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Statistical Report On Economic and Social Development

Of Wuxi Municipality in 2009

Wuxi Municipal Statistics Bureau

Survey team of the National Buieau of Statistics in Wuxi

February 28th, 2010

In 2009 Wuxi encounters the greatest economic difficulties since it enters the new century. However, Wuxi Municipal Commission of Communist Party and Government coped with them steadily and calmly, made resolute decisions and finally controlled the economic slippage when they utilized the scientific outlook on development as guide; defined core tasks to increase domestic demands to maintain the growth, make innovation and create employment opportunities to promote the transformation, encourage cooperation between government and enterprises to keep the stability; and follow requirements for maintaining the growth, promoting the transformation, valuing overall arrangement and benefiting the public.

¢ñ Comprehensive

National economy is developing sustainably and stably. It is calculated preliminarily that local GDP reached CNY 499.172billion, which realized 11.6 percent increase over last year after converting the GDP on the basis of comparable price. Among the permanent population GDP per capita is calculated to be CNY81,146 and converted into USD 11,884 in accordance with current exchange rate.

Employment and re-employment are pushed forward steadily. In Wuxi, the number of newly increase employment was 113,000 and a net increase of employment was 85,000. Accomplish the re-employment of 71,500 laid-off and unemployed persons in various sectors and help another 15,627 persons who once have difficulty in being hired get jobs. Registered unemployment percent in Wuxi was 2.8%.

Private economy maintains the robust growth trend. On the favorable growth momentum in 2008, private economy goes on expanding the volume, enlarging the scale and strengthening the vitality. Private enterprises in Wuxi employed 1.89 million persons and the amount of their registered capital totaled in CNY330.436billion, a rise of 22.4% over the year of 2008. The whole value added of private economy in Wuxi achieved a growth of 13.2% with CNY309.988billion. The proportion of private economy in economic aggregate rose by 1.3% to 62.1%. Create the gross value of industrial output up to CNY759.166billion, which was 7.8% higher than last year. Tax of CNY36.935billion gained an increase of 12.8%. Investment in fixed assets amounted to CNY98.862billion and its growth rate reached 10.9%.

Market price of goods and service reduces slightly. The consumer price of residents reduced 0.5% in Wuxi. The increase of consumer price realized a drop of 5.6%. In details price of services declined by 1.1%, price of consumer goods was 0.3% lower and retail price witnessed a reduction of 0.9%.

¢ò Agriculture

Agriculture production developed stably. Push forward the adjustment of agriculture structure energetically, optimize the supply structure of agriculture products and satisfy the market demands efficiently. The annual yield of crops was 805,100 tons, which was 0.7% up over last year. The gross output of oil plants rose by 8.5% with 18,400 tons and the yield of rapeseeds was 17,100 tons, up by 7.2%. Amount of cocoon production was 130 tons, reducing by 44.7%. Throughput of tea and fruits increased 1% and 6.7% respectively up to 6,866 tons and 137,960 tons.

Planting industry experienced reconstruction. Reduce 2,460 hectares crop planting area down to 118,880 hectares while the planting area of oil plant was 1,010 hectares more than last year up to 9,170 hectares, and the planting area of vegetables was 2,270 hectares larger up to 39,980 hectares. Moderate-scaled operation area occupied the whole operation area of 72.2% in the agriculture. Modern high-efficiency operation area of agriculture has exceeded 71,000 hectares.

Production of forestry, husbandry and fishing declined a little. In the aspect of animal product production, the output of meat reduced to 113,388, which was 2.3% less than last year. The gross output of pork, beef and mutton was 65,655 tons, which was a reduction of 2.8%. And the production of poultry and eggs was 28,805 tons. Total amount of cows on hand was 9,500 heads, reducing 48.9% of the last year. In 2009 the output of aquatic products was 2% less than last year and just 121,700 tons.

