8 percent. The road traffic death toll per 10 thousand vehicles was 2.5 persons, down 10.7 percent. The death toll for producing one million tons of coal in coalmines was 0.374 person, down 33.7 percent.

Notes:

1.    All figures in this Communiqué are preliminary statistics. Statistics in this Communiqué do not include Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan Province. Due to the rounding-off reasons, the subentries may not add up to the aggregate totals.

2.    Gross domestic product (GDP) and value added as quoted in this Communiqué are calculated at current prices, whereas their growth rates are at constant prices.

3.    The producer prices for farm products refer to the prices of farm products sold directly by producers.

4.    The number of migrant workers includes those who obtain employment outside their villages and towns for more than six months in the year and those who do non-agricultural work in their villages and towns for more than six months in the year.

5.    Public revenue refers to the revenue with taxes as the main body which was collected by the government as social manager by virtue of state political rights.

6.    In the figure, the public revenue from 2008 to 2011 was final accounts, and the revenue of 2012 was executive accounts.

7.    From 2012, the NBS implemented the new Industrial Classification for National Economic Activities, adjusting the classification of industry into 41 branches from the original 39. Therefore, the industrial classification for the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) is adjusted according to the new standard.

8.    Six highly energy-consuming industries are: manufacture of raw chemical materials and chemical products, manufacture of non-metallic mineral products, smelting and pressing of ferrous metals, smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metals, oil processing, coking and nuclear fuel processing, and production and supply of electricity and heat.

9.    Output of rolled steel includes duplicated counting of rolled steel as intermediate inputs used for producing other types of rolled steel.

10.  The national total of fixed assets investment is larger than the aggregate sum by adding up the subtotals of fixed assets investment in the eastern areas, central areas, western areas and northeast areas due to the fact that some of the trans-regional investments are not covered by regional figures. The eastern areas include 10 provinces and municipalities: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong and Hainan; central areas cover 6 provinces: Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan; western areas include 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipality: Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang; northeastern areas include 3 provinces: Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

11.  The investment in real estate includes the investment made in real estate development, construction of buildings for own use, property management, intermediary services and other real estate development.

12.  High-speed railways refer to railways with a highest operating speed reaching 200km/h or above.

13.  Transaction value of land refers to the final value for real estate development enterprises to conduct the transaction of land ownership, which is different from the value of land purchased.

14.  The turnover of post and telecommunication services is calculated at constant prices of 2010.

15.  The capacity of mobile phone switchboard refers to the number of maximum concurrent users calculated by the mobile phone switchboard according to certain calling model and switchboard processing capacity.

16.  3G refers to the third generation cellular mobile communication system (3rd-generation, abbreviated as 3G), 3G mobile phone users refer to those who have records in the billing system and use 3G network resources at the end of the reporting period.

17.  Social financing refers to the total funds raised by real economy from the financial system over a period of time. It is an increment.

18.  Non-public new issue, also called as targeted placement, excludes non-cash assets subscription.

19.  Corporate debenture bonds include debt financing instruments of non-financial businesses, enterprise bonds, corporate bonds and convertible bonds.

20.  The original premium income received by the insurance companies refers to the premium income from original insurance contracts confirmed by the insurance companies.

21.  Venture capital investment plan for new emerging industries refers to the activities in which the central government special funds, together with the local government funds and social funds set up venture investment enterprises, or invest in the venture businesses in the form of equity investment to foster or promote the development of emerging industries.

22.  Special movies refer to those using different display modes in terms of projection techniques, equipment and program as compared with the ordinary cinemas, such as IMAX movies, 3D movies, 4D movies, multidimensional movies and fulldome movies.

23.  Social service institutions with accommodation include adoption agencies as well as aid agencies, community agencies, military sanatoriums, military supply stations and etc.

24.  Five-guarantees supporting in rural areas refers to villagers who are aged, disabled or under the age of 16 and have no ability to work, no source of income and no statutory obligors to provide for them, bring them up or support them, or whose statutory obligors have no ability to provide for them, bring them up or support them, shall enjoy life-care and physical care in terms of food, clothing, housing, medical care and funeral expenses.

25.  Population live in places other than their household registration refer to those whose current residences are different from the registered towns or streets which they have left for more than half a year.

26.  Floating population refer to the population who live in places other than their household registration, excluding those with current residence different from the place of their household registration in the same city. Population live in places other than their household registration in the same city refer to those whose current residence are different from the registered towns or streets in the same district or in different districts in the same municipality or prefecture-level city.

