8-11  Government Expenditure and Ratio of Central and Local Governments
 
Year Total     Ratio (%)
Expenditure  Central Local Central Local
(100 million yuan) Government Governments Government Governments
           
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
2004 28486.89 7894.08 20592.81 27.7 72.3
           
           
a) The expenditure of the central and local governments refers to expenditure actually collected by the central and local governments.
b) Expenditures before 2000 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. Expenditures of central government and local governments since 2000 include all payment for the 
    principal and interest of domestic and foreign debts.