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Statistical Report on Economic and Social Development of Wuxi Municipality in 2004
Wuxi Municipal Statistics Bureau
March 15, 2005

In 2004, guided by the Deng Xiaoping theory and the thoughts of ¡°Three-Represents¡±, the people of Wuxi, under the correct leadership of the CPC Wuxi Municipal Committee and the Wuxi People¡¯s Government, seriously carried out central macroeconomic regulation policy, made more efforts to support the farmers in increasing their revenues. They promoted the city¡¯s process of industrialization, urbanization and internationalization more quickly, and highlighted the development of competitive industries. As a result, the city¡¯s economy, based on a high platform, maintained a growth in another new economic increasing cycle. The vigor and stability of the city¡¯s economy was enhanced continuously. The income of the urban and rural residents increased steadily, while both the city¡¯s economy and social undertakings made progress harmoniously.

¢ñ. Economic Development

Comprehensive Economy
The city¡¯s national economy maintained a high growth rate. Annual GDP of the city was registered at 235.0 billion RMB, a year-on-year growth of 17.4% based on comparable price. The growth rates of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries stood at 2.1%, 19.4% and 15.5%. The ratio of added value of tertiary industry in GDP reached 40.2%, 0.5 percentage points higher than the previous year.
Financial revenue of the city saw a big growth with the figure for 2004 standing at 35.474 billion RMB, up 33.6% on comparable price. Financial revenue accounted for 15.1% of the GDP, 1.1 percentage points higher than the previous year. Of the total, budgetary revenue reached 13.528 billion RMB, up 40.9% on comparable price.

Agriculture and Rural Economy
Agricultural structure was further readjusted. In 2004, the planting areas of summer grain and rapeseed were 30,510 hectares and 19,390 hectares, 9.4% and 9.7% less than the previous year respectively, meanwhile the planting area of rice was 81,120 hectares, 8.7% more than the previous year.
Agricultural output stopped decreasing and experienced certain increasing. The total grain output of the year was 812,700 tons, increasing 13.3% compared to that of the previous year. The output of oil-bearing crops increased by 48.6% with the figure of 36,700 tons, of which the output of rapeseed 36,200 tons, an increasing of 49.6%. The output of silk cocoons and tea reached 603 tons and 4,680 tons, down 16.8% and 4.7% respectively, while that of fruit stood at 78,047 tons, up 26.8%.
Forestry, animal husbandry and fishery developed steadily. Of the major livestock products, the meat production in the year amounted to 146,200 tons, falling by 6.9% year-on-year. Of them, pork, beef and mutton totaled 92,000 tons, increasing by 1.8% over the previous year. Poultry eggs totaled 23,900 tons, down 8.6%. The amount of dairy cattle stood at 24,100 heads, down 12.7%. The total aquatic products output was 113,900 tons, up 1.5%.
The cultivation of towns with strong economic strengths achieved new progress. The industrial and commercial sales volume of the 59 towns under the program totaled 476.510 billion RMB, up 36.8% over the previous year, of which, industry-related and commerce-related sales reached 369.504 billion RMB and 107.006 billion RMB, up 35.2% and 42.7% respectively. The industrial and commercial sales volume of each of the towns of Chengjiang, Zhouzhuang and Huashi exceeded 20 billion RMB, while that of another 14 towns such as: Xinqiao in Jiangyin City(Count), Guanlin in Yixing City(Count), Anzhen in Xishan District, Luoshe in Huishan District, Taihu in Binhu District, Shuofang in New District etc., exceeded 10 billion RMB.

