ves:
26.75 billion bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
30.3 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
27.4 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
1.29 trillion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$31.17 billion (2003)

Exports:
$436.1 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Exports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, footwear, toys and
sporting goods, mineral fuels

Exports - partners:
US 21.1%, Hong Kong 17.4%, Japan 13.6%, South Korea 4.6%, Germany
4% (2003)

Imports:
$397.4 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery and equipment, mineral fuels, plastics, iron and steel,
chemicals

Imports - partners:
Japan 18%, Taiwan 11.9%, South Korea 10.4%, US 8.2%, Germany 5.9%
(2003)

Reserves of foreign exchange & gold:
$412.7 billion (2003)

Debt - external:
$197.8 billion (2003 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
NA

Currency:
yuan (CNY)
note:: also referred to as the Renminbi (RMB)

Currency code:
CNY

Exchange rates:
yuan per US dollar - 8.277 (2003), 8.277 (2002), 8.2771 (2001),
8.2785 (2000), 8.2783 (1999)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications China

Telephones - main lines in use:
263 million (2003)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
269 million (2003)

Telephone system:
general assessment: domestic and international services are
increasingly available for private use; unevenly distributed
domestic system serves principal cities, industrial centers, and
many towns
domestic: interprovincial fiber-optic trunk lines and cellular
telephone systems have been installed; a domestic satellite system
with 55 earth stations is in place
international: country code - 86; satellite earth stations - 5
Intelsat (4 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), 1 Intersputnik
(Indian Ocean region) and 1 Inmarsat (Pacific and Indian Ocean
regions); several international fiber-optic links to Japan, South
Korea, Hong Kong, Russia, and Germany (2000)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)

Radios:
417 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3,240 (of which 209 are operated by China Central Television, 31
are provincial TV stations and nearly 3,000 are local city stations)
(1997)

Televisions:
400 mi