Statistical Communiqu¨¦ of
on the 2014 National Economic and Social Development
In 2014, the environment and conditions of
international and domestic economic development went through profound changes.
The economic operation was under high downward pressure. Faced with the complicated
situation, Changzhou firmly stuck to the goal of constructing Southern Jiangsu
Modernization Demonstration Area, persisted in the general work tone of making
progress while ensuring the stability, focused on the Year of Making
Breakthrough in Major Projects, and spared no effort to complete each work such
as stabilizing growth, adjusting structure, promoting reform, attaching great
importance to ecological environment and benefiting people¡¯s livelihood. As a
result, the city¡¯s economic and social undertakings maintained stable
development.
I. Overall
Economy
Economic operation went smoothly in general.
The gross domestic product (GDP) of the year was 490.19 billion yuan, up by
10.1% calculated at comparable price. Of this total, the value added of the
primary industry was 13.85 billion yuan, up by 3%; that of the secondary
industry was 240.81 billion yuan, up by 9.5%; and the tertiary industry was 235.53
billion yuan, up by 11.5%. The proportion of the value added of service sector
to GDP was 47%. The per capita GDP reached 104,423 yuan calculated at permanent
resident population, which was 16,999 US dollars according to the average
exchange rate.
Fiscal
revenue increased steadily. The General Public
Budgetary Revenue of the year was 43.39 billion yuan, up by 6.1% over the
previous year. Among that, the tax revenue was 34.84 billion yuan, up by 6.5%. General
Public Budgetary Expenditure was 43.49 billion yuan, up by 4.1%. Among the
total, the expenditure of education was 6.82 billion yuan, up by 2.5%; that of
culture, sports and media was 700 million yuan, up by 4.0%; that of social
security and employment was 4.91 billion yuan, up by 7.8%; that of health care
and family planning was 3.21 billion yuan, up by 21.9%; that of urban and rural
community affairs was 7.09 billion yuan, up by 17.5%.
Private
economy developed steadily. In 2014, the value added
of private economy reached 330.89 billion yuan, up by 10.1% calculated at
comparable price, accounting for 67.5% of regional GDP. The paid taxes reached
45.80 billion yuan, up by 10.3% over the previous year, higher than the growth rate
of total taxes by 1.9 percentage points. The structure of private economy was
further optimized. Among the value added of private economy, the proportion of service
sector increased from 41.6% of the previous year to 43.4%, increased by 1.8 percentage
points.
II. Agriculture and Rural
Economy
Agricultural
production maintained stability. In 2014, the gross
output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery of the city
was 25.68 billion yuan, up by 7% over the previous year. Among the total, the
output value of agriculture was 13.87 billion yuan, up by 7.0%; that of
forestry was 180 million yuan, up by 4.7%; that of animal husbandry was 3.74
billion yuan, up by 0.5%; that of fishery was 6.47 billion yuan, up by 9.4%;
that of the service industry of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and
fishery was 1.41 billion yuan, up by 15.1%. The production of main agricultural
products remained stable. The per unit area yields of wheat and rapeseed both
surpassed history records. The per unit area yield of rice reached
Modern
agriculture kept developing. According to the provincial
monitoring report on progress of basic modernization of agriculture, the city¡¯s
score of agricultural modernization level in 2013 was 79.8, ranking third in
the province, up one place from the previous year. The city newly built 88,000
mu high-standard farmland, and developed an area of 60,000 mu for
agriculture/fishery with high-efficiency facility. The agricultural
industrialization improved steadily. There were one new state-level staple food
processing model enterprise, two new state-level One Village One Product model
villages and small towns, and one new state-level agricultural product
processing model cooperative. 34 city-level leading enterprises of agricultural
industrialization were newly approved. The number surpassed those of the
previous years.
III. Industry and Construction
Industrial
economy was basically stable. In 2014, there were 4,350
traditional industrial enterprises above the designated size. The total
industrial output value reached 1,103.75 billion yuan, the main business income
was 1,137.90 billion yuan, the realized tax and profit was 100.61 billion yuan,
of which the profit was 61.85 billion yuan. Among the seven main industries of
those above the designated size, the industries of chemicals, building
materials, electronics and machinery increased rapidly with respective output
value of 169.69 billion yuan, 37.59 billion yuan, 62.71 billion yuan and 454.43
billion, up by 16.9%, 16.2%, 11.4% and 10.7% respectively; the output value of
the industries of biopharmaceuticals, metallurgy and textile and garments was
25.97 billion yuan, 203.82 billion yuan and 91.27 billion respectively, up by
9.2%, 5.5% and 5.4%.
