Explanatory Notes on Major Statistical Indicators
【Government Revenue】refers to the revenue of government finance by means of
participating the distribution of the social products, which is the financial
resources for ensuring the government to function. The contents of government
revenue have been changed several times. Now it includes the following main
items:
(1) Various tax revenue, including value
added tax, business tax, consumption tax, land value added tax, tax on city
maintenance and construction, resources tax, tax on the urban land, stamp tax,
tax on the adjustment of orientation of investment in the fixed assets,
personal income tax, tariff, tax on agriculture and animal husbandry and tax on
occupation of cultivated land, etc.
(2) Special revenues, including revenue
collected from imposing fee on sewage treatment, revenue collected from
imposing fee on urban water resources, and extra-charges for educations, etc.
(3) Other revenues, including revenue from
the re-payment of capital construction loan, the funds for the state key
construction projects in energy industry and transportation, and the funds for
state budget adjustment, etc.
(4) Planned subsidies for the losses of the
state-=owned enterprises. This is an item of negative revenue, used to eat up
part of the government revenue.
【Government Expenditure】refers to the distribution and use of the funds the government
finance has raised, so as to meet the need s of economic construction and
various causes. It included the following main items(The items has changed from the year
of 2007):
(1) Expenditure for capital construction
(2) Innovation funds of the enterprises
(3) Geological prospecting expenses
(4) Expenditures for science and technology
promotion
(5) Expenditure for supporting rural production
(6) Operating Expenses of departments of
farming, forestry, water conservancy and meteorology etc.
(7) Operating expenses of departments of
industry, transport and commerce
(8) Operating expenses of departments of
culture, education, science and public health
(9) Pension for the disabled or the families
of the bereaved and relief funds for social welfare
(10) Expenditures for national defense
(11) Administrative expenses:
(12) Expenditure for price subsidies
【Deposit】is a form a of credit by which enterprises, institutions,
organizations or residents 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, deposits of government agencies and institutions, 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
a of credit by which banks and other institutions provide funds at a certain
interest rate to enterprise sand individuals in light of the principle of
unconditional re-payment. 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 amount of compensation for loss or agreed sum of money
to be paid by the insurer to the insurant. It is the maximum amount of
liabilities written in the insurance contract and is also used as a basis to
calculate the premium.
【Premium】is the fee paid by the insurant based on a proportion of the benefit
he or she may get from the insurance plus the insurance value. It includes the
income from the deposit of property insurance and personal insurance.
【Settled Claim】is the
compensation paid by the insurer to the insurant in accordance with the
insurance contract for the loss which has been checked and found to be in the
range of liability of insurance after an accident has happened to the insured
property or to a person who has insured for his life. It is further divided
into settled and unsettled claim.