STATISTICAL COMMUNIQUE ON THE 
2003 NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY OF TIANJIN 

Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Statistics 
February 20, 2004

The production and marketing situation were adapted to each other better. The sales output value was 400.437 billion yuan, up 21.6 percent. The sales ratio of industrial products was 98.88 percent, of which, that of heavy industry was 99.43 percent, that of light industry was 97.41 percent, that of state-owned enterprises was 100.34 percent, of foreign funded enterprises was 99.59 percent, of share-holding enterprises was 98.58 percent. 
The economic efficiency continued to improve. The overall coefficient of economic benefit in industrial enterprises reached 147.6 , representing an increase of 14.5 points over the previous year. The profit of enterprises grew rapidly, profit and tax totaled 39.106 billion yuan, up 24.6 percent, of which, profit totaled 23.188 billion yuan, up 30.2 percent, tax totaled 15.918 billion yuan, up 17.3 percent. 
Construction
Construction industry grew effected by the increasing of investment. The value-added of the city's construction industry was 10.897 billion yuan, up by 12.1 percent. The output value of construction totaled 49.866 billion yuan, up by 46.6 percent. Floor space of building under construction totaled 33.4822 million square meters, up 35.3 percent; floor space of building completed totaled 16.0105 million square meters, up 54.3 percent The construction enterprises contracted a total of 22,863 construction projects. The all-personnel labor productivity was 152,500 yuan per person calculated by output value, up by 29.8 percent. 
Transportation, Posts & Telecommunications and Storage
The comprehensive service function was enhanced obviously. The value-added of transportation, posts and store industries in 2003 was 25.603 billion yuan, up by 14.7 percent, 2.9 percentage points higher than that in 2002 . 
A well-developed network of the traffic appeared which Tianjin port linked all-sided with the railway, the air and the highway as well as the sea. The Phase I of 150,000 -ton class channel and Beida Breakwater put into use. Tianjin port contacted 300 ports for the business in more than 160 countries and regions all over the world. In 2003 , the cargoes loaded and unloaded at Tianjin Port weighed 161.816 million tons, up 25.4 percent over 2002 , of which, the cargoes that get into the port weighed 52.7 million tons, up 28.4 percent, the cargoes that get out of the port weighed 109.116 million tons, up 24.0 percent. As for the transportation of containers, 3.015 million international standard containers were loaded or unloaded in 2003 , up 25.2 percent. The comprehensive transport capacity was enhanced. The total volume of cargo transport was 395.3266 million tons, up by 13.6 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the cargo transportation by railways was 100.821 million tons, up 11.8 percent; by highways, 201.14 million tons, up 6.8 percent; by water transport, 87.6275 million tons, up 36.8 percent. The volume of passenger transportation was 46.681 million person-times, up by 0.7 percent over the previous year.Airport passenger handling capacity was 1.101 million person-times, up by 0.8 percent; airport cargo & mail handling capacity was 56,600 tons, up 13.9 percent. 
Posts and telecommunications developed rapidly. The business transactions of postal and telecommunication service in 2003 was 11.197 billion yuan, up by 24.2 percent, of which, the business transactions of telecommunication service was 10.3 billion yuan, up 26.1 percent, the business revenue of telecommunication service was 6.62 billion yuan, up 12.2 percent. By the end of 2003, the length of long-distance optical cable reached 2,704.08 kilometers, up 42.2 percent. The total telephone switch capacity was 4.0335 million telephones. The total number of fixed telephone users and mobile phone users was 7.377 million,up 22.3 percent. Fixed telephone users numbered 3.543 million, 0.583 million more than the previous year, up by 19.7 percent. Mobile phone users numbered 3.834 million, 0.763 million than the previous year, up 24.8 percent. The calling transactions of public network reached 14 billion times, up 11.1 percent, the business transaction of mobile SMS reached 1.469 billion messages. The business transactions of postal service was 0.897 billion yuan, up 5.7 percent, letters delivered reached 220.3393 million, up by 8.5 percent, the express mail reached 3.215 million, up by 11.8 percent. 
Domestic Commerce
The scale of commerce circulation was enlarged. The value-added of wholesale, retail and catering trade completed in 2003 was 21.192 billion yuan, up by 10.8 percent. 
The gather role of markets was obvious. By eh end of 2003 , there were 760 markets in Tianjin, including 123 markets of production material, 608 consumer goods markets, 29 markets of production factor. The volume of trade of all markets was 71.279 billion yuan, up 16.2 percent. The volume of trade of the markets with annual volume of trade of over 100 million yuan was 49.839 billion yuan in 2003 , and sharing 69.9 percent of total volume of trade. 
The retail and catering markets bounced back quickly after the short-term drop took in April and May. In 2003 , the total sales volume of retailed consumer goods was 107.405 billion yuan, up by 14.1 percent. Of which, the sales volume of wholesale and retail trade was 72.71 billion yuan, up 12.5 percent; of catering trade, 10.991 billion yuan, up 7.2 percent. Rapid growth was recorded in sales of household articles, housing decoration, communication means, cultural and sports articles and automobiles. Calculated by statistics on retail and wholesale enterprises above designed size, the retail of selling communication means increased by 1.1 times; the retail of selling furniture increased by 18.4 percent; the retail of selling automobiles increased by 1.0 times, the retail of selling cultural and sports articles increased by 49.9 percent. 
