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Official statistics issued today show that Beijing's gross domestic
product rise or 11 percent to reach 246.5 billion yuan (about 29.58
billion U.S.dollars) last year.
The added-value of primary industry reached 9 billion yuan, realizing
the highest growth rate in the past five years with four percent,
the figures of secondary and tertiary industries were 93.5 billion
yuan and 143.47 billion yuan respectively.
The added-value of industry was 73.7 billion yuan, among which
21.35 billion yuan was from high-tech section.
The city's exports value was as much as 11.97 billion U.S. dollars,
up 20.8 percent, tourism profits 2.77 billion U.S. dollars, 10.8
percent more than that in 1999.
Beijing approved another 1,149 foreign-funded projects involving
4.34 billion U.S.dollars of contract foreign investment, with 3.01
billion U.S. dollars in actual use.
Gu Yanzhou, vice-director of the Beijing Municipal Statistics Bureau,
said the city made great achievement last year in economic restructuring.
Agriculture went through a long sluggish period, industry kept
growing at a steady pace, and service industrial development was
stopped from further slowing down.
(Eastday 02/21/01)
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