12-3 Basic Conditions of Rural Grassroots Units
Year	Number of Township and Town Governments		Number of Villagers’ Committees	Number of Households (10 000 households)	Rural Population (10 000 persons)	Number of Rural Laborers (10 000 persons)
		# Town Governments					Male	Female
1978	52781		690000	17347.0	80320.0	30638.0	16548.4	14089.6
1980	54183		710000	17673.0	81096.0	31835.9	17379.7	14456.2
1985	91138	7956	940617	19077.0	84419.7	37065.1	20153.2	16911.9
1987	68296	10280	830302	20168.0	85713.1	39000.4	21212.5	17787.9
1988	56002	10609	740375	20859.0	83725.4	40066.7	21727.7	18339.0
1989	55764	11060	746432	21504.0	87831.0	40938.8	22218.3	18720.5
1990	55838	11392	743278	22237.0	89590.3	42009.5	22551.8	19457.7
1991	55542	11882	804153	22566.0	90525.1	43092.5	23121.9	19970.6
1992	48250	14135	806032	22849.0	91154.4	43801.6	23449.9	20351.7
1993	48179	15223	802352	22984.0	91333.5	44255.7	23653.1	20602.6
1994	48075	16433	802052	23165.0	91526.2	44654.1	23854.1	20800.1
1995	47136	17282	740150	23282.0	91674.6	45041.8	24037.4	21004.4
1996	45484	17998	740128	23437.6	91941.0	45288.0	24154.9	21133.1
1997	44689	18402	739447	23406.2	91524.7	45961.7	24500.6	21462.1
Beijing	254	115	4071	125.0	365.3	161.2	81.4	79.8
Tianjin	225	94	3877	112.4	389.7	173.0	92.8	80.2
Hebei	1970	851	50201	1394.4	5313.8	2613.4	1405.6	1207.8
Shanxi	1936	526	32365	609.3	2284.2	964.0	536.1	427.9
Inner Mongolia	1553	291	13962	346.1	1412.3	605.4	350.4	255.1
Liaoning	1198	592	16372	660.4	2298.8	921.5	520.9	400.6
Jilin	911	445	10112	354.0	1430.0	616.2	359.5	256.7
Heilongjiang	1161	417	14410	427.8	1842.9	688.1	427.2	261.0
Shanghai	207	198	2920	139.0	399.3	242.6	120.5	122.1
Jiangsu	1979	1017	35856	1505.4	5277.0	2750.4	1412.0	1338.4
Zhejiang	1841	993	43222	1067.0	3585.7	2099.6	1142.1	957.6
Anhui	1867	880	30726	1255.6	4999.4	2674.8	1429.0	1245.8
Fujian	973	592	14960	617.0	2647.5	1181.4	639.6	541.8
Jiangxi	1731	563	20752	714.0	3208.5	1550.5	810.7	739.8
Shandong	2375	1396	87762	1984.0	7036.6	3588.7	1915.7	1673.0
Henan	2147	698	48357	1890.0	7716.6	4015.2	2112.9	1902.3
Hubei	1395	837	32704	992.0	4003.0	1783.5	938.9	844.6
Hunan	2299	951	47544	1437.0	5333.5	2774.7	1506.6	1268.1
Guangdong	1589	1554	23153	1173.4	5261.2	2627.8	1363.5	1264.3
Guangxi	1360	686	14822	859.6	3921.6	2032.3	1066.4	966.0
Hainan	308	203	2684	101.4	486.5	209.7	107.2	102.6
Chongqing	1440	649	20853	708.6	2452.8	1320.9	706.9	614.0
Sichuan	4981	1665	55024	1951.4	6940.9	3823.6	2007.3	1816.3
Guizhou	1464	676	25742	698.2	3000.6	1646.0	858.4	787.6
Yunnan	1574	399	13424	794.4	3366.3	1884.0	971.9	912.1
Tibet	916	35	7803	37.0	214.0	97.8	49.1	49.7
Shaanxi	1968	685	32423	682.6	2755.3	1342.1	737.4	604.7
Gansu	1533	181	17774	435.4	1993.5	900.4	472.8	427.6
Qinghai	432	28	4046	65.7	328.3	161.4	82.9	78.5
Ningxia	299	60	2592	80.8	371.8	176.6	92.5	84.1
Xinjiang	803	125	8934	187.3	887.7	334.9	182.7	152.2

a) Total rural population refers to persons residing and registered in rural areas. This indicator is calculated on the basis of the 1964 town classification standards which includes rural population in what are now established towns. Therefore, the population figures shown here are larger than the rural population shown in Chapter 3.