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programmes and correspondence degree arrangements are also
available. Each year,
the City sponsors some 300 people
to attend universities in other cities in China. So far,
270 persons have returned. In order to meet future demand, the City is also planning to develop a polytechnic.
etc.
5.2.4 In 1980, the gross
industrial output was 2 billion PMR
Yuan and the gross agricultural output was 64m KMB Yuan.
Industrial productions which are mainly in the form of
processing trade and compensation trade, include food processing, handicrafts, toys, building materials, textile and garments. Agricultural production is mainly on the growing of sugar cane, vegetable, fruit, freshwater fish,
There are 70 mu of orchards with an annual
production of 15 m catties in the last 3 years. It is
expected that the
the production would continue to increase
and may reach the peak in 1990 after which the growth rate would taper off. To compare the procuction in the first 6
months of this year with those of the same period of last
year, the increase in industries was 50.3%, agriculture
26.3%, fruit 56%, aquatic products 30%, husbandry 16.3%,
income from foreign trade 72.2%, value of export products
73.1%, foreign exchange 40%, tax revenue 28.6% and bank
deposit 55.3%.
5.2.5
In future, opportunities are sought for more joint
ventures on inoustrial production, processing trade and
compensation trade. There will be more population ergaged
ir industrial activites. At present, about 28% of workers
are ergaged in agriculture and 72% in industry. On the question of why the number of agricultural workers has been reducing whereas agricultural production is on the increase, Mayor Zheng Jintao said that more mechanisatior,
fertilizers and resticides have beer and would be used in
agricultural work SO that production can maintain at a high level despite reduction in work force.
many farm workers were underemployed previously.
Moreover,