Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators

Local Government Revenue refer to the revenue from participation of national finance in social product allocation．It is a financial guarantee to realize national functions, and includes local public budgetary financial revenue and fund budget revenue．

Local Public Budgetary Financial Revenue refers to the revenue organized by finance authorities at all levels in certain form and through certain procedures and involved in budgetary management.

Fund Budget Revenue refers to governmental fund budget revenues collected, transferred in or arranged by government finance the same year in accordance with regulations, governed by government finance and for specific use of purpose．

Tax Revenue includes value—added tax, business tax ,corporate income tax ,individual income tax, resource tax, urban maintenance and construction tax ,house property tax ,stamp tax,urban and use tax,1and value—added tax,tax on vehicles and boat operation, arable land occupation tax, deed etc．

Non-tax Revenue includes special revenues, administrative charges ,fines,and other revenues．

Local Financial Expenditure refers to a sort of allocation activity of financial funds by the state based on the position of finance It is a concentrated reflection of the functional activity scope of the state and the expenditure incurred by it．It includes local public budgetary financial expenditure and fund budget expenditure．

Local Public Budgetary Financial Expenditure refers to the expenditure arranged by finance authorities at all levels during their planned distribution and use of the general budgetary revenue gathered.

Fund Budget Expenditure refers to the expenditure arranged by finance authorities at all level with the fund budget revenue．

Expenditure for General Public Services refers to the spending on the basic public management and services provided by governments,including the expense on affairs of people’s congress,affairs of People’s Political Consultative Conference．Affairs of government general offices and relative institutions, affairs of development and reform ,affairs of statistical information. affairs of finance, affairs of taxation, affairs of audit, affairs of customs affairs of human resources．affairs of discipline inspection and supervision, affairs of population and family Ling, affairs of commerce and trade, affairs of intellectual Planning affairs of administration for industry and commerce, affairs of land and resources, affairs of oceanic administration .affairs of surveying and mapping ,affairs of earthquake, weather affairs ,ethnic affairs, religious affairs, affairs of Hong Kong, Macao , Taiwan, and overseas Chinese, affairs of archives administration, affairs Of Chinese Communist Party. affairs of democratic parties and federation of industry and commerce, affairs of mass organizations, and affairs of lottery tickets, etc．

Expenditure for Education refers to the spending of government on education,including the expense on the administration of education pre-school education, primary education, junior high school education, senior high school education,regular higher education, primary vocational education,secondary vocational education, technical school education,vocational senior high school education and higher vocational education, radio and television education, student abroad education, special education,continuing education for management personnel, and services for education authorities, etc．

Expenditure for Science and Technology refers to the spending on science and technology(S&T), including the expense on the administration of S&T,basic research,applied research, research and development, conditions and services of S&T．popularization of social science and S&T．exchanges and cooperation of S＆T．etc．

Expenditure for Cultural Education and Media refers to the spending on culture, cultural relics, sports, radio, film, television, press and publication, etc．

Expenditure for Social Security and Employment refers to the spending on social security and employment, including the expense on social security and employment administration affairs, civil affairs, budgetary subsidy on the social insurance funds, subsidy on National Social Security Fund. Retirees of administrative units and institutions, subsidy on enterprise reform, subsidy on employment effort, pension, placement of ex—service man, social welfare, the handicapped undertakings, the system of cost of living allowances for urban residents, other urban social relief, rural social relief, living relief of natural disasters, affairs of Red Cross, etc．

Expenditure for Medical Service and Health Care refers to the spending on medical service and health care including the expense on affairs of medical and health administration. medical services, medical guarantee, disease prevention and control, health inspection and supervision, women and children’s health care, rural health care, etc．

Expenditure for Energy Saving and Environmental Protection refers to the spending of government on environmental protection, including the expense on administration of environmental protection. environment monitoring and supervision, pollution control, natural ecology protection, project of virgin forest protection, reforesting farmland, control of sources of dust storms, returning pastureland to grassland, returning cultivated land to grassland, energy conservation and utilization, emissions reduction, comprehensive utilization of renewable energy and resources, etc．

Expenditure for Transportation refers to the spending of government on transportation and postal services, including the expense on highway transportation, waterway transportation, railway transportation, civil aviation transportation and postal services, etc．

Expenditure for Urban and Rural Community Affairs refers to the spending of government on urban and rural community affairs, including the expense on administration of urban and rural communities, planning and management of urban and rural communities, public facilities in urban and rural communities, residential houses in urban and rural communities, sanitation in urban and rural communities, management and supervision of construction markets, etc．

Expenditure for Agriculture, Forestry and Water Conservancy Affairs refers to the spending of government on agriculture, forestry and water conservancy affairs, including the expense on agriculture affairs, forestry affairs, water conservancy affairs, poverty alleviation and comprehensive agricultural development, etc．

Credit Funds refer to the funds issued as loans by banking institutions. The sources of credit funds of the banking institutions included deposits, liabilities to international financial institutions, currency in circulation, self-owned funds and current retained profits, etc. The credit funds can be used in forms of loans, gold, foreign exchange, government debt and assets in the international financial institutions.

Deposit is a form of credit by which enterprises, institutions, organizations or households can put money into banks and other credit institutions for safekeeping and interest earning under the principle of free withdrawal. According to different depositors, deposits are divided into enterprise deposits, treasury deposits, deposits of government agencies and organizations, capital construction deposits, urban savings deposits, rural deposits and other deposits. Deposits are major sources of the credit funds of banks.

Loan is a form of credit by which banks and other credit institutions provide funds at certain interest rate to enterprises and individuals in the light of the principle of unconditional repayment. Loans from Chinese banks include circulating capital loans, fixed assets loans, loans to urban and rural individuals engaged in industrial and commercial business and agricultural loans.

Amount Insured refers to the maximum that the insurant will get for the claim of the case insured.

Premium is the fee paid by the insurant to the insurer to obtain the obligation of compensation from the insurance within the agreed terms.

Settled Claim is the compensation paid by the insurer to the insurant in accordance with the insurance contract.

Payment includes payment for death, injury or medical treatment and mature payment. Payment for death, injury or medical treatment refers to the money paid to the insurant (or the beneficiary) in accordance with the life or health insurance contract when the insurant encounters accidents within the insured period covered in the contract. Mature payment refers to the mature payment to the insurant in accordance with the life insurance contract at the end of the insured period.