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China's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2003 grew 9.1 percent over the previous year, reaching 11.6694 trillion yuan (1.4 trillion US dollars), according to the annual statistical bulletin on the mainland's economic and social development.
The bulletin, provided by the National Statistics Bureau Thursday, shows the nation's general price level rose by 1.2 percent last year, and the registered unemployment rate in urban areas stood at 4.3 percent by the end of 2003, up 0.3 percentage points from the previous year.
Foreign trade surplus totaled 25.5 billion US dollars in 2003, dropping by 4.9 billion US dollars, and the foreign exchange reserve reached 403.3 billion US dollars, up 116.8 billion US dollars, the bulletin shows.
Total grain production dropped by 5.8 percent to 430.67 million tons in 2003, but the industrial value added rose by 12.6 percent to 5.3612 trillion yuan (647.7 billion dollars), with rapid growth registered in the sectors of high technology, energy, raw materials and automobile manufacturing.
The high tech industry grew by 20.6 percent in terms of value added, while the production of optical telecommunications equipment, program-controlled switchboards, mobile phones and computers jumped between 25.9 percent and 120 percent.
The output of primary energy stood at an equivalent of 1.6 billion tons of standard coal, up 11 percent, with electricity up 15.5 percent to 1.91 trillion kwh, raw coal up 15 percent to 1.67 billion tons, and crude oil up 1.8 percent to 170 million tons.
The output of steel, rolled steel, ten kinds of nonferrous metals and cement increased by 21.9 percent, 25.3 percent, 19.1 percent and 18.9 percent, respectively; while automobile output jumped 36.7 percent to 4.44 million units, including 2.02 million sedan cars, soaring by 85 percent.
Industrial profits totaled 815.2 billion yuan (98.5 billion dollars), up 42.7 percent, and the amount of industrial losses dropped by 1.9 percent, the bulletin says.
Total foreign trade last year reached 851.2 billion dollars, up37.1 percent, with export up 34.6 percent to 438.4 billion US dollars, and import up 39.9 percent to 412.8 billion dollars.
China last year imported 91.12 million tons of crude oil, up 31.3 percent; 28.24 million tons of oil products, up 38.8 percent; and 37.17 million tons of rolled steel, up 51.8 percent.
Last year China approved the setting up of 41,081 enterprises funded with foreign capital, up 20.2 percent year on year. These enterprises involved a total contractual investment of 115.1 billion dollars, up 39 percent, with the amount of foreign investment actually used up 1.4 percent to 53.5 billion dollars.
The bulletin revealed a population of 1.29 billion by the end of 2003, increasing by 7.74 million over the year before. The year's birth rate stood at 12.41 per thousand and the mortality rate was 6.4 per thousand, leaving a natural growth rate of 6.01 per thousand.
The disposable income of urban residents increased by 9 percent and the net income of rural residents rose by 4.3 percent. The basic old-age insurance covered 154.9 million people, 7.53 million more than the previous year.
China lost 2.54 million hectares of farmland last year, and consumed 10.1 percent more energy resources than the previous year, figures show.
The bulletin also shows the severe shortage of water resources, the progress in mineral exploration, the enhancement of environmental protection and the huge losses caused by natural disasters in the country last year.


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