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Agriculture

Basic Conditions of Rural Grassroots Units and Agriculture

from http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/nj98/l011a.txt 

Description Units 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
Number of Township and Town Governments   48,179 48,075 47,136 45,484 44,689
Number of Town Governments   15,223 16,433 17,282 17,998 18,402
Number of Villagers' Committees   802,352 802,052 740,150 740,128 739,447
Number of Rural Households (10 000 units) 22,983.8 23,165.2 23,281.5 23,437.6 23,406.2
Number of Rural Laborers (10,000 persons) 44,255.7 44,654.1 45,041.8 45,288.0 45,961.7
Male (10,000 persons) 23,653.1 23,854.1 24,037.4 24,154.9 24,500.6
Female (10,000 persons) 20,602.6 20,800.1 21,004.4 21,133.1 21,462.1
Number of Rural Laborers by Sector (10,000 persons) 44,255.7 44,654.1 45,041.8 45,288.0 45,961.7
Farming, Forestry, Animal Husbandry & Fishery (10,000 persons) 33,258.2 32,690.3 32,334.5 32,260.4 32,434.9
Industry (10,000 persons) 3,659.0 3,849.5 3,970.7 4,018.5 4,031.3
Construction (10,000 persons) 1,886.8 2,057.3 2,203.6 2,304.3 2,372.7
Transportation (10,000 persons) 799.9 908.3 983.0 1,027.6 1,057.8
Wholesale, Retail Sale and Catering Trades (10,000 persons) 948.8 1,084.3 1,170.4 1,261.5 1,381.5
Other Non-agricultural Trades (10,000 persons) 3,703.1 4,064.5 4,379.7 4,415.7 4,683.9
Cultivated Areas (Year-end) (1000 hectares) 95,101.4 94,906.7 94,970.9
Paddy Fields (1000 hectares) 25,028.0 24,762.9 24,850.5
Dry Fields (1000 hectares) 70,073.4 70,143.8 70,120.4
Decrease in Cultivated Area by Cause (1000 hectares) 732.3 708.7 621.1
Capital Construction of the Government (1000 hectares) 161.0 132.6 111.9
Village Collective Construction (1000 hectares) 86.0 80.2 84.9
Peasant Housing Construction (1000 hectares) 24.0 33.0 31.6
Irrigated Area (1000 hectares) 48,728.0 48,759.0 49,281.0 50,381.0 51,239.0
Total Sown Area (1000 hectares) (1000 hectares) 147,741.0 148,241.0 149,879.0 152,381.0 153,969.0
Grain Crops (1000 hectares) 110,509.0 109,544.0 110,060.0 112,548.0 112,912.0
Cereal (1000 hectares) 88,912.0 87,537.0 89,310.0 92,208.0 91,964.0
Rice (1000 hectares) 30,355.0 30,171.0 30,744.0 31,407.0 31,765.0
Wheat (1000 hectares) 30,235.0 28,981.0 28,860.0 29,611.0 30,057.0
Corn (1000 hectares) 20,694.0 21,152.0 22,776.0 24,498.0 23,775.0
Beans (1000 hectares) 12,377.0 12,736.0 11,232.0 10,543.0 11,164.0
Tubers (1000 hectares) 9,220.0 9,270.0 9,519.0 9,798.0 9,785.0
Oil-bearing Crops (1000 hectares) 11,142.0 12,081.0 13,101.0 12,555.0 12,381.0
Cotton (1000 hectares) 4,985.0 5,528.0 5,422.0 4,722.0 4,491.0
Fiber Crops (1000 hectares) 420.0 372.0 376.0 350.0 327.0
Sugar Crops (1000 hectares) 1,687.0 1,755.0 1,820.0 1,846.0 1,923.0
Tobacco (1000 hectares) 2,089.0 1,490.0 1,470.0 1,853.0 2,353.0
Vegetables (1000 hectares) 8,084.0 8,921.0 9,515.0 10,491.0 11,288.0
Area of Tea Plantations (1000 hectares) 1,170.7 1,134.8 1,115.3 1,103.0 1,076.0
Area of Orchards (1000 hectares) 6,432.0 7,264.0 8,098.0 8,553.0 8,648.0


Last Updated on 2000-02-22
By Richard Collins
Email: Director@TheInternetFoundation.Org