GF 323

CONFIDENTIAL

6

機密

output (7).

Besides, inadequate transportation facilities

were also adversely affecting the production of such key

commodities as coal and crude oil.

These capacity

constraints aggravated the inflationary pressures.

11.

Although wage rates in China continued to rise in

recent years, their contribution to inflation in China was

comparatively less significant. Wage rates rose by 9% in real terms in 1990, which was higher than the growth rate

of 5.2% in real GNP. But in 1991 and 1992, the increases

in real wage rates, at 4% and around 8% respectively, were

lower than the corresponding growth rates of real GNP, at 7.7% and 12.0%(8).

(7)

(8)

Year-on-year growth rate in real terms of:

1991

1992

(%)

(%)

*

Gross industrial output

12.9

21.7

of which

Energy

Electricity

9.3

10.9

Raw coal

0.9

3.1

Crude oil

1.1

1.6

Key raw materials

Pig iron

8.6

12.5

Steel

6.9

13.3

Cloth

-4.1

3.5

Excluding output from village-run enterprises.

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992 (estimate)

Increase in real wage rate

(%)

8.2

0.9

-0.8

-4.8

9.2

4.0

8.0

CONFIDENTIAL

機密

Share This Page