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Statistical Report On Economic and Social Development

Of Wuxi Municipality in 2007

Wuxi Municipal Statistics Bureau

February 27th, 2008

In 2007, led by CPC Wuxi Committee and Wuxi Municipal Government, directed by the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the ¡°Three Representatives¡±, people of Wuxi integrated the concept of scientific development into the programming of the city¡¯s overall development. Targeting at the aim of building itself into a pioneer and exemplary area of harmonic and scientific development and modernization in Jiangsu Province, and to realize a fast and quality development of the economy, Wuxi pushed forward works in all circles, strengthened the construction of a well-off society, strengthened economic structure readjustment, accelerated the progress of industrialization, informationalization, and globalization, built a harmonious society on the basis of human needs, and fulfilled significant achievement in the economic and social development. Wuxi improved its comprehensive economic strength remarkably, achieved progress of social undertakings in an all around way, upgraded people¡¯s life at a steady pace and optimized eco-construction and environmental protection.

¢ñ Comprehensive

The city¡¯s national economy maintained a high growth rate. Based on a primary calculation, Wuxi¡¯s GDP totaled 385.854 billion Yuan, a 15.3 percent increase in comparable price terms over the previous year. Of this, the output value of primary industry hit 5.502 billion Yuan, a growth of 5.6 percent, secondary industry reached 225.636 billion Yuan, an increase of 14.8 percent, and tertiary industry hit 154.716 billion Yuan, up 16.4 percent. Based on the residential population, the per capita GDP reached 65212 Yuan, or US$ 8928 converted according to the current exchange rate. The proportion of the added value of the tertiary sectors in the city¡¯s overall GDP was 40.1 percent, an increase of 1.3 percent point.

Employment and reemployment projects pressed forward steadily. The employed numbered 3252300 at the end of 2007, an increase of 173300 over the end of the previous year. The job openings involved an increase of 112600, or a net increase of 84500 over the previous year. 53700 laid-down people got reemployed, and 16300 laid-down people holding Employment Priority Card were assisted and reemployed. The unemployment rate was 3.27 percent.

Non-state-owned businesses realized a steady development. They maintained the fast and strong developing momentum in the previous year and the scale and benefit continued to increase. In 2007, there were a total of 264200 non-state-owned businesses in the city, a net growth of 18000 over the previous year. The employed totaled 1555600 and the registered capital reached 225.945 billion Yuan, an increase of 19.9 percent over the previous year. The added value of non-state-owned businesses reached 225.712 billion Yuan, up 18.2 percent over the previous year, accounting for 58.5 percent ( up 3.3 percentage )of the total economic volume in the city. The total industrial production reached 637.834 billion Yuan, an increase of 21.9 percent. Tax payment hit 26.725 billion Yuan, up 28.7 percentage. 82.771 billion Yuan was thrown into the fixed asset of non-state-owned businesses, a 9.1 percent rise.

Market goods and services prices saw a fast increase. The consumption price index increased by 3.8 percent, 2.1 percentage higher than the previous year. The service prices increased by 1.5 percent, the prices for consumer commodities increased by 4.4 percent, the retail prices increased by 2.5 percent. Factory prices for industrial goods increased by 3.5 percent. The purchasing prices for raw materials, fuel and power increased 5.5 percent.

¢ò Agriculture

Agriculture maintained a steady progress. A series of favorable policies were implemented to develop agriculture. Thanks to the favorable weather condition, grain production increased and farmers¡¯ income continued to grow at a good momentum. In 2007, the total grain production reached 801000 tons, up 2.9 percent over the previous year. The total output of oil-bearing crops was 17600 tons, a decrease of 39.7 percent; and that of rape seed 16900 tons, a decrease of 39.9 percent. The output of silkworm cocoons reached 347 tons, a 11.9 percent drop; that of tea 6791 tons, an increase of 14.5 percent; and that of fruit 122390 tons, up 14.6 percent.

The plant structure had changed. In 2007, the planting area of grains was 125350 hectares, an increase of 6330 hectares. The planting area of oil-bearing crops was 9700 hectares, a decrease of 7410 hectares from the previous year. The planting area of vegetables was 36200 hectares, 2040 hectares more than the previous year.

Forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries continued progressing. Of the major livestock products, meat output was 136809 tons, down 4.3 percent. Of this, pork, mutton and beef added up to 88382 tons, a drop of 5.3 percent; and that of eggs 31511 tons, up 27.9 percent. There were 26700 heads of milk cattle, an increase of 3.1 percent. The production of aquatic products was 129200 tons, down 1.6 percent.

Satisfactory results had been achieved in strengthening the economically developed towns, which numbered 53. In 2007, they achieved industrial and commercial sales of 877.283 billion Yuan, an increase of 23.6 percent from the previous year. Of this, sales of industrial enterprises reached 669.532 billion Yuan, up 27.2 percent. The two kinds of sales of Chengjiang, Huashi and Zhouzhuang all surpassed 60 billion Yuan, those of Guanlin surpassed 50 billion Yuan, and those of Xiagang, Xinqiao and Qianqiao all exceeded 30 billion Yuan.

The construction of socialist new rural area enjoyed a new start. Efforts were made to push forward the key projects in the construction of new rural area. Scientific programs were mapped out to build a modern rural area. 1266 natural villages moved into urban area or new rural communities. Cooperation was strengthened between rural organizations and 260 model cooperative organizations were set up. Modern agriculture and agricultural industrialization were developed. A total of 15 characteristic modern agriculture parks were established with large scale and high level. The rural social guarantee system was established and improved. The old-age support system served 87.5 percent of the city¡¯s farmers.79.8 percent of young farmers received training on vocational skills. Rural forestation was pressed forward, 74.9 percent of the rural roads were lined with trees. Financial help was offered to rural families in difficulty. The city made efforts to promote the activity of ¡°building new modernization model villages¡±. 71.3 percent of the city¡¯s villages were built into models of provincial hygienic villages.

¢ó Industry and Building Trade

Industrial production maintained a fast growth. The added value of the industrial enterprises each with annual sales of over 5 million Yuan (hereinafter referred to as above-scale industrial enterprises) reached 206.121 billion Yuan, an increase of 18.5 percent. So far as heavy and light industries concerned, the added value of the latter reached 53.330 billion Yuan and the former was 152.791 billion Yuan. Of the 263 manufactured goods covered by the city¡¯s statistics, 180 (68.4 percent of the total) had a gain in production. Of this, 92 (35.0 percent of the total) registered an increase of 15 percent.

High quality was achieved in terms of industrial economic operation. The above-scale industrial enterprises achieved sales of 885.808 billion Yuan, a 22.2 percent increase. Products sales rate was 97.88 percent, 0.18 percentage point lower over the previous year. The tax revenue reached 69.687 billion Yuan, up 32.2 percent, of which the profit was 49.145 billion Yuan, an increase of 36.7 percent. Loss enterprises suffered 13.5 percent of loss, and the loss amounted to 3.058 billion Yuan, an increase of 8.6 percent over the previous year. The index of the comprehensive benefits of the industrial economy reached 221 percent, a historical high and 20.87 percentage points higher than the previous year.

Building trade maintained a steady development. In 2007, its added value reached 12.164 billion Yuan, up 3.6 percent on a year-on-year basis. The profit reached 1.567 billion Yuan and the tax payment was 1.064 billion Yuan. 32011800 square meters of building area were under construction. 2 projects won the ¡°Luban Prize¡± National Quality Project, 18 projects were awarded the Yangtze Cup Quality Project of Jiangsu.

¢ô Fixed Asset Investment

The fixed asset investment increased at a steady pace and optimized structure. In 2007, a total of 167.422 billion Yuan was spent on fixed asset investment, 13.5 percent more than the previous year. In terms of types of project, construction projects, installation projects and equipment purchases received 81.928 billion Yuan, 8.032 billion Yuan, and 51.077 billion Yuan, up by 16.1 percent, 4.7 percent and 4.5 percent respectively, others, 26.385 billion Yuan, up 29.5 percent. In terms of types of industry, the primary industry had an investment of 0.213 billion Yuan, up by 74.0 percent, the secondary industry, 88.556 billion Yuan, up by 8.9 percent, and the tertiary industry, 78.652 billion Yuan, up by 19.1 percent. In terms of types of ownership, state-owned enterprises received 25.043 billion Yuan, foreign-funded businesses, 41.510 billion Yuan, and others, 100.868 billion Yuan. In 2007, the urban area completed 1402 projects of fixed assets investment, meanwhile 76.3 percent of the total projects went into operation. The newly added fixed asset was 86.669 billion Yuan. 72.1 percent of the fixed asset was put into use.