The construction process of socialism new countryside is smooth. Persist on promoting key construction tasks of new countryside; establish the plan of modern countryside scientifically; quicken the pace of ¡°three unions¡± in countryside by merging 929 natural villages into town and new countryside community; consolidate the organizational construction of ¡°three major cooperation¡± in the countryside by building 485 ¡°four elements¡± cooperative economic organizations; carry forward the development of modern urban agriculture and industrialization by cultivating five agriculture zones valuing above CNY100million, building 24 new pilot places of agriculture tourism, completing three modern technical innovation centers of agriculture and five demonstrative zones of modern countryside irrigation; establish and improve the social security system in the countryside by covering 92.2% villages under the old-aged security system; try the best to culture new modern peasants by offering occupational trainings to 91.6% young peasants; make ecological environment better obviously by increasing the forestry area by 72,000mu, constructing 86 green model villages at the provincial level, 155 green-home villages, 10 demonstrating towns and 13 environmental-friendly towns at the national level, and finishing the comprehensive environmental treatment in 457 natural villages.

¢ó Industry and Building Trade

Industrial production proceeded steadily. Industrial enterprises above designated size created the value added of CNY239.062billion including CNY59.4billion in the light industry sector and CNY179.662billion in the heavy industry sector, totally increasing 11.3%. According to our statistics of 278 main industrial products in 2009, the production of 162 products that occupies 58.3% sampled products was more than last year. Sixteen of 22 major products in Wuxi that are subject to tracing statistics fulfilled a growth compared to the same period of last year.

Function quality of industrial economy improved further. The income of main businesses in industrial enterprises above designated size was CNY1,059.133billion, advancing by 6.0%; sales ratio reached 97.70%, increasing 0.19%; profit and tax amounted to CNY99.027billion including CNY73.741billion profit. The comprehensive benefit indicators of industrial economy in 2009 surmounted the previous years with a rise of 9.6% up to 232.93%.

Construction industry kept the booming trend. Through the year of 2009 construction industry improved its value added up to CNY18.485, up by 18.4%; accomplished the output value of CNY43.760billion, up by 27.1%; completed the floorage of 38,720,500m2. One project won national LUBAN Award, twenty projects acquired provincial Yangtze Cup Excellent Project, and seventy-six projects got the honor of Wuxi Taihu Cup Excellent Project.

¢ô Fixed Asset Investment

Investment showed a rocketing increase. The completed investment infixed assets of Wuxi was CNY238.756billion, a rise of 27.2% over the last year. Of the total investment, that in the primary industry stood at CNY1.420billion, expanding 122.9%; that in the secondary industry hit CNY105.266billion, 11.3% higher than the last year; and that in the tertiary industry reached CNY132.069billion, indicating an increase of 42.8%. If investment in fixed assets is classified in accordance with the type of registration, that in the state-owned economy was CNY65.834billion, up by 73.0%; that in foreign economy went up to CNY48.981billion, up by 6.1%; that in other economies was CNY123.941billion, up by 19.8%. In 2009 1,292 projects were completed with investment in fixed assets, a completion ratio of 73.0%. Newly increased fixed assets valued at CNY143.329billion and the handover ratio of fixed assets was 84.1%.

Sale of real estate was hot. Real estate industry realized the value added of CNY27.799billion, rising by 18.8%; completed investment in real estate stood at CNY46.337billion, up by 3.0%. In terms of commercial residential buildings construction area reached 32858400m2, down by 1.4%; completed area reached 7197700m2 ,up by 1.2%, sales area arrived at 11107800m2, expanding 106.7%; sales amount hit CNY66.614billion, an increase of 130.6%.

¢õ Domestic Trade

The market of consumer goods boomed. In 2009, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached CNY154.269billion, up by 15.1%. An analysis on different areas showed that the retail sales of consumer goods in the urban area arrived at CNY133.750billion, and that in the countryside was CNY20.519billion. Analyzed by different sectors, the sales of wholesales and retail trade stood at CNY141.467billion,; the sales of lodging and catering industry was CNY11.129billion; and the sales of the other industries went up to CNY1.673billion. Among the sales amount of wholesales and retail trade above the limitation, value of retail sales rose by 45.4%; that of petroleum and relevant products increased by 26.3%; and that of clothing, shoes, hats and textiles was up by 14.0%.

