unit 10
for peace and development
part 1
a key words
exports/trade surplus/gross domestic product(gdp)/annual growth/foreign investment/foreign exchange reserves
vocabulary
surplus/gross domestic product/fold/capital/reserve
listen to some statements about china's econpmic development.fill in the blanks with numbers.
1.in 1998,chinese exports totaled us$183.76 billion. its imports were worth us$140.17 billion, leaving a record trade surplus of us$43.6 billion and making china the largest exporter in the developing world.
2.in terms of overall gross domestic product, china is now the world's seventh lagest economy.
3.over the last 20 years, gdp has increased 16-fold and now stands above 6,000yuan per person per year.
4.since 1980,annual growth has averaged 9.6%.
5.since the beginning of the 1990s china is second only to the u.s. in terms of foreign investment. some us$40 billion of overseas capital flows into china every year.
6.china has accumulated the world's second largest stock of foreign exchange reserves after japan,at us$151.51 billion. |