2-9 Twenty Years’ Main Indicators and Growth Rates on National Economic and Social Development since Reform and Opening

Continued Table 1

 

 

 

Item

1952

1978

1997

Average Annual

Growth Rate

1953-1978

1979-1997

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sugar Cane

711.6

2111.6

7889.7

4.3

7.2

Beet Roots

47.9

270.2

1496.8

6.9

9.4

Tea

8.2

26.8

61.3

4.7

4.5

Fruits

244.3

657.0

5089.3

3.9

11.4

Meat

338.5

856.3

5152.1

3.6

9.9

Aquatic Products

167

465.5

3601.8

4.0

11.4

Industry

 

 

 

 

 

Gross industrial Output Value (100 million yuan)

349

4237

113733

11.4

14.9

Output of Major Industrial Products

 

 

 

 

 

Cloth (100 million meter)

38.3

110.3

248.8

4.2

4.4

Machine-Made Paper and Paperboards (10 000 tons)

37.0

439.0

2733.2

10.0

10.1

Sugar (10 000 tons)

45.0

227.0

702.6

6.4

6.1

Household Refrigerators (10 000 units)

 

2.80

1044.43

 

36.6

Television Sets (10 000 units)

 

51.73

3637.24

 

25.1

# Color Television Sets

 

0.38

2711.33

 

59.5

Household Washing Machines (10 000 units)

 

0.04

1254.48

 

72.4

Recorders (10 000 units)

 

4.70

8273.86

 

48.2

Cameras (10 000 units)

 

17.89

4686.89

 

34.1

Coal (100 million tons)

0.66

6.18

13.73

9.0

4.3

Crude Oil (10 000 tons)

44

10405

16074

23.4

2.3

Electricity (100 million kwh)

73

2566

11356

14.7

8.1

Steel (10 000 tons)

135

3178

10894

12.9

6.7

Steel Products (10 000 tons)

106

2208

9979

12.4

8.3

Cement (10 000 tons)

286

6524

51174

12.8

11.5

Transportation

 

 

 

 

 

Length of Transportation Routes

 

 

 

 

 

Length of Railways in Operation

2.29

4.86

5.76

2.9

0.9

Length of Highways

12.67

89.02

122.64

7.8

1.7

Length of Navigable Inland Waterway

9.50

13.60

10.98

1.4

-1.1

Length of Civil Aviation Routes

1.31

14.89

142.50

9.8

12.6

Length of Pipelines

 

0.83

2.04

 

4.8

Freight Traffic (10 000 tons)

31516

248946

1275802

8.3

9.0

Railways

13217

110119

169734

8.5

2.3

Highways

13159

85182

976536

7.4

13.7

Waterways

5141

43292

113406

8.5

5.2

Pipelines

 

10347

16002

 

2.3

Civil Aviation

0.2

6.4

124.7

14.3

16.9

Passenger Traffic (10 000 persons)

24518

253993

1325364

9.4

9.1

Railways

16352

81491

92578

6.4

0.7

Highways

4559

149229

1204583

14.4

11.6

Waterways

3605

23042

22573

7.4

-0.1

Civil Aviation

2

231

5630

20.0

18.3

Postal and Telecommunications Services

 

 

 

 

 

Number of Postal Bureaus

49541

49623

79273

 

2.5

Total Length of Post Road

1289727

4863282

5766054

5.2

0.9

Total Business Revenue (100 million yuan)

1.64

11.65

1773.29

7.8

23.1

Number of Letters Delivered (10 000 pieces)

8.09

28.35

68.55

4.9

4.8

Number of Newspapers and Magazines Distributed (10 000 copies)

1363

11250

21875

8.5

3.6

Capacity of Exchanges (10 000 lines)

47.1

405.9

11269.2

8.6

19.1

Urban Areas

39.5

174.9

8406.8

5.9

22.6

Rural Areas

7.6

230.9

2862.4

14.0

14.2

Number of Telephone Sets (10 000 units)

39.0

368.8

10111.1

9.0

19.0

Urban Areas

34.7

236.4

6745.2

7.7

19.3

Rural Areas

4.3

132.4

2042.6

14.1

15.5