2008 Statistical Bulletin on National Economic and Social Development, National Bureau of Statistics of the People's Republic of China, February 26, 2009. In 2008, under the leadership of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, people of all ethnic groups across the country adopted Deng Xiaoping Theory and the "Three Represents"

Guided by the important thinking of the CPC Central Committee, we have thoroughly implemented the Scientific Outlook on Development, worked together as one, and worked tenaciously to overcome the adverse effects of the unprecedented natural disasters and the international financial crisis. The national economy has maintained rapid development and various social undertakings have made new progress.

1. Comprehensive preliminary calculations show that the annual GDP was 30.067 billion yuan, an increase of 9.0% over the previous year.

In terms of industries, the added value of the primary industry was 3.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 5.5%; the added value of the secondary industry was 14,618.3 billion yuan, an increase of 9.3%; and the added value of the tertiary industry was 12,048.7 billion yuan, an increase of 9.5%.

The added value of the primary industry accounted for 11.3% of the GDP, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the previous year; the added value of the secondary industry accounted for 48.6%, an increase of 0.1 percentage points; the tertiary industry

The proportion of added value was 40.1%, down 0.3 percentage points.

Consumer prices increased by 5.9% over the previous year, of which food prices increased by 14.3%.

Fixed asset investment prices increased by 8.9%.

The ex-factory price of industrial products increased by 6.9%, of which the price of means of production increased by 7.7% and the price of living materials increased by 4.1%.

The purchase price of raw materials, fuel and power increased by 10.5%.

The production prices of agricultural products increased by 14.1%.

The price of agricultural production materials increased by 20.3%.

The sales price of houses in 70 large and medium-sized cities increased by 6.5%, of which the price of newly built houses increased by 7.1%, the price of second-hand houses increased by 6.2%, and the rental price of houses increased by 1.4%.

At the end of the year, 774.8 million people were employed across the country, an increase of 4.9 million from the end of the previous year.

Among them, 302.1 million people were employed in urban areas, a net increase of 8.6 million people, and a new increase of 11.13 million people.

The registered urban unemployment rate at the end of the year was 4.2%, an increase of 0.2 percentage points from the end of the previous year.

At the end of the year, the country’s foreign exchange reserves were US$1.946 billion, an increase of US$417.8 billion compared with the end of the previous year.

At the end of the year, the RMB exchange rate was 6.8346 yuan per US dollar, an appreciation of 6.9% compared with the end of the previous year.

The annual tax revenue was 5,786.2 billion yuan (excluding tariffs, farmland occupation tax and deed tax), an increase of 841.3 billion yuan or 17.0% over the previous year.

2. In agriculture, the annual grain planting area was 106.7 million hectares, an increase of 1.06 million hectares over the previous year; the cotton planting area was 5.76 million hectares, a decrease of 170,000 hectares; the oil planting area was 12.71 million hectares, an increase of 1.39 million hectares; and the sugar planting area was 1.93 million hectares.

hectares, an increase of 130,000 hectares.

The annual grain output was 528.5 million tons, an increase of 26.9 million tons over the previous year, an increase of 5.4%.

Among them, the summer grain output was 120.41 million tons, an increase of 2.6%; the early rice output was 31.58 million tons, basically the same as the previous year; the autumn grain output was 376.51 million tons, an increase of 6.7%.

The annual cotton output was 7.5 million tons, a decrease of 1.6% from the previous year.

Oil production was 29.5 million tons, an increase of 14.8%.

Sugar production reached 130 million tons, an increase of 6.7%.

The output of flue-cured tobacco was 2.6 million tons, an increase of 19.6%.

Tea output was 1.24 million tons, an increase of 6.4%.

The total meat output for the year was 72.69 million tons, an increase of 5.9% over the previous year.

Among them, pork output was 46.15 million tons, an increase of 7.6%; beef output was 6.1 million tons, a decrease of 0.5%; mutton output was 3.76 million tons, a decrease of 1.8%.

The number of live pigs at the end of the year was 462.64 million, an increase of 5.2%; the number of live pigs sold was 609.60 million, an increase of 7.9%.

Milk output was 36.51 million tons, an increase of 3.6%; poultry egg output was 26.38 million tons, an increase of 4.3%.

The annual aquatic product output was 48.95 million tons, an increase of 3.1%.

Among them, the output of aquaculture products was 34.26 million tons, an increase of 4.5%; the output of captured aquatic products was 14.69 million tons, the same as the previous year.

The annual timber output was 78.94 million cubic meters, an increase of 13.2%.

The new effective irrigation area throughout the year was 1.179 million hectares, and the new water-saving irrigation area was 1.390 million hectares.

3. Industry and Construction The added value of all industries throughout the year was 12,911.2 billion yuan, an increase of 9.5% over the previous year.

The added value of industries above designated size increased by 12.9%, of which state-owned and state-controlled enterprises increased by 9.1%; collective enterprises increased by 8.1%, joint-stock enterprises increased by 15.0%, and foreign-invested, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan-invested enterprises increased by 9.9%

%; private enterprises increased by 20.4%.

Looking at light and heavy industries, light industry grew by 12.3% and heavy industry grew by 13.2%.

Among the industries above designated size throughout the year, the added value of the coal mining and washing industry increased by 19.1% over the previous year, the oil and natural gas mining industry increased by 6.1%, the cultural, educational and sporting goods manufacturing industry increased by 18.2%, and the gas production and supply

The agricultural and sideline food processing industry increased by 26.8%, the agricultural and sideline food processing industry increased by 15.0%, the general equipment manufacturing industry increased by 16.9%, the transportation equipment manufacturing industry increased by 15.2%, and the communication equipment, computer and other electronic equipment manufacturing industry increased by 16.9%.

The electrical machinery and equipment manufacturing industry increased by 18.1%, and the chemical fiber manufacturing industry increased by 2.2%.