The
ten major industrial chains developed fast.
Development of the ten major industrial
chains was accelerated. The production and profit both presented a trend of
rapid growth. In the whole year, the industrial enterprises above the
designated size of the ten major
industrial chains completed an output value of 352.02 billion yuan, up by
13.3% over the previous year. The main business income was 346.99 billion yuan,
up by 12.9%. The realized taxation of tax and profit was 34.84 billion yuan, of
which the profit was 22.27 billion yuan, both increased by 19.4%.
Construction
industry developed steadily. The annual construction output
value of construction enterprises was 128.40 billion yuan, up by 10.8% over the
previous year. The floor space under construction was 107.48 million ㎡, up by 6.1%. The floor space completed was
38.113 million ㎡,
up by 8.1%. Calculated at construction output value, the overall labor
productivity of construction industry reached 288,000 yuan per person, up by
1.1%.
IV. Investment in Fixed Assets
Investment
in fixed assets maintained stable. In 2014, the
completed investment in fixed assets was 331.01 billion yuan, up by 16.1% over
the previous year. Among that, industrial investment was 168.02 billion yuan,
up by 11.1%; the investment in the service industry was 162.15 billion yuan, up
by 22.1%. Of the investment in service industry, that in real estate
development was 68.15 billion yuan, almost the same to that of the previous
year. There were 3,579 newly started projects (excluding real estate ones), increasing
by 442 ones over the previous year. Among these projects, 274 were above
100-million-yuan projects, increasing by 43 ones. Newly started projects
completed a total investment of 176.10 billion yuan, up by 18.6%. The growth
rate is 2.5 percentage points higher than that of the city¡¯s total fixed assets
investment, accounting for 59.9% of the contribution to the increase of
investment in fixed assets.
V. Domestic
Trade
Consumer
market maintained stable. In 2014, the total retail
sales of consumer goods reached 180.54 billion yuan, up by 13.1%. In the
context of different industries, wholesale business and retail business were
main power stimulating the steady growth of consumer market, realizing total
retail sales of 16.599 billion yuan, up by 13.7%, which was 0.6 percentage
points higher than the growth of the total retail sales of consumer goods. The
total retail sales of consumer goods of hotel industry and catering industry
were 1.42 billion yuan and 13.13 billion yuan respectively, up by 2.9% and 5.9%.
In 2014, the retail sales of wholesale, retail, hotel and catering units above
designated size reached 104.60 billion yuan, up by 14.7%. In the context of
commodity categories, the consumption of cultural, sports and entertaining
goods grew rapidly. In the whole year, the retail sales of cultural and office
goods was 3.71 billion yuan, and that of the sports and entertaining goods was 400
million yuan, up by 42.0% and 38.8% respectively.
VI. Open Economy
Foreign
trade recovered slightly. In 2014, the total volume
of
Utilization
of foreign capital kept improving. In
2014, the materialized registered foreign capital was 3.12 billion US dollars,
up by 0.3 % over the previous year. Breakthrough was made in key foreign
investment projects. In the whole year, there were 49 new projects with
investment of over 30 million US dollars each, among which four projects had
investment over 500 million US dollars each. A batch of high-end manufacturing
key projects were introduced, including CND GENOVA insulin project, Bonar high
performance materials project, AeroJones Aviation project and Wujin Longwang
Biotech flavor and fragrance project. The momentum of increasing investment by
key enterprises was strong. There were 18 projects with increased investment of
over 30 million US dollars each, of which three projects had new investment
over 100 million US dollars each. There was one new investment project of
Fortune 500, three new regional headquarters of international companies and one
foreign-invested functional institution.
Foreign
cooperation was further promoted. In the whole year,
there were 64 outbound investment projects. The amount of contractual Chinese
investment was 470 million US dollars, up by 9% over the previous year. The
amount of contract on service out-sourcing reached 320 million US dollars, of
which the amount of offshore contract was 150 million US dollars; the
implemented amount of contract on service out-sourcing was 270 million US
dollars, of which the implemented amount of offshore contract was 150 million
US dollars.
The
comprehensive strength of development zones was enhanced. In 2014, the public fiscal budget revenue of
International
exchanges became more active. During the whole
year, the city received and invited 1,151 person-times of 177 foreign
delegations, of which 108 person-times of six delegations were provincial
levels or above. The city received 32 groups of diplomatic envoys in China with
202 person-times, 35 delegations from international sister cities with 205
person-times, and one group of foreign journalist with one person-time. In 2014,
VII. Transportation, Post and Telecommunications, and Tourism
Transport
capacity improved steadily. At the end of 2014, the
total road mileage of the city reached 8,906 kilometers, of which the
expressway mileage was 268 kilometers. In the whole year, the operational
passenger traffic reached 84.58 million persons, and the total freight traffic
reached 130 million tons, up by 0.7% and 9.6% respectively over the previous
year. The highway passenger traffic reached 67.69 million persons, up by 0.1%.
