| Number of Railway Locomotives at the Year-end | ||||||||
| (unit) | ||||||||
| Item | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | ||
| Number of Locomotives Owned by National Railways | 13592 | 15146 | 14472 | 14955 | 15159 | 15456 | ||
| Steam Locomotives | 6279 | 4347 | 601 | 381 | 109 | |||
| Qianjin Model | 4188 | 2985 | 261 | 174 | 31 | |||
| Jianshe Model | 1644 | 1329 | 340 | 207 | 78 | |||
| Diesel Locomotives | 5680 | 8282 | 10355 | 10598 | 10752 | |||
| Dongfeng Model IV | 2351 | 4362 | 5623 | 6302 | 6373 | |||
| Electric Locomotives | 1633 | 2517 | 3516 | 3976 | 3876 | |||
| Shaoshan Model I | 816 | 814 | 800 | 793 | 749 | |||
| Number of Locomotives Owned by Local Railways | 378 | 398 | 327 | 348 | 357 | 359 | ||
| Steam Locomotives | 253 | 260 | 159 | 167 | 141 | |||
| Diesel Locomotives | 125 | 129 | 168 | 181 | 216 | |||
| Number of Locomotives Owned by Joint-venture Railways | 454 | 453 | 510 | 505 | ||||
| Steam Locomotives | 151 | 151 | 124 | |||||
| Diesel Locomotives | 303 | 302 | 344 | |||||
| Electric Locomotives | 42 | |||||||