Full text: Report on China's central, local budgets (7)

3. Implementation of Budgets for State Capital Operations

In 2012, revenue from state capital operations nationwide reached 157.284 billion yuan, and total expenditure reached 147.966 billion yuan. The following is a breakdown of these figures.

Revenue from state capital operations of the central government totaled 97.083 billion yuan, 115% of the budgeted figure and an increase of 26.9%. Revenue exceeded the budgeted figure mainly because the proportion of profits from state capital operations of tobacco enterprises collected by the central government was raised five percentage points and the economic returns of enterprises in some industries exceeded expectations in 2011 (revenue from state capital operations of state-owned enterprises is collected as a certain proportion of their profits for the previous year). Adding the 3.107 billion yuan carried forward from 2011, revenue totaled 100.19 billion yuan. Expenditure on the central government's state capital operations came to 92.979 billion yuan, 106.3% of the budgeted figure and an increase of 20.8%. This figure includes 5 billion yuan, up 25%, spent on social security and other areas related to improving quality of life as planned in last year's public finance budgets. Surplus revenue from the central government's state capital operations was used to shore up the capital bases of the five largest power corporations (China Huaneng Group, China Datang Corporation, China Huadian Corporation, China Guodian Corporation, and China Power Investment Corporation), details of which the State Council reported to the Standing Committee of the Eleventh NPC.

Revenue from local governments' state capital operations totaled 60.201 billion yuan, and total expenditure amounted to 54.987 billion yuan.