| Indicator
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Explanation
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| Total Imports and Exports at Customs
| refer to the value of commodities imported
into and exported from the boundary of China. They include
the actual imports and exports through foreign trade,
imported and exported goods under the processing and
assembling trades and materials, supplies and gifts
as aid given gratis between governments and by the United
Nations and other international organizations, and contributions
donated by overseas Chinese, compatriots in Hong Kong
and Macao and Chinese with foreign citizenship, leasing
commodities owned by tenant at the expiration of leasing
period, the imported and exported commodities processed
with imported materials, commodities trading in border
areas (excluding mutual exchange goods), the imported
and exported commodities and articles for public use
of the Sino-foreign joint ventures, cooperative enterprises
and ventures exclusively with foreign own investment.
Also included are import or export of samples and advertising
goods for whose CIF or FOB value are beyond the permitted
ceiling (excluding goods of no trading or use value
and free commodities for export), imported goods sold
in China from bonded warehouses and other imported or
exported goods. The indicator of the total imports and
exports at customs can be used to observe the total
size of external trade in a country. In accordance with
the stipulation of the Chinese government, imports are
calculated at CIF, while exports are calculated at FOB.
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| Import Export Value by Location of China's Foreign
Trade Managing Units
| refers to actual value of imports and
exports carried out by corporations which have been
registered by the local customhouse and are vested with
right to run import export business.
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| Import Value of Commodities by the Places of their
Destination and Export Value of Commodities by the Places
of their Origin in China
| The former indicator refers to the value
of import commodities of the places of their consumption,
utilization or the places of their final destination.
The latter indicator refers to the value of export commodities
of the places of their origin or the places of the commodities
dispatched.
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| Utilization of Foreign Capital
| refers to remittance, equipment and technology
financed from abroad, by loans, foreign direct investment
and other forms undertaken by the Chinese governments
at all levels, by various departments, enterprises and
other economic units.
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| Foreign Borrowings
| an important part of China's utilization
of foreign capital, it refer to funds borrowed from
abroad through formal signing of borrowing agreements
with foreign institutions, including loans of foreign
governments, loans of international financial institutions,
commercial loans of foreign banks, export credit, and
funds raised by Chinese bonds (and shares before 1996)
issued abroad.
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| Direct Investment by Foreign Entrepreneurs
| refers to the investments inside China
by foreign enterprises and economic organizations or
individuals (including overseas Chinese, compatriots
from Hong Kong and Macao, and Chinese enterprises registered
abroad), following the relevant policies and laws of
China, for the establishment of ventures exclusively
with foreign own investment, Sino-foreign joint ventures
and cooperative enterprises or for co-operative exploration
of resources with enterprises or economic organizations
in China. It includes the re investment of the foreign
entrepreneurs with the profits gained from the investment
and the funds that enterprises borrow from abroad in
the total investment of projects which are approved
by the relevant department of the government.
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| Other Investment by Foreign Entrepreneurs
| refers to all forms of utilization of
foreign capitals other than foreign borrowings and foreign
direct investment. It includes the total value of stock
shares in foreign currencies issued by enterprises at
domestic or foreign stock exchanges (now mainly consisting
of H shares issued at Hong Kong Security Market and
B shares issued at domestic security markets), rent
payable for the imported equipment through international
leasing arrangement, cost of imported equipment, technology
and materials provided by foreign counterparts in compensation
trade and processing and assembly trade.
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| Contracted Projects with Foreign Countries
| refer to projects undertaken by Chinese
contractors (project contracting companies) through
bidding process.
They include: (1)overseas civil engineering construction
projects financed by foreign investors; (2)overseas
projects financed by the Chinese government through
its foreign aid programs; (3)construction projects of
Chinese diplomatic missions, trade offices and other
institutions stationed abroad;
(4)construction projects in China financed by foreign
investment;
(5)sub-contracted projects to be taken by Chinese contractors
through a joint umbrella project with foreign contractor(s);
(6)housing development projects. The business income
from international contracted projects is the work volume
of contracted projects completed during the reference
period, expressed in monetary terms, including completed
work on projects signed in previous years.
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| Service Cooperation with Foreign Countries
| refers to the activities of providing
technology and labour services to employers or contractors
in the forms of receiving salaries and wages. Labour
services providing by contractual joint ventures of
Chinese international contracting corporations should
be included in the statistics of service co-operation
with foreign countries. The business income of labour
service cooperation is the income in the form of wages
and salaries, overtime pay, bonuses and other remuneration
received from the employers during the reference period.
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| Overseas Design and Consultation Service
| refers to projects with charges for technical
services from overseas operators. It includes geographic
and topographic mapping, geological resource prospecting
and survey, planning of construction areas, provision
of design documents, blueprints, materials on production
process and techniques, as well as engineering, technical
and economic consultation, and feasibility study, research
and evaluation of projects. Also included under this
category are the above-mentioned services of foreign-financed
projects in China that are paid in foreign currencies.
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