Full text: Report on China's central, local budgets (6)

3) Central government tax rebates and transfer payments to local governments

Central government tax rebates and transfer payments to local governments totaled 4.538347 trillion yuan, 100.6% of the budgeted figure and an increase of 13.7%. This figure includes 2.147118 trillion yuan in general transfer payments and 1.879152 trillion yuan in special transfer payments. General transfer payments accounted for 53.3% of total transfer payments, an increase of 0.8 percentage points over 2011.

2. Implementation of Budgets for Government-managed Funds

In 2012, revenue of government-managed funds nationwide came to 3.751701 trillion yuan, while expenditure amounted to 3.606904 trillion yuan. Below is a breakdown of these figures.

Receipts of central government-managed funds totaled 331.344 billion yuan, 110.8% of the budgeted figure and an increase of 5.8%. Receipts exceeded the budgeted figure mainly because funds from the surcharge on electricity generated from renewable energy sources were included in last year's budget for the first time in accordance with the law, so as to support the development of these energy sources. Adding the 82.221 billion yuan carried forward from 2011, revenue of central government-managed funds totaled 413.565 billion yuan in 2012. Expenditure of central government-managed funds totaled 335.463 billion yuan, 88.1% of the budgeted figure and an increase of 8.1%. This total consists of 217.517 billion yuan of central government spending and 117.946 billion yuan in transfer payments to local governments. A total of 78.102 billion yuan from central government-managed funds was carried forward to 2013. The expenditure of central government-managed funds was less than the budgeted figure mainly because some projects were not implemented in 2012 due to insufficient preparatory work, while others were granted less funding in accordance with the principle of determining spending based on revenue.

Revenue of funds managed by local governments reached 3.420357 trillion yuan, a decrease of 10.5% mainly due to fewer receipts from the sale of state-owned land use rights. Adding the 117.946 billion yuan in transfer payments from central government-managed funds, the total revenue of local government-managed funds came to 3.538303 trillion yuan. Expenditure of local government-managed funds totaled 3.389387 trillion yuan, down 10.3%. This total includes 2.841819 trillion yuan of spending from the proceeds of selling state-owned land use rights. Surplus revenue from local government-managed funds was carried forward to 2013.