8-12    Government Payment for the Principal and Interest of Debts
					(100 million yuan)
					Sinking Fund from the
					Excessive Part of
		Payment for	Payment for	Payment of the	the Revenue from
Year	Total	the Principal and	the Principal and	Interest of Loans	Borrowings minus
		Interest of	Interest of	from People's	the Expenditure
		Domestic Debts	Foreign Debts	Bank	for Debts.
1980	28.58		24.40	4.18
1985	39.56		32.59	6.97
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		3.41
2001	2007.73	1923.42	84.31
a) Since 2000, expenditure in this table refers to payment for the principal of debts.