27.  The median of per capita income refers to the per capita income of household lied in the middle of all surveyed households which are ranked from low to high based on per capita income level.

28.  The number of people covered in urban basic health insurance programs for staff and workers includes staff and workers and retirees insured. The urban basic health insurance programs for residents cover the urban non-employed residents who are not insured by the urban basic health insurance programs for staff and workers.

29.  According to the statistical system of the Ministry of Health, the total expenditure of new cooperative medical care system in rural areas and the number of people benefited only cover the first nine months of the year.

30.  Total supply of state-owned land for construction use refers to the supply of state-owned land for construction use with the land-used right sold, allocated or leased to units or individuals by the municipal or county governments according to annual land supply plan and in line with relevant laws in the reporting period.

31.  Land used for real estate refers to the sum of land used for commercial service and for residence.

32.  The consumption of water and energy for producing 10 thousand yuan worth of GDP and water consumption for every 10 thousand yuan worth of industrial value added are calculated at 2010 constant prices.

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In this communiqué, data of newly increased employed people, unemployment rate through unemployment registration and social security are from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security; data of foreign exchange reserves and exchange rate are from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange; financial data are from the Ministry of Finance; data of output of aquatic products are from the Ministry of Agriculture; data of production of timber, forestry and forest fires are from the State Forestry Administration; data of areas with effective irrigation system and water resources are from the Ministry of Water Resources; data of newly increased power generating capacity and newly increased power transformer equipment with a capacity of over 220 kilovolts are from China Electricity Council; data of new railways put into operation, double-track railways put into operation, electrified railways put into cooperation and railway transportation are from the Ministry of Railways; data of new highways, new cargo-handling capacity of berths for over 10000-tonnage ships, highway transportation, waterway transportation and volume of freight handled by ports are from the Ministry of Transport; data of new lines of optical-fiber cables, new capacity of mobile phone switchboards, the number of phone users and internet users etc. are from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; data of indemnificatory housing, treatment of city sewage, area with central heating systems and greenery coverage are from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development; data of imports and exports of goods are from the General Administration of Customs; data of foreign direct investment, overseas direct investment, overseas contracted projects and overseas labor contracts are from the Ministry of Commerce; data of civil aviation are from the General Administration of Civil Aviation; data of pipelines are from China National Petroleum Corporation and China Petrochemical Corporation; data of motor vehicles for civilian use and the road traffic death toll are from the Ministry of Public Security; data of post services are from the State Post Bureau; data of tourism are from the National Tourism Administration and the Ministry of Public Security; data of money and finance and corporate debenture bonds are from the People’s Bank of China; data of listed companies are from the China Securities Regulatory Commission; data of insurances are from China Insurance Regulatory Commission; data of education are from the Ministry of Education; data of national technology research and development program and technology transfer contracts are from the Ministry of Science and Technology; data of national engineering research centers, enterprise technical centers and venture capital investment for boosting new emerging industries are from the National Development and Reform Commission; data of patents are from the State Intellectual Property Office; data of satellite launch are from the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense; data of quality inspection, development and revision of national standards are from the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine; data of weather warning, average temperature and typhoon are from the China Meteorological Administration; data of earthquakes are from the China Seismological Bureau; data of mapping are from the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping; data of oceanic observation stations, direct economic loss caused by oceanic disasters are from the State Oceanic Administration; data of art-performing groups, museums, public libraries and culture centers are from the Ministry of Culture; data of radio, television and movies are from the Administration of Radio, Film and Television; data of newspapers, magazines and books are from the General Administration of Press and Publication; data of documents are from the State Archives Administration; data of sports are from the General Administration of Sport; data of Para Olympic Games are from the China Disabled Persons’ Federation; data of health and new cooperative medical care system in rural areas are from the Ministry of Health; data of social services, minimum living allowances, five-guarantees supporting, areas of crops hit by natural disasters, direct economic loss caused by flood and waterlog, direct economic loss caused by drought, direct economic loss caused by low temperature, frost and snow are from the Ministry of Civil Affairs; data of supply of state-owned land for construction use are from the Ministry of Land and Resources; data of natural reserves and environment monitoring are from the Ministry of Environmental Protection; data of work safety are from the State Administration of Work Safety; all the other data are from the National Bureau of Statistics.