New achievement was made in absorbing investment in the field of circulation. In 2003 , many world famous groups such as Lotus Supercenter, OBI , Wal-Mart, Parkson, Chankun, developed their business in Tianjin. By the end of 2003 , there were more than 120 foreign capital retail stores, of the top 500 enterprises in the world, 22 had developed business in Tianjin. Some domestic chain groups such as Meijing Wumei and Wenzhou Maigou also invested and developed in Tianjin. The construction of commercial facilities developed rapidly, Floor space of commercial facilities under construction totaled 1.29 million square meters, floor space of commercial facilities completed totaled 1.087 million square meters. 
Finance and Insurance
The service function of finance and insurance sector was enhanced obviously. The value-added of the city's finance and insurance industry was 9.181 billion yuan in 2003 , up by 24.7 percent. At the end of the year, there were 2,837 financial institutions of various kinds- 1,594 banking institutions and 1,243 non-banking institutions, which employed a staff of 47,000 people. Bohai Bank was approved to establish by the state. 
The pace of opening to the outside world of finance and insurance was quickened. Citibank founded its branch in Tianjin. By the end of 2003 , there were 15 branches and 4 representative offices of foreign-funded banks, 8 foreign-funded banks in Tianjin were authorized to deal with RMB business, of which, 6 foreign-funded banks had done business. There were 2 foreign-funded insurance companies that their headquarters located in Tianjin and 3 foreign-funded insurance representative offices. 
The new increased deposit and loan created the highest record in history. By end of 2003 , the balance of saving deposits in various forms in all home-funded and foreign-funded financial institutions of Tianjin totaled 436.26 billion yuan, 100.377 billion yuan more than the previous year and 50.374 billion yuan more than the net increased saving deposits in 2002 , up 29.9 percent over the end of previous year. The year-end value of loans in various forms in all home-funded and foreign-funded financial institutions stood at 379.122 billion yuan, 92.031 billion yuan more than the previous year and 53.763 billion yuan more than the net increased loans in 2002 , up 32.1 percent over the end of previous year. Of which, medium and long-term loans totaled 157.393 billion yuan, up 64.3 percent over the end of previous year. Loans to individual consumers increased quickly, the balance stood at 26.142 billion yuan, up 29.8 percent over the end of previous year, of which, the balance of housing loans stood at 21.884 billion yuan, up 28.6 percent over the end of previous year. 
Securities market developed steadily. By the end of 2003 , there were 23 listed stocks in the city, of which one stock had just got listed within the year. The total securities business volume was 132.2 billion yuan, up 12.1 percent over the previous year, including stock transaction volume of 112.3 billion yuan, up 
8.8 percent. The yearly adjustment volume of exchange was US$ 1.3 billion, up 41.9 percent. 
The scope of insurance business was expanded continuously. In 2003 , the insurance premium of Tianjin totaled 7.531 billion yuan, up by 16.0 percent over the previous year. Of this total, the premium of property insurance was 1.556 billion yuan, up 8.0 percent, that of life insurance was 5.975 billion yuan, up 18.0 percent. The insurance companies paid an indemnity of 1.736 billion yuan as reparation for various insurance programs, up 51.0 percent, of which, the indemnity of property insurance was 1.011 billion yuan, up 48.0 percent, the indemnity on life insurance was 0.725 billion yuan, up 56.0 percent. Taiping Insurance Tianjin Corporation and Hengan Standard Life Insurance Corporation opened business in 2003 . By the end of 2003 , there were 14 insurance corporations in Tianjin, of which, there were 7 property insurance corporations and 7 life insurance corporations. There were 17 insurance agents in Tianjin, including 12 insurance agent corporations, 2 insurance management corporations and 3 insurance quotation corporations. 
Real Estate
Real estate industry developed rapidly along with the arousing of requirement. The added value of real estate was 11.987 billion yuan, up 17.4 percent, 13 percentage points higher than that in 2002 . Effected by the developing of Haihe River and construction of roads and bridges, investment in real estate grew rapidly, totaled 21.139 billion yuan, up by 20.2 percent. The sales of commercial housiing created a new record in the history. In the year, the total floor space of sold commercial housing was 7.865 million square meters, sales revenue totaled 20.23 billion yuan, up by 39.5 percent and 43.4 percent respectively. The total floor space of sold and bought existing housing was 6.883 million square meters, up 94.8 percent; which brought value of 8.63 billion yuan, up 1.2 times. Of which, the floor space of sold and bought individual housing was 5.046 million square meters, up 1.2 times and brought value of 7.14 billion yuan, up 1.3 times. The total floor space of sold and bought public housing was 1.837 million square meters, up 49 percent and brought value of 1.49 billion yuan, up 55.2 percent. 