Construction pace of markets was stable. At the end of 2009 there are 65 commodities exchange markets above the CNY100million-scale and 47,412 stands. They accomplished the turnover of CNY250.053billion, up by 1.7%. 16 markets of them are of the comprehensive group and 49 markets are the specialty-oriented. The turnover of special markets hit CNY214.469billion, rising by 0.1%. New circulation types and modern operation methods developed at the quicker speed.

¢ö Open Economy

The reduction speed of foreign-oriented trade was lowered. The total value of imports and exports in 2009 arrived at USD43.945billion, of which the value of imports was USD17.933billion and the value of exports was USD26.012billion. Local enterprises with actual imports and exports amounted for 6,105 in total, including 3,583 domestic-funded enterprises. The export amount of manufacturing enterprises was USD6.482bilion, that of foreign-invested enterprises reached USD18.348billion, and that of foreign trading companies arrived at USD1.181billion. And private enterprises accomplished exports of USD6.012billion.

Foreign investment aided the growth despite of difficulties. Through the year the quantity of newly approved foreign-invested projects was 273; the contractual registered capital amounted for USD4.224billion; and paid-off registered capital made the record of USD3.203billion, up by 1.2% over the last year, after topping USD3billion in two successive years. Wuxi completed 30 major foreign-funded projects that pooled over USD30million registered capital. By the end of 2009, 75 of Forbes Top 500 enterprises founded 144 subsidiaries in Wuxi.

Foreign economic cooperation grew strongly. In 2009 completed investment abroad totaled 52 and the investment amount of Chinese party hit USD207million, a rise of 41.5%, topping USD200million first time. Fourteen projects of them had the investment over USD5million.

¢÷ Transportation, Posts & Telecommunications, Tourism

Social transport capacity rose continuously. The total number of motor vehicles for civilian use reached 1,118,300 by the end of 2009, up 12.0%. The total number of cars for civilian use stood at 600,700, up by 20.3%, of which private-owned cars numbered 401,400, rising by 83,500.

The volume of passenger traffic and freight grew comprehensively. The volume of passenger traffic throughout 2009 hit 258,470,000 person-time, expanding6.6%; and the volume of freight rose to 121,780,000 tons by 6.1%, of which the volume of freight handled by ports totaled 172,000,000 tons, expanding 49%. The throughput of visitors handled by the air port was 2,217,900 person-time, increasing by 35%.

Post and telecommunication services maintained the rapid development. The turnover of post and telecommunication services amounted for CNY8.915billion, up by 9.2%. The category of post services expanded and the speed of service quickened. The quantity of mails accounted for 114,946,000, of which the express mail service handled 6,195,100 mails, up by 18.5%. By the end of 2009, with 613,900 newly installed lines of office switchboards, the total capacity reached 5,524,700 lines. The year also saw 2,465,100 urban and rural subscribers of fixed telephone and 337,300 subscribers of personal handy phone. Mobile phone users numbered 6,773,900, rising by 853,300 and the number of Internet users went up to 1,170,200.

Inbound and outbound tourism stepped forward stably. In 2009, the number of inbound visitors to Wuxi totaled 661,600 person-time for tourism, visiting and other activities, a year-on-year rise of 1.8 percent. Of this total, the number of domestic visitors was 43,104,800, up by 17.1%, which resulted in the total earning of CNY61.895billion, expanding 19.0% over the last year. There are forty scenic places with an annual capacity entertaining more than 100,000 visitors, of which two parks are at the grade 5A, thirteen parks are at the grade 4A, eight parks are at the grade 3A and twelve parks are at the grade 2A. Of this total, six scenic places such as Lingshan, Turtle-head Peninsula and Qingming Bridge-Ancient Canal have been selected as demonstration of Yangtze Delta Subject Tourism of World Expo. The number of newly built agriculture tourism sites was 22, and that of characteristic villages and towns of agriculture tourism were respectively three. By the end of 2009 there are 64 hotels with stars, including six five-star hotels and eighteen four-star hotels. One hundred and eighteen tourism agencies have settled in Wuxi and ten of them have the right to organize outbound tourism.

