Statistical Bulletin of National Economy and Social Development of Kashgar Prefecture in 2004

Statistical Bureau of Kashgar Prefecture

1. Overall Situation

Economy kept growing fast. GDP amounted to 11.956 billion Yuan, grew by 12.7% over the previous year (it can be calculated according to related price, hereinafter are the same), and among which the value-added of primary industry was 5.396 billion Yuan, grew by 6.54% over the previous year, the increase speed rose by 0.14 percent; the value-added of the second industry was 2.21 billion Yuan, grew by 22.4% over the previous year, the increase speed rose by 2.4 percent; the value-added of the tertiary industry was 4.35 billion Yuan, grew by 16.47% over the previous year, the increase speed dropped by 0.53 percent. The structure of the three industries was adjusted from 48: 17: 35 to 45: 19: 36. The per capita income was 3,497 Yuan, an increase of 308 Yuan over the previous year.

By the end of the year there were 156,600 workers, among which workers of state-owned unit were 116,400, collective unit 11,000, other workers 29,200. 34,000 people were reemployed, with an increase of 4,000 persons over the original plan. 250,000 laborers were exported, created an income of 210 million Yuan, the urban registered unemployment rate was 3.86%.

The price of customer goods kept increasing steadily. The purchasing power of Kashgar urban residents was 0.9% higher over the previous year (see Table 1). The price of food went up a lot, while the price of household appliances and the service, medical products and daily goods, transportation and telecommunication went down.

2. Agriculture

 The total output value of farming, forestry, herding and fishery was 9.528 billion Yuan, an increase of 8.37% over the previous year. The planting area of grain was 4.3011 million mou; cotton 2.5782 million mou, grew by 8.97% over the previous year; oil material 30,400 mou, dropped by 6.17% over the previous year; vegetable 252,300 mou.

The total output of grain was 1.658 million tons, grew by 4.74% over the previous year; cotton 250,000 tons, grew by 11.11% over the previous year; edible oil material 11,200 tons, dropped by19.42% over the previous year; vegetable 650,900 tons, grew by 6.7% over the previous year.

Fruit output amounted to 522,500 tons, grew by 31.28% over the previous year. The newly planted area of trees was 482,000 mou, the accumulated area of economic forest attained 2.537 million mou, green houses amounted to 54,000 with a total area of 58,000 mou.

By the end of 2004, the amount of livestock on hand was 7.3085 million, grew by 3.04% over the previous year; the number of animals for sale was 5.24 million, grew by 13.51% over the previous yeas; output of meat 210,000 tons, grow by 13.51% over the previous year; milk product was 117,100 tons, grew by 3.1%; wool 10,800 tons, grew by 7.88%; egg products was 34,900 tons, grew by 16.33%; aquatic product 5,182 tons, grew by 10.4% over the previous year.

The mechanical force of farm machinery was 994,200 kilowatts, grew by 15.46% over the previous year. There were 10,842 large and middle scale tractors; 47,200 small tractors, grew by 19.8%; the amount of fertilizer used was133,500 tons, an increase of 12.28%; the amount of electricity consumed was 113.93 million kilowatt-hours, an increase of 18.31%; and the effective irrigated area was 5.9361 million mu.

3. Industry and Building Industry

Industrial production kept a steady growth. The value-added was 780 million Yuan, grew by 31.15% over the previous year, among which value-added of above-scale industries was 450 million Yuan, accounting for 57.7%. The sales rate of industrial products was 93.9%, rose by 0.7 percent over the previous year.

The value-added of building industry dropped a little. Level-4 and above construction enterprises realized value-added of 285 million Yuan, dropped by 1.93% over the previous year. The under-construction was 1.8881 million square meters, dropped by 8.49%; the completed floor area was 0.8536 million square meters, dropped by 16.17%.

Table 2：the output of major products of above-scale enterprises in 2004

4. Investment in Fixed Assets

Investment in Fixed Assets kept growing fast. The total social fixed assets investment completed was 5.214 billion Yuan, grew by 18.28 %over the previous year, among which construction investment 3.914 billion Yuan, an increase of 24.1%; investment in renewal and reconstruction 0.262 billion Yuan, dropped by 36.87%; other investment 0.776 billion Yuan, an increase of 32.65%; by investors, capital invested by the local government was 4.704 billion Yuan, an increase of 18.37%; by the central government 510 million Yuan, grew by 17.51%.

Investment on the primary industry was 127 million Yuan, dropped by 4.51% over the previous year; second industry 1.105 billion Yuan, grew by 23.74% over the previous year; tertiary industry 3.982 billion Yuan, grew by 17.74%. over the previous year.

69,675 earthquake relief buildings were completed, among which 68,518 households were in rural area, taking 78% of the original plan; 1,157 households were in urban area.

5. Domestic Trade, Private-owned and Individual Businesses

The sales volume of domestic trade, private-owned and individual businesses grew quickly. The total volume of retail sales of social customer goods amounted to 2.633 billion Yuan, an increase of 17.62% over the previous year. By regions, the urban retail turnover was 2.109 billion Yuan, an increase of 17.62%; the rural turnover 524 million Yuan, grew by 20.18%. Judged by industrial sectors, dining industry 296 million Yuan, grew by 21.31%; wholesale and retail industry 1.92 billion Yuan, grew by 20.37%; other sectors 85.81 million Yuan, dropped by 3.42%.

