Title: By KONG Ailing Ms and XIE Zuozheng
1How urban statistics contribute to economic
development in Pearl River Delta and some
existing deficiencies
- By KONG Ailing (Ms) and XIE Zuozheng
- Survey Office in Shenzhen National Bureau of
Statistics of China
2Main Contents
- I. Introduction to Pearl River Delta
- II. Urban Statistical Cooperation -- its main
forms and contents - III. Main contribution of urban statistics to
Pearl River Delta economic development - IV. Issues for discussion
3I. Introduction to Pearl River Delta
- Pearl River Delta is adjacent to Hong Kong and
Macao. In the region, there are nine big and
medium-sized cities - 10 of whole country GDP in 2006
- The industrial structure of the region has
obviously improved - Urbanization has achieved a much higher level
than the whole country - Convenient and fast communication networks have
basically been developed
4II. Urban Statistical Cooperation -- its main
forms and contents
- The nine cities in a mutual-driven and competing
situation. Differentiation and irreplaceability
becoming obvious. They needed cooperation and
reached an agreement in 1996. - Urban statistics in China statistical systems in
municipal governments as core, with supplements
from the statistical systems in functional
departments, industry associations and
non-government sector. - Moreover, urban government statistical service
comprises the survey offices of NBS outposted in
relevant cities and the municipal government
statistical bureaux. -
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5II. Urban Statistical Cooperation -- its main
forms and contents
- (a) Periodic exchange of agreed statistical data
- - include rural economy, industrial economy,
finance, trade, tourism, consumer price etc. - - over 100 statistical indicators and also other
data on social development and environmental
ecology monitoring - (b) Annual periodic thematic seminar hosted by
different - cities on rotation
- 1. to summarise experience from urban statistical
work reform and - development
- 2. to explore deficiencies in the practical work
of urban statistics - 3. to study how to improve the exchange system of
statistical data - 4. to study how to serve economic development in
respect of current hot issues
6III. Main contribution of urban statistics to
Pearl River Delta economic development
- Change from aiming at economic growth rate to
economic effectiveness - Through statistical data exchange and
cooperation, relevant statistics have been
enhanced with improved measure of the economic
growth rate - Example Shenzhen government decision-makers
adopted the data monitoring and analysis advice
from statistical department and prepared the
policy of transition from Fast Shenzhen to
Efficient Shenzhen
7III. Main contribution of urban statistics to
Pearl River Delta economic development
- (ii) Change from aiming at gross output to aiming
at industrial structure optimization -
- Carried out comparative industrial structure
analysis and research - The industrial structure of Pearl River Delta
has become more and more - reasonable and reached to the level of
countries in the mid class of per capital - income
8III. Main contribution of urban statistics to
Pearl River Delta economic development
- (iii) Change from focusing at city ranking to
characteristic urban development - Urban statistics provide guiding information for
establishing the strategy and goals for
characteristic urban development - From 1996 to 2006, the 9 cities have blazed a
unique path for development -
- Guangzhou and Shenzhen the first category of
cities that led economy development - Foshan, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and
Huizhou got hold of opportunities from the
industry transformation of Guangzhou and Shenzhen - Zhaoqing and Zhuhai the third category of
cities with fairly fast economic growth
Gross production value of the 9 cities in Pearl
River Delta from 1996 to 2006
RMB 100 million yuan
Guangzhou Shenzhen Foshan Jiangmen Zhaoqing
Huizhou Dongguan Zhuhai Zhongshan
GDP in 1996
GDP in 2006
9III. Main contribution of urban statistics to
Pearl River Delta economic development
- (iv) Change from focusing on urbanization level
to urban living standard - Since 1996, the nine cities in Pearl River Delta
had begun urban data exchange. - While stressing urbanization development, all
cities have since paid much attention to
increasing urban living standard, including - (i) citys infrastructure construction has been
developing rapidly - (ii) urban living standard has been raised urban
living standard in Pearl River Delta in 2006 was
rather close to the well-off goal - (iii) social security level has been raised,
which has received more attention from
governments of various cities
10III. Main contribution of urban statistics to
Pearl River Delta economic development
11III. Main contribution of urban statistics to
Pearl River Delta economic development
- (v) Change from urban area expansion to
intensified land use - The condition of urban intensified land use in
Pearl River Delta is evaluated from four levels
of input, output, economic benefit and
sustainability - Objective data on land use efficiency are
provided to government decision-making
departments - Disparity can the be identified for remedial
follow up by comparing data of the nine cities -
12IV. Issues for discussion
- The impact of unbalanced development among cities
on the statistical information exchange system - Information exchange between government
statistical department and functional department
needs to be strengthened further - Form and method of statistical information should
keep pace with time - Research into statistical method and system reform
13THANK YOU!