Industry
Industrial production maintained a fast growth. In 2004, the city achieved 123.140 billion RMB of added value in industrial production, increasing by 19.5% year-on-year. The share taken by the state-owned enterprises and those non-state-owned industrial enterprises with an annual sales volume of over 5 million RMB each (hereafter abbreviated as ¡°above-the-scale industrial enterprises¡±) was 108.888 billion RMB, an increase of 24.8% over the previous year. Of the above-the-scale industrial enterprises, state-owned industrial enterprises registered a year-on-year upsurge of 78.4% in their added value, which totaled at 9.118 billion RMB. Meanwhile, the added value of stock-holding companies, collectively owned enterprises, joint stock cooperative enterprises, and foreign cooperative, joint venture and wholly owned enterprises turned out at 32.728 billion RMB, 15.455 billion RMB, 10.510 billion RMB and 31.743 billion RMB respectively, which were 20.0%, 21.8%, 19.3% and 45.9% higher than the previous year. Calculating by light and heavy industries, the added value from light industry was 31.115 billion RMB, making its growth rate stand at 22.0%, while heavy industry achieved an added value of 77.773 billion RMB, growing by 36.2%. Among the 227 major industrial products listed in the statistics, 156 witnessed growth in output when compared with the same period the year before, accounting for 68.7% of the total products in the statistics. 80 products saw an increase of over 15%, accounting for 35.2%. A batch of key products saw big increase in their output with the growth rates of LCD, power-station boiler, IC, synthetic fibre, semiconductor components, internal-combustion engine registering at 81.9%, 78.4%, 37.3%, 28.2%, 26.3%, 23.8%.
The industrial operation quality also saw continuous improvement. The above-the-scale industrial enterprises in the city realized 446.827 billion RMB in sales value, increasing by 37.4%. The sales rate of industrial products was 97.67%. The sales volume of industrial products reached 439.976 billion RMB, an increase of 35.4%. For the first time, the profit & tax and profits earned by the industrial enterprises exceeded 30 billion RMB, 20 billion RMB respectively. The former totaled 32.584 billion RMB, up 23.3% and the latter stood at 21.156 billion RMB, up 26.8%. Comprehensive efficiency index of industrial economies was 178.29%, reaching record high in history and up by 16.15 percentage points over the previous year.

Building Industry
Building industry kept a steady development, realizing a total added value of 12.210 billion RMB, up 17.9%. The productivity of all the construction laborers was 97,800 RMB/person. Total profits and the profit & tax registered at 0.513 billion RMB and 0.485 billion RMB respectively. The total floor space constructed or under construction amounted to 24.5449 million m2, while the finished floor space reached 12.7706 million m2. 15 construction projects won ¡°Yangtze Cup¡±, a Jiangsu provincial quality construction award and 54 won ¡°Lake Tai Cup¡±, a Wuxi municipal award.

Transport and Post and Telecommunications
The city¡¯s transportation capacity was further enhanced. By the end of the year, there were 963,500 motor vehicles in the city, of which 238,900 were automobiles, increasing by 7.1% and 26.0% over the previous year. Private car ownership expanded tremendously with its number totaled at 103,400, 32,100 more than the previous year.
Passenger and cargo transportation increased in an all-round way. Passenger transportation volume reached 174.6847 million person times, up 10%. Cargo transportation volume was registered at 74.311 million tons, up 4.7%. The city¡¯s ports handled a total of 35.43 million tons of cargoes, up 22.6%. The Wuxi airport with 7 airlines such as: the airline from Wuxi to Guangzhou, the airline to Shenzhen, the airline to Beijing became open for transportation on February 18. The airport¡¯s annual passenger transportation volume stood at 326,700 person-times, while its cargo transportation volume was registered at 8351 tons.
The post and telecommunication sector in the city kept the momentum of fast development. The sector realized a total added value of 4.796 billion RMB, growing by 14.9%. The service kinds of the post increased, while the post delivery speed accelerated. In the year, 54,232,500 letters were delivered. The total telephone exchange capacity reached 3,292,600 lines, a net increase of 842,200 lines over the previous year. There were a total of 2,496,800 urban and rural telephone subscribers, 617,300 more than the previous year. Of the total subscribers, there were 1,739,400 residential telephones, while public phones reached 129,500, 226,700 and 35,100 more than the previous year respectively. There were 3,021,300 mobile phone subscribers, 273,400 more than the previous year. The internet users totaled 583,700.