Private-owned and individual enterprises kept growing fast. There are 55,400 individual businesses, grew by 4.72% over the previous year, with 79,900 people on-the-service, increased by 4.3% over the last year, with a registered capital of 447 million Yuan, increased by 9.86% over the previous year; 1303 private enterprises, increased by 51.16% over the previous year created tax revenue of 0.47 billion Yuan, taking 48% of the total financial income.

6. Businessmen Inviting and Capital Drawing

The trade volume of foreign trade and export was notable. The total volume of import and export was 38 million US dollars, grew by 42% over the previous year, among which export was35 million US dollars, grew by 61%. Four foreign trade companies were established.

In 2003, 222 capital-inviting contracts of 4.403 billion Yuan were signed among which 207 projects with 3.597 billion Yuan had been put into practice, among which industry and processing manufacture accounted for 50%, trade and tourism accounted for 41%, 1.7 billion Yuan had been put into practice, accounted for 1/3 of the social fixed asset investment.

7.Transportation, Post, Telecommunications and Tourism

By the end of 2003, freight transportation volume of the railroad was 1.3915 million tons, passenger transportation 889,300 man/times; passenger transportation of the airplanes was 313,100 people, freight transportation volume of the airplane was 566.4 tons; freight transportation volume of highway amounted to 7.69 million tons, an increase of 14.26%, passenger transportation amounted to 19.1 million people, an increase of 93.32%.

The posts and telecommunications communication kept increasing. 510 million Yuan was completed. By the end of the year, there were 252,700 fixed-line telephone holders, 365,000 mobile phone users. Tourism grew fast, 1.32 million tourists were received which created an income of 264 million Yuan, grew by 28% and 158.8% respectively, among which 40,000 were foreign tourists created an income of 1.88 million US dollars.

8. Finance, Insurance Industry and Negotiable Securities

Local Finance income of the year was 987 million Yuan, grew by 22.61% over the previous year among which common budgetary revenues was 647 million Yuan, grew by 23.47%, expenditure was 3.012 billion Yuan, grew by 6.1%over the previous year. 

By the end of the year the extra deposit was 17.898 billion Yuan, among which the extra deposit of enterprises was 3.714 billion Yuan; the extra deposit of rural and urban residents was 10.898 billion Yuan, an increase of 0.782 billion Yuan. The extra loan was 9.245 billion Yuan, an increase of 1.516 billion Yuan over the beginning of the year, among which short-term loan accounted for 1.278 billion Yuan, middle and long-term loan accounted for 293 million Yuan.

The insurance premium received was 378 million Yuan, grew by 18.14% over the previous year; life insurance premium 213 million Yuan, grew by 18.5%; property premium 165 million Yuan, grew by 17.67%. Indemnity amounted to 95.4439 million Yuan, among which life insurance accounted for 19.092 million Yuan, property compensation 76.3519 million Yuan.

9. Education, Science and Technology

 There are 2 institutions of higher learning with 11,500 students, grew by 25.3% over the previous year, among which 3012 were newly admitted, an increase of 14.39%. 5249 secondary technical schools students, reduced by 25.02%; 41,800 technical middle school students, increased by 51.45%.

40 high school with 29,200 students, increased by 13.18%; 242,600 ordinary junior middle school students, increased by 2.8%; 496,400 pupil, reduced by 6.14%. The admission rate of school-age children was 97.5%, the admission rate of junior middle school was 98.8%, 17.6% junior high school students entered senior high school.

10. Culture, Health and Sports Activities

Kashgar had 13 art troupes, 13 houses of culture 13, 8 public libraries, 1 museum and 13 2 broadcast transmitting stations and relay stations, 111TV transmitting stations and relay stations. The coverage rate of TV and radio are 94.1% and 95.4% respectively. There are1,089 health institutions with 8,811 hospital beds and 9,698 medical workers, among which 218 are hospitals and clinics with 8,584 hospital beds, 12 are health centers for women and children.

11. Environmental Protection

According to the statistics of environmental protection authority, the discharge amount of sulphur dioxide was 4,588.99 tons; mist and dust 573.62 tons, There was one natural reserve with a total area of 1.5 million hectares, taking 9% of the total area, one model ecological area with an area of 107,000 hectares.

12. Population

The population of the prefecture is 3.6154 million by the end of the year, an increase of 114,200 over the previous year, among which the urban population is 834,200 people, increased by 1.79%, urbanization rate is 23.07%. By sex, male 1.8433 million, accounts for 50.98%; female 1.7721 million, accounts for 49.02%. Birth rate is 26.79 ‰, mortality rate is 6.92 ‰, and natural growth rate is 19.86 ‰.

13. People’s Living Standards and Social Security

According to the estimation of sample survey, the disposable income of average urban resident was 6,872 Yuan, grew by 6% over the previous year; the per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen was 1,634 Yuan, an increase of 152 Yuan, grew by 10.26%. The per capita income of employees on-job was 14,076 Yuan, grew by 11.65%.

The social security system developed further. 48,500 workers bought endowment insurance; the coverage rate of urban medical insurance was 92%. The Cooperative Rural Medical Care System was put into practice in Mekit County, 89,000 people were insured, the coverage rate amounted to 75%.

According to the statistics of civil department, there were 62 community service centers. 137,000 people received 113 million Yuan of lowest subsistence fee. Welfare lottery ticket of 32 million Yuan was sold out and welfare fund of 117,000 Yuan was collected.

Note:

1. The GDP, various industrial value-added, the total volume of farming, forestry, herding, and fishery can be calculated according to current market price, growth rate according to relevant rate.

2. The above-scale industry refers to state-owned and non-state owned enterprises with a sales revenue above 5 million Yuan.