8-10 Government Expenditure on Scientific Research
(100 million yuan)
		Expense on	Operating	Expenses for Cap-	Other S&T
Year	Total	S&T Promotion	Expenses for	ital Construction	Operating
			Sciences	of S&T Institutes	Expenses
1953	0.56	0.27		0.29
1954	1.22	1.10		0.12
1955	2.13	1.92		0.21
1956	5.23	3.53		1.70
1957	5.23	2.98		2.25
1958	11.24	7.25		3.99
1959	19.15	12.33		6.82
1960	33.81	22.68		11.13
1961	19.49	15.54		3.95
1962	13.73	10.62		3.11
1963	18.61	13.85		4.76
1964	24.27	17.62		6.65
1965	27.17	20.27		6.90
1966	25.06	19.26		5.80
1967	15.35	13.56		1.79
1968	14.80	11.29		3.51
1969	24.15	10.74	0.07	4.56	8.78
1970	29.96	14.78	1.68	4.05	9.45
1971	37.68	19.95	2.50	4.27	10.96
1972	36.10	18.71	3.44	4.49	9.46
1973	34.59	19.41	5.09	3.07	7.02
1974	34.65	20.59	7.13	3.05	3.88
1975	40.31	24.59	9.49	2.67	3.56
1976	39.25	21.65	10.34	4.17	3.09
1977	41.48	22.35	11.64	3.90	3.59
1978	52.89	25.47	15.46	6.66	5.30
1979	62.29	28.41	18.60	9.40	5.88
1980	64.59	27.57	19.63	11.27	6.12
1981	61.58	24.12	21.45	10.46	5.55
1982	65.29	26.38	22.37	11.17	5.37
1983	79.10	35.51	25.13	11.90	6.56
1984	94.72	42.32	30.09	14.74	7.57
1985	102.59	44.35	32.00	18.83	7.41
1986	112.57	49.63	34.56	20.30	8.08
1987	113.79	50.60	29.50	22.87	10.82
1988	121.12	54.05	35.65	19.70	11.72
1989	127.87	59.13	38.45	17.91	12.38
1990	139.12	63.48	44.44	17.47	13.73
1991	160.69	73.32	54.15	18.40	14.82
1992	189.26	89.41	57.16	24.55	18.14
1993	225.61	106.56	65.59	33.95	19.51
1994	268.25	114.22	87.90	36.06	30.07
1995	302.36	136.02	96.86	38.00	31.48
1996	348.63	155.01	109.66	48.55	35.41
1997	408.86	189.97	127.12	42.74	49.03
1998	438.60	189.90	151.92	47.28	49.50
1999		272.80	168.06	52.89
a) Expense on S&T Promotion from 1953 to 1968 include the operating expenses for science.