Domestic Trade
The selling rate of social consumer goods increased more quickly. In the year, the total retail volume of social consumer goods was 57.921 billion RMB, up by 18.9 % year-on-year, of which, the urban and rural proportions took up 48.337 billion RMB and 9.584 billion RMB, increasing by 19.3% and 16.9% respectively over the previous year. Of the total volume, the wholesale/retail trading took up 47.303 billion RMB and catering service 9.536 billion RMB, increasing by 19.6% and 18.9% respectively, and other sectors totaled 1.082 billion RMB, down by 4.6%.
Market construction was steadily promoted. By the end of the year, there were 62 specialized commodity transaction markets of various kinds, with an annual transaction volume of over 100 million RMB each. The total transaction volume of such markets for the first time exceeded 100 billion RMB to 104.475 billion RMB, up 56.8%. Of the total, there were 18 markets with an annual transaction volume of over 1 billion RMB each, 6 more than the previous year.

Foreign Trade
The city¡¯s foreign trade obtained a considerable increase. In the year, the foreign trade volume for import and export exceeded US$ 10 billion respectively, fulfilling a historic breakthrough. The total foreign trade volume for both import and export hit US$ 21.846 billion, a year-on-year increase of 51.9%, of which, import took up US$ 10.823 billion and export US$ 11.022 billion, representing increases of 53.4% and 50.5% respectively. Another 840 enterprises of various kinds were empowered with export and import management license, the total number of the enterprises empowered with such license reached 2090. The foreign trade volume for export increased in an all-around way with that of foreign wholly owned enterprises reaching US$ 7.482 billion, up 58.3%, that of specialized foreign trade companies reaching US$ 1.617 billion, up 34.4%, that of the self-run enterprises reaching US$ 1.923 billion, up 37.8%.

Foreign Investment Promotion
Foreign investment witnessed big-margin increase. In the year, the total newly approved FDI projects numbered at 897. The contractual volume of overseas investment and the actually paid-in registered overseas capital during the year were US$ 6.514 billion and US$ 3.258 billion, up 30.1% and 20.6%, while among the actually paid-in registered capital, the capital with report on its being fully funded reached US$ 2.096 billion. The number of the newly approved projects with an investment of over US$ 10 million each reached 388, while their contractual volume of overseas investment was US$ 5.714 billion, accounting for 87.7% of the city¡¯s total volume. Service trade utilized foreign capital at a rapid speed, contractual volume of overseas investment was US$ 1.049 billion, up 30.5%, accounting for 16.1% of the city¡¯s total volume.

Labor Service Cooperation
Foreign economic cooperation witnessed steady development. In the year, the newly signed foreign engineering and labor service cooperation contracts involved a total contractual volume of US$ 0.123 billion, an increase of 59.9%. Business volume reached US$ 0.121 billion, up by 40.9%. By the end of the year, there were 1,019 persons still working overseas, witnessing an increase of 35.9%. In this year, one more enterprise was granted with overseas labor contract management rights by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation. By the end of the year, 17 enterprises obtained such rights, and all passed annual assessment by the Ministry.

Self-Employed and Private Businesses
Self-employed and private businesses achieved progress at a rapid pace, keeping a momentum of strong growth and becoming the backbones in the city¡¯s economic advancement. The total number of such businesses in the city reached 171,400, with a workforce of 865,900 and a registered capital of 88.410 billion RMB, representing increases of 7.7%, 18.2% and 35.8% respectively over the previous year. They created 85.566 billion RMB of wealth, generated 287.292 billion RMB of total industrial output value, achieved 22.662 billion RMB of the total retail sales volume of consumer goods, and turned over 8.051 billion RMB of taxes, accounting for 36.4%, 62.8%, 39.1% and 22.7% of the total in the city respectively. In this year, a total of 35.216 billion RMB was invested in fixed assets of the sector, up 64.5%.

