8-11 Government Expenditure for Pensions and Social Welfare
						(100 million yuan)
		Pension for	Pension for	Social Welfare	Expenses on
Year	Total	Handicapped and	Retires	and Relief	Disaster	Others
		Bereaved Families		Funds	Relief
1952	2.95	1.23		0.66	1.06
1953	3.62	1.55		0.77	1.30
1954	6.04	1.76		1.08	3.20
1955	4.94	2.03		1.25	1.66
1956	5.67	1.75		1.61	2.31
1957	5.29	1.52		1.36	2.41
1958	3.22	1.20		1.15	0.87
1959	4.41	1.11		1.17	2.13
1960	7.94	1.46		2.15	4.33
1961	10.09	1.45		2.44	6.20
1962	8.14	1.73		2.39	4.02
1963	10.15	1.93		2.80	5.42
1964	17.04	2.06		2.87	12.11
1965	10.94	2.31		2.92	5.71
1966	9.21	2.27		3.19	3.75
1967	8.16	2.44		2.91	2.81
1968	5.61	1.97
1969	6.67	2.39
1970	6.53	2.67		3.86
1971	6.83	2.61		2.69	1.53
1972	8.15	2.88		2.95	2.32
1973	9.97	3.32		3.29	3.36
1974	9.16	3.49		3.40	2.27
1975	12.88	3.75		3.47	5.66
1976	24.07	4.15		3.86	16.06
1977	18.76	4.64		3.98	10.14
1978	18.91	2.93	2.34	4.62	9.02
1979	22.11	3.57	2.89	5.41	10.24
1980	20.31	4.51	3.41	5.36	7.03
1981	21.72	4.54	3.44	5.08	8.66
1982	21.43	4.86	3.48	5.45	7.64
1983	24.04	5.39	3.62	6.58	8.45
1984	25.16	6.20	3.64	7.92	7.40
1985	31.15	7.13	4.88	7.71	10.25	1.18
1986	35.58	8.77	5.77	8.69	10.64	1.71
1987	37.40	9.87	6.68	9.04	9.91	1.90
1988	41.77	11.32	7.59	9.73	10.64	2.49
1989	49.60	14.43	8.56	10.80	12.88	2.93
1990	55.04	16.61	9.60	12.07	13.33	3.43
1991	67.32	17.21	10.32	13.18	22.51	4.10
1992	66.45	18.45	12.40	14.36	15.89	5.35
1993	75.27	20.78	14.09	17.01	15.40	7.99
1994	95.14	24.78	20.12	20.55	19.42	10.27
1995	115.46	29.11	22.78	24.19	27.27	12.11
1996	128.03	32.78	10.67	28.98	39.06	16.54
1997	142.14	37.62	13.51	36.57	34.51	19.93
1998	171.26	40.38	16.24	35.29	52.32	27.03
1999	179.88	54.57	19.68	48.52	34.05	23.06
2000	213.03	59.72	23.72	59.71	28.73	41.15
a) Prior to 1978, the pension for retires was included in the pension for handicapped and bereaved families. Since 1996, the pension for retires had
excluded the local pension for retires which had been transferred to the pension of administration operation and run by the department of civil
affairs.
b) Since 1976, expense on disaster relief include the expense on earthquake relief.