Dalian Municipal Bureau of Statistics
National Bureau of Statistics of China, Dalian Survey Team
May 20, 2009

In 2008, under the leadership of CPC Dalian Committee and Dalian Municipal Government, the people of Dalian earnestly studied and implemented the guiding principles set out at the Seventeenth CPC National Congress and applied the scientific outlook on development to the overall situation. A series of active measures were adopted to respond to the serious strike of international financial crises and overcome the difficulties. The steady and rapid development of national economy was maintained; all the social undertakings comprehensively promoted; people’s living standards further improved; and the targets and tasks for economic and social development set at early 2008 completely accomplished.

I General Outlook

Economic Aggregate：Comprehensive economic strength continued to improve. Preliminary estimation indicated that Dalian’s GDP in 2008 grew to 385.82 billion yuan, representing a 16.5 percent increase over the previous year calculated at constant prices. Of the total, the added value of primary industry was 28.91 billion yuan, up by 8.1 percent; that of secondary industry 199.39 billion yuan, up by 19.6 percent; tertiary industry 157.52 billion yuan, up by 14.4 percent. The proportion of three industries was 7.5: 51.7:40.8 and the ratios of their contributions to economic growth were 3.6 percent, 58.3 percent and 38.1 percent respectively. If calculated according to the average permanent population, the per capita GDP of Dalian was 63,198 yuan, equivalent to USD 9,099 converted at the average exchange rate of 2008.

Fiscal revenue: The fiscal revenue kept growing. The general budgetary revenue of local governments totaled 33.91 billion yuan, increasing by 26.5 percent year-on-year. Of which, city level revenue was 15.19 billion yuan, up by 25.3 percent (up by 25.8 percent on comparable basis); district and county level revenue was 18.72 billion yuan, up by 27.5 percent (up by 27.1 percent, on comparable basis). The general budgetary expenditure of local governments was 41 billion yuan, up by 19 percent over the previous year. Expenditures on key livelihood programs were effectively guaranteed, with expenditures on education, agriculture, forestry and fishery, social insurance, employment, and medical care soaring by 35.2 percent, 24.1 percent, 20.6 percent and 36.6 percent respectively. Dalian Municipal State Taxation Bureau organized tax contributions of 24.52 billion yuan, up 21.1 percent; Local Taxation Bureau organized tax contributions of 25.54 billion yuan, up 22.8 percent; tax levied by the customs reached 29.01 billion yuan, up 42 percent.

Price index: The consumer price index (CPI) rose by 4.4 percent year-on-year, with the growth rate 0.4 percentage points higher. The price indexes of commodities and service items were 5.7 percent and 1.6 percent up respectively (Table 1). Factory gate prices of industrial products increased by 8.08 percent over the previous year, the growth rate up by 4.81 percentage points. Overall purchase price index of raw materials, fuels and power all year around grew by 17.69 percent over the previous year, with the growth rate of 12.33 percentage points higher.

II Agriculture

Agriculture output: Agricultural production kept a steady growth with another bumper harvest. The gross output value of agriculture at the present price all year around totaled 52.04 billion yuan, up by 17 percent (up 9.1 percent if calculated at constant prices). Among the total, agriculture output value was 13.33 billion yuan, forestry 460 million yuan, animal husbandry 15.45 billion yuan, fishery 18.32 billion yuan and the service industry of agriculture, forestry and fishery reached 4.49 billion yuan, up by 14.1 percent,13.2 percent, 24.5 percent, 16.3 percent and 5.8 percent respectively. The output values of five competitive industries, namely, aquaculture, animal husbandry, vegetable, fruit and flower, accounted for as high as 81.7 percent of total output values of agriculture, forestry, husbandry, fishery and service industry.

Outputs of agricultural, husbandry and fishery products: The total output of grains was 1614 thousand tons, down by 0.7 percent over the previous year, representing the second highest yield. Fruits output was 1320 thousand tons and vegetables 2644 thousand tons, increasing by 8.5 percent and 1.5 percent respectively, both reached historical highs; the total output of meat, egg and dairy were 527 thousand tons, 242 thousand tons and 151 thousand tons, up by 21.1 percent, 20.3 percent and 16.4 percent respectively. The total output of local aquatic products was 2232 thousand tons, up 1.4 percent over the previous year. The outputs of sea cucumbers, short neckedclams and patinopecten yesoensis were 31 thousand tons, 34.1 thousand tons and 20 thousand tons, up by 25.3 percent, 14.2 percent and 1.8 percent respectively.

