This helps local governments to throw away the big burden left by history.

The key problems existing in the current economic performance are a weak agricultural base, insufficient staying power for grain production and (lack of) increase in rural household income.

In the publication, utilization and analysis of the survey results, departments and local governments concerned should continue to abide by the Statistics Law and the Regulations on National Economic Survey, to protect business confidentiality and privacy of the respondents, and to honor earnestly the commitments of not levying any penalties on the respondents on the basis of survey information.

The international community shouldn't think that because there's been a little bit of change in the data, China is all of the sudden exceedingly powerful. Problems and complications are still there.

It is very difficult to conduct statistical surveys as they are very scattered with frequent changes, resulting in a certain degree of under-coverage.

Any sovereign state will not allow such a thing to happen.

Compared to France and Britain, there is still a certain gap ... but I believe that this gap is getting smaller.

The national economic situation is fairly good in 2005. In particular, the stability of economic performance is strengthened to some extent, and progress is seen in more balanced development.

These new figures give us a clearer picture and a better way of understanding China's economy. Based on these figures, we can have even more confidence in our long-term fairly fast and sustained economic growth.

These census results show that the economic structure is actually better and healthier than our previous judgment.