Scanning Wuhan
  Since the economic reform and opening to the world, Wuhan gets rapidly development and the economy has kept a continual and steady growth. The scale and comprehensive strength of the economy have largely increased after it was approved to be the opening city alone the Yangtze River in 1992. In the "Nine-five plan" period, the average economy growth of GDP reached 13.3%, which is above the average level of the province and country. The average investment growth to the capital assets reached 8.8%, the social commercial retailed volume got an average growth of 15.2%. For 8 years continuously, Wuhan ranked the No.1 in the west-center cities of china in fetching in overseas funds. By the end of 2000 years, the programmed telephone reached 1.61 million lines, and the popularization rate of programmed telephone is 39 sets per 100 people in urban. The mobile phone users reached 1.7 million, and Internet users in Wuhan on line reached 260 thousands. For several years continuously, Wuhan has been ranked No.6 in the top 50 cities of china for comprehensive strength.
The GDP of 2000 reached 120.7 billion RMB Yuan, grew by 11.9%. In which, the primary industry went up 4.4%, the secondary industry went up 12.5%, the tertiary industry went up 12.4%. Primarily formed an industry framework of the tertiary industry gotten higher percentage in GDP. The percentage of the tertiary, secondary and primary industry in GDP of the city as below.

The development of the tertiary industry as merchandise distribution, finance, traffic and communication, realty, tour industry was accelerated with .
The tertiary industry taking circulation of commodities, finance, traffic communication, real estate, travel,etc. as representative develops steadily, The value-added accounts for 49% of gross domestic product. New high-tech industries, such as optical-fibre communications, electronic information, bioengineering and new medicine,etc. develop fast, Increase by 41.6% every year during" the Ninth Five-Year Plan"( 1995-2000), the value-added accounts for 10.8% of gross domestic product. The industry pattern taking steel, automobile, new high-tech industry as pillar takes shape basically.
The city is good that the industrial worker obtains employment , the urban registered unemployment rate is 3.5%.
The income level of resident in urban and rural areas continues increasing. The average salary of the worker is 7628 Yuan in the whole year, Increase by 7.25% compared with last year. Urban Engel of resident coefficients at to drop to the 38.5%s of 2000 at 52.2% 1995; the coefficient of Engel, rural resident drops to 50.2% from 57.5.
 
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