CHINA-ECONOMY

 Data released by China's National Bureau of Statistics on January 19, 2016, assessed that "generally speaking, China’s economy has maintained within a proper range". It said GDP in 2015 was 67,670.8 billion yuan or an increase of 6.9 percent at comparable prices, the value added of the primary industry was 6,086.3 billion yuan, up by 3.9 percent; total grain output in 2015 was 621.43 million tons, an increase of 14.41 million tons; the total output of pork, beef, mutton and poultry was 84.54 million tons, a decrease of 1.0 percent, among which the total output of pork was 54.87 million tons, total output of poultry eggs in 2015 was 29.99 million tons and the total output of milk was 37.55 million tons; the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 30,093.1 billion yuan; the total value of imports and exports in 2015 was 24,584.9 billion yuan and total value of exports was 14,135.7 billion yuan, down by 1.8 percent and the total value of imports was 10,449.2 billion yuan; the consumer price rose by 1.4 percent over last year; the Gini Coefficient for national income in 2015 was 0.462; the number of rural migrant workers in 2015 totaled 277.47 million, which was 3.52 million more than that in last year, with the specific numbers of local and outside migrant workers at 108.63 million and 168.84 million respectively. The average monthly income of migrant workers was 3,072 yuan, up by 7.2 percent; by the end of 2015, the total population of mainland China was 1,374.62 million (including population of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and servicemen in CPLA; but not including residents in Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, Taiwan Province and overseas Chinese) reflecting an increase of 6.80 million over that at the end of 2014. Specifically, the migrant population was 247 million, or 5.68 million less. At the end of 2015, the total number of employed persons was 774.51 million and the number of urban employed persons was 404.10 million.

 






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