Forestry: The area of afforestation reached 400 thousand mu, with 100 million trees planted. The area of afforestation on main coastal shelterbelt was 50 thousand mu; afforestation on barren hills was 50 thousand mu; afforestation for conservation of water supply 53 thousand mu and afforestation for sand control and defense was 30 thousand mu. Besides, 892 km road and 425km river bank were afforested. Recoveries of five mine vegetation were started. The afforestation rate of Dalian reached 42.99 percent and the rate of voluntary afforestation was 80 percent.

Agricultural construction: The amount of direct subsidies to grain producers, subsidies for growing superior grain cultivars, and subsidies for agricultural machinery was 310 million yuan, presenting an increase of 45.3 percent over the previous year. 153 new varieties and technologies were introduced into Dalian and 73 of the technologies were disseminated. The number of leading agricultural product processing enterprises above designated size increased by 63 and totaled 595. 17 new enterprises added to the list of leading agricultural enterprises of province level or above, making the total 65. There were 146 new farmers’ professional cooperatives, making the total 828. Six provincial demonstration bases of modern agriculture added, with the total 56. 100 villages specialized in one product were newly developed. 75 newly-developed pollution-free agricultural products were certificated by the state, making the total 295; 57 new kinds of green food were certificated, making the total 224; 18 new kinds of organic food were certificated, making the total 58. Dalian’s agricultural mechanization of cultivation and harvesting accounted for 55 percent, 2 percentage points more than that of the previous year. Four enterprises were honored with the title of National Demonstration Base of Agricultural Products Processing, among which there was Jinzhou District Shihe fruit processing base.

Water conservancy construction: 51 rural safe tap water projects were newly constructed, which ensured the security of drinking water for 82 thousand people. 1,064 new water resource projects of small scale were built and the water-saving irrigation area increased by 55,800 mu; 23,210 mu of land were closed for nurture and protection in areas suffering water and soil erosion. Water-saving improvement of trunk and branch canals in irrigated areas covered 78 km. 29 reservoirs were checked and reinforced for safety; 23 projects of meeting emergency and flood control were accomplished; 230.7 km of river embankment were constructed or consolidated.

Ⅲ Industry

Industrial production: The industrial production maintained a steady and rapid growth. The total value added of the industrial sector was 177.18 billion yuan, up by 21.9 percent over the previous year calculated at constant prices. Of the total, the value added of industrial enterprises above the designated size was 139.84 billion yuan, up by 23.8 percent. (i. e. the industrial corporate enterprise with the main business income of 5 million or above, the same below). Of which, that of heavy industry was 104.74 billion yuan, with a 24.8 percent growth; that of light industry was 35.1 billion yuan, with a 20.8 percent growth. The value added of 4 bases reached 93.03 billion yuan, up by 25.6 percent.Of the total value added, 30.82 billion yuan was attributed by petrochemical industry, up 25.1 percent; 39.65 billion yuan by equipment manufacturing industry, up 24.9 percent; 13.35 billion yuan by shipping manufacture industry, up 39.2 percent; 9.21 billion yuan by industry of electronic information products, up 13.8 percent. The link between industrial production and sales was in good shape. The sales ratio of industrial enterprises above the designated size was 97.05 percent with the sales value of 493.2 billion yuan, up by 22.7 percent. Influenced by the international financial crisis, the outputs of some industrial products were reduced (Table 2).

