China News Service, February 28th. The website of the National Bureau of Statistics released on February 28th the deputy director of the National Bureau of Statistics Sheng Laiyun's comment on the "2022 Statistical Bulletin on National Economic and Social Development".

  In 2022, my country's economic and social development will encounter multiple unexpected factors at home and abroad, with unprecedented risks and challenges.

The newly released "2022 Statistical Bulletin on National Economic and Social Development" comprehensively records the process of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country withstood the pressure and forged ahead, vividly demonstrating the new achievements of socialist modernization.

1. Economic strength reaches a new level

  In 2022, the start of the first quarter was better than expected, and the economy experienced a decline in the early part of the second quarter due to unexpected factors.

Facing the difficult situation, the Party Central Committee and the State Council made decisive decisions and promptly issued a package of policies and follow-up measures to stabilize the economy. All regions and departments better coordinated epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, proactive fiscal policies improved efficiency, and combined tax and fee support policies accelerated. The implementation of a sound monetary policy is flexible and moderate, and the liquidity is reasonable and sufficient. In the third quarter, the economic market recovered and stabilized.

Although the impact of the epidemic intensified again in the fourth quarter, with the joint efforts of all parties, the overall recovery trend continued.

The annual economy withstood the pressure to achieve a growth rate of 3.0%, leading the growth rate among major economies with the highest ranking in the world's economic volume. The economic aggregate continued to expand, the development foundation was more solid, and the comprehensive national strength was further enhanced.

The total economic volume exceeded 120 trillion yuan.

In 2022, my country's gross domestic product (GDP) will reach 121 trillion yuan, which is another leap to a new level after breaking through 100 trillion yuan and 110 trillion yuan in 2020 and 2021.

Converted according to the annual average exchange rate, my country's total economic volume has reached 18 trillion US dollars, ranking second in the world.

The per capita GDP was 85,698 yuan, which was converted to 12,741 U.S. dollars at the annual average exchange rate, and remained above 12,000 U.S. dollars.

The basic position of agriculture has been further consolidated.

Responsibility for grain production has been tightened, and policies to support and benefit agriculture have been intensified to improve comprehensive agricultural production capacity, and grain production has reached a new high.

In 2022, the annual grain output will be 1,373.1 billion catties, an increase of 0.5% over the previous year, and it has remained stable at more than 1.3 trillion catties for eight consecutive years.

The soybean oil production capacity improvement project has been steadily advanced.

In 2022, the national output of soybeans and oilseeds will increase by 23.7% and 1.1% respectively compared with the previous year.

The production of animal husbandry grew steadily, and the output of pig, beef, mutton and poultry meat increased by 3.8%.

The role of industrial "ballast stone" is prominent.

In 2022, the added value of all industries will exceed 40 trillion yuan for the first time; among them, the added value of manufacturing will reach 33.5 trillion yuan, and my country will continue to maintain its status as the world's largest manufacturing country.

Energy supply guarantee has achieved remarkable results.

In response to fluctuations in the international energy market, strengthen domestic coal protection and increase oil and gas reserves and production, make overall plans to ensure the supply of coal, electricity, oil and gas transportation, and effectively respond to severe challenges such as extreme high temperature and drought in China, and better guarantee energy consumption for daily life and production.

In 2022, the output of raw coal will be 4.56 billion tons, an increase of 10.5% over the previous year; the output of crude oil will be 204.72 million tons, rising to more than 200 million tons for the first time since 2016; the output of natural gas will increase by 6.0%, an increase of over 10 billion cubic meters for six consecutive years.

Infrastructure construction was strengthened.

By the end of 2022, my country's railway operating mileage will reach 15.

50,000 kilometers; including 42,000 kilometers of high-speed rail, ranking first in the world.

Information and communication capabilities have been comprehensively improved.

By the end of 2022, the total number of mobile phone base stations will reach 10.83 million, of which 2.31 million are 5G base stations, accounting for more than 60% of the world's total, building the world's largest and leading-edge network infrastructure.

