Since the policy of reform and opening up was introduced, huge progress has been made in China's foreign trade, with total export volume increasing in a rapid and continuous manner and the share of manufactured goods, mechanical and electrical products and high-tech products in exports significantly raised.

In the "Survey of Chinese Enterprise Operators 2006", the China Entrepreneurs Survey System, under the Human Resources Research and Training Centre of the Development Research Centre of the State Council sent out 13,000 copies of questionnaires on August 10, 2006 and collected 4,586 valid copies.

In a long period of time, the grain consumption in China will maintain at a basically stable level.

As rural finance has been playing a key role in promoting bank deposits, allocating funds and diversifying risks, it has arousedgreat concernfrom various sectors and many reform measures have been introduced.

Since its accession to the WTO, China has made impressive progress in further opening its financial industry to the outside world.

Since the State Council promulgated the reform plan of electric power system in 2002, the electric power system reform in China has made much progress.

The Chinese enterprises have greatly increased their capacity in terms of products development and provision,but they have only limited amounts of competitive and highly profitable products.

A national innovation system is composed of the interacting organizations participating in the innovation as well as the external environment that has a bearing on the innovative activities.