Construction of key projects: The clustering effect of advanced manufacturing industry took shape and the construction effect of “Two Areas and One Belt” was obvious. DHI•DCW Group started its revamping project of wind power hoisting equipments and its marine crankshafts were in mass production. The construction of CFHI’s nuclear island project got accelerated. Volkswagen Group’s project of 300 thousand automatic gearboxes started and BorgWarner’s module gearbox project was signed. In the Dalian Bay area and Dayaowan port area, industry cluster of global heavy industrial outfits and automobile components took initial shape. STX Shipbuilding launched its first ship and the project of COSCO Shipbuilding and Dalian DMD expansion pushed forward; the construction of CSIC Changxing Island shipbuilding base started; and shipbuilding industrial zone of Bohai Sea was formed. Dalian government signed strategic cooperation agreement with CNR Group to build Lvshun locomotive base. The first 9600 kw electric locomotive of China, which was manufactured by Dalian Locomotive and Rolling Stock Co., Ltd. CNR Group officially rolled off the production line. Dalian Petrochemical Corporation’s 20 million-ton refining extension project was completed and put into production; YISHENG DAHUA’s PTA and Dalian Petrochemical Corporation’s PX project were commissioned; and Dagushan peninsula petrochemical industrial chain came into existence. Huayuankou economic zone introduced 12 industrial projects, mainly of new materials, and was listed as state-level new material base.

Industrial economic benefits: The main business revenue of industrial enterprises above the designated size reached 481.23 billion yuan, up by 21.7 percent over the previous year. The total profit and tax volume was 7.17 billion yuan, down by 64.1 percent; the total profit volume was -2.39 billion yuan, with the loss of 13.56 billion yuan. If the influence of gas and diesel prices was not taken into consideration the profits and taxes of industrial enterprises over the designated size increased by 8.8 percent and 7.9 percent respectively.

Ⅳ Construction and Real Estate Development

Construction: Construction steadily developed. The total output value produced by qualified building enterprises was 70.46 billion yuan, up by 15.9 percent. The overall labor productivity calculated according to the construction output value was 152 thousand yuan per person, up by 10.9 percent.

Real estate development: the real estate market was in smooth operation. Floor space under construction was 33,286 thousand square meters, 21.1 percent more than that of the previous year; the floor space completed was 7486 thousand square meters, up by 74.8 percent.The sale value of commercial buildings reached 47.46 billion yuan, up by 2.9 percent, of which, the sales value of the residence was 43.26 billion yuan, up by 1.9 percent. The sales floorage of commercial buildings was 8,219 thousand square meters, down by 0.8 percent. Of which, the sales floorage of residence was 7701 thousand square meters, down 1.8 percent. The vacant floorage of commercial houses was 2,597 thousand square meters, of which residence vacancy was 1,769, thousandsquare meters, increasing by 34 percent and 37.5 percent respectively.

Ⅴ Investment in Fixed Assets

Total investment: The investment in fixed assets maintained a rapid growth momentum. The total investment in entire social fixed assets was 251.34 billion yuan, up 30.2 percent over the previous year. Of the total investment, urban investment was 213.45 billion yuan, up by 32 percent; rural investment 37.89 billion yuan, up by 20.6 percent. Of the investment in urban fixed assets, the investment in construction projects was 163.87 billion yuan, up by 35.6 percent; the investment in real estate development 49.58 billion yuan, up by 21.6 percent.

Investment structure: Classified by industry, the investment in primary industry was 13.23 billion yuan, up by 91.5 percent; in secondary industry 99.41 billion yuan, up by 24.9 percent, of which industrial investment was 98.06 billion yuan; in tertiary industry 138.7 billion yuan, up by 30.2 percent. The proportions of investment in three industries were adjusted to 5.3：39.5：55.2 from 3.6 : 41.2 : 55.20 of the previous year.

Urban construction projects: 135 key projects of urban construction were carried out throughout the year, with the investment volume of 38.36 billion yuan. Transportation Infrastructure construction entered full swing. The construction of the second BRT public traffic route to the downtown area got started and the expansion project of Xianglujiao Grade Separation Bridge, Lu Xun Rood and Wu Yi Road got accomplished. The light railway of 9 miles from Developing Zone to Jinzhou was completed and operated. The urban subway project got rapidly promoted, with the prophase work of subway line Ⅰ and line Ⅱ basically finished. Some projects started in succession, including the project of Dahuofang Reservoir’s water conveyance to Dalian, Sandaogou Water Treatment Plant reconstruction and Dalian International Conference Center. The National Forest Park in the western suburbs, Qianguan City Central Wetland Park and Labor Park were renovated; the wooden trestle sidewalk of the coastal road constructed. Dalian Bingyu National Geological Park opened to the public. Some landscape roads were renovated and their major trunk road afforested and beautified, of which there were Sugang Road, Yingke Road, Zhongshan Western Road and Zhongnan Road. Seawater source heat pump technology was fully applied and five water source heat pump projects were under operation, with the heat supply area of 1,440 thousandsquare meters. 50 km urban water supply network and 20.5 km gas pipe network were renovated; and 4,380 thousand square meterswas added to the heat supply area.