The real estate sector had a steady development. In 2007, its added value was 13.8 12billion Yuan, an increase of 15.2 percent over the last year. A total of 37.812 billion Yuan was spent on real estate development, up 36.6 percent. In 2007, 27.1110 million square meters of commercial houses were under construction, a 17.2 percent rise. 73.753 million square meters finished construction, a decrease of 6.5 percent. In 2007, the tatal sold floor space of commodity housing reached 7.6774 million M2 , up 18.4 percent , the sales of commercial houses reached 35.107 billion Yuan, up 35.3 percent.

¢õ Domestic Trade

There was a sharp increase in sales of consumer goods. Retail sales of consumer goods increased 18.3 percent to 113.475 billion Yuan. This included 95.672 billion Yuan of urban retail sales, a 18.7 percent increase; and 17.803 billion Yuan of rural retail sales, a 16.2 percent increase. Wholesale trade sales reached 100.784 billion Yuan, a 17.6 percent increase; while that of the accommodation and catering trade increased by 25.8 percent to 10.842 billion Yuan. The retail sales of other trades reached 1.849 billion Yuan, up 11.8 percent. Commercial house, automobile, communication and tourism maintained a fast pace. The retail sales of automobiles increased 10.7 percent, home appliances and audio and video equipment, 15.4 percent, building and decoration materials, 81.9 percent, food, beverage, cigarette and alcohol, 18.1 percent, garment, shoe and textile products, 15.7 percent, and jewelry, 32.9 percent.

Market construction pressed ahead steadily. At the end of 2007, the city had 63 markets each handing at least 100 million Yuan worth of merchandises, their transaction value reached 202.728 billion Yuan, up 20.5 percent. These markets had a total of 36221 stalls. Among these markets, 15 were comprehensive markets, 41 were specialized ones and 7 were of other types. The specialized markets realized a trade volume of 160.618 billion Yuan, up 17.1 percent over the previous year. New-type circulation industry and modern management saw fast development.

¢ö Open Economy

Foreign Trade progressed with strong momentum. Imports and exports reached US¡ç51.146 billion, a 30.5 percent increase. Of this, imports were valued at US¡ç21.825 billion, an increase of 23.0 percent; exports US¡ç29.321 billion, an increase of 36.8 percent. 5076 Enterprises had import transactions and export transactions. Among them, those each achieved a volume of over 100 million US¡ç totaled 66. Productive enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises witnessed a fast growth in export. The export volume of productive enterprises was 6.333 billion Yuan, up 46.4 percent and accounting for 21.6 percent of the city¡¯s total. The export volume of foreign-funded enterprises reached US¡ç21.431 billion, a 37.9 percent increase and accounting for 73.1 percent of the city¡¯s total. Professional foreign trade companies saw a drop of 1.2 percent in their export. Non-state-owned enterprises fulfilled a rapid increase in export with a total export volume of US¡ç5.763 billion in 2007, up 56.5 percent over the previous year and accounting for 19.7 percent of the city¡¯s total.

Foreign funds structure was further optimized. In 2007, a total of 496 projects were approved to be undertaken using foreign funds. The contractual volume of overseas investment was US¡ç 5.749 billion. Foreign registered capital already thrown into the projects reached US¡ç2.752 billion, a 0.7 percent rise. The number of newly approved projects each valued at US¡ç30 million or more reached 33, an increase of 9 over the previous year. By the end of 2007, 73 of the world¡¯s top corporations invested in 138 foreign enterprises.

Economic cooperation with the outside world made steady progress. In 2007, the value of contracts signed with foreign countries for provision of labor services and for the undertaking of engineering projects reached US¡ç0.32 billion, a 10.3 percent rise. The completed business volume reached US¡ç0.245 billion, a 22.4 percent increase. A total of 1759 people (an increase of 36.6 percent) worked in foreign countries. At the end of 2007, 26 enterprises had the rights to contract for foreign engineering projects and labor services from the Ministry of Foreign Economic Trade, meanwhile of the 26, 5 were foreign labor services cooperation ones. In the year, the city completed 67 overseas investment projects , and multiplied by 2.6, the investment reached US $ 0.11 billion¡£

¢÷ Transportation, Posts & Telecommunications, Tourism

Social transport capability increased continuously. At the end of last year, there were 1103600 motor vehicles in the city, up 9.6 percent compared with the previous year. This included 432300 automobiles, an increase of 21 percent. Private cars increased to 256700, or 59500 more than the previous year.