II Reform and Opening up to the Outside World 
Ownership Structure
New progress was made in adjustment of ownership structure, the proportion of non-public-owned economy continued to increase. The added value of public-owned economy was 130.233 billion yuan, accounting for 54.6 percent of Tianjin's GDP ; that of non-public-owned economy was 108.461 billion yuan, accounting for 45.4 percent of Tianjin's GDP , 3.5 percentage points higher than that in 2002 . Of which, the added value of foreign funded enterprises was 53.083 billion yuan, accounting for 22.2 percent of GDP , 1.5 percentage points higher than that in 2002 , that of private and individual economy was 53.945 billion yuan, accounting for 22.6 percent, 2.6 percentage points higher than that in 2002. 
All kinds of industry developed fully. Among the total industrial output value of industrial enterprises above designated size, the industrial output value of state-owned and state-holding enterprises was 145.651 billion yuan, up 28.6 percent; that of share-holding enterprises was 117.256 billion yuan, up 29.4 percent; that of foreign funded enterprises was 189.606 billion yuan, up 30.3 percent. The industrial output value of state-holding enterprises and foreign funded enterprises accounted for 75.8 percent of the total industrial output value above designated size. 
The private and individual economy developed continuously. The registered capital of private and individual economy totaled 96.945 billion yuan, 40.1 billion yuan more than the beginning of the year, up by 70.5 percent; by the end of 2003 , the number of private and individual economy was 247.8 thousand, 14.4 thousand more than the beginning of the year; there were 920.9 thousand personnel in private and individual economy, 151.4 thousand more than the beginning of the year; the taxes totaled 3.497 billion yuan, up 41.4 percent. Along with the implementing of "the suggestion on quickening to develop private and individual economy" and related policies, private and individual economy began to develop in the fields of public traffic, water, gas and heating supply, sewage treatment, garbage treatment and so on. 
Management of State-owned Assets and Reform of State-owned Enterprises
The reform of economic system continued to deepen, the market economy developed continuously. The reform scheme of new finance system and tax system began to implement. The experimental units of rural tax reform ran smoothly. The city restructured the order of land market, established and implemented the management system of state-owned land non-free using. The city sealed transactions of property rights involving 15.1 billion yuan, founded North China Property Right Transaction Common Market with Beijing, Hebei province, Henan province, Shandong province, Shanxi province and so on. 
New progress was made in reform of state-owned enterprises. Great effort was made in the reestablishment of large-sized industrial groups and the reform of medium and small enterprises system. In 2003 , the city completed the re-buy of share ownership of Tianjin Steel Pipe Corporation involving 4.85 billion yuan, realized the reestablishment of medicine, textile and engineering machinery sectors. There were 106 medium and small industrial enterprises complete the reform of share ownership, 58 enterprises re-appear the vitality. A total of 364 enterprises with low competition ability had withdrew the market. The whole strength of medium and small enterprises enhanced. Great achievement was made in the reform of Tianjin Port. The reestablishment of commercial enterprises continued to develop. In 2003 , there were 12 large and medium-sized commercial enterprises complete the share-holding reform, 7 groups complete the reorganization of interior structure. The city established Jinshi Group and Department Store Group, reestablished Quanye-Hualian Group. There were over 500 small enterprises withdraw state-owned capital using kinds of pattern. 
Reform of Administrative Examination and Approval System
The reform of administrative examination and approval system continued to deepen. In 2003 , the city carried out the third management for original approval items, cancelled 121 items and changed 55 items on management way. After three times of management, a total of 666 items were simplified. The city also carried out the experimental units on enterprises registering and the reform of union of administrative examination and approval. 
Social Security
Great progress was made in participating pension insurance and paying insurance funds. By the end of 2003 , 1.685 million staff and workers participated in pension insurance and paid insurance funds, 38.5 thousand staff and workers more than the end of previous year. Income of pension insurance totaled 6.228 billion yuan, 1.034 billion yuan more than previous year. Per capita old age pension of retired pensioners paid by pension insurance funds was 707 yuan, up by 19 percent over previous year. By the end of the year, a total of 1.758 million staff and workers participated in pension insurance and paid insurance funds, 0.9761 million retired pensioners participated in pension insurance. 
The reform of medical insurance further deepened. The city formulated 10 policies on improving basic medical insurance of urban employees. By the end of 2003 , 2.4292 million persons participated in basic medical insurance, 0.3442 million persons more than the end of previous year. Of which, 1.6517 million staff and workers and 0.7775 million retired persons participated in basic medical insurance, an increase of 0.2597 million and 0.0845 million over the end of previous year respectively. Grouped by enterprise, institution and agency, for enterprises, 1.924 million persons, institution and agency, 0.5052 million persons, an increase of 0.2748 million and 0.0694 million over previous year respectively. 
More people participated in unemployment insurance, less people received unemployment insurance funds. By the end of 2003 , 1.9345 million persons participated in unemployment insurance, 0.039 million more than the end of previous year; 0.095 million persons received unemployment insurance funds, 0.029 million less than the end of previous year. 
