The State Bureau of Statistics recently released the National Economic and Social Development Statistic Communiqué 2009, indicating that China fully carried out a package of plans and policies to cope with the international financial crisis last year, with the overall situation of national economy turning for better and new progress made in social undertakings. Based on the preliminary calculation, the GDP throughout the year stood at RMB33.5353t, up 8.7% from the previous year.

The State Bureau of Statistics employed detailed and meticulous materials and diagrams in the more than ten-thousand-word Communiqué with English version, coming in twelve chapters of comprehensiveness, agriculture, industry and construction industry, fixed assets investment, domestic trade, foreign economy, transportation and postal service and telecommunications and tourism, finance, education and science and technology, culture, health and physical education, population, people’s livelihood and social security, resources, environment and safety in production to display Chinese national economy and social development in 2009 and signify Chinese remarkable achievements in social undertakings under the impact of the world’s financial crisis.

Synthetically, China maintained relatively high growth and low inflation last year, with the GDP rising 8.7% throughout the year while CPI declined 0.7% from the previous year.

Last year, Chinese government released the stimulus plan of RMB4t, with the whole social fixed assets investment of RMB22.4846t, up 30.1% from the previous year, making a great contribution to economic growth. In terms of investment area, investment in central and western China was more than that in the east and northeast.

Source:Xinhua