8-1  National Government Revenue and Expenditure and Their Increase Rates
Year	National Government	National Government	Increase Rates (%)
	Revenue	Expenditure	National Government	National Government
	(100 million yuan)	(100 million yuan)	Revenue	Expenditure
1978	1132.26	1122.09	29.5	33.0
1979	1146.38	1281.79	1.2	14.2
1980	1159.93	1228.83	1.2	-4.1
1981	1175.79	1138.41	1.4	-7.5
1982	1212.33	1229.98	3.1	8.0
1983	1366.95	1409.52	12.8	14.6
1984	1642.86	1701.02	20.2	20.7
1985	2004.82	2004.25	22.0	17.8
1986	2122.01	2204.91	5.8	10.0
1987	2199.35	2262.18	3.6	2.6
1988	2357.24	2491.21	7.2	10.1
1989	2664.90	2823.78	13.1	13.3
1990	2937.10	3083.59	10.2	9.2
1991	3149.48	3386.62	7.2	9.8
1992	3483.37	3742.20	10.6	10.5
1993	4348.95	4642.30	24.8	24.1
1994	5218.10	5792.62	20.0	24.8
1995	6242.20	6823.72	19.6	17.8
1996	7407.99	7937.55	18.7	16.3
1997	8651.14	9233.56	16.8	16.3
1998	9875.95	10798.18	14.2	16.9
1999	11444.08	13187.67	15.9	22.1
2000	13395.23	15886.50	17.0	20.5
2001	16386.04	18902.58	22.3	19.0
2002	18903.64	22053.15	15.4	16.7
2003	21715.25	24649.95	14.9	11.8
2004	26396.47	28486.89	21.6	15.6
2005	31649.29	33930.28	19.9	19.1
2006	38760.20	40422.73	22.5	19.1
2007	51321.78	49781.35	32.4	23.2
2008	61330.35	62592.66	19.5	25.7
2009	68518.30	76299.93	11.7	21.9
2010	83101.51	89874.16	21.3	17.8
2011	103874.43	109247.79	25.0	21.6
a) Government price subsidies were listed as negative revenue items prior to 1986, but they have been listed as expenditure items in government
accounts since 1986. For comparison purpose, budgetary price subsidies before 1985 were adjusted and listed as expenditure items.
b) Government revenue does not include the receipts of domestic and foreign debts.
c) Government expenditures include the interest payment on domestic and foreign debts since 2000.