13-3  Basic Conditions of Rural Grass-root Unit
	Number of
Year	Township	Town	Number of	Number of	Rural	Number of
Region	and Town	Governments	Villager's	Households	Population	Rural Laborers	Male	Female
	Governments		Committees	(10 000	(10 000	(10 000
	(unit)		(unit)	households)	persons)	persons)
1978	52781		690388	17347.0	80320.0	30637.8	16548.4	14089.6
1980	54183		709820	17673.0	81096.0	31835.9	17379.7	14456.2
1985	72153	7956	940617	19077.0	84419.7	37065.1	20153.2	16911.9
1989	55764	11060	746432	21504.0	87831.0	40938.8	22218.3	18720.5
1990	55838	11392	743278	22237.0	89590.3	42009.5	22551.8	19457.7
1991	55542	11882	804153	22566.0	90525.1	43092.5	23121.9	19970.6
1992	48250	14135	806032	22849.0	91154.4	43801.6	23449.9	20351.7
1993	48179	15223	802352	22984.0	91333.5	44255.7	23653.1	20602.6
1994	48075	16433	802052	23165.0	91526.2	44654.1	23854.1	20800.0
1995	47136	17282	740150	23282.0	91674.6	45041.8	24037.4	21004.4
1996	45484	17998	740128	23437.6	91941.0	45288.0	24154.9	21133.1
1997	44689	18402	739447	23406.2	91524.7	46234.3	24633.4	21600.9
1998	45462	19060	739980	23678.0	91960.1	46432.3	24733.1	21699.2
1999	44741	19184	737429	23810.5	92216.3	46896.5	24995.7	21900.8
2000	43735	19692	734715	24148.7	92819.7	47962.1	25517.8	22444.3
2001	40161	19555	709257	24432.2	93382.9	48228.9	25685.4	22543.5
2002	39054	19811	694515	24569.4	93502.5	48526.9	25850.1	22676.7
2003	38028	19588	678589	24793.1	93750.6	48971.0	26121.0	22850.0
2004	36952	19171	652718	24971.4	94253.7	49695.3	26525.8	23169.5
2005	35509	18888	640139	25222.6	94907.5	50387.3	26930.6	23456.7
Beijing	184	143	3964	142.2	381.8	184.0	95.8	88.2
Tianjin	140	120	3821	119.8	397.5	178.5	97.8	80.7
Hebei	1962	944	49678	1448.6	5422.3	2805.9	1504.1	1301.8
Shanxi	1192	475	28323	638.4	2354.9	1035.7	573.6	462.1
Inner Mongolia	964	411	12129	351.4	1343.9	690.8	390.4	300.4
Liaoning	993	611	11920	695.6	2331.4	1113.5	618.5	495.0
Jilin	624	429	9375	383.7	1443.6	685.2	391.1	294.1
Heilongjiang	878	448	8952	494.0	1917.3	948.9	545.1	403.9
Shanghai	103	100	1875	111.1	338.2	243.5	126.2	117.3
Jiangsu	1092	978	18282	1593.2	5322.5	2662.5	1384.6	1277.9
Zhejiang	1251	758	34515	1224.6	3790.5	2298.5	1231.7	1066.9
Anhui	1466	915	24076	1346.1	5241.4	2939.2	1574.2	1365.0
Fujian	934	593	14630	682.2	2667.0	1313.0	708.2	604.9
Jiangxi	1435	772	17233	795.3	3298.5	1638.8	861.1	777.7
Shandong	1423	1146	83483	2050.4	7030.1	3782.2	2015.3	1767.0
Henan	2008	776	48145	2025.7	8000.7	4752.4	2517.5	2234.9
Hubei	954	737	26682	1016.4	3993.6	1932.8	1027.3	905.4
Hunan	2220	1093	44538	1492.5	5475.8	2975.4	1619.6	1355.8
Guangdong	1223	1207	21825	1540.8	6451.6	3089.5	1616.0	1473.5
Guangxi	1130	698	14453	986.1	4146.2	2275.4	1202.1	1073.3
Hainan	200	180	2615	112.6	525.6	256.0	132.6	123.4
Chongqing	958	594	10015	718.8	2430.9	1366.9	736.8	630.1
Sichuan	4658	1869	51198	1979.2	6904.0	3801.5	2018.4	1783.1
Guizhou	1385	624	19696	792.3	3276.3	1934.2	1033.0	901.1
Yunnan	1296	459	12940	877.4	3568.1	2050.9	1069.3	981.6
Tibet	685	142	5886	40.4	225.3	108.8	55.3	53.5
Shaanxi	1521	843	27809	705.0	2791.9	1437.0	781.2	655.9
Gansu	1251	451	16585	463.7	2074.8	1084.3	570.8	513.5
Qinghai	392	109	4161	77.6	357.3	186.0	98.2	87.8
Ningxia	191	94	2382	93.6	415.0	212.0	110.6	101.4
Xinjiang	796	169	8953	223.9	989.6	403.9	224.3	179.6
a) Total rural population refers to persons residing and registered in rural areas. This indicator is calculated on the basis of the town classification
standards of 1964 which includes rural population in what are now established towns. Therefore, the statistical coverage in the table are larger than