The highway passenger flows were 4.2 billion person-kilometers, up by 0.5%. The
highway freight traffic reached 110 million tons, up by 11.3%; the freight
flows were 11.119 billion ton-kilometers, up by 11.5%. The railway (Changzhou
Station, Qishuyan Station, and Changzhou North Station) passenger traffic
reached 13.33 million persons, up by 9.4%.
Telecommunications
industry maintained stable. In 2014, the income of
telecommunication services was 5.39 billion yuan, down by 3.2% over the
previous year. At the end of 2014, there were 1.444 million fixed telephone subscribers
of local network, and 4.913 million mobile phone users, of which 1.421 million
were
Tourist
industry developed rapidly. In 2014, the revenue from
tourism totaled 65.43 billion yuan, up by 14.5% over the previous year. Among
that, the revenue from domestic tourism was 64.0 billion yuan, and the foreign exchange
earnings from tourism were 100 million US dollars, up by 14.8% and 13.0%
respectively. The number of tourists totaled 50.014 million person-times, up by
12.7%. Of the total, domestic tourists were 49.893 million person-times, and
inbound tourists staying overnight were 120,000 person-times, up by 12.7% and
9.5% respectively. A batch of new tourist projects such as
VIII. Financial Industry
Finance
ran steadily. At the end of 2014, balance of
deposits in renminbi/Chinese yuan of financial
institutions all over the city totaled 675.86 billion yuan with an increase of
41.05 billion from the beginning of year, up by 6.5%. Balance of loans in renminbi
of financial institutions reached 478.97 billion yuan with an increase of 47.14
billion yuan from the beginning of year, up by 10.9%. Of the total increased
loans, the short term loans were increased by 6.83 billion yuan; the medium and
long term loans were increased by 27.57 billion yuan from the beginning of
year, up by 2.9% and 15.0% respectively. At the end of 2014, the total amount
of guaranteed loans for financing was 11.24 billion yuan. The guaranteed
liability balance was 11.46 billion yuan. The balance of loans in renminbi of
small-loan companies was 11.42 billion yuan.
Insurance
services grew steadily. At the end of 2014, there
were 65 insurance companies all over the city. Among them, 28 were property
insurance companies and 37 were life insurance companies. In 2014, the total
premium reached 13.54 billion yuan, up by 14.3% on year-on-year basis. Of this
total, life insurance premium amounted to 8.97 billion yuan, up 13.5%; and
property insurance premium 4.57 billion, up 15.9%. The insurance indemnity
payment was 2.94 billion yuan, up by 13.3% over the previous year. Of this
total, life insurance indemnity was 360 million yuan, up 39%; and property
insurance indemnity 2.58 billion yuan, up 10.5%.
Securities
trading showed a positive trend. In 2014, the total
securities trading of all the securities companies in the city reached 978.02
billion yuan, up by 89.1% over the previous year. Of this total, A-shares
trading amounted to 770.14 billion yuan, up by 59.4%; B-shares reached 690
million yuan, down by 37%. The volume of funds trading was 32.31 billion yuan,
up by 130.6%; and that of bonds trading 174.89 billion yuan, up by 824.7%. Till
the end of 2014, there were 36 listed companies in the city. Among them, 22
were listed in domestic market and 14 were listed overseas. The total amount of
raised money accumulated to 34 billion yuan.
IX. Scientific and Technological Innovation
Scientific
and technological innovation was in rapid progress. The number of patent applications of the whole year reached 37,833.
Of this total, there were 11,668 invention patents and 18,152 patent licensing
including 1,696 invention patent licensing, producing 13.9 invention patent applications for every 10,000
residents in
Construction of innovative platform
was accelerated.
X. Education, Culture, Public Health and Sports
Modernization
of education was deepened. By the end of 2014, there
were 644 schools at all levels in the city with 760,000 students and 55,000
teaching and administrative staff. In 2013, the index of educational
modernization in
Cultural
undertakings enjoyed prosperity and development. Based
on tradition, high-quality cultural products were presented with innovation. The
TV play Qingguo Lane won the 13th Five ¡®One¡¯ Project Award, the 27th
China Golden Eagle TV Art Award, Sino-US Film Festival¡¯s Golden Angel TV Art
Award and the Best TV Play Award of the 30th Jiangsu Provincial
Golden Phoenix TV Art Awards. 10 pieces of works such as the comedy Family
Photo won the 9th Jiangsu Provincial Five ¡®One¡¯ Project Award.
