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UPDATED: May-9-2009 NO. 19 MAY 14, 2009
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Shanghai Statistics 2008 (year-on-year increase)

GDP (Gross Domestic Product):

1.37 trillion yuan ($200.56 billion), increasing 9.7 percent.

Added value of non-public sector economy:

626.667 billion yuan ($91.75 billion), accounting for 45.7 percent of GDP.

Number of new enterprises:

82,100 enterprises, increasing 5.4 percent; including 6,374 foreign-funded enterprises, 71,787 private enterprises.

Fiscal revenue:

238.234 billion yuan ($34.88 billion), increasing 13.3 percent.

Fiscal expenditure:

261.768 billion yuan ($38.33 billion), increasing 18.9 percent.

Amount of social fixed assets investment:

482.946 billion yuan ($70.71 billion), increasing 8.3 percent.

CPI (Consumer Price Index):

Increased 5.8 percent.

PPI (Producer Price Index):

Increased 1 percent.

Added value of Industries:

578.499 billion yuan ($84.70 billion), increasing 8.4 percent; Electronic information industry accounts for 25.2 percent of all industries; Petroleum and refined chemical industry, 11.7 percent; Complete-set equipment manufacturing industry, 11.5 percent; Automobile industry, 7.1 percent; High-end steel industry, 6.9 percent; Biomedical industry, 1.8 percent; Hi-tech industries, 24.8 percent; Other industries, 11 percent.

Total retail sales of social consumer goods:

453.714 billion yuan ($66.43 billion), increasing 17.9 percent.

Port traffic:

582 million tons, increasing 3.6 percent.

Foreign trade:

Total volume of foreign trade was $322.138 billion, increasing 13.8 percent; Total value of imports was $152.788 billion, increasing 9.9 percent, and total value of exports was $169.35 billion, increasing 17.7 percent.

Foreign funds used:

$10.084 billion, increasing 27.3 percent.

Added value of tourism:

95.85 billion yuan ($14.03 billion), increasing 7.1 percent.

Added value of financial industry:

144.26 billion yuan ($21.12 billion), increasing 15 percent.

Financial institutions:

By the end of 2008, there had been 689 financial institutions, among which 124 were banking institutions, 291 were insurance institutions, 94 were security institutions and 165 were foreign-funded financial institutions.

Per-capita yearly income:

26,675 yuan ($3,906), increasing 12.9 percent.

Number of employees:

9.45 million, increasing 359,200 over the end of 2007.

(Source: www.stats-sh.gov.cn)

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