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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Thursday, January 03, 2002

Statistics on China's Economy in Recent Five Years

Following are the statistics on China's economy in recent five years, announced by the China National Bureau of Statistics(NBS), including GDP Growth, Trade, Foreign Exchange Reserves, Direct Foreign Investment, Fixed Assets Investment, Retail Sales of Consumer Goods.

GDP Growth

Year	GDP (Trillion Yuan)	Growth
2001	9.85 (1.19 trillion U.S. dollars)	7.3 %
2000	8.90 (1.08 trillion U.S. dollars)	8.0 %
1999	8.32 (1.01 trillion U.S. dollars)	7.1 %
1998	7.97 (963.5 billion U.S. dollars)	7.8 %
1997	7.48 (903.4 billion U.S. dollars)	8.8 %

Trade

Year	Total (Billion U.S. Dollars)	Growth	Export (Billion U.S. Dollars)	Growth	Import (Billion U.S. Dollars)	Growth
2001	462.8 (by the end of November)	7.4 %	241.6 (by the end of November)	6.3 %	221.2 (by the end of November)	8.6 %
2000	474.3	31.5 %	249.2	27.8	% 225.1	35.8 %
1999	360.7	11.3 %	194.9	6.1 %	165.8	18.2 %
1998	323.9	-0.4 %	183.8	0.5 %	140.2	-1.5 %
1997	325.1	12.1 %	182.7	20.9 %	142.4	2.5 %

Foreign Exchange Reserves

Year	Total Foreign Exchange Reserves (Trillion Yuan)
2001	203.0 (by the end of October)
2000	165.6
1999	154.7
1998	144.5
1997	139.9

Direct Foreign Investment

Year	Direct Foreign Investment (Billion U.S. Dollars)	Growth
2001	41.9 (by the end of November)	15.6 %
2000	40.8	0.9 %
1999	40.4	-11.4 %
1998	45.6	0.7 %
1997	45.3	8.5 %

Fixed Assets Investment

Year	Fixed Assets Investment (Trillion Yuan)	Growth
2001	2.12 (255.7 billion U.S. dollars)	16.3 %
2000	1.82 (219.8 billion U.S. dollars)	11.7 %
1999	2.20 (265.8 billion U.S. dollars)	7.8 %
1998	2.87 (346.5 billion U.S. dollars)	15.0 %
1997	2.53 (305.7 billion U.S. dollars)	9.0 %

Retail Sales of Consumer Goods

Year	Retail Sales (Trillion Yuan)	Growth
2001	3.36 (405.5 billion U.S. dollars)	10.1 %
2000	3.05 (368.2 billion U.S. dollars)	9.8 %
1999	3.11 (376.2 billion U.S. dollars)	10.0 %
1998	2.92 (352.3 billion U.S. dollars)	9.7 %
1997	2.72 (328.6 billion U.S. dollars)	10.7 %

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5 march 2002 people's daily

Following are the latest figures about the Chinese mainland's trade with its top ten partners (in million U.S. dollars) in January 2002, provided by the General Administration of Customs:

Partner Total Change Exports Change Imports Change

Japan 6,431 24.9% 3,266 26.3% 3,165 23.5%

USA 6,266 25.1% 4,424 26.1% 1,841 22.8%

EU 6,219 15.2% 3,476 13.7% 2,743 17.1%

Hong Kong SAR 4,730 38.1% 3,976 39.0% 753.922 33.5%

ASEAN 3,518 30.5% 1,528 40.6% 1,990 23.7%

Taiwan Province 2,955 51.6% 437.286 63.9% 2,518 49.6%

ROK 2,831 25.8% 1,013 43.3% 1,818 17.8%

Australia 724.721 32.4% 322.734 42.7% 401.987 25.1%

Russia 704.822 -34.9% 201.325 14.9% 503.497 -44.5%

Canada 585.071 24.9% 285.885 28.5% 299.185 21.7%

change: compared with the same period of 2001