Finance and Insurance
Financial institutions saw a speedup in loan provision and deposits. By the end of the year, the total balance of deposits of all kinds operated by various financial institutions was 258.516 billion RMB, that of loans and credits 180.245 billion RMB, up by 19.9% and 23.5% respectively over the previous year. Of the total deposits, 99.659 billion RMB was from companies and 116.016 billion RMB from urban and rural residents, up 20.5% and 16.3% respectively. Of the loans, 118.296 billion RMB fell into the category of short-term loans while 40.910 billion RMB was medium and long-term loans, increasing by 22.1% and 31.3% respectively as compared to the previous year. Of the medium and long-term loans, 15.208 billion RMB was individual loans, up by 32.1%. Banks¡¯ cash draw-in totaled 674.672 billion RMB, while their draw-out stood at 684.9 billion RMB, up by 31.6% and 32.1% respectively. The net amount of cash put into circulation in the year totaled 10.228 billion RMB.
The insurance sector expanded steadily. The total premium and deposit volume in the year was 6.036 billion RMB, a year-on-year growth of 4.6%. Of the total, the premium income of property insurance was 1.298 billion RMB, up 36.6% over the previous year, while the premium income of life insurance was 4.739 billion RMB, just the same as the previous year. The total volume of indemnity paid out was 0.863 billion RMB, up by 30.1%. The property and life insurance (short-term) indemnity rates stood at 52.6% and 3.8% respectively.

Real Estate
Real estate development continued to expand. In the year, the sector realized a total added value of 8.851 billion RMB and a total investment of 19.558 billion RMB in real estate development, increasing by 18.6% and 48.4% respectively. The construction area of housing for sale covered 15.4823 million m2, up by 20.7% and the completed area was 4.8335 million m2. A brisk market was witnessed in commodity housing with the total sold floor space reaching 4.1006 million m2, up 34.6%. The sales volume of commodity housing was 10.392 billion RMB, up 53.9%.

Tourism
With the further improvement of tourism facilities, both the number of tourists and generated income saw big growth. The city received a total of 539,500 person times of overseas visitors including tourists and visitors with various purposes, representing an increase of 23.2% over the previous year. The total number of domestic visitors reached 22.0156 million person times, up 24.7% over the previous year. The sector generated an income of 22.968 billion RMB, up 27.2%. Of the total, the foreign exchange earned reached US$ 207 million. There were 28 scenic attractions, each visited by over 100,000 tourists annually. Of the 28 sites, 5 were certified as national 4A grade sites, 2 as 3A grade ones, 10 as 2A grade ones, 1 as 1A grade site, putting the city in the first place in the number of A-grade sites. By the end of the year, among the 67 star-rated hotels in the city, there were 3 five-star and 16 four-star hotels.

Investment in Fixed Assets
Investment in fixed assets increased slowly with investment structure further improved. The total fixed assets investment in the city was 111.413 billion RMB, an increase of 24.7% over the previous year. Of the total figure, the proportions taken by the above-scale companies reached 107.275 billion RMB, an increase of 23%. Among such investment, investment in infrastructure, reconstruction & upgrading and real estate was 62.516 billion RMB, 25.201 billion RMB, 19.558 billion RMB, up 27.5%, a little and 48.4% respectively. Divided by ownerships, the state-owned sector accounted for 19.221 billion RMB, down 4.9%, while foreign-invested businesses and other kinds of sectors accounted for 23.658 billion RMB, 64.395 billion RMB, up 24.5% and 34.1% respectively. Infrastructure construction took up 25.385 billion RMB, up 12.2%. 3,036 projects (without real estate projects), the investment of each of which reached over 500,000 RMB, were completed and went into operation, accounting for 71.0%. The newly added value of the city¡¯s fixed assets was 76.195 billion RMB with a project inauguration rate of 69.4%.

