Mr. Xie Fuzhan Attending the 38th Session of the Statistical Commission of the United Nations
The 38th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission was held at United Nations Headquarters,
When the Session opened on February 27, Mr. Xie Fuzhan was elected as Vice Chairman of the Commission. The Bureau of the Commission also included Mr. Gilberto Calvillo Vives (
(Mr. Xie Fuzhan headed the Chinese Statistical Delegation to attend the meeting)
During the meeting, the Chinese Delegation made extensive contacts with representatives from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), World Bank (WB), International Monetary Fund (IMF), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and other international organizations, and those from
Mr. Xie Fuzhan was invited to make a briefing on
The United Nations Statistical Commission was established in 1947,
(The NBS provided the exhibits on Census)
The 38th Session deliberated and decided on the following subjects: education statistics, population and housing censuses, disability measurement, ICT statistics, agricultural statistics, national accounts, integrated economic statistics, environmental accounting, international economic and social classifications; management of national statistical offices: access to microdata, development indicators, statistical capacity-building, International Comparison Program (ICP) and other issues.
The session also took notice of the progresses of other subjects: migration statistics, health statistics, industrial statistics, distributive trade statistics, energy statistics, finance statistics, price statistics, coordination of statistical activities, PARIS21 Report, and the opening standards of exchange and sharing of data and metadata.
Messrs. Li Qiang, Xian Zude, Du Weiqun, Wong Weng Sang, Eric (
Attachment:
Statement by Mr. Xie Fuzhan, Commissioner, National Bureau of Statistics of China
on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the United Nations Statistical Commission
Mr. Chairman,
I sincerely congratulate you to be elected as the Chairman of the United Nations Statistical Commission. I wish that this Session would be a great success under your leadership.
In 1946, a small but foresighted group of representatives gathered here in the
Sixty years ago, the entire world had just got out of the fire of the War and had many important things to do. However, those representatives took statistics as a priority and made profound recommendations which led to the establishment of the Commission. I am feeling proud of
Over the past 60 years, the Commission has made unparalleled contributions to the development of international statistics as well as national statistics, and further to the understanding of all the nations of the world with the common language of statistics.
After 60 years, today’s statistics is an indispensable part of the political, economic and social life in all countries and will play a more important role in the future.
In the process from 60 years ago to now, and further to the future, the Commission has been and will be the leading entity of the world statistical system. By reviewing the development and wide applications of statistics, we should congratulate the Commission for its great achievements, and we should pay our deep respect for those who have made all this possible.
I hope that the Commission will take more effective actions to make further progress of global statistics.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.