Passenger and cargo transportation achieved overall growth. In 2007, more than 233.54 million people were transported, a figure 4.1 percent more than the previous year; while the 107.61 million tons of cargo transported was a 4.2 percent increase. Cargoes handled by the city¡¯s wharves reached 146.32 million tons, an increase of 24.9 percent. Wuxi Airport went into service on February 18, 2004 and had since been operating flights to Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Beijing, and HongKong etc. Over the past year, some 1359800 people were transported by air, up 47.0 percent.

Posts and telecommunications developed apace. In 2007, the sector fulfilled a trade volume of 7.835 billion Yuan, up 16.1 percent over the previous year. A total of 101.17 million mail items were delivered. 4.434 million of express mail service items were delivered, an increase of 21.8 percent. At the end of 2007, Wuxi boasted 4.1834 million landlines, an increase of 0.117 million. Telephone subscribers in the urban and rural areas numbered 3.0924 million. This included 1.0629 million mobile home phones . Also in 2007, Wuxi boasted 5.04 million cellular phones, an increase of 0.7261 million users of cellular phones. The number of Internet subscribers reached 654000.

Domestic and international tourism had a steady development. In 2007, Wuxi received 761500 foreign visitors, a number just the same as that of the previous year, and 33.5076million domestic visitors, up 10.5 percent. Tourism income thus made added up to 44.576 billion Yuan, up 18.3 percent, including US¡ç0.362 billion made from international tourism, up 14.2 percent. Wuxi boasted 34 scenic areas each with a capacity of receiving more than 100,000 people annually. Wuxi had 1 5A national scenic area, 11 4A national ones as well as 7 3A and 11 2A areas. At the end of 2007, the city had 66 star hotels, including 4 five-star and 18 four-star ones.

¢ø Finance, Banking and Insurance

The same year saw an impressive increase in financial revenue, which reached 70.690 billion Yuan, a 37.4 percent increase over the previous year. Its proportion of the city¡¯s GDP was 18.3 percent, which was 2.6 percentage points higher than the previous year. Of this, ordinary budgeted revenue reached 30.058 billion Yuan, an increase of 36.1 percent; the fund income reached 11.147 billion Yuan, an increase of 66.7 percent; four-taxes revenue turned over to the state reached 29.485 billion Yuan, an increase of 30.0 percent. The structure of financial expenditure maintained adjustment. Ordinary budgeted expenditure reached 27.082 billion Yuan, an increase of 26.9 percent; fund budgeted expenditure reached 11.261 billion Yuan, an increase of 64.0 percent.

Savings and loans of financial institutions increased at a fast pace. At the end of 2007, the balance of RMB and foreign currency savings in various financial institutions totaled 441.183 billion Yuan, an increase of 13.0 percent; the balance of RMB and foreign currency loans was 324.606 billion Yuan, up 18.8 percent. Of the balance of savings, that of enterprises was 177.691 billion Yuan, up 28.5 percent, savings of urban and rural residents was 173.005 billion Yuan, up 2.4 percent. Of the balance of loans, short-term loans was 188.423 billion Yuan, an increase of 15.9 percent, long and medium-tern loans was 102.168 billion Yuan, an increase of 35.4 percent. Bank cash revenues reached 1038.701 billion Yuan, up 9.3 percent; cash expenditures were 1057.713 billion Yuan, up 9.7 percent; and cash input reached 19.012 billion Yuan.

The insurance business saw a faster development. In 2007, insurance premiums and deposits reached 7.475 billion Yuan, up 14.2 percent. This included 2.186 billion Yuan in income on property insurance, up 20.4 percent; and 5.289 billion Yuan from life insurance, a growth of 12.3 percent. Insurance indemnities reached 1.314 billion Yuan, down 6.31 percent. Insurance settlement was 1.380 million Yuan, up 46.7 percent.

¢ù Science & Technology and Education

In 2007, Wuxi improved its strength in science and technology. The city boasts 20 State and provincial-level engineering and technological research centers, 46 city-level ones, 14 State and provincial-level scientific and technological park service centers, 6 municipal scientific and technological business service centers, 13 state and provincial-level key labs and public technology service platforms, and 12 municipal-level ones.

