China News Service, Beijing, February 28 (Reporter Wang Enbo) The National Bureau of Statistics of China issued the "Statistical Bulletin on National Economic and Social Development 2019" on the 28th. Sheng Laiyun, deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics, explained that in 2019, China's contribution to world economic growth will reach about 30%, and it will continue to be the main source of power for world economic growth.
Data map: aerial photography of Chengdu International Railway Port. Photo by Bai Guibin
According to the communique, preliminary calculations show that China's GDP in 2019 will be 99.865 trillion yuan, an annual average exchange rate of 14.4 trillion US dollars, ranking second in the world; the per capita GDP will be 70,892 yuan, converted at the average annual exchange rate It reached US $ 10,276, breaking the US $ 10,000 mark for the first time, and the gap with high-income countries has further narrowed.
Sheng Laiyun also pointed out that China's economic growth ranks among the top economies in the world. In 2019, China's GDP increased by 6.1% over the previous year, significantly higher than the global economic growth rate, ranking first among economies with a total economic volume of more than US $ 1 trillion.
In terms of people's livelihood indicators, employment expansion prices are generally stable. In 2019, there were 13.52 million new jobs in cities and towns across the country, which remained above 13 million for seven consecutive years; the total number of migrant workers was 297.77 million, an increase of 0.8% over the previous year. The monthly national urban survey unemployment rate remains between 5.0% and 5.3%, which is lower than the expected target of about 5.5%. Consumer prices in 2019 rose by 2.9% over the previous year, which was lower than the full-year expected target. Among them, the core CPI excluding food and energy rose by 1.6%, a decrease of 0.3 percentage points from the previous year.
Sheng Laiyun also said that in the past year, China has made great achievements in infrastructure construction. At the end of 2019, the total operating mileage of high-speed railways exceeded 35,000 kilometers, accounting for more than two-thirds of global high-speed railway mileage; highway mileage exceeded 140,000 kilometers, ranking first in the world. In 2019, the total business volume of the postal industry reached 1,623 billion yuan, an increase of 31.5% over the previous year; the express delivery business volume was 63.52 billion pieces, an increase of 25.3%. In 2019, mobile Internet user access traffic increased by 71.6% over the previous year. 5G commercialization is advancing steadily, modern information technologies such as big data, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence are developing rapidly, and the construction of a "network power" has taken a solid step. (Finish)