V. Domestic Trade

In 2009, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 12,534.3 billion yuan, up 15.5 percent over the previous year. An analysis on different areas showed that the retail sales of consumer goods in cities reached 8,513.3 billion yuan, up 15.5 percent and the retail sales of consumer goods at or below county level was 4,021.0 billion yuan, up 15.7 percent. Analyzed by different sectors, the sales of the wholesale and retail trade reached 10,541.3 billion yuan, up 15.6 percent; the sales of the lodging and catering industry was 1,799.8 billion yuan, up 16.8 percent, and the sales of the other industries was 193.2 billion yuan, up 2.5 percent.

Of the total retail sales by wholesale and retail enterprises above the designated size, the year-on-year growth of sales for motor vehicles was 32.3 percent, that for grain and oil was 13.0 percent, for meat and eggs 8.3 percent, for clothing 20.8 percent, for daily necessities 15.6 percent, for cultural and office goods 6.7 percent. The sales of telecommunication equipment dropped by 1.3 percent. The year-on-year growth of sales for cosmetics was 16.9 percent, for gold, silver and jewelry 15.9 percent, for traditional Chinese drugs and western drugs 21.7 percent, for household electric and electronic appliances and audio-video equipment 12.3 percent, for furniture 35.5 percent and for building and decoration materials 26.6 percent.

VI. Foreign Economic Relations

The total value of imports and exports in 2009 reached $2,207.2 billion, down 13.9 percent from the previous year. Of this total, the value of goods export was $1,201.7 billion, down 16.0 percent, and the value of goods import was $1,005.6 billion, down 11.2 percent. The balance of imports and exports was (exports minus imports) $196.1 billion, a decrease of $102.0 billion from the previous year.

The year 2009 witnessed the establishment of 23,435 enterprises with foreign direct investment in non-financial sectors, down 14.8 percent; and the foreign capital actually utilized was $90.0 billion, down 2.6 percent over the pervious year. Of the total foreign direct investment actually utilized, the share of investment in manufacturing was 52.0 percent, the real estate 18.7 percent, leasing and business service 6.8 percent, wholesales and retail trade 6.0 percent and transportation, storage and post service 2.8 percent.

In 2009, the overseas direct investment (non-financial sectors) by Chinese investors was $43.3 billion, up 6.5 percent from the previous year.

In 2009, the accomplished business revenue through contracted overseas engineering projects was $77.7 billion, up 37.3 percent, and the business revenue through overseas labor contracts was $8.9 billion, up 10.6 percent from the previous year.

VII. Transportation, Post, Telecommunications and Tourism

The value added of the transportation, storage, post and telecommunication sectors reached 1,705.8 billion yuan in 2009, up 3.7 percent from the previous year.

The volume of freight handled by ports above the designated size throughout the year totaled 6.91 billion tons, up 8.2 percent from the previous year, of which freight for foreign trade was 2.14 billion tons, up 8.6 percent. Container shipping handled 120.82 million standard containers, down 5.8 percent.

The total number of motor vehicles for civilian use reached 76.19 million (including 13.31 million tri-wheel motor vehicles and low-speed trucks) by the end of 2009, up 17.8 percent, of which private-owned vehicles numbered 52.18 million, up 25.0 percent. The total number of cars for civilian use stood at 31.36 million, up 28.6 percent, of which private-owned cars numbered 26.05 million, up 33.8 percent.

The turnover of post and telecommunication services totaled 2,731.3 billion yuan, up 14.6 percent from the previous year. Of this total, post services accounted for 163.2 billion yuan, up 16.4 percent, and telecommunication services 2,568.1 billion yuan, up 14.4 percent. By the end of 2009, with a decrease of 16.44 million lines of office switchboards, the total capacity stood at 492.19 million lines. The newly increased capacity of mobile phone switchboard was 275.80 million lines with the total capacity reaching 1,421.11 million lines. The year also saw 313.69 million fixed telephone subscribers. This included 211.78 million urban subscribers and 101.91 million rural subscribers. Mobile phone users numbered 747.38 million by the end of 2009, with 106.14 million new subscribers in the year. In total, the number of fixed and mobile phone users reached 1,061.07 million, an increase of 79.47 million as compared with that at the end of 2008. Phone coverage is 79.9 sets per 100 persons. The number of Internet users was 380 million, of which wide-band users were 350 million, and the coverage rate of Internet was 28.9 percent.

The year 2009 saw 1.90 billion domestic tourists, up 11.1 percent from the previous year. The revenue from domestic tourism totaled 1,018.4 billion yuan, up 16.4 percent. The number of inbound visitors to China totaled 126.48 million, a year-on-year decline of 2.7 percent. Of this total, 21.94 million were foreigners, down 9.8 percent; and 104.54 million were Chinese compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, down 1.1 percent. Of all the inbound tourists, overnight visitors counted 50.88 million, down 4.1 percent. Foreign exchange earnings from international tourism topped $39.7 billion, down 2.9 percent. The number of China's outbound visitors totaled 47.66 million, up 4.0 percent. Of this total, 42.21 million were on private visits, a year-on-year rise of 5.2 percent, or 88.6 percent of all outgoing visitors.