8-12 Government Payment for the Principal and Interest of Debts
					(100 million yuan)
Year		Payment for	Payment for	Payment of the	Sinking Fund from the
	Total	the Principal and	the Principal and	Interest of Loans	Excessive Part of
		Interest of	Interest of	from People's	the Revenue from
		Domestic Debts	Foreign Debts	Bank	Borrowings minus
					the Expenditure
					for Debts.
1950	0.03	0.03
1951	0.42	0.40	0.01	0.01
1952	3.92	0.58	0.23	3.11
1953	0.91	0.65	0.26
1954	2.21	0.89	1.32
1955	6.56	1.58	4.98
1956	7.22	1.25	5.97
1957	8.26	2.18	6.08
1958	9.04	1.81	7.23
1959	9.69	2.58	7.11
1960	10.46	3.73	6.73
1961	10.93	4.35	6.58
1962	10.37	3.95	6.42
1963	7.58	4.72	2.86
1964	5.23	4.27	0.96
1965	6.36	5.66	0.70
1966	3.91	3.91
1967	2.01	2.01
1968	2.00	2.00
1972	0.50	0.50
1973	0.50	0.50
1974	0.50	0.50
1980	28.58		24.40	4.18
1981	62.89		57.89	5.00
1982	55.52		49.62	5.90
1983	42.47		36.56	5.91
1984	28.90		22.73	6.17
1985	39.56		32.59	6.97
1986	50.17	7.98	34.50	7.69
1987	79.83	23.18	51.96	4.69
1988	76.76	28.44	42.59	5.73
1989	72.37	19.30	45.84	7.23
1990	190.07	113.42	68.21	8.44
1991	246.80	156.69	80.22	9.89
1992	438.57	342.42	80.26	15.89
1993	336.22	224.30	89.22	22.70
1994	499.36	364.96	107.17	27.23
1995	882.96	784.06	71.69	27.21
1996	1355.03	1266.29	60.76	27.98
1997	1918.37	1820.40	70.76	27.21
1998	2352.92	2245.79	76.60	30.53
1999	1910.53	1792.33	90.99	27.21	12.90
2000	1579.82	1552.21	27.61
a) Since 2000, expenditure in this table refers to payment for the principal of debts.