2. Employment prices are generally stable

  In 2022, the situation at home and abroad will be complicated and severe. Under the impact of the epidemic, the production and operation of enterprises will be difficult, the ability to absorb employment will decline, and the employment difficulties of migrant workers will increase. At the same time, the number of college graduates will exceed 10 million, a record high. The total employment pressure and structural contradictions It is highlighted that the shortage of international bulk commodity supply has brought about rising pressure on imported inflation, and the challenge of stabilizing employment and prices has increased.

All regions and departments put more emphasis on stabilizing employment and prices, and do their best to help enterprises out of difficulties, stabilize jobs and expand jobs, strengthen entrepreneurship to drive employment, increase employment assistance for key groups, do a good job in employment services and basic guarantees, and increase key livelihoods. Commodity production and supply and marketing have been connected, the implementation of the market price control mechanism has been strengthened, and efforts have been made to ensure supply and price stability, ensuring overall stability in employment and commodity prices.

The employment base is generally stable.

In 2022, 12.06 million new urban jobs will be created across the country, exceeding the annual target of 11 million.

The surveyed urban unemployment rate fell overall.

Affected by factors such as the epidemic, the national surveyed urban unemployment rate rose to 6.1% in April 2022. With the gradual implementation of employment stabilization measures, the employment situation is generally improving, and the national surveyed urban unemployment rate dropped to 5.5% by the end of the year.

The employment of key groups such as migrant workers has been effectively guaranteed.

In 2022, the total number of migrant workers will be 295.62 million, an increase of 1.1% over the previous year.

Consumer prices rose moderately.

While effectively implementing a prudent monetary policy and insisting on avoiding "flood irrigation" to lay a solid foundation for the stable operation of prices, we will continue to ensure stable production and supply, carry out reserve adjustments in a timely manner, and promote the connection between production, transportation and sales, and ensure the overall stability of market prices. .

In 2022, the monthly increase of my country's consumer price index (CPI) will always be less than 3%, and the annual increase will only be 2.0%, which is significantly lower than the growth rate of developed economies such as the United States (8.0%), the Eurozone (8.4%), and the United Kingdom (9.1%). This is lower than the 6%-10% increase in emerging economies such as India, Brazil, and South Africa. "China's price stability" and "global inflation" form an extremely sharp contrast.

3. New momentum continues to grow

  In 2022, the competition in the international market will become more intense, external pressure on China's technology field will continue, and the risk of chain breaking and decoupling will increase.

my country firmly implements the innovation-driven development strategy, solidly promotes innovation, entrepreneurship and creation, deepens the reform of the scientific and technological system and mechanism, increases the incentives for corporate innovation, vigorously stimulates the vitality of innovation, and strengthens key core technology research. The national strategic scientific and technological strength continues to increase, and major scientific and technological achievements continue to emerge. , The development of new kinetic energy continues to grow.

Innovation input and output continued to increase.

In 2022, the research and experimental development (R&D) of the whole society will reach 3.1 trillion yuan, breaking through 3 trillion yuan for the first time, an increase of 10.4% over the previous year, and maintaining double-digit growth for 7 consecutive years; the ratio of R&D expenditure to GDP is 2.55 %, an increase of 0.12 percentage points.

By the end of 2022, the effective number of invention patents in my country will reach 4.212 million, ranking first in the world.

The dominant position of enterprises in innovation has been strengthened, and the transformation of innovation achievements has been accelerated.

In 2022, the industrialization rate of Chinese enterprises' invention patents will be 48.1%, an increase of 1.3 percentage points over the previous year.

The national strategic scientific and technological strength has accelerated its growth.

The construction of the national laboratory system has been steadily advanced, and the construction of international science and technology innovation centers, comprehensive national science centers, national manufacturing innovation centers, and regional science and technology innovation centers has been accelerated.

In 2022, the "Chang'e" lunar exploration, the "Tianwen" fire detection, and the Shenzhou series spacecraft take off in relay, the Chinese space station will be fully completed, the first C919 large aircraft will be officially delivered, and the third aircraft carrier Fujian will be launched.

The new kinetic energy continues to increase.

A new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and blockchain are widely used, and new industries are growing rapidly.