Altogether 12 pieces of works of the city had won the national Five ¡®One¡¯
Project Award. In this regards,
Medical
and health services made constant improvement. At
the end of 2014, there were 1,182 medical and health institutions at all levels
with altogether 23,634 beds and 28,100 medical staff. Among these medical
staff, 11,381 people were practicing doctors (and assistants), and 11,706
people were registered nurses. There were 2.42 practicing doctors (and
assistants) for every 1,000 people all over the city. The work on benefiting
the people through health services was further promoted. The city-level per
capita expenditure on basic public health service reached 60 yuan, up by 20%
over the previous year. The coverage of the new rural cooperation medical
system was 100%. Its fund-raising standard reached 515 yuan per person. At county
level and village level, the reimbursement rate of hospitalization expenses
under policy reached 81%, surpassing the provincial standard by six percentage
points. The consultation rate of urban residents at community health service institution
reached 51.2%, and that of rural residents at community health service institution
inside county was 85.6%. The signing rate of target population with family doctors
reached 81%, while that of ordinary residents was 28.6%. The rate of the
establishment of residents¡¯ electronic health records reached 80%. All major
hospitals and community health institutions could share the residents¡¯ health
records and their hospital enrollment information. The new birth policy of
allowing the family to have a second child if either parent is single child was
implemented smoothly.
Sports undertakings kept
developing. There were 165 sports sites in the
city, of which 26 were stadiums, 26 were gymnasiums and 113 were interior or
outdoor swimming pools. In 2014, five international championships, 17 national
tournaments and three provincial events were held in
XI. Population, People¡¯s Livelihood and Social Security
Population
size maintained stable. At the end of 2014, the
population of permanent residents was 4.696 million, up by 0.1%. Of this total,
the urban population was 3.226 million. The rate of urbanization reached 68.7%.
The registered population was 3.686 million, increased by 27,000 people over
that of the end of 2013, up by 0.7%. Of this total, the population of male was
1.829 million, up by 0.6%; that of female was 1.857 million, up by 0.9%. The
population aged 60 and over was 780,000, accounting for 21.2% of the total
registered population. The birth rate of registered population was 10.3¡ë, and
the death rate was 6.8¡ë. The natural growth rate was 3.5¡ë.
Employment
and start-ups were steadily pushed forward. In
2014, 135,000 people were newly employed. 7,289 people were supported for start-ups, creating jobs for 40,000 people.
Over 10,000 people among the group in difficulties received help and found new
jobs. The registered urban unemployment rate had been kept at 1.9% by the end
of the year. Through the whole year, 62,000 jobs were provided to college
graduates. 61,000 urban and rural workers took skill trainings for employment. There
were 26,262 new high-skilled workers. 689 people among every 10,000 people of
labor force were high-skilled workers.
Income
of residents increased steadily. In 2014, the per
capita disposable income of the city¡¯s residents was 32,662 yuan, up by 9.2%
over the previous year. In the context of permanent residence, the per capita disposable
income of urban residents was 39,483 yuan, up by 8.8%; that of rural residents
was 20,133 yuan, up by 10.8%. The per capita expenditure of the city¡¯s
residents was 20,608 yuan, up by 7.4%, that of urban residents was 23,590 yuan,
up by 6.8%; that of rural residents 13,529 yuan, up by 9.4%. At the end of
2014, the per capita housing floor area of urban residents was 43.7 ㎡, that of rural residents was 59.7 ㎡.
Price
level remained stable. In 2014, the CPI was 102.2.
Among the eight categories of consumer goods, only the price of cigarettes and
alcohols decreased by 2.1%. The CPI of the other seven categories, namely
clothes, household facilities and articles and maintenance services, housing,
food, health care and personal products, entertaining, educational and cultural
products and services, and transportation and communication, was 104.2, 103.6,
103.0, 102.7, 102.1, 100.6 and 100.1 respectively.
Work
on housing security was carried out orderly. In
2014, 22,447 units of affordable housing started construction. 24,018 units
basically finished construction. Since
Social
security level was improved steadily. The
expanded collection of social insurance was actively promoted. The numbers of
people joining enterprise employees endowment insurance, medical insurance for
urban workers, unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance and
maternity insurance were respectively 1.305 million, 1.815 million, 1.052
million, 1.10 million and 969,000. The comprehensive coverage of endowment
insurance, medical insurance and unemployment insurance reached 98%. The basic pension
for enterprise retirees was adjusted for the 10th consecutive year.