Market Price
Market price saw an increase. In 2004, the consumer price index (CPI) for the city residents was 104.0. The overall price level increased 4.0% over the previous year. Of them, prices for service items raised 1.2% while those for consumer commodities registered an increase of 4.8%. In the 8 categories of consumer prices listed in the statistics, 6 witnessed price rise, which were food-stuff (up 11.2%), tobacco, alcohol and related products (up 0.6%), clothing (up 1.2%), daily utensils and maintenance (up 0.3%), entertainment, education and cultural products and services (up 0.9%), housing-related products (up 3.6%), while 2 saw price drop, which were health care and personal articles (down 4.4%), transportation and telecommunication (down 1.9%).
Factory prices for industrial goods saw remarkable growth. In 2004, the general factory price index for industrial products was 107.3, up 7.3% over the previous year. According to survey data, the prices for light industrial goods, heavy industrial goods, production means, living means increased in all an-around way, up by 1.7%, 13.8%, 8.3% and 0.3% respectively. Of the 33 industrial categories listed in the statistics, 25 categories registered rises in their factory prices, accounting for 75.8% of the total number of the industrial categories, while the number of the categories which registered rises in their factory prices was 22.7 percentage points higher than that of the previous year. 7 categories saw a rapid increase of over 10%. Of the 7 categories, 6 categories such as farm, byproducts and food processing, petroleum, coking and nuclear fuel processing, chemical fiber manufacturing, ferrous metals smelting and processing, non-ferrous metals smelting and processing, water production and supply etc. saw an increase of wide margin, up 12.2%, 15.1%, 15.7%, 23.9%, 32.1% and 14.9% over the previous year respectively.

¢ò Social Undertakings

Science and Technology
Science and technology strength was further enhanced. By the end of the year, the city had a contingent of 309,900 specialized personnel with various qualifications. There were altogether 13 provincial and national engineering research institutions, while there were 18 municipal engineering research institutions. There were 5 provincial and national service centers for innovating undertakings in science and technology, while there were 8 such municipal service centers. 119 more provincial private hi-tech enterprises were set up, as a result the total number of such enterprise stood at 639. The technology contracts value reached 3.612 billion RMB.
Hi-tech industries achieved high-speed development. The added value of hi-tech industries accounted for 30.31% of the total generated by the city¡¯s above-scale companies, 2 percentage points more than the previous year. The total number of provincial and national hi-tech enterprises reached 604, 74 respectively.
Patent applications saw continuous growth in number. The 10,000-people training program on intellectual property rights was carried out in an all-around way. The personnel who had been trained under the program reached 6,423 person times. 3,279 patent applications were submitted, up 51.81%, while 1371 applications were approved, up 1.48%.
Scientific and technological innovation achieved great results. Ten technological indexes ranked 1st in the whole province. The contribution rate of technological advancement to agriculture reached 58.50%. In 2004, there were 99 newly approved provincial hi-tech enterprises. An appropriation of 97.51 million RMB was listed in the provincial earmarked fund for technology development. 183 projects were listed in the provincial technology development program and an appropriation of 84 million RMB was listed in provincial special fund for the commercialization of the preliminary key research findings. The ratio of output value of the hi-tech products in the whole province reached 24.26%. The sales volume of the hi-tech products was 54.588 billion RMB. 26.55% of the sales volume of all the products for export was that of the hi-tech products for export. 38 projects were listed as national key and new products, and 107 projects were listed in provincial Torch Program, ranking the first in the whole province respectively. The rate of contribution by technological advancement to industrial growth reached 48.73%, ranking the second in the whole province.

