1) All figures in the communique are preliminary statistics.

2) Statistics in the communique do not include figures for the Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR and Taiwan Province.

3) Figures in value terms on gross domestic product and value-added quoted in the communique are at current prices, whereas growth rates are calculated at comparable prices.

4) Fruit production includes melons and gourds consumed as fruit.

5) Newly increased production capacity figures with regard to the telephone switchboards, length of optical-fibre cables and digital cellular mobile phone switchboards include the capacity built through technical updating and transformation projects.

6) The value of business transactions of post and telecommunication services was calculated at the constant prices of 2000.

7) The statistics communique was published by the National Bureau of Statistics on February 26, 2004.

(China.org.cn March 1, 2004)