The monthly per capita pension level was increased by 12.4% over the previous year.
The basic insurance pension for urban and rural residents was increased to 170 yuan
every month per person. Within the context of the policy on employee¡¯s medical
insurance and the medical insurance for urban and rural residents, the payment
rates of hospitalized medical insurance fund were over 80% and 70%
respectively. The insurance treatment of unemployment, work-related injury and
maternity was improved steadily. The supplement on implementing Jiangsu
Provincial Enforcement Suggestion on Connection of Urban and Rural Endowment
Insurance Systems was unveiled in order to realize the accessible connection of
urban and rural endowment insurance systems.
Capability
of social assistance was further enhanced.
The city had established the elderly care system consisting of home-based care,
institutional care, community care and information care. In 2014. There were 37546
beds for elderly care. 1,433 nursing beds were newly made or remade. The number
of nursing beds in downtown accounted for 40% of the total number of beds for
aged care. Calling devices were installed in 50,000 elderly households. Work on
urban and rural minimal assurance was steadily pushed forward. The allowance
standards for urban and rural minimal assurance and urban families at the
margin of minimal assurance were respectively increased to 620 yuan each person
per month and 1,500 yuan each family per year. The security payments of the
year accumulated to 170 million yuan. All kinds of people¡¯s mediation units at
all levels and the mediation centers at two levels mediated 15,782 disputes, of
which 15,731 cases were successfully dissolved. The success rate of social
dispute mediation was 99.7%. The value of the issued welfare lottery tickets
over the whole year was 1.06 billion yuan.
Charity
undertakings developed healthily. The received fund
raised by all kinds of charity institutions at all levels was 128 million yuan.
87.70 million yuan of different assistant fund was given out/expended,
benefiting over 72,900 person-times of people in financial difficulties. Of
this total, the Municipal Charity Federation including four branches raised
40.46 million yuan, and gave out 18.12 million yuan, helping 25,900
person-times of people in financial difficulties. In the appraisal of the 3rd
session of China Charitable Cities,
XII. Urban and Rural Construction and Public Utilities
Infrastructure
continued to be improved. The construction of urban infrastructure
was accelerated. The implementation of projects like Changzhou-Liyang
Expressway, Provincial Road 122, Changzhou Section of Provincial Road 238,
Public
transportation service was further improved. At
the end of 2014, there were 268 bus routes in the city. Customized Bus routes
were open. New energy buses were put into use. There were 2,978 operating
vehicles for public transport and 3,680 operating taxis. The bus travel sharing
rate of urban citizens was 28.7%, with bus routes open to 100% towns and
villages.
Public service level was upgraded. In 2014, the electricity
consumption of the whole society reached 39.51 billion kilo-watt hours, up by
1.0% over the previous year. Of this total, the electricity consumption for
living of urban and rural residents was 3.24 billion kilo-watt hours, lowered
by 13.3%. The coverage of water supply was 100%. The rate of gasification was
100%. At the end of 2014, there were 203,000 street lights in the city, up by 11.5%.
The quantity of cleared household refuse in the city reached 0.618 million
tons. The decontamination rate of household refuse was 100%. The domestic
sewage treatment rate reached 98.4%.
XIII. Ecological Construction and Environmental Protection
Afforestation
level was further promoted. At the end of 2014, the
city had 8813 Parkes, Gardens and Green Areas, 2,036 hectares of parks. The per
capita urban park green land reached 13.2 ㎡. Green coverage achieved 43.0%. The
construction of eco-green city was advanced. 176 ecological protection projects
were completed, adding 17,272 mu green lands. Changzhou Hi-Tech Industrial
Zone, Wuji Hi-Tech Zone and Wujin Economic Development Zone passed the
acceptance inspection of establishing national-level (state-level) ecological
industry demonstration zone. Five state-level eco-towns and 30 province-level
eco-villages were newly added.
Solid
progress was made in pollution control and emission reduction. Reduction of pollution emission and comprehensive treatment of
environment was vigorously promoted. Upgrading and reconstruction of 52
enterprises of thermoelectricity, cement, steel, ferroalloy and steel rolling
was completed. 594 coal-fired boilers and kilns were switched to clean energy
or obsoleted. The volatile organic compounds of 42 enterprises were dealt with.
The construction of urban sewage treatment plants and assorted pipe network was
accelerated.
Notes: All the statistic data in this Communiqu¨¦
are calculated at current price, excluding those noted to be calculated at
comparable price.