GDP: 182.119 billion yuan.
GDP growth rate: 9.2 percent.
Average GDP per capita: 6,842 yuan.
GDP ratio of 1st, 2nd and tertiary industries:
The output value of the first industry is 39.873 billion yuan, accounting for 21.9 percent of the GDP; the second industry, 80.028 billion yuan, 43.9 percent of the total; and the tertiary industry, 62.218 billion yuan, or 34.1 percent of the GDP.
Revenues: 18.402 billion yuan.
Industrial output value and the growth rate:
The output value is 156.86 billion yuan and the growth rate is 22 percent.
Agricultural output value:
Suffering from the most serious drought, the province achieved a total agricultural output value of 59.77 billion in 2000, dropping 7.5 percent as compared with the previous year. The total output of grain was 163.8 billion kg, 28.9 percent down as compared with that of the previous year. However, the beneficial agriculture produced remarkable results. In the province, the area granted for corn-growing was 466,700 hectares, 66,800 hectares more than that of the preceding year, or 16.7 percent up; the growing area of quality wheat was 69,300 hectares, 24,700 hectares, or 55.2 percent, more than in the previous year; the growing area of quality soybeans was154,800 hectares, 76,300 hectares, or 97.1 percent, more than that of the previous year; the growing area of quality rice was 225,100 hectares, increasing 91,900 hectares, or a growth of 68.9 percent.
The development of animal husbandry and aquatic production was rapid. In the year, the animal husbandry achieved an output value of 28.65 billion yuan, an increase of 9.4 percent compared with the preceding year.
The forestry industry developed steadily. In the year, the industry achieved a total output value of 1.1 billion yuan, a growth of 7.5 percent as compared with the preceding year.
The ecological environment of agriculture has been well protected, and, in particular, the situation in the western part has greatly improved. The construction of seven state-level ecological counties has been intensified, and a total of 900 square kilometers of erosion area have been administered. Anti-desertification projects have been carried out in areas totaling 950 square kilometers and 95 square kilometers of damaged grasslands have been reconstructed.
Industrial output value:
In 2000, the large-scale industrial enterprises made an added value of 49.89 billion yuan, an increase of 13.8 percent as compared with that of the preceding year. Of the added value, heavy industry made 39.05 billion yuan, a growth of 14.7 percent over the previous year; light industry made 10.84 billion yuan, an increase of 11.8 percent.
The value of sales reached 156.86 billion yuan, an increase of 22 percent over the previous year. The ratio of sales of industrial products was 98.1 percent, at the same level of the previous year. The general index of economic result of enterprises reached 107.6 percent, 25.1 percent higher than that of the preceding year. The net profit of large-scale enterprises was 8.555 billion yuan, 2.6 times of that of the previous year, hitting a historical record.
The output value of new products of the year was 21.081 billion yuan, accounting for 12.5 percent of the province?s total industrial output value. The output value of the auto and petrochemical industries, two traditional pillar industries of the province, made up 55.2 percent of the province?s total output value created by large-scale enterprises, 3.5 percent higher than that of the preceding year. The new and high technological industries, such as electronics, pharmaceutical and foodstuff, have developed to become the most vigorous industries, producing an output value of 24.64 billion yuan, accounting for 14.7 percent of the province?s total output value of the large-scale enterprises; the total asset of these new industries reached 43.63 billion yuan, accounting for 13.7 percent of the province?s total industrial asset.
Foreign trade:
A policy for the overall opening up of the province?s economy is being carried out in the province. Its import and export have made a rapid growth on the basis of the recovery of the preceding year. According to the customs, the total value of import and export in the year was US$2.554 billion, 15.2 percent higher than the previous year. Of the total value, export was US$1.242 billion, an increase of 21.8 percent; import, US$1.312 billion, an increase of 9.6 percent over the preceding year.
Foreign investment:
Jilin has been successful in absorbing capital from overseas. Through the commercial invitation activities held in Fujian and Guangdong, the province signed 338 projects with a total contracted fund of 32 billion yuan, resulting in the steady increase of utilized foreign capital in the year. Direct foreign investment mounted to US$596 million, 32.3 percent more than that of the previous year. In the year, the utilized foreign capital was US$493 million, 17 percent more than the preceding year. Of the contracted money, US$337 million of the direct foreign investment was utilized, a growth of 11.9 percent over the preceding year. The scale and quality of foreign investment both rose. The average investment in each of the year?s 363 newly approved foreign-funded companies was US$1.642 million, US$350,000 higher than the province?s average.
Foreign investment has further promoted the development of the province?s economy. In the year, the total sales income of foreign invested enterprises in Jilin was 31.71 billion yuan, including 6.14 billion yuan of profit tax, an increase of 29.9 percent and 163.7 percent over the preceding year respectively. The roles of foreign invested enterprises in promoting export, paying profit tax, and providing more jobs are increasingly obvious.
Pillar industries:
Automobile, petrochemical, food processing, medical and pharmaceutical, and electronics industries are the pillar industries of Jilin.