In 2022, the added value of high-tech manufacturing above designated size will increase by 7.4% over the previous year, and investment in high-tech industries will increase by 18.9%; the output of new energy vehicles, solar cells, industrial robots and other products will increase by 90.5%, 46.8%, and 21.0% respectively.

The construction of the mobile Internet of Things is accelerated.

By the end of 2022, the number of cellular IoT user connections in my country will reach 1.845 billion, an increase of 447 million from the end of the previous year, accounting for 70% of the global total.

4. Steady progress in green and low-carbon transformation

  The construction of ecological civilization is a fundamental plan related to the sustainable development of the Chinese nation.

In 2022, while actively stabilizing the economic operation, the whole country will firmly practice the development concept that green water and lush mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains, vigorously promote the construction of a beautiful China, jointly promote carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, and continue to deepen pollution prevention and control In the tough battle, we will actively and steadily promote the work of carbon neutrality at the peak of carbon, accelerate the green transformation of the development model, continue to optimize the ecological environment, and accelerate the formation of green and low-carbon production and lifestyles.

Steady progress was made in energy conservation, consumption reduction and emission reduction.

In 2022, the national energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of GDP will decrease by 0.1% compared with the previous year, and carbon dioxide emissions per 10,000 yuan of GDP will decrease by 0.8%.

The low-carbon transformation of energy continues to deepen, the production of clean energy grows rapidly, and the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption continues to increase.

In 2022, the power generation of clean energy such as hydropower, nuclear power, wind power, and solar power will increase by 8.5% over the previous year; the proportion of non-fossil energy consumption in total energy consumption will be 17.5%, an increase of 0.8 percentage points.

Pollution control results continue to show.

The battle to defend the blue sky, clear water, and pure land has been fought in depth, and the quality of the ecological environment has been continuously improved.

Overall urban air quality has improved.

In 2022, the annual average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in 339 prefecture-level and above cities across the country will decrease by 3.3% compared with the previous year.

Surface water environment continued to improve.

Among the 3,641 national surface water assessment sections, the proportion of sections with excellent water quality (Class I-III) was 87.9%, an increase of 3.0 percentage points.

Ecological safety barriers continue to be consolidated.

Adhere to the systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass and sand, strengthen the protection and restoration of ecosystems, promote large-scale land greening actions, and improve the overall natural ecosystem.

In 2022, the area of ​​afforestation will be 3.83 million hectares, including 1.2 million hectares of artificial afforestation, 3.21 million hectares of improved grass planting, and 63,000 square kilometers of new soil erosion control area.

5. Continuous expansion of high-level opening up

  In 2022, the recovery of the world economy will slow down, the volatility of the global financial market will increase, unilateralism and protectionism will heat up, and the uncertainty of foreign economic and trade development will increase significantly.

my country insists on coordinating domestic and international situations, strives to build a new development pattern, firmly maintains and practices multilateralism, accelerates the creation of a new higher-level open economic system, actively promotes institutional opening, and continues to improve the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation. Efforts were made to promote the stable scale and optimal structure of foreign trade, greater efforts were made to attract and utilize foreign capital, and solidly promote the high-quality development of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road". .

Trade in goods hit a new high.

In 2022, the total amount of imports and exports of goods will exceed the 40 trillion yuan mark for the first time, reaching 42.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 7.7% over the previous year, and a new breakthrough will be achieved on a high base.

Trade in services grew steadily.

In 2022, the total import and export of services will increase by 12.9% over the previous year; among them, the import and export of knowledge-intensive services will increase by 7.8%.

The potential of cross-border e-commerce is accelerated.

In 2022, my country's cross-border e-commerce import and export will reach 2.1 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.8% over the previous year.

The use of foreign capital has grown against the trend.

The creation of a market-oriented, rule-of-law, and internationalized business environment has been accelerated, and my country continues to become a hot spot for global investment.

In 2022, my country's actual use of foreign capital will increase by 6.3% compared with the previous year on a comparable basis, and the scale of foreign investment will hit a new high.

The use of foreign capital in high-tech industries grew rapidly.

