APPENDIX I - CHINA: BASIC DATA ON SOCIETY AND ECONOMY

Table A1 - Statistics of National Economy and Social Development in 1994 Main Indexes of National Economy
Table A2 - Changes of Main Indexes for National Industrial Production
Table A3 - Status of International Economic Cooperation
Table A4 - Overall Use of Foreign Investment for Economic Development
Table A5 - Value of Overall National Imports and Exports

Table A1 - Statistics of National Economy and Social Development in 1994 Main Indexes of National Economy

Item		Unit	1978	1985	1990	1993	1994
1. Population		1,000 people	962,590	1,058,510	1,143,330	1,185,170	1,198,500
2. Employed people		1,000 people	401,520	498,730	567,400	602,200	614,520
	# Staff person	1,000 people	94,990	123,580	140,590	148,490	148,330
3. Gross domestic production		Billion Yuan	358.8	852.7	1.768.1	3,417.2	4,379.9
	Primary industry	Billion Yuan	101.8	254.2	501.7	665	823.1
	Secondary industry	Billion Yuan	174.5	386.7	771.7	1,624.5	2,125.9
	Industry	Billion Yuan	160.7	344.9	685.8	1414	1,835.9
	Building industry	Billion Yuan	13.8	41.8	85,9	210.5	290
	Third industry	Billion Yuan	82.5	211.9	984.7	1,127.7	1,430.9
	of which transportation, post & telecommunication	Billion Yuan	17.3	40.7	111.8	219.6	268.6
	Commerce	Billion Yuan	26.6	57.7	83.7	309.1	404.9
4. Total investment of fixed assets		Billion Yuan		254.32	444.93	1,245.79	1,592.63
5. Fiscal revenue		Billion Yuan	112.11	186.64	3312.6	511.48	518.18
	Fiscal expenditure	Billion Yuan	111.1	184.48	345.2	531.98	581.98
6. Merchandize turnover		Billion ton/KM	982.9	1,836.5	2,620.7	3,051	3,327.4
7. Handling capacity of the main coastal ports		1,000 ton	198,340	311,540	483,210	678,350	765,710
8. Total value of post and telecommunication		Billion Yuan	1.17	2.96	8.17	46.27	68.82
9. Total value of retail sales of consumer goods		Billion Yuan	126.49	380.14	725.03	1,223.7	1,605.25
10. Total value of imports & exports		Billion US dollar	20.64	69.6	115.44	195.7	236.73
	Total value of exports	Billion US dollar	9.75	27.35	62.09	91.74	121.04
	Total value of imports	Billion US dollar	10.89	42.25	53.35	103.96	115.69
11 .Output of main products
	Grain	1,000 ton	304,770	379,110	446,240	456,490	445,100
	Cotton	1,000 ton	2,167	4.147	4,508	3,739	4,341
	Oil crops	1,000 ton	5,218	15,784	16,132	18,039	19,896
	Sugar crops	1,000 ton	23,818	60,468	72,145	76,242	73,452
	Pork, beef & mutton	1,000 ton	8,563	17.607	25,135	32,255	369.7
	Aquatic products	1,000 ton	4,660	7.050	12,370	18,230	21,430
	Cloth	Billion meter	11.03	14.67	18.88	20.3	18.48
	Machine-made paper & paperboard	1,000 ton	4,390	9,110	13,720	19,140	17,330
	Raw coal	Billion ton	0.618	0.72	1.08	1.151	1.212
	Electric energy production	Billion	256.6	410.7	621.2	839.5	909
		thousand-watt hour
	Crude oil	1,000 ton	104,050	124,900	138,310	145,240	147,640
	Steel	1,000 ton	31,780	46,790	66,350	89,560	91,530
	End products of steel	1,000 ton	22,080	36,930	51,530	77,160	80,040
	Cement	1,000 ton	65,240	145,950	209,710	367,880	400,040

Note:

1. The figures on import and export trade for the years after 1985 were from the statistics made by the customs house

2. The values of various indexes in different years were all calculated by the actual price at that year except the values for post and telecommunication whose prices in 1978 was calculated at 1970's constant price, 1985 and 1990 at 1980's constant price, 1993 and 1994 at 1990's constant price.

