8-17 Government Expenditure and Ratio of Central and Local Government
					Ratio (%)
	Total
Year	Expenditure	Central	Local	Central	Local
	(100 million yuan)	Government	Government	Government	Government
1978	1122.09	532.12	589.97	47.4	52.6
1980	1228.83	666.81	562.02	54.3	45.7
1985	2004.25	795.25	1209.00	39.7	60.3
1989	2823.78	888.77	1935.01	31.5	68.5
1990	3083.59	1004.47	2079.12	32.6	67.4
1991	3386.62	1090.81	2295.81	32.2	67.8
1992	3742.20	1170.44	2571.76	31.3	68.7
1993	4642.30	1312.06	3330.24	28.3	71.7
1994	5792.62	1754.43	4038.19	30.3	69.7
1995	6823.72	1995.39	4828.33	29.2	70.8
1996	7937.55	2151.27	5786.28	27.1	72.9
1997	9233.56	2532.50	6701.06	27.4	72.6
1998	10798.18	3125.60	7672.58	28.9	71.1
1999	13187.67	4152.33	9035.34	31.5	68.5
2000	15886.50	5519.85	10366.65	34.7	65.3
2001	18902.58	5768.02	13134.56	30.5	69.5
2002	22053.15	6771.70	15281.45	30.7	69.3
2003	24649.95	7420.10	17229.85	30.1	69.9
a) The expenditure of the central and local governments refers to expenditure actually collected by the central and local governments.
b) Expenditure in this table does not include the payment of the principal and interest of domestic and foreign debts and the expenditure for capital
construction using foreign loans.