Education
Education of all kinds and at all levels achieved further development. By the end of the year, the total number of education institutions of all kinds and at all levels stood at 687. The total number of students stood at 800,200, increasing by 2,7600 over the previous year. Of the total students, 61,300 were in 4-year colleges, 129,00 more than the previous year; 63,800 in polytechnics, 18,800 more than the year before; 31,900 in technical schools, 9,300 more than the previous year; 19,100 in vocational schools, 4,300 more than the year before; 300,200 in normal high schools, decreasing by 9,300 over the previous year and 322,700 in primary schools, 7,100 less than the previous year. The entrance rate of primary and junior middle school students both maintained at 100%. 100% primary school students and 99.5% junior middle school students completed their study. The entrance rate for the blind, deaf and retarded children stood at over 98.5%. 96.26% of the junior middle school graduates went on further to senior middle schools. 30.6 in every 10,000 students passed the enrollment line for 4-year full-time university study in the entrance examination with the overall enrollment rate to higher learning institutions standing at 89.8%. Educational modernization was further accelerated. 100% of the central primary schools and those above the central level were equipped with wide-band connection to the city¡¯s education web. In the year, 45 school websites were newly completed in the city (the total number of the schools with completed websites reached 380), and the schools were equipped with over 9,000 computers, the ratio between the number of teachers/students and computers in the schools was 10.8:1. The coverage of excellent resources of basic education was constantly expanded with a new addition of 14 provincial demonstration normal high schools, 8 provincial experimental primary schools and 5 provincial experimental kindergartens. All the 29 provincial important senior middle schools passed the provincial assessment and acceptance check for star-level senior middle schools, while another 4 senior middle schools and 1 passed the provincial 3-star level and 4-star level assessment and acceptance check respectively.

Cultural Undertakings
Cultural undertakings presented a colorful and diversified scene. A series of cultural events were successfully conducted during the year including ¡°the 7th China International Chorus Festival¡±, ¡°the Sino-Japan Calligraphy and Painting Interflow Exhibition¡±, ¡°the Same Song Walking in Wuxi¡±, the large folk music show of ¡°the 1,000-player Chinese Violin Performance¡±, which broke the Guinness World Records. Over 150 square performances such as ¡°vigorous weekend¡± performance were conducted and over 50 welfare shows were staged. Arts troupes of high artistic excellence such as the Shanghai Song & Dance Ensemble, the German Edsen Chorus Ensemble presented 43 shows in 85 performances. Dance drama ¡°the Red River Valley¡± was listed in the preliminary plays of national stage artic competitive products program from 2004 to 2005. The construction of performing art troupes and cultural facilities witnessed steady development. By the end of the year, there were altogether 8 specialized professional performing art troupes in the city, 9 art galleries and cultural centers, 120 cultural stations, 9 public libraries and 5 museums (under the administration of the cultural bureau).
Radio and TV transmission saw vigorous development. Wuxi People¡¯s Broadcasting Station operated 8 frequencies, broadcasting 146 hours and 15 minutes of programs daily. Wuxi TV station has 12 channels, transmitting 1423 hours weekly. Subscribers of Wuxi Cable TV amounted to 1,061,800 households, with TV and radio coverage rates both reaching 100%.

Health Care
Health care facilities continued to improve. There were 1,643 medical institutions of various kinds, among which were 38 comprehensive hospitals, 18 specialized hospitals, 6 Chinese and western medicine combined hospitals, 113 hospitals at town (township) level and 5 rehabilitation homes. The total number of medical workers was 2,2000, of which were 9,700 licensed medical doctors. The total number of beds for patient treatment was 19,000, of which 12,000 were in the hospitals. The number of medical workers per 10,000 people averaged at 50, of which 22 were doctors and 16 were nurses, while that of beds for medical treatment averaged at 43, of which 27 were beds in hospital.
Medical level was further raised. The volume of diagnoses and treatment done by hospitals at different levels reached 17.67 million person times, up by 8.7% over the previous year. The total number of inpatients received by the 9 hospitals under the administration of the municipality was 150,000 person times, up 12.6% over the previous year, of which 96.7% were either cured or achieved improvements when discharged from hospital. The occupancy rate of hospital beds was 121.4%. New results were achieved in medical research. The city won 39 provincial awards for introducing new technologies, among which were 5 1st price awards and 34 2nd price awards. Assessments on 58 scientific research projects were completed, among which 10 were at the provincial level.