Table A2 - Changes of Main Indexes for National Industrial Production

Product		Unit	1994	1993	Changes from 1993 to 1994 (%)
Total wood production		1,000 cubic m.	66,151.4	63,922.3	3.5
Total wood -based panel production		1,000 cubic m.	6,647.2	5,797.9	14.6
	Plywood	1,000 cubic m.	2,606.2	2,124.5	22.7
	Fibre board	1,000 cubic m.	1,930.3	1,809.7	6.7
	Particle board	1,000 cubic m.	1,682	1,571.3	7
Total bamboo-wood production		1,000 piece	504,295	433,561.6	16.3
Total saw timber production		1,000 cubic m.	12,943.4	14,012.6	-7.6
Total rosin production		Ton	437,269	503,681	-13.2
Total turpentine production		Ton	52,910	61,627	-14.1
Total tannin extract production		Ton	18,177	26,176	-30.6
Total shellac production		Ton	1,001	931	7.5
Wood production from forestry enterprises		1,000 cubic m.	38,657.7	35,695	8.3
	Log	1,000 cubic m.	36,839.2	33,887	8.7
	Fuel-wood	1,000 cubic m.	1,818.5	1,808	0.6
Wood-based panel production		1,000 cubic m.	2,260.1	2,324.3	-2.8
from forestry enterprises
	Plywood	1,000 cubic m.	701.5	738.8	-5
	Fibre board	1,000 cubic m.	749	795.5	-5.8
	Particle board	1,000 cubic m.	750.7	747.8	3.9
Bamboo wood production from forestry enterprises		1,000 piece	15,139.8	10,831.3	39.8
Sawntimber production from forestry enterprises		1,000 cubic m.	2,460.2	2,639.9	-6.8
Rosin production from forestry enterprises		Ton	224,451	221,713	1.2
Turpentine production from forestry enterprises		Ton	34,397	21,822	57.6
Tannin extract production from forestry enterprises		Ton	10,550	13,627	-22.6
Shellac production from forestry enterprises		Ton	949	695	36.5

Table A3 - Status of International Economic Cooperation

Year	Number of contracted countries or regions	Number of contract	External Aid (million US dollar)	Disbursement (million US dollar)
Total	184	62,748	40,393	25,572
1976	1	2	1
1977	1	1
1978	1	4	1
1979	8	36	51	170
1980	16	172	185
1981	36	363	504
1982	38	314	509	348
1983	40	460	924	452
1984	52	740	1,737	623
1985	71	923	1,265	835
1986	83	944	1,359	973
1987	95	1,449	1,889	1,260
1988	103	2,126	2,172	1,430
1989	124	3,100	2,212	1,686
1990	122	5,175	2,604	1,867
1991	147	8,438	3,609	2,363
1992	159	9,405	6,585	3,049
1993	158	11,605	6,800	4,538
1994	171	17,491	7,988	5,978

Note: The repetition countries or regions were excluded when the statistics was made for each year.

Table A4 - Overall Use of Foreign Investment for Economic Development

Year	Total		Foreign loan		Foreign investment and others
	Project number	Amount of investment million US dollar	Project number	Amount of investment million US dollar	Project number	Amount of investment million US dollar
Signed agreement for use of foreign investment
1979-1982	949	20,548	27	13,549	922	6,999
1983	522	3,403	52	1,513	470	1,917
1984	1,894	4,791	38	1,916	1,856	2,875
1985	3,145	9,867	72	3,534	3,073	6,333
1986	1,551	11,737	53	8,407	1,498	3,330
1987	2,289	12,136	56	7,817	2,233	4,319
1988	6,063	16,004	118	9,813	5,945	6,191
1989	5,909	11,479	130	5,185	5,779	6,294
1990	7,371	12,086	98	5,099	7,273	6,987
1991	13,086	19,583	108	7,161	12,978	12,422
1992	48,858	69,439	94	10,703	48,764	58,736
1993	83,423	122,681	158	11,251	83,265	111,430
1994						83,088
Practical use of foreign investment
1979-1982		12,457		10,690		1,767
1983		1,981		1,065		916
1984		2,705		1,286		1,719
1985		4,647		2,688		1,959
1986		7,258		5,014		2,244
1987		8,452		5,805		2,647
1988		10,226		6,487		3,739
1989		10,059		6,286		3,773
1990		10,289		6,534		3,755
1991		11,554		6,888		4,666
1992		19,202		7,911		11,291
1993		36,773		10,750		26,023
1994						33,946

Table A5 - Value of Overall National Imports and Exports

Year	In RMB (Billion yuan)			In US (Billion dollar)
	Total value of import and export	Export	Import	Total value of import and export	Export	Import
1978	35.5	16.76	18.74	20.64	9.75	10.89
1980	57	27.12	29.88	38.14	18.12	20.02
1981	73.53	36.76	36.77	44.03	22.01	22.02
1982	77.13	41.38	35.75	41,61	22.32	19.29
1983	86.01	43.83	42.18	43.62	22.23	21.39
1984	120.1	58.05	62.05	53.55	26.14	27.41
1985	206.67	80.89	125.78	69.6	27.35	42.25
1986	258.04	108.21	149.83	73.85	30.94	42.91
1978	308.42	147	161.42	82.65	39.44	43.21
1988	382.18	176.67	205.51	102.79	47.52	55.27
1978	415.59	195.6	219.99	111.68	52.54	59.14
1990	556.01	298.58	257.43	115.44	62.09	53.35
1991	722.58	382.71	339.87	135.63	71.84	63.79
1992	911.96	467.63	444.33	165.53	84.94	80.59
1193	1,127.1	528.53	598.57	195.7	91.74	103.96
1994	2,039.15	1,042.46	996.69	236.73	121.04	115.69

Note: The figures for 1978 were from the statistics made by the foreign trade unit and the figures for 1980 and there after were from the statistics made by the customs house.