Domestic Cooperation
The utilization of capitals from other domestic regions increased rapidly, new progress was made in cooperation of district economy. In 2003 , the contracted utilization of capitals from other domestic regions reached 17.22 billion yuan, up by 80.5 percent, the actual investment was 11.22 billion yuan, up by 83.7 percent. Among all the projects, the number of projects with investment of over 5 million yuan was 273 , mainly focused on real estate and trade logistics. The economic trade activities among Tianjin and Northeast China, North China and Northwest China regions was further enhanced, the contracted projects was 35 , involving contracted capital of 2.59 billion yuan. Tianjin enhanced the cooperation of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province. Bejing and Tianjin decided to newly build two roads for Jing-Jin expressway, strengthened the relation of key areas of the two cities. Tianjin port would improve the service for Beijing, Beijing Airport and Tianjin Airport developed together. 
Assistance and support of Tianjin to GanShu, Changdu of Tibet and Longbao Immigration District of ChongQing was further enhanced and promoted the development of local economy. 
Foreign Trade
Foreign trade continued to develop. The total of foreign trade import and export was 29.371 billion US$ , up by 28.7 percent. In which, import was 14.997 billion US$ , up by 33.5 percent, export was 14.374 billion US$ , up by 24.0 percent. Exports of processing trade continued to be the major part, exports of general trade quickened to develop. In 2003 , exports of processing trade was 9.147 billion US$ , increased by 17.4 percent, accounting for 63.6 percent of total exports. Exports of general trade was 4.836 billion US$ , up by 35.1 percent, 28.1 percentage points high than that in 2002 . The exports of foreign and Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan funded enterprises, private enterprises increased rapidly. The exports of foreign and Hongkong, Macao, Taiwan funded enterprises was 11.427 billion US$ , up 25.4 percent, accounting for 79.5 percent of total exports; the exports of private enterprises increased by 2.1 times. Exports to the United States, EU , Japan, Korea and ASEAN increased by from 8.9 percent to 43.6 percent, the five major exports markets accounted for 78.9 percent of total exports. 
The structure of exports was further optimized, the exports of electrical-machinery products and high and new technology products grew rapidly. In 2003 , the exports of electrical-machinery products completed 9.18 billion US$ , up 24 percent, accounting for 63.9 percent of the city's total exports. The exports of high and new technology products totaled 4.81 billion US$ , up 48 percent. 
The radiate function of Tianjin port was remarkably strengthened. In 2003 , the total volume of import and export through Tianjin Port was 46.167 billion US$ , up by 26.4 percent. In which, import was 20.21 billion US$ , up by 23.2 percent, and export was 25.957 billion US$ , up by 28.9 percent. Among the total import and export, the proportion of other provinces and municipalities was 51.7 percent, Beijing, Hebei and Shanxi occupied the first three positions, accounting for 20.3 percent, 10.7 percent and 3.6 percent respectively. 
Introduction of Foreign Investment
Foreign investment quickened to grow. In 2003 , 941 foreign-funded enterprise projects was approved in Tianjin, a rise of 15.3 percent over 2002 ; the contracted foreign investment increased by 74.3 percent up to 3.513 billion US$ , the actual foreign direct investment was 1.633 billion US$ , up 62.9 percent. A total of 198 large projects whose total investment is above 5 million US$ was approved, increased by 60.9 percent. The contracted foreign investment from Japan, Italy, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom and Hongkong increased by 1 time to 4.5 times respectively. Of the top 500 enterprises in the world, 98 had already invested in Tianjin. Enterprises actively increased investment in Tianjin. In this year, a total of 382 enterprises increased investment involving investment of 1.095 billion US$ , of which, foreign investment totaled 0.923 billion US$ . Foreign investment in manufacturing held the dominant position, the contracted foreign investment totaled 2.154 billion US$ , up 94.7 percent, accounting for 61.3 percent of total investment in Tianjin, the investment in electronic and telecommunications, transport equipment, chemical raw materials, machinery equipment, medical and pharmaceutical products all exceeded 0.15 billion US$ . The foreign investment in tertiary industry increased rapidly, the contracted investment in 2003 was 1.328 billion US$ , up by 48.6 percent. 
Foreign Contract Projects and Labor Cooperation
Overseas economic cooperation developed rapidly. In 2003 , Tianjin concluded turnover of 0.405 billion US$ in the field of foreign contract projects, labor cooperation and design consulting, up by 51.0 percent. A total of 59 enterprises were approved to undertake overseas economic cooperation, carried out business with more than 80 countries and regions in the world, covering the fields of industry, agriculture, construction, tertiary industry. At the end of the year, 11,300 workers from Tianjin were working abroad. The city signed 381 contracts of advanced technologies from abroad with the total contracted value of 0.967 billion US$ . The construction of 51 overseas agencies had been approved of, including 38 manufacturing enterprises with the total investment of 42.5074 million US$ , including Chinese investment of 37.9642 million US$ . 
