China's revenues in the period of 2001 and 2005 amounted to 11.5 trillion yuan (1.43 trillion U.S. dollars), which accounted for 19.3 percent of the country's GDP in the period.

The Chinese Ministry of Finance said here recently that China's financial income maintained an average annual growth rate of 18.6 percent in the past five years, or an annual increase of 360 billion yuan (45billion U.S. dollars).

The ministry said China's financial income was expected to exceed 3 trillion yuan (372 billion U.S. dollars) in 2005, setting a record high, which was 1.3-fold increase over the figure of 2000.

Source: Xinhua