7-4  National Government Expenditure and Ratio of Central and Local Governments
Year	National Government			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
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
2005	33930.28	8775.97	25154.31	25.9	74.1
2006	40422.73	9991.40	30431.33	24.7	75.3
2007	49781.35	11442.06	38339.29	23.0	77.0
2008	62592.66	13344.17	49248.49	21.3	78.7
a) The expenditure of the central and local governments refers to the expenditure disbursed by the central government and that by the local governments.
b) Expenditures before 2000 in this table does not include the payment on 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 on the
principal and interest of domestic and foreign debts.