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2.1 Population, Society and Economy
By the end of 2004, the population of the Three Gorges Reservoir area totaled 19.9874 million, up by 0.7% compared with that of 2003. Among them, 14.0038 million were farmers. And 5.9836 million were urban and township residents, accounting for 29.9% of the total population, with an increase of 1.1 percentage points.
The total production outcome of the reservoir area in 2004 was 187.733 billion yuan RMB, an increase of 13.1% in comparable price against that of 2003. Among them, the total production output of Chongqing region was 171.605 billion yuan and 16.128 billion yuan for the reservoir area in Hubei Province, up by 13.7% and 7.5% respectively against that of 2003. The primary industry of the reservoir area realized added value of 23.891 billion yuan, up by 5.2%; the secondary industry realized added value of 91.92 billion yuan, up by 15.6% and the tertiary industry with added value of 71.922 billion yuan, up by 12.4% compared with that of 2003. Industrial restructuring was on continuous pace. As a result, the proportion of the added value of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries against the total production output was adjusted from 12.8:48.5:38.7 to 12.7:49.0:38.3.
Table 2-1 Major statistic indicators of economic and social development indexes of the Three Gorges Reservoir area in 2004
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Indexes |
Amount |
Increase (%) |
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Total grain output (10,000 t) |
656.51 |
3.3 |
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Oil crop yield (10,000 t) |
22.94 |
7.9 |
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Tobacco yield (10,000 t) |
3.92 |
-6 |
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Meat output (10,000 t) |
116.02 |
3.8 |
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Aquatic products (10,000 t) |
13.55 |
1.3 |
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Financial revenue in local budget (100 million yuan) |
88.13 |
22.9 |
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Fixed assets investment (100 million yuan) |
1227.3 |
27 |
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Total sales volume of consumer goods (100 million yuan) |
776.69 |
15.7 |
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Average urban disposable income (yuan) |
8554 |
10.1 |
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Average net income of rural residents (yuan) |
2469 |
15.3 |
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Balance held on savings deposit (100 million yuan) |
1637.55 |
15.9 |
In 2004, the production of each industry of the reservoir area was on steady fast growth. The added value of the industries realized 66.219 billion yuan, up by 18.4% compared with that of 2003 in comparable price. The construction industry realized the added value of 25.701 billion yuan, rose by 9.5% against 2003. The total amount of cargo shipment reached 319.59 million tons with an increase of 9.0%. A total of 621.96 million passenger times were completed in 2004 with an increase of 18.7%. In addition, postal and telecommunication services obtained 8035.16 million yuan revenue with an increase of 20.5%.
In 2004, the budgeted educational expenditure of the reservoir area reached 2.636 billion yuan, up by 14.2% against that of 2003. Public health expenditure was 662 million yuan with an increase of 9.2%. There were 467,600 professionals in the region, up by 0.7% against 2003. There were 491 full-time teachers per 10,000 middle and primary school students, 5 more than that of 2003. TV broadcasting coverage was 96.7%, same as that of the previous year.
2.2 Migration Resettlement
The migration resettlement work was smooth in 2004 with a total of 131,191 rural and urban residents resettled and 3.3624 million m3 of various buildings constructed. In addition, 206 industrial and mining enterprises had been relocated.
¡ñ Rural areas
35,244 rural residents had been resettled and 36,379 people were assigned with their livelihood. 3200 mu land were developed, 6 new ponds and 6 channels had been built. 88 rural roads were built with total length of 278.25 km. Moreover, 780,500 m2 buildings were constructed, among them, 768,600 m2 were resettlement residential houses. The migrant farmers had planted 16.8398 million m2 of farmland on contract basis, constructed 629,100 m2 of residential buildings, built 1060 km road, placed 1.0595 million meter of water-supplying pipes and 911,200 m of communication lines.
¡ñ Cities
A total of 80,804 urban residents had been relocated. 14,000 m2 of land had been leveled. 11.99 km of new road was built and 85,300 m of communication line had been placed. In the order of 97,000 m2 urban area had been planted with grasses and trees. 1.7303 million m2 of urban buildings had been constructed£¬1.4605 million m2 of which were residential buildings.
¡ñ Towns
A total of 15,143 township residents were removed. In the order of 393,100 m2 of buildings were constructed. Among them, 316,100 m2 were residential buildings.
¡ñ Industrial and mining enterprises
206 industrial and mining enterprises had finished their resettlement work.
¡ñ Special facilities
A road of 54.15 km was rebuilt. Some big or medium sized bridges with a total length of 505.47 m were rebuilt. In addition, 13 ports, 126 wharfs, 7 hydro-power stations, 30 pumping stations, 3 power transmission and transforming stations and 1 post office were newly built. In the order of 696,800 m power transmission lines, 366,000 m communication lines and 387,000 m broadcasting and TV cables had been laid.
¡ñ Environmental protection
A total of 11.8483 million yuan had been invested in environmental protection work in the resettlement areas.
¡ñ Counterpart assistance
2004 is the year when the reservoir area have obtained most counterpart assistance with 4.079 billion yuan capital introduced (Among them, 3.835 billion yuan for economic cooperation projects and 244 million yuan for social welfare projects). This is twice the average annual attracted investment of the past 12 years. There were 209 new economic cooperation projects. Three schools were built with the help of the "Hope Project". 1,632 people received training and 53 local officials attended exchange programs. The Three Gorges Reservoir area had received 173 visiting delegations with 2,490 person times.
By the end of 2004, the Counterpart Assistance Program had introduced 20.174 billion yuan in accumulation (Among them, 18.057 billion yuan for economic cooperation projects and 2.117 billion yuan for social welfare programs). There were over 2700 economic cooperation projects in the region and a total of 764 "Hope schools" were built. A total of 13,000 person times of migrant labour were arranged, more than 7,000 person times training were carried out. 462 person times of carders attended exchange program.
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