Sports
Mass sports activities were carried out in various forms. A series of sport events for all were undertaken by the city such as ¡°the 6th Wuxi Exercise for All Festival and the 9th Exercise Week for ALL¡±, the activity with the theme of ¡°Getting Fit through Half an Hour Exercise a Day¡± and the activity of ¡°Crossing the Tai Lake by the First Single Person¡±. The ¡°8-one Project¡± achieved satisfactory results. Over 70% of the total towns and over 90% of the communities matched the requirements of the ¡°8-one Project¡±. The construction of 6 new exercise facilities for the general public was launched and 111 exercise spots were built, adding 80,000©O of new exercise space. 45% of the total population in this city took part in exercising. 100% of the city¡¯s schools at different levels and of different kinds continued to apply the ¡°National Physical Exercise Standard¡± in physical education with 97% of the students both in primary and senior high schools taking part in the program.
Athletic sports achieved new glories. The city paid adequate attention to the preparation for the 16th Provincial Sports Games. The city actively trained and contributed excellent reserves. As a result, in the year, the city contributed 65 athletes to the province, of which 29 to provincial professional sports teams, 33 to provincial teenage sports school, 3 to PLA sports teams. 738 athletes in the city participated in 30 provincial youth and teenage contests, winning 120.5 gold medals and hitting a total score of 3183.5, respectively ranking the 3rd and the 4th in the whole province. Athletes from the city also won 11 gold, 30 sliver and 25 bronze medals in the national youth and teenage contests of various kinds.
Commercial operation on sport events gained steady development. The city successfully hosted a number of top-level international events such as ¡°U19 Asian Young Women¡¯s Football Championship¡±, ¡°2004 Panasonic Table-tennis Prize-giving Competition¡±, receiving overwhelming appraise from all walks of life. In the year, the city hosted all kinds of over 200 competitions in over 50 events, among which there were 4 international events, 5 national events. The sales volume of sports lotteries exceeded 0.17 billion RMB.
Sports facilities made remarkable improvement. The new stadium of the Wuxi Sports Center was put into operation at the end of August and the city hosted 19 events in it. The projects of the Tennis Stadium and Wuxi Sports School were fully completed.

¢ó Urban Construction

Urban Planning and Management
Key projects were forcefully carried out. The construction of the city¡¯s mainlines of ¡°six roads from north to south and two roads from east to west¡± was carried out successfully, as a result the roads such as Gaolang Road, Jincheng Road, Lihu Road were completed. With the completion of the projects of the Jiefang Ring Road, the Tangnan Road, Lixi Road, great progress was made in the construction of urban road network. The Yinxiu Road of the New Lihu City¡¯s road network was completed for traffic and Shuanghong Road was basically completed. The Park of the New Lihu City was completed for public. The total length of roads being constructed was 36 km, covering an area of 1150,000m2. 43 bridges, small and large, were constructed. The constructed urban areas reached 188.14 km2, resulting from continued expansion.

Public Utilities
Public utilities were more complete. 8 bus routes were newly opened, and 22 were extended or optimized. 200 buses were newly bought or refurbished, 100 bus stations(shelters) were newly completed. Urban households using pipeline gas as fuel totaled 126,700, while those using liquefied petroleum gas reached 558,900. The gas user coverage rate was 92.5%. Daily water supply capacity stood at 1,338,000 tons, with actual total volume of water supply reaching 266.70 million tons. The total consumption of electricity in the city reached 28.970 billion kw/hour, up 21.3% over the previous year. Of the total figure, industrial and urban/rural household consumption were 24.724 billion kw/hour and 2.031 billion kw/hour, up 23.5% and 14.5% respectively.
Environmental Protection and Treatment
Urban environmental quality was further improved. In the year, the number of the days with atmosphere quality above fine level accounted for 80.9% of the total. The annual atmospheric pollution index averaged at 80, 98% of the sources for drinking water reached relevant standards, while over 95% of industrial wastewater met the set standard for discharge. In the city, 6 environment monitoring stations at various levels and 46 soot and dust control zones were established, covering an area of 505.4 km2. 44 zones met all the noise reduction standards, covering an area of 362.0 km2.

