Editor’s Notes

I. China Statistical Yearbook 2025 is an annual statistical publication, which reflects comprehensively the economic and social development of China. It covers data for 2024 and key statistical data in recent years and some historically important years at the national level and the local levels of province, autonomous region and municipality directly under the Central Government.

II. The Yearbook contains twenty-eight chapters: l. General Survey; 2. Population; 3. National Accounts; 4. Employment and Wages; 5. Prices; 6. People’s Livelihoods; 7. Government Finance; 8. Resources and Environment; 9. Energy; 10. Investment in Fixed Assets; 11. International Trade and Economic Cooperation; 12. Agriculture; 13. Industry; 14. Construction; 15. Wholesale and Retail Trades; 16. Transport, Postal and Telecommunication Services, and Software Industry; 17. Hotels, Catering Services and Tourism; 18. Financial Intermediation; 19. Real Estate; 20. Science and Technology; 21. Education; 22. Public Health and Social Services; 23. Culture and Sports; 24. Public Management, Social Security and Social Organizations; 25. Urban, Rural and Regional Development; 26. Main Social and Economic Indicators of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; 27. Main Social and Economic Indicators of Macao Special Administrative Region; 28. Main Social and Economic Indicators of Taiwan Province. One chapter listed as Appendix is Main Social and Economic Indicators of Other Countries/Regions.

To facilitate readers, the Brief Introduction at the beginning of each chapter provides a summary of the main contents of the chapter, data sources, statistical coverage, statistical methods and historical changes. At the end of each chapter, Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators are included.

III. The national data in this book do not include those of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province, except for the divisions of administrative areas, forest resources and otherwise specified. In accordance with the principles set down in the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and the Basic Law of Macao Special Administrative Region, statistically Hong Kong, Macao and the mainland of China are three mutually independent regions, each following its own and different statistical systems and legal provisions in conducting statistical operation independently. Statistics on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region as included in this yearbook are provided by the Census and Statistics Department of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Statistics and Census Service of the Government of Macao Special Administrative Region respectively; and are edited by the National Bureau of Statistics.

IV. Eastern region, central region, western region and northeastern region in the Yearbook are divided as follows:

Eastern region with 10 provinces (municipalities) includes: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong and Hainan;

Central region with 6 provinces includes: Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan;

Western region with 12 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) includes: Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Xizang, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang;

Northeastern region with 3 provinces includes: Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

V. The units of measurement used in the Yearbook are international standard measurement units, and newly published and implemented Product Categories are uniformly used.

VI. For updated historical data, please refer to the newly published version of the Yearbook. Statistical discrepancies on totals and relative figures due to rounding are not adjusted in the Yearbook.

VII. Notations used in the Yearbook: (blank space) indicates that the data are unknown, or are not available; " # " indicates a major breakdown of the total; and " * " or " ① " indicates footnotes at the end of the table. For notations in the chapters of data on Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR, please refer to the brief introduction or explanation in the relevant chapters.

VIII. In comparison with China Statistical Yearbook 2024, following revisions have been made in this new version in terms of the current statistical survey system and the progress of statistical work.

In the "General Survey" section, one table titled "Number of Corporate Enterprises by Region and Registered Statistical Categories (2024)" has been added. In the "National Accounts" section, the input-output tables have been adjusted, adding three new product sectors: the input-output table has adjusted, increasing the number of product department from 17 to 20. In the "International Trade and Economic Cooperation" section, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) data for some additional countries have been added based on actual conditions. In the "Science and Technology" section, details on earthquake monitoring coverage and meteorological station operations and observation items have been refined and adjusted. In the "Culture and Sports" section, records of setting world records in specific sports have been added according to actual developments.