Tourism
Under the influence of SARS epidemic, the international tourism of Tianjin saw a slight decrease, domestic tourism saw a slight increase. There were altogether 85 star hotels, 233 travel agencies, including 19 international travel agencies and 214 domestic travel agencies. In 2003 , overseas tourists to Tianjin numbered 489 thousand, down by 3.4 percent from the previous year, including 456 thousand foreigners. Foreign exchange incomes from overseas tourists stood at 0.329 billion US$ , down by 3.8 percent. Domestic tourists to Tianjin numbered 37.5112 million, up by 1.1 percent; incomes from domestic tourists were 39.502 billion yuan, up 1.3 percent. Meanwhile, 53,100 Tianjin residents also traveled abroad, spending a total of 0.783 billion yuan. Tianjin actively developed tourism resource. In this year, it constructed Yulong Skiing Field and Tianjin Tropical Botanical Touring Garden, some tourism projects and facilities were constructing smoothly, including Tianjin International Pleasure Port and "East Princess" Pleasure-boat. 
New Coastal Area
The role of New Coastal Area in promoting Tianjin's economic development was improved obviously. The gross domestic product (GDP) of 2003 was 97 billion yuan, up by 20.0 percent over the previous year. The local financial revenue was 5.773 billion yuan, up 21.0 percent; the total industrial output value was 213.321 billion yuan, up by 30.3 percent; the investment in fixed assets was 46.408 billion yuan, up by 65.2 percent; export was 8.987 billion US$ , up 24.8 percent, accounting for 62.5 percent of the city's total export; the total contracted foreign investment was 2.446 billion US$ , up by 58.2 percent, accounting for 69.6 percent of the city. 
Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) realized 44.523 billion yuan of added value in 2003 , up 25.1 percent over previous year. The major economic indices of TEDA remained on the top of national development areas. The added value of its secondary industry was 35.49 billion yuan, up 28.3 percent, accounting for 79.7 percent of its total GDP . There were 108 enterprises whose total industrial output value is above 0.1 billion yuan, 20 enterprise more than that in 2002 , the total output value of these enterprises accounted for 91.8 percent of the total output value of TEDA . In 2003 , the total output value of the four pillar industries, namely electrocommunication, machinery manufacturing, medicine and chemical industry, catering industry, accounted for 91.4 percent of the total output value of TEDA . 
In 2003 , Tianjin Port Free Trade Zone (TPFTZ) realized 8.3 billion yuan of added value, up 38.2 percent. The construction of International Circulation Center forged to a new step. The total value of goods entering or leaving TPFTZ was 9.23 billion US$ , up 42.0 percent. TPFTZ had become circulation base of automobile & its parts, electronic products, electronic element, steel, machinery equipment and other goods, the automobiles of entering, leaving and selling from TPFTZ numbered 49,000 , remaining the top position in China. TPFTZ were constructing port free trade area, the airport circulating and processing area and international circulating area. 
¢ó Urban Construction and Management 
Comprehensive Development and Rebuilding along Haihe River
Comprehensive development and rebuilding project along Haihe River started completely. In this year, a total of 2.16 million cubic meters silt were cleared, 8.9 kilometer of dike shore completed reconstruction. The construction of Haihe East Road, Haihe West Road and other two roads completed basically, Cihai bridge and Dagu bridge began to construct, Sizilin bridge was successfully promoted. The programming of six projects was finished, the construction of Gulou trade area of ancient culture street, canal culture trade area, Dabeiyuan trade area started in this year. The investment of comprehensive development and rebuilding project along Haihe River in 2003 totaled 5.6 billion yuan. 
Construction of Infrastructure and Urban Greening
Construction of city infrastructure developed smoothly. Investment in city infrastructure construction reached 26.367 billion yuan, up 34.2 percent, accounting for 25.2 percent of total investment, mainly used for subway, light rail, port and highways. Jin-Ji expressway and Tang-Jin expressway were opened to traffic. Jin-Bin light rail was put into trail operation. The construction of Subway Line1 started in the year. The length of newly increased expressway was 179 kilometers. The extension of some main roads including Haihe East Road, Jinzhonghe Street, Weiguo Road completed, the reconstruction of Sihua River, Beitang draining River and the first-phase of Yueya River also completed. Some roads including Xihu Road and Fukang Road were joined up. The construction of light night view was initially completed. There were 207 high buildings, 510 multi-layers buildings and 158 special features buildings complete light decoration, 156 large and medium-sized public install outside-seeing light, 76 scenic green areas install lights. 
In this year, the city built some green square and gardens, including Yinhe Gargen and Haihe Outside Pool Garden. The newly increased green area totaled 25 million square meters, the green coverage rate grew to 31 percent, the per capita public green area in the city reached 6.5 square meters, 0.9 square meter more than that in 2002 . 
Public Utilities
City transit became more convenient. There were 15 bus lines and 10 school bus lines open, 60 bus lines extend the length of lines in 2003 . By the end of 2003 , There were 351 bus lines, bus running in Tianjin numbered 6,158 , a total of 31,939 taxicabs were in operation for passengers. 0.622 billion passengers were transported by buses. The city continued to improve running environment, renewed 800 buses and built 3 public transit hub stations in this year. 