Ⅵ Domestic Trade

Consumer goods markets: Consumer goods markets flourished. The total retail sales of consumer goods totaled 118.26 billion yuan, up by 20.3 percent over the previous year, with the growth rate of 3.1 percentage points to a historic high in past eleven years. Classified by region, the urban retail volume was 110.59 billion yuan, up by 20.4 percent; the rural retail volume was 7.67 billion yuan, up by 18.8 percent. Classified by trade, the sales volume of wholesale and retail trade was 98.74 billion yuan, up by 20.9 percent; the accommodation and catering trade was 18.53 billion yuan, up 18.3 percent; the others was 1 billion yuan, up 0.5 percent. Classified by commodity category, the retail volume of edible commodities was 58.67 billion yuan, up by 22.8 percent; the clothing commodities 20.54 billion yuan, up by 16 percent; the utility commodities 35.19 billion yuan, up by 16.8 percent.

Commercial and trade facility construction: With the opening of Decathlon and the construction of IKEA, there were four top 500 companies in the world located in Xianglujiao Logistics Park. Dalian Time Square was open, with 32 international famous brands in it. Seven special commercial streets were reconstructed and expanded, such as Jinhua Japan Cultural Street and Rusian Street. There were 46 newly added convenient community market and 403 new places serving breakfast. The commercial construction of central towns started; DA SHANG opened a supermarket in Sanshilipu; seven agricultural products wholesale markets were under standardized transformation, among which there were Aimin Market in Jinzhou and Pulandian Agriculture By-product Wholesale Market.

Ⅶ Foreign Economic Relations

Foreign investment utilization: The quality and level of foreign investment utilization were further improved. 507 new foreign-funded enterprises were approved, with registered foreign investment of USD 6.02 billion; 128 projects exceeded USD 50 million, with registered capital of USD 4.51 billion. 22 projects of transnational companies were newly introduced, such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. and BorgWarner. Total utilized Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) was USD 5.01 billion, up by 58 percent over the previous year. Of which, secondary industry FDI was USD 2.39 billion and tertiary industry FDI was USD 2.58 billion; the proportions accounted for 47.7 percent and 51.6 percent respectively. Actual utilized FDI of Xiandao District was USD 3.05 billion, accounting for 60.8 percent of Dalian’s total. 324 new projects in advanced manufacturing, high-tech and modern service industry were approved, accounting for 63.9 percent, 72.7 percent and 81.5 percent respectively of the total all year round.

Foreign trade: The import and export volumes both reached the new level of USD 20 billion. According to statistics of the customs, enterprises in Dalian region (including provincial companies) accomplished total import and export volumes of USD 47.041 billion, up 19.73 percent over the previous year. Of the total, import volume was USD 21.681 billion, up by 25.33 percent; export volume was USD 25.36 billion, up by 15.33 percent. The total self-operated import and export volumes accomplished were USD 44.909 billion, up by 23.7 percent. Of which, import attributed USD 21.07 billion, up by 26.9 percent; export attributed USD 23.839 billion, up by 21.05 percent. The export volume of mechanical and electric products was up by 20.5 percent, accounting for 47.7 percent of total self-operated export volume. General export trade increased by 38.24 percent, accounting for 34.2 percent of total self-operated export volume (Table 3). The export market was diversified and export to Latin America, Africa and Oceania increased by 85.34 percent, 41.68 percent and 40.32 percent respectively.

Cooperation with foreign countries: The cooperation with foreign countries stepped up. All year around 1,379 foreign contracted projects and labor services cooperation contracts with foreign countries were signed. The contracted value was USD 1.16 billion, 1.3 times more than that of the previous year. The business revenue achieved was USD 453 million, up by 27 percent. External assignment service personnel reached 25,100 persons, up by 10.6 percent. 39 foreign investment projects were approved all year round, with a total investment of USD 80 million, in which 85 percent of the total investment was made by Chinese investors.

