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				Increase Rates (%)
	Government	Government	Balance			Percentage of
Year	Revenue	Expenditure		Government	Government	Government
	(100 million yuan)	(100 million yuan)	(100 million yuan)	Revenue	Expenditure	Revenue to GDP (%)

1978	1132.26	1122.09	10.17	29.5	33.0	31.2
1980	1159.93	1228.83	-68.90	1.2	-4.1	25.7
1985	2004.82	2004.25	0.57	22.0	17.8	22.4
1989	2664.90	2823.78	-158.88	13.1	13.3	15.8
1990	2937.10	3083.59	-146.49	10.2	9.2	15.8
1991	3149.48	3386.62	-237.14	7.2	9.8	14.6
1992	3483.37	3742.20	-258.83	10.6	10.5	13.1
1993	4348.95	4642.30	-293.35	24.8	24.1	12.6
1994	5218.10	5792.62	-574.52	20.0	24.8	11.2
1995	6242.20	6823.72	-581.52	19.6	17.8	10.7
1996	7407.99	7937.55	-529.56	18.7	16.3	10.9
1997	8651.14	9233.56	-582.42	16.8	16.3	11.6
1998	9875.95	10798.18	-922.23	14.2	16.9	12.6
1999	11444.08	13187.67	-1743.59	15.9	22.1	13.9
2000	13395.23	15886.50	-2491.27	17.0	20.5	15.0
2001	16386.04	18902.58	-2516.54	22.3	19.0	16.8
2002	18903.64	22053.15	-3149.51	15.4	16.7	18.0
2003	21715.25	24649.95	-2934.70	14.9	11.8	18.5


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 expenditures include the payment for interest of domestic and foreign debts from 2000, and other tables which concern the government
expenditure of the central government are consistent with this definition.