New progress was made in public utilities. The production capacity of tap water reached 3.68 million cubic meters, there was 0.63 billion cubic meters of tap water sold in the year, of which, 0.305 billion cubic maters were sod for living water. At the end of 2003 , there were 2.08 million gas users in Tianjin, the gasification rate of fuel for urban households was 97 percent. The thermal rate was 77.2 percent, 3.1 percentage points higher than that in 2002 . New achievement was made in management of old residential zones, a total of 65 old residential zones were brought into property management. 
Environmental Protection and Control
New achievement was made in environmental control. By the end of 2003 , there were 20 environmental monitoring stations in operation. Six projects of constructing Tianjin into a model city in terms of environment protection ran smoothly. Tianjin Dangerous Waste Products Handling Center put into use. Xiqing Yangliuqing Town was named the first national beautiful towns in this year. A total of 1,000,000 citizens took part in environment cleaning activity, effectively improving the environmental hygiene, urban management and civilization level. 
Air quality was improved continuously, Content of PM\-1\-0 in the air was down by 3.6 percent. There were 264 days in which the air quality was at and above Grade II, accounting for 72.3 percent of the total of yearly days. The city had 60 smoke and dust control zones with the total space of 557.3 square kilometers. 
Voice quality maintained a good level. The average sound level was 55 decibel, maintaining the same level in 2002 ; the equivalent sound level of traffic noise was 68.2 decibel, 0.2 decibel lower than that in 
2002 .There were 539.1 square kilometers where the noise pollution was brought under the specified level, the coverage rate reached 78 percent, 2 percentage points higher than that in previous year. 
Water environment control progressed good. The city strengthened the check and supervision of water quality of Yuqiao Reservoir, Luanhe River and Yellow River led to Tianjin, the drinking water was 100 percent in terms of quality. 
Ecological environment protection continued to enhance. Tianjin had 6 ecological demonstration areas and 8 nature protection areas with the total area of 153,300 hectares. Tianjin built Jixian National Geological Park, the core part was the Grand Canyon Nature Protection Area. 
Information Construction
The information infrastructure had been further developed. The construction of broad-band network completed, There were 19,000 km of optic fiber had been laid, broad-band wireless microwave had covered the whole city, the kernel capacity of the trunk board-band network reached 2,000 Gbps, the brand width at the exit of the city was 21.2 Gbps. Some key information function platform put into use and improved the information service ability for society and public, including Tianjin Telecommunications Engineering and Internet Data Center. Many services were used broadly, such as news review, ordering TV program, searching information, remote education, remote hospital, TV meeting and network game. 
The scope of IT application kept expanding. In 2003, 248 items of 38 government departments began to be examined and approved by network, accounting for 40 percent of total approved items. A lot of key projects began to implemented and improved the ability of city management, market supervision and service for public, including Tianjin Port Information Platform, Industry and Business Merged Examination and Approval, Enterprise Credit, Intelligent Property Right, Domestic Affairs Management, Net Paying Tax and Net Government Purchasing. By the end of the year, there were 2.06 million Internet users in Tianjin, 0.56 million more than that in 2002 ; 1,949 Internet special-line users, 631 more than that in 2002 ; 0.189 million Internet board-band users and 0.169 million more than that in 2002 . Net medical insurance started smoothly, a total of 101 hospitals took part in the network. Education informatization developed rapidly(including school-to-school e-communication, campus networks and remote education). Evening News Public Service Center united Jingong Supermarket opened telephone sales and net sales. Tap water remote recording system began to use in some large-sized residential zones. Net house trade market collected the information of 995 projects of 879 real estate enterprises. 13 financial institutions issued 18.23 million of bank cards, the transaction value totaled 6.66 billion yuan, up 2.2 times than previous year. The city issued 16,000 pieces of official business cards. The "All-in-one" card of public transit became further popular. 
¢ô Social Undertakings 
Science and Technology
Innovation ability in science and technology continued to improve. In 2003 , the city reported 1,203 items of municipal-level scientific and technological achievement. Among the major achievement, 59 items leading in the world, 311 items are world advanced level. In 2003 , 14 national awards for science and technology were received. A total of 66 projects in high and new technology had been implemented, of which 80 percent had been put into operation. The city provided efficient battery and navigable equipment for Shenzhou No.5 airship. There were 6,812 applications for patent received in 2003 , up 27.1 percent over previous year, of which, invention applications increased by 60.8 percent and accounting for 48.9 percent of total applications, 2,505 patents were authorized. Tianjin continued to expand its contingent of scientific and technological workers, work units in the state economic sector employed a total of 323,000 technical workers in various specialized fields. In 2003, 5 Tianjin scientists became academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Engineering Academy. By the end of the year, Tianjin had 28 academicians, including 13 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 15 academicians of the Chinese engineering Academy. The city successfully hosted The Third PECC Investment Exposition and China(Tianjin) Computer Software Network & Communications Products Exposition and The Forum on Informatization and New Industrialization. 