¢ø Finance, Banking and Insurance

Fiscal revenue expanded quickly. The accomplished fiscal revenue was CNY106.199billion, witnessing the year-on-year rise by 16.8%. The percent of fiscal revenue in the local GDP rose by 0.7% up to 21.3%, of which the general budget revenue totaled CNY41.591billion, up by 13.8%; funds income stood at CNY27.201billion, up by 46.4%; and submitted central taxes amounted to CNY37.406billion, up by 4.5% over the last year. The structure adjustment of fiscal expenditure went on. General budget expenditure was CNY40.561billion, up by19.7% and funds budget expenditure of the social insurance was CNY10.044billion, up by 9.7%.

The scale of loan and saving deposit increased. By the end of 2009 saving deposit balance in CNY and foreign currencies in all items of financial institutions totaled CNY740.568billion, rising by 35.0%, and loans in CNY and foreign currencies reached CNY547.494billion, expanding 42.4%. Of total saving deposit, the amount of enterprises was CNY294.976billion, up by 51.4% and that of urban and rural households was CNY273.312billion, up by19.6%. The short-term loans amounted to CNY247.946billion, a year-on-year rise of 22.5% and medium and long-term loans amounted to CNY236.131billion, up by 77.7%. Cash receipts of banks hit CNY1098.614billion, increasing by 8.5% over the last year. The number of cash disbursement was CNY1128.316billion, up by 8.7%, and the net amount of cash in circulation was CNY29.702billion.

Insurance kept the healthy momentum. The premium received by the insurance companies stood at CNY11.131billion, expanding 17.5%. Of this total, property insurance premium was CNY3.173billion, up by 23.9% and life insurance premium amounted to CNY7.958billion, up by 15.2%. Insurance companies paid an indemnity worthy of CNY1.884billion, which rose by 4.4 percent over the last year. The insurance payment expenditure totaled CNY2.025billion, a reduction of 7.7%.

¢ù Science & Technology and Education

The power of science and technology strengthened. There are 135 national and provincial engineering R&D centers, 149 municipal engineering R&D centers, 32 national and provincial scientific incubation service centers and 2 municipal scientific incubation service centers. The number of major research institutes, key labs and public technical service platforms are respectively 37 at the national and provincial levels and 33 at the municipal level.

Hi-tech industries rocketed. The value added generated by hi-tech industries topped 43.9% of industries above the designated scale, up by 2.4 percent over the last year. The main business income in the integrated circuit industry was CNY26.512billion, equivalent to the last year, and that in the photovoltaic industry totaled CNY30.517billion, up by 8.1%. Two hundred and seventy three enterprises were accredited as hi-tech enterprises in accordance with new standards.

Scientific innovations were considerable. Throughout the year of 2009 the application volume went up to 23,683 patents, seeing a rise of 117.3% over the last year. Of the total, application volume of creation patents was 4346, up by 64.6% and the license number was 9364 patents, up by 95.74% compared to the last year. Undertake 280 national and provincial scientific planning projects and acquired appropriation at the national and provincial levels totaled CNY275,000,000.