High-tech industry developed quickly. The added value of Wuxi¡¯s high and new technological industry in the total added value of above-scale industrial enterprises reached 38.6 percent, 3.3 percentage points higher than the previous year. The main revenue of integrated circuits industry reached 20.720 billion yuan, up 95.4 percent. The main revenue of solar energy power industry reached 12.304 billion yuan£¬ up 131.5 percent¡£The city had 1012 provincial-level High-tech enterprises, of which 97 were State-level ones.

Technical innovation achieved remarkable performance. Patent applications numbered 4530, up 55.0 percent over the previous year. 306 invent patent applications were submitted, up 32.5 percent. In 2007, Wuxi received 208 national or provincial scientific and technological items, also received 0.21 billion Yuan of funding from the state and Jiangsu government departments concerned for scientific and technological research. Also, in 2007 the number of items of major provincial technological achievements having been converted; number of provincial social development projects and amounts of relevant fund, number of provincial technological public service platforms and relevant fund, number of projects of provincial high tech (industrial) and amount of relevant funds, number of provincial exclusive water conservancy projects and amount of relevant funds; targets set for the provincial unified survey and statistics for the proficiency of science/technology achievements, number of newly added provincial level science/technology enterprise hatchers and amount of exclusive subsidies for loans of science/technology projects all ranked No. 1 in Jiangsu Province.

Education at all levels realized further development. At the end of 2007 there were 515 schools of various kinds in Wuxi, with 822600 students, 2500 less than the previous year. They included 102600 students of schools of higher learning, an increase of 11300. All school-age children attended primary and middle schools, and 100 percent primary school students and over 97.03 percent junior middle school students completed their study. Over 99 percent of deaf, mute and mentally retarded children attended schools. Some 99.15 percent of junior middle school graduates furthered their studies, while 25.33 in every 10,000 students passed the enrollment line for 4-year full-time university study in the entrance examination with the success rate for entering a college or university standing at 91.10 percent. The gross attendance rate of the higher education was 55%. 47000 students were recruited into the city¡¯s secondary vocational schools, down 10 percent. There were 147000 students in secondary vocational schools, a number just the same as the previous year.

¢úCulture, Public Health, Sports£¬and Religion

Cultural undertakings and cultural industry developed quickly. Cultural undertakings presented marvelous view. Cultural activities were successfully held, among them were the ¡°Wu Culture Festival, China (Wuxi) 2007¡± and the ¡°Third Wuxi Taihu Expose of Traditional Chinese Music¡±. The year also witnessed 75 performances of ¡°Weekend Passion¡± plaza show. Dance drama ¡°Red River Valley¡± exhausted all the top awards of the nation for stage arts and Wuxi opera ¡°Jiangnan Yu¡± was conferred the award of ¡°fine play¡± at the Tenth China Drama Festival. The city successfully found its way into the ranks of the nation¡¯s historical and cultural cities. Cultural performance groups and facilities developed steadily. At the end of 2007, there were 10 performance groups, 9 cultural halls, 9 public libraries, 79cultural stations,15 museums and 29memorial halls. Wuxi¡¯s radios-broadcasting stations offered 10 programs for an average of 187 hours a day, while there were 9 sets of television programs totaling 1188 hours a week. In the city, there were 1.399 million cable TV users, among them 0.91 million were digital cable TV users . TV and radio coverage reached 100 percent.

Public health undertakings continued to develop. In 2007, people in Wuxi enjoy ed constantly improving medical provision. The city boasted 2110 medical institutions, including 35 comprehensive hospitals, 20 special hospitals, 6 hospitals that combine TCM and Western medicine, 23 urban community health service centers, 95 community health service stations, 114 township clinics, 720 rural health service stations and five sanatoriums. At the end of 2007, there were 25000 medical workers, including 11000 doctors, and 22000 medical treatment beds, including 21000 hospital beds. The new rural medical insurance covered 99.6 percent of the population, the medical service system covered 99 percent of the areas in the city. In 2007, various hospitals in Wuxi offered medical treatment to 24.48 million people, a 1.9 percent increase. The same period also saw fresh success in medical research. About 42 of the city¡¯s research fruits won the new technology award from the provincial health commission, including 4 at the first class level, and 38 at second class. Altogether, 29 research fruits won the Health Bereau¡¯s awards for introducing new technologies . Assessments on 55 scientific research projects were completed, among which 6 were at the provincial level.