Innovation system in science and technology was enhanced. A number of projects started to implement, including IC design, digit products and motive battery. New progress was made in scientific research of biology technology and sea water downplays. Huayuan Software Park was named state-level software export base. By the end of 2003 , the city had 90 city-level and state-level enterprise technology centers. Technology market was brisk. In 2003 , a total of 7,278 contracts on the transfer of technology were signed involving a transaction value of 4.2 billion yuan, up by 15.6 percent. 
The strength of Hi-tech Industry Park was enhanced. The total of income from technology, industry and trade was 66.895 billion yuan, up by 35.3 percent. The total value of output was 56.197 billion yuan, up by 35 percent. Profit completed was 2.573 billion yuan, up by 34 percent, tax was 2.884 billion yuan, up 31.9 percent. The sales income earned from export was 1.363 billion US$ , up by 30.3 percent. 
Education
Enrollment of higher education was enlarged continuously. In 2003 , Tianjin had 37 regular institutions of higher learning and advanced vocational and technical colleges. They enrolled 86 thousand students, up 24.1 percent, the total number of their students reached 245 thousand by the end of 2003 , the number of students graduated from higher education was 40,000 . There were 8,500 enrolled graduated students, up 29.4 percent, the number of graduated students reached 21,000 , the number of graduated students graduated from higher education was 3,300 .Secondary vocational schools enrolled 44,000 , up 9.2 percent, the total number of students reached 135,000 . The gross entrance rate of high education in Tianjin was 49 percent, 5 percentage points higher than the previous year. 
The teaching quality of middle and primary schools was improved. There were 406 thousand junior school students and graduated 140 thousand; the regular senior schools enrolled 70 thousand students in 2003 , up 18.7 percent, the number of students in senior high schools reached 183 thousand, graduated 
45 thousand; for senior high school, the entrance rate was 93.1 percent. The primary schools had 610 thousand pupils including 85 thousand new entrants, graduated 132 thousand. There were 200 thousand children in kindergartens, the attendance rate of school-age children was 99.97 percent, the enrollment rate of junior secondary schools was 98.97 percent. The primary schools began to try out new courses. 
The distribution of education was adjusted effectively. The first 31 high-quality senior middle schools completed construction and put into use. The construction of "211" project of Tianjin Medical University and a number of high-quality primary schools started. 
Culture
Great achievement was made in culture and art, press and publication, radio, film and television, library and film-protection. By end of 2003 , the city had 15 art-performing groups, 19 culture and scientific technology centers, 16 museums, 31 public libraries. The city built Tianjin Museum, TEDA Meeting Exhibition Center and Library, the cultural status was further improved. Newspapers issued were 823.8651 million copies, magazines, 46.0972 million copies; books, 67.7239 million copies. The Tianjin People's Radio Station had presented seven programs, the coverage rate of population was 100 percent; Tianjin TV had seven channels and the coverage rate of population was 99 percent, there were 1.8 million households covered by cable television networks.. In 2003 , the city successfully hosted a series of cultural activities, including China Race Drama Excellent Programs Performance, the First Old People Culture and Art Festival, the Second Family Culture and Art Festival, the Fourth Binhai Art Festival and Chairman Mazedong Poem Phrase Concert. The city performed Peking opera "Hua Ziliang", ballet opera "Jingwei" and drama "Applause for you". They also performed special program "We should win" and "We goes forward holding the hands". 
Public Health
Public health developed stably. By end of 2003 , there were 2,671 medical and health facilities and in which, 500 hospitals, 25 public health and epidemic prevention and cure facilities and 11 women and children health facilities. By end of the year, these facilities had 42.7 thousand beds, up 0.9 percent,of which, hospitals had 41.6 thousand beds, up 0.8 percent. There were 61 thousand professional public health personnel including 25.9 thousand doctors, 4,000 more than that in previous year. There were 
27.8 doctors and 44.6 hospital beds per 10,000 persons. The resource of health care was adjusted smoothly. The city rebuilt Haihe Hospital and Tianjin No.1 Hospital, completed the construction of the Phase I of Tianjin Infectious Disease Hospital and Tianjin People Hospital. The medical service network in communities and rural area took shape initially. 
Phased achievement was made in prevention and cure of SARS epidemic. Upon the occurrence of SARS epidemic, the city built SARS curing system, blockaded the epidemic areas preliminarily and cut off epidemic source, established a series of prevention measures and a number of fever out-patient service. SARS epidemic was controlled in 28 days. 
Sports
Great achievement was made in athletic sports. Tianjin athletes won 16 gold medals, 13 silver medals and 19 bronze medals in the domestic games. In the Asian Games, the city's athletes won 9 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 2 bronze medals. During international games, the athletes from the city won 5 gold medal, 3 silver medals and 1 bronze medal. Tianjin women volleyball team won champion in national championships. A number of sports items occupied a dominant position in domestic games, including tennis, martial arts, women fencing and man ring. Tianjin successfully hosted more than 10 domestic and international games, such as the twelfth Asia Men Volleybal1 Championships, International Indoors Track and Field Events Invitational Game, "Toyota Cup " International Table Tennis Invitational Game. The construction of Tianjin Olympic Central Stadium started. 