Urban Vegetation
Work on urban vegetation was further reinforced with 1,603 hectares green coverage newly added within the year. By the end of the year, there was 1,833 hectares of afforested areas in the city¡¯s open public space. The per capita vegetation in public space was 8.2 m2, and the green coverage rate within the constructed urban areas was 37.5%.

¢ô. People¡¯s Livelihood

Population
Population scale expanded in an orderly way. According to the statistics from the Public Security Bureau, by the end of 2004, the registered population in the city stood at 4.4719 million. Birth rate was 7.77¡ë, while the death rate was 6.82¡ë. The natural population growth rate was 0.95¡ë.

Employment
Work on employment and reemployment received tangible progress. A total of 137,500 person times of people in the city were newly employed, among which were 51,800 urban unemployed workers. The net increase of new job opportunities was 95,700. 19,300 laid-off workers holding ¡°Reemployment Priority Card¡± were offered with new job, among whom 13,200 were within the age range of 40 for female and 50 for male. The overall reemployment rate for laid-off workers stood at 56.66%. The registered unemployment rate was 3.48% with 38,400 urban residents registering as unemployed at the end of the year.

Income and Housing
Incomes for residents were on the steady growth. The average annual salary for urban workers employed by collective organizations or above was 22,126 RMB, up by 16.9% over the previous year, while the average per capita disposable income was 13,588 RMB, up by 16.7%. Average net income for farmers was 7,230 RMB, an increase of 14.2%. Every 100 urban households in the city possessed 161 color TVs, 99 refrigerators, 147 air conditioners, 48 PCs, 6 video cameras and 129 mobile phones, while every 100 rural households had 128 color TVs, 71 refrigerators, 95 wash machines and 88 air conditioners, 114 mobile phones and 11PCs. People¡¯s housing conditions were further improved. According to a sample survey, the per capita average living space for the urban residents reached 25.86 m2, while that for rural residents amounted to 53.5 m2 .The per head average bank deposit in RMB and foreign currencies by urban and rural residents was equivalent to 27,076 RMB, an increase of 3,158 RMB over the previous year.
Social Security
The social security system was further improved with further expansion in its coverage rate. The number of the people who participated in the basic pension insurance system and the number in basic medical care insurance exceed 1 million respectively. In the year 2004 191,300 more people were asked to participate in the basic pension insurance system for corporate employees by the requirements of the government, as a result, the total number of the people who actually participated in such system reached 1,088,100, 123,300 more than the previous year, while the total number of the people who should have participated in such system by the government¡¯s requirements reached 191,300. A newly added 120,800 people participated in the basic medical care insurance, making the total number stand at 1.2738 million. Those covered by unemployment insurance for corporate employees totaled 832,100, 85,000 more than the previous year, while by the end of 2004, 22,000 received unemployment insurance payment. 703,800 people were covered by insurance on job-related injuries and 696,300 were covered by insurance on birth-giving. Socialized service rate for the payment of pensions to corporate retirees reached 100%.
Social Welfare
The welfare undertakings of the city witnessed steady development. There were in the city 10,250 beds in different kinds of welfare institutions, where 7,612 people were taken in. 3054 community service facilities of various types were established in the urban areas. 68,174 people received the minimum income relief, while 74.0559 million RMB was put into use as minimum income relief. 198,000 people were prioritized with special care. A total of 35.10 million RMB was received as social donations within the year.

Notes:
1. All the figures in the report are preliminary statistics.
2. 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.