Educations of all types advanced together. Deepen education reforms continuously and promote demonstrating zones of voluntary education high-level balanced development steadily. Invest CNY420,000,000 in reconstructing 61 relatively weak schools and develop the safety program of primary and secondary school buildings. Make great progresses in regulating the operations of schools and implementing the quality education. By the end of last year, there are 473schools of all types and the enrollment of students totaled 782,500. The popularization ratio of primary schools and junior middle schools reached 100%, and their retention ratios were 109.14% and 98.6% respectively. The enrollment ratio of the disabled children was 98.2%. The promotion ratio of students from junior middle schools went up by 99.9% and the gross enrollment ratio of senior middle schools hit 121.46%. The pre-school education advanced further. Education optimization task in senior middle schools strode forward. Common senior middle schools above three stars and key vocational secondary schools above the provincial level admitted new entrants of 93% total enrollment of senior middle schools. Vocational education zone accommodated six secondary schools and about 60,000 students with a new image. Public practice base was finished and put into operation. Further the bilingual education experiment by newly building 22 bilingual experimental schools in 2009. The quantity of bilingual experimental schools totaled 100 and foreign students in Wuxi exceeded 1000.

¢úCulture, Public Health, Sports£¬and Religion

Culture services and industry accelerated. Culture service was unusually brilliant. Successfully hold China Culture Wu Festival of Wuxi 2009, book fair and flower fair during the spring festival, plaza performing activity and culture spreading activities to rural areas by playing more than 9000 movies as well as 900-plus dramas and giving over 159,000 books. TV series such as Prominent Family and Jiangyin Fastness played in CCTV and attracted so many attentions; feature movie Talking about Wu was selected as one of top 10 documentary movies of 6th Chinese Documentary Movies Competition; and cartoon Running Happily was honored with Excellent Cartoon of China Movie Awards. The cartoon making capacity consolidated further. In 2009 the time spent of cartoon reached 19,214 minutes, which ranked No.1 in Jiangsu and took the second place around China. Give impetus to the restoration project of famed cultural city energetically. Wuxi has been a standing candidate of Annual Outstanding Figures Awarding Ceremony of China Cultural Site Preservation. Big Hongshan Site launched the declaration of National Archaeological Site Park and Helv City Site was chosen as Ten Significant Findings of China in 2008. The development of art-performing groups and culture facilities ran smoothly. By the end of 2009, there were 10 art-performing groups, 9 culture centers, 9 public libraries, 81 culture stations and 18 museums. 10 broadcasting programs operate 208 hours per day and nine local television programs run 1,168 hours per week. Subscribers to cable television programs numbered 1,499,600. Transfer from cable television programs to digital cable television programs was finished basically. Both radio broadcasting and television broadcasting coverage rates were 100%.

Health service proceeded unswervingly. Go on improving health conditions, reforming hospitals administrated by municipal government systematically and optimizing health resource allocation in urban and rural communities. There are 1,981 health institutions including 38 general hospitals, 483 community health service centers and 5 nursing homes. By the end of 2009 the number of health workers totaled 28,571 including 11,360 doctors. All health institutions possessed 24,248 beds of which hospitals and community health service centers owned 23,237 beds. The coverage rate of new rural cooperative healthcare system reached 99.86% and 100% health service systems are complete. The healthcare level advanced. Annual number of treated patients by heath institutions of various types amounted to 30,126,000 person-time, up by 13.5%. Medical research and development produced new achievements such as 47 new technology importing prizes of provincial department of health, and 19 scientific advancement awards at the municipal level including first prize one time and second prize six times. In addition acquire research and development projects above provincial and ministry level, and make six R&D projects and 75 projects to be approved by the provincial department of health and municipal scientific bureau.

