’98上半年山西省国民经济运行情况

Provincial Economy for the First Half of 1998

今年上半年,山西省委、省政府积极贯彻落实中央扩大国内需求、促进经济持续快速健康发展的政策,取得了一定的成效,经济增长逐步回升,但由于受市场需求持续疲软等因素的影响。

The first half of this year has witnessed a slow rise in the provincial economy, thanks to efforts to increase domestic demand.A. Economy maintained a steady growth and the prices of commodities Continued to drop. In the first half of year, provincial domestic output hit 69 billion yuan, an increase of 6.7 percent over the same period of last year.B. Social demand increased slowly but the increase rate was slower.C. The provincial revenue in the first half of year chalked up to 8.4 billion yuan, 1.1 percent drop from the same period of last year.D. Urban residents had a raise in their income but farmers had a smaller income.E. Some progress had been made in the reemployment of laidoff workers.