VIII Transportation, Post, Telecommunications and Tourism

Traffic and transportation: Traffic and transportation kept steady development. The transportation industry delivered 455.57 billion ton-km of cargo-passenger converted turnover, up by 9.5 percent over the previous year. The cargo turnover was 448.78 billion ton-km, up by 9.5 percent; the passenger flow was 14.54 billion person-km, up by 7.5 percent. (Table 4)

The cargo throughput in coastal ports amounted to 246 million tons, up 10.3 percent over the previous year. Of which, foreign trade throughput was 86 million tons, up by 4.5 percent; container throughput 4.525 million, up by 18.6 percent; and the passenger throughput 5.868 million person-times, down by 8.9 percent. Zhoushuizi International Airport passenger flow was 8.205 million person-times, up by 12.7 percent, and the sole post cargo throughput was 129,400 tons, up by 6.4 percent.

Construction of shipping center: Dalian Port signed strategic cooperation agreement with Jinzhou Port and Huludao Port and breakthroughs were made in carrying out port resource integration. Dalian Port General Plan was approved by the state. Electronic port in Liaoning province officially opened. Changxing Island Port and Zhuanghe Port were listed in the Eleventh Five-Year Port Development Plan. Lvshun New Port and Zhuanghe Port passed the port opening pre-acceptance test. The port fixed asset investment volume amounted to 8.4 billion yuan all year around, 12 new berths were added and an increased of 13.29 million tons of throughput capacity was realized. 17# and 18#berths in Dayao Bay Container Port were fully operational. The construction of new 300,000t oil tanker terminal and LNG Port of China Petroleum was fast pushed forward. Railway ferries between Dalian and Yantai were officially under operation. The multi-functional examination building of Dayao Bay was topped off; the connection project of North Channel was accomplished; the second phase of port supervision and security video monitoring ran into operation. The first phase of Changxing Island public port area channel’s dredging engineering and north seawall main project were completed. Rail-sea multimodal transportation network kept improving, with the transportation volume of 235 thousand TEU all year round, up by 30 percent. With the cross-Straits direct transportation link, flights from Dalian to Taiwan were officially opened. Dalian airport possessed totally 147 routes, including 100 domestic ones and 47 international and SAR routes. The routes reached 15 countries and 94 domestic and overseas cities, including 40 international and SAR routes.

Post and telecommunications: The post and telecommunications trade had trended well. The total volume of post and telecommunications business was 16.566 billion yuan, up by 14.7 percent over the previous year. Of the total, post revenue was 730 million yuan, up by 13.1 percent; telecommunications revenue was 15.836 billion yuan, up by 14.8 percent. The EMS turnover was 2,853 thousand pieces, up by 0.8 percent. The balance of post deposit at the end of year was 16.075 billion yuan, up by 29.8 percent. By the end of 2008, there were 3164.4 thousand households of urban and rural fixed telephone users, down by 1.2 percent; 5110.6 thousand households of mobile users, up by 23.9 percent; and 858 thousand households of Internet ASDL users, up by 20.8 percent.

Tourism: 30 million person-times of domestic tourists were received, 21 percent more than that of the previous year; and 950 thousand of overseas tourists, up by 13.1 percent. The total tourist revenue accomplished was 40.08 billion yuan, up by 23.3 percent. Of which, the revenue from domestic tourism was 35.5 billion yuan, up by 26.1 percent; in terms of foreign exchange, USD 658 million, up by 13.3 percent. By the end of 2008, there were 212 tourist hotels (restaurants) in Dalian; six of them were newly added. Of all the hotels, there were 168 star-rated hotels (restaurants), with two newly added ones. There were 362 tourist agencies in Dalian, with 26 international travel agencies. There were 24 national Class-A tourism zones (spots), with one 5A Class and ten 4A Class.

Exhibitions and fairs: There were 96 exhibitions and fairs held, up by 4.3 percent over the previous year, with the total exhibition area of 957 thousand square meters. The average size of exhibitions and fairs was near to 10 thousand square meters. 24,746 enterprises attended exhibitions and affairs, up by 14.6 percent. There were 1869 overseas enterprises and 88,456 exhibitors present, up by 18.4 percent. The number of visitors was 5,446 thousand, of which there were 46 thousand foreign visitors.

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