Sports service prospered. Improve the national fitness-keeping service system, reconstruct the sports park completely and finish building four national fitness-keeping projects at the provincial level. 32.2% administrative villages met the construction requirements of provincial class I fitness-keeping facilities. Wuxi Shooting & Archery Gym opened. The 10th session of municipal sports meeting was so successful that the scale of games, and number of athletes and teams made records. In 2009 Wuxi athletes won 59 championships, 46 runner-ups and 48 second runner-ups on domestic and international sports events. Particularly Wuxi athletes won eight golden medals, 11 silver medals and eight copper medals and accomplished the historic breakthrough with respect to number of gold medals, number of medals and total scores in the 11th session Chinese National Games. Ding Junhui once again maintained his honor of championship in the Snook UK Championship. National fitness-keep activities spread widely. A long-distance race attracting more than 10,000 participants in the first day of January, Fitness-keeping Month and other large-size popular activities were held and population of participants topped 1.5million. Newly increased Olympic sports clubs of youth were 4 and municipal sports clubs amounted to 18. The physical conditions of 23,500 residents were tested throughout the year for free. Furthermore the sports industry became better, which was verified by 23 international and national events such as World Snook Championship Jiangsu Elites 2009 and World-cup Final of International Shooting Union. The sales amount of sports lotteries totaled CNY1.008billion, a rise of 35.5 percent over the last year.

Union undertaking was robust among nationalities. Finish the 2nd World Buddhism Forum satisfactorily. Religion groups and premises improved. By the end of 2009, there were 220 religion activity premises, 1,489 workers and 365,200 believers.

¢û Population, Livelihood and Social Welfare

The population expanded under the control. According to statistics of public security department, the population of registered residents was 4,656,500, a birth rate was 6.98 per thousand and the death rate was 6.73 per thousand. The natural growth rate was 0.25 per thousand. By the end of 2009, the population of permanent residents reached 6,195,700, up by 1.4%. The expected life span reached 77.5 per person.

Income of residents grew stably. The annual personal disposal income of urban households was CNY25,027, rising by 10.2%. Net income per peasant was CNY12,403, expanding 10.0%. Nonproductive expenditure per capita of urban residents accounted for CNY15,619, up by 12.2%, and that rural resident amounted to CNY8,832, up by 11.2%. Housing conditions improved. The results of sampling survey showed that housing area per capita arrived at 38.4m2 in urban area and 57.7m2 in rural area.

The coverage of social security enlarged. More than 1million people participated in social security program. A total of 1,983,500 people participated in basic pension program, increasing 63,600 people compared to the last year. A total of 2,192,800 people participated in urban basic health insurance program, which were 52,700 people more than last year. A total of 1,433,300 people participated in unemployment insurance program, increasing 60,500 people over the last year. Totally 1,472,300 and 1,330,700 people participate in work accident insurance program and maternity insurance program respectively. By the end of 2009 the number of people receiving unemployment insurance payment stood at 23,300. All retirees of enterprises received their pension from pension insurance program.

Social and welfare services advanced steadily. Social welfare institutions of various types provided 20,000 beds, accommodating 12,700 people with charge or for free. There were 2,208 community service facilities in urban area. A total of 80,286 urban and rural residents received the government minimum living allowances. Throughout the year of 2009, the amount of released minimum living allowances totaled CNY142,000,000. The medical assistance helped 36,400 person-time and consumed CNY2,849,000, The temporary assistance covered 35,800 person-time and cost CNY21,069,000. Nineteen thousand people got various allowances from government. And charitable organizations including some philanthropist funds collected CNY267,000,000 in 2009.

¢ü Environment Protection and Production Security

Environmental quality improved. The percent of days when atmospheric quality is good reached 93.4% of a calendar year. Water quality of 100% central potable sources met applicable standards. The area of 526.26km2 was constructed as fume/dust controlling zone. And areas covering 526.26km2 complied with requirements of ambient noise.

Landscape engineering strengthened. Newly increased area in urban area hit 868 hectares in 2009. By the end of 2009, planting area in parks was 3,229 hectares. Public planting area per capita accounted for 13.56m2 and coverage of green plants in built zones totaled 9,348 hectares.

Work safety was emphasized. There were 1,761 accidents of various types in 2009, resulting in the death of 476 persons. The number of accidents reduced 27.9% and that of dead persons was 6.3% lower, compared to the last year. Rate of death due to work accidents was 0.10 person per GDP of CNY100,000,000.

Notes:

The figures of GDP and the net increases of the added value of each sector in the statistics are calculated according to current prices, while their growth rates are calculated according to comparable prices.