The mass sports developed vigorously. The city implemented the phase II of national fit-keeping outline, built 23 national fit-keeping engineering in 18 districts and counties, built 364 projects in 267 residential zones. Tianjin developed "sunshine fit-keeping activity", hosted the first International Countryside Sports Meeting, created the first citizenry broadcast gymnastics. 
Social Welfare and Relief
Social relief developed continuously. A total of 24,547 received social relief, 267.4 thousand residents benefited from the city's fund for ensuring a minimum standard of living, of which, the urban residents numbered 241.3 thousand, 60,000 less than that in 2002 .. There were 16,478 beds in social welfare institutions and received 10,910 inmates. The city had 7 relief stations, receiving 58,857 person/day. There were 1,901 community service facilities, 102 community service centers. The coverage of social security network in Tianjin's rural area reached 74.3 percent. In 2003 , 0.106 billion yuan worth of social-welfare lottery tickets were issued, raising 0.039 billion yuan worth of social funds. 
¢õ Population and People's Life 
Population
The increase of population was controlled effectively. By end of 2003 , the city's permanent resident population reached 10.113 million and that was 41.2 thousand more than the previous year. The registered population was 9.26 million, increased 69.5 thousand more than the previous year. Among the total population, 3.7626 million were agriculture population and 16.5 thousand less than the previous year, 5.4974 million were non-agriculture population and 86 thousand more than last year. The birth rate of the population was 7.14¡ë , 0.35 per thousand points lower than the previous year. The mortality rate was 6.04¡ë , maintaining the same growing level; the natural growth rate of the population was 1.10¡ë , down 0.35 per thousand points. 
Personal Income and Savings
The income of the urban and rural residents increased quickly. The per capita reward of urban employed personnel worked in units was 18,628 yuan, up by 14.8 percent. The per capita annual disposable income of urban residents(calculated on new coverage) was 10,313 yuan, up by 10.5 percent. The average net annual income of the peasants was 5,861 yuan, up by 10.3 percent. The newly increased savings deposit in 2003 was higher than the previous year. By the end of 2003 , the balance of urban and rural residents' savings deposit totaled 199.176 billion yuan, 33.227 billion yuan more than the beginning of this year, 11.466 billion yuan more than tthe net increased saving deposits in 2002 . 
Personal Consumption
Personal consumption increased synchronously. The per capita consuming expenditure was 7,868 yuan, up by 9.4 percent expenditure for housing, transport and telecommunication, medicine and medical service increased by 17.5 , 26.5 and 11.7 percent respectively. The per capita annual living expenditures of rural households was 3,015 yuan, up by 8.5 percent, expenditure for housing, transport and telecommunication increased by 20.1 percent and 10.8 percent respectively. The residents' life quality continued to improve. Green household appliances, modern communication products, entered local families. By the end of year, the number of VCD/DVD players owned by per hundred urban households was 49.6 , air-conditioners was 90.9 , mobile phone was 77.8 , computers was 34.1 , vacuum was 24.3 ,drinking machine was 31.3 ,shower heater was 82.7 .The number of color TV sets owned by per hundred rural households was 110 , washing machines was 90 , air-conditioners was 32 , VCD/DVD players was 31 , computer was 7. 
Housing Conditions
The dwelling condition and the living environment of the urban and rural residents further improved. In 2003 , houses demolished were 4.5 million square meters, the city renovated 324 old residential areas and improved the living environment of 1,000,000 residents. By end of 2003 , the per capita construction house space in the urban area reached 23.1 square meters, the using space was 17.46 square meters, 0.8 square meter more than that in 2002 . The per capita dwelling space in the rural area was 24.44 square meters, 0.1 square meters more than the previous year. 
Major problems that remained in economic performance and social development included: the development of the tertiary industry was not quick; some state-owned middle & small-sized enterprises operated facing to difficulties; there were pressure in employment and re- employment; the income level of urban and rural residents was not high, the living of some people were difficult; the price of some goods and raw materials appeared the evidence of growing too quick. 
Note: 

1.All figures in the communique are preliminary statistics.
2.According to the regulation of National Bureau of Statistics, Gross domestic product of each region is named gross region product in Chinese, the gross domestic product of Tianjin in the communiqu¨¦ refer to original GDP .
3.The gross domestic product of Tianjin, the value-added and output value are calculated at the current price of the year, where as growth rates are calculated at comparable prices.
4.Industrial enterprises above designated size refer to all state-owned enterprises and other enterprises with annual sales of over 5 million yuan.
5.The coverage of relative indicators of foreign investment is adjusted in this year, the growth rates are calculated at comparable prices.
6.Compared the new coverage to old one, the per capita annual disposable income of urban residents deducts the part paid by individual of pension insurance funds, unemployment insurance funds, medical insurance funds and housing funds and income of selling wealth and properties.

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