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I. China Statistical Yearbook 2012 is an annual statistical publication,
which reflects comprehensively the economic and social development of
China. It covers data for 2011 and key statistical data in recent years
and some historically important years at the national level and the
local levels of province, autonomous region and municipality directly
under the Central Government.
II. The Yearbook contains
twenty-five chapters : l. General Survey; 2. National Accounts; 3.
Population; 4. Employment and Wages; 5. Investment in Fixed Assets; 6.
Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation; 7. Energy; 8. Government
Finance; 9. Price Indices; 10. People’s Living Conditions; 11. General
Survey of Cities; 12. Resources and Environment; 13. Agriculture; 14.
Industry; 15. Construction; 16. Transport, Postal and Telecommunication
Services; 17. Wholesale and Retail Trades; 18. Hotels, Catering Services
and Tourism; 19. Financial Intermediation; 20. Education, Science and
Technology; 21. Public Health and Social Services; 22. Culture and
Sports; 23. Public Management and Others; 24. Main Social and Economic
Indicators of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR); 25. Main
Social and Economic Indicators of Macao Special Administrative Region
(SAR). Two chapters listed as Appendices are Main Social and Economic
Indicators of Taiwan Province and A Comparison of Indicators of Economy
and Society among the People’s Republic of China and Other
Countries/Regions. To facilitate readers, the Brief Introduction at the
beginning of each chapter provides a summary of the main contents of the
chapter, data sources, statistical scope, statistical methods and
historical changes. At the end of each chapter, Explanatory Notes on
Main Statistical Indicators are included.
III. The national data
in this book do not include those of the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region, the Macao Special Administrative Region and the
Taiwan Province, except for the divisions of administrative areas, the
area of the national territory and forest resources. In accordance with
the principles set down in the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region, and the Basic Law of Macao Special Administrative
Region, statistically Hong Kong, Macao and the mainland of China are
three mutually independent regions, each following its own and different
statistical systems and legal provisions in conducting statistical
operations independently. Statistics on the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region as
included in this yearbook are provided by the Census and Statistics
Department of the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
and the Statistics and Census Services of the Government of Macao
Special Administrative Region respectively; and are edited by the
National Bureau of Statistics.
IV. Eastern region, middle region, western region and northeastern region in the Yearbook are divided as following:
Eastern
10 provinces (municipalities) include: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei,
Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Guangdong and Hainan;
Middle 6 provinces include: Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei and Hunan;
Western
12 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) include: Inner
Mongolia, Guangxi, Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Tibet, Shaanxi,
Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia and Xinjiang;
Northeastern 3 provinces include: Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.
V.
The units of measurement used in this yearbook are internationally
standard measurement units, and newly published and implemented Product
Categories are uniformly used.
VI. Statistical discrepancies on totals and relative figures due to rounding are not adjusted in the Yearbook.
VIII.
Notations used in the yearbook：(blank space) indicates that the figure
is not large enough to be measured with the smallest unit in the table,
or data are unknown, or are not available; “#” indicates a major
breakdown of the total; and “*”or “①”indicates footnotes at the end of
the table. About the notations in the chapters of Hong Kong SAR and
Macao SAR, please refer to the brief introduction in relevant chapters.