In 2022, the actual use of foreign capital in high-tech industries will increase by 28.3% over the previous year, accounting for 36.1% of the total foreign capital used, an increase of 7.1 percentage points over the previous year.

The high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has achieved results.

The economic and trade exchanges between my country and countries along the “Belt and Road” are becoming increasingly close.

In 2022, my country's import and export volume to countries along the "Belt and Road" will hit a record high, reaching 13.8 trillion yuan, an increase of 19.4% over the previous year; the non-financial direct investment of Chinese enterprises in countries along the "Belt and Road" will increase by 7.7%.

In 2022, a total of 16,000 China-Europe trains will be operated, an increase of 9% over the previous year; a total of 756,000 TEUs of goods will be delivered by the western land-sea new channel trains, an increase of 18.5%.

New progress has been made in the construction of free trade zones.

High-quality implementation of the "Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement" (RCEP) to promote regional integration and cooperation to deepen.

In 2022, my country's import and export volume and non-financial direct investment to RCEP trading partners will increase by 7.5% and 18.9% respectively compared with the previous year, and the direct investment absorbed by them will increase by 23.

1%.

The level of trade liberalization and facilitation continued to improve, and the leading role of demonstrations in the open highlands of the pilot free trade zones was highlighted.

In 2022, the import and export volume of my country's 21 free trade pilot zones will increase by 14.5% over the previous year; the import and export volume of Hainan Free Trade Port will exceed 200 billion yuan, an increase of 36.8%.

6. People's livelihood and well-being continued to improve

  Improving people's livelihood and well-being and meeting people's yearning for a better life are the fundamental goals of development.

In 2022, the epidemic will have a greater impact on residents' employment, income, and life. People's urgent and anxious problems in education, medical care and other fields will increase, and the pressure on basic people's livelihood will increase significantly.

All regions and departments have thoroughly implemented the people-centered development idea, focused on the concerns of the people, tried every means to increase residents' income, continued to improve the quality of education, strengthened medical and health service guarantees, strengthened the social security functions, and improved the level of public services. With new progress, people's lives continue to improve, and people's sense of gain, happiness, and security have been enhanced.

Resident income growth and economic growth are basically in sync.

In 2022, the per capita disposable income of national residents will actually increase by 2.9% over the previous year, which will basically keep pace with economic growth.

Consolidate and expand the results of poverty alleviation.

In 2022, the per capita disposable income of rural residents in poverty-stricken counties will increase by 5.4% in real terms, faster than the growth rate of rural residents' income across the country.

Ensure that the bottom line of the basic pocket is solid and strong.

Social insurance coverage continued to expand.

By the end of 2022, the number of people participating in basic pension insurance, unemployment insurance, and work-related injury insurance nationwide will increase by 24.3 million, 8.49 million, and 8.25 million, respectively, compared with the end of the previous year.

The work of expanding the subsistence allowances and improving efficiency has been steadily advanced, and social assistance has been strengthened.

By the end of 2022, 6.83 million urban and 33.49 million rural residents will be entitled to subsistence allowances nationwide, and 10.83 million people will receive temporary assistance throughout the year. The per capita social relief and subsidy income of national residents will increase by 3.8% over the previous year.

Social undertakings have progressed in an all-round way.

The popularization of education has been steadily improved.

In 2022, the nine-year compulsory education consolidation rate and the gross enrollment rate in high school will increase to 95.5% and 91.6% respectively.

Medical and health forces continue to strengthen.

By the end of 2022, there will be 1.033 million medical and health institutions and 11.55 million health technicians across the country.

The construction of the public cultural service system has been solidly advanced.

By the end of 2022, there will be 3,503 cultural centers and 3,303 public libraries in my country respectively; the comprehensive population coverage rate of TV programs will reach 99.8%.

  Going through the wind and frost, the ambition is stronger, and the new journey of forging ahead is much more magnificent.

In 2022, my country's economic and social development will withstand the pressure and go through an extraordinary course. The economic strength, comprehensive national strength and people's living standards will continue to improve, writing a new chapter in Chinese-style modernization.

(China New Finance and Economics)