Sports undertakings grew vigorously.¡°Health and Joy for the People¡± a government project, had been further pushed forward. By end of the year the city had 895 facilities for physical exercise open to the public, both town and countryside were covered by physical exercise and sports facilities. ¡°People¡¯s Health Together with Olympic Games¡±, 2007 New Year¡¯s Day long distance race was a big success and so were other mass sports events like ten-thousand-person foot race in honor of the coming Olympic Games. More had been achieved in the competitive athletic events. For the 16th provincial sports meet Wuxi provided 171 athletes for sports teams from provincial level up (including PLA teams), ranking first in the Province. At the 6th Intercity Sports Meet Wuxi won two gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze, with a total score of 82.5, which meant that Wuxi had fulfilled her target of exceeding last sports meet in number of gold medals and in total score. Steady had been the pace of development in sports industry. Gyms and other sports facilities of the city accommodated a total of 22 major national and international sports events in the year and Wuxi successfully hosted ¡°China Diving Championships¡±, ¡°China Table Tennis Championships¡± and ¡°China Gymnastics Championships¡± and ¡°Four-Nation Women¡¯s Volley Ball Contest¡±. Sales volume of sports lottery reached 618 million.

Further development was achieved in religion related causes. Religious sites and religious communities incessantly developed and perfected themselves. At the end of the year there were 220 sites for religious activities and a clergy totaling 1464 persons with 360000 believers. The 2nd Buddhist Gathering at Lingshan, Wuxi was a big success.

¢û Population, Livelihood and Social Welfare

Wuxi¡¯s population grew steadily. According to the survey conducted by the public security department, at the end of 2007, the registered population was 4.6174 million, with a birth rate of 7.26 per thousand people, a death rate of 6.58 per thousand people and a natural population growth of 0.68 per thousand. At the end of 2007, the residential population reached 5.9921 million, up 2.6 percent over the previous year. The average life expectancy increased to 77.43 years¡£

In 2007, people in Wuxi earned more. Workers with urban collectively owned and State-owned enterprises enjoy a per-capita wage amounting to 34375 Yuan annually, a rise of 15.9 percent. Urban residents¡¯ disposable income rose 14.9 percent from the previous year to reach 20898Yuan per person. Farmers enjoyed a net income of 10026 Yuan per person, up 12.9 percent. The per capita urban residents expenditure was 12257 Yuan, up 7.8 percent. The per capita rural residents expenditure was 7177 Yuan, up 10.3 percent. According to sample survey, the per-capita share of living space in the urban area reached 30.7 square meters, and that for farmers was 58.1square meters.

The cover of social welfare was increasing. In 2007, Wuxi further optimized its social guarantee system and expanded it to a larger coverage. The number of urban enterprise workers who had purchased old-age insurance reached 1.7304 million, an increase of 228100 more than the previous year. And 1.9215 million urban enterprise workers purchased basic medical insurance, an increase of 238500 people. In addition, 1181100 people got involved in unemployment risk insurance schemes, an increase of 138300. At the end of 2007, a total of 21100 people received unemployment funds. The number of urban people involved in work injuries and birth insurance was 1257800 and 1119500 respectively. All enterprise retirees receive pensions.

Social welfare undertakings developed further. In 2007, there were 10541 people living in organs run by welfare societies, which boasted 15201 beds. Some 7693 community service facilities had been built in various towns. Also in the year, 72732 poverty-stricken people in urban and rural areas got their basic living insurance. In the year, city issued 123.24 million Yuan to the poverty stricken, with the number of people enjoying preference in being issued with relief funds reached 190,000. In 2007, people from various walks of life donated 0.2336 billion Yuan.

¢ü Environment Protection and Production Security

In 2007, Wuxi further improved its environment. The number of days with good or better air quality accounted 93 percent of the total. 98% of all the drinking water sources reached the standard. The city built 9 smoke and dust control areas, covering 509.26 square km. 9 areas reached standard noise indexes, covering 509.26 square km.

More lawns were built and trees planted. In 2007, the grass and tree coverage in the urban area reached 42.2 percent, that in Jiangyin was 43.7 percent and that in Yixing was 44.8 percent.

More emphasis was laid on the security of production. In 2007, there were 3021 accidents of all types, down 44.2 percent over the previous year. The death toll was 656, down 12.1 percent. The average death doll per 100 million GDP was 0.17 down 26.1 percent.

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.