Persons Receiving Subsidies or Relief Funds
(10 000 persons 10 000 households)
Item	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Number of Persons Receiving Lowest
Cost-of-living in Urban Area and Rural Area				184.1	531.7	702.8
Number of Persons Receiving Lowest
Cost-of-living in Urban Area in Rural Area					265.9	402.6
Number of Persons Receiving Lowest Cost-of-living					265.8	300.2
Traditional Relief
Number of Persons in Rural Poor
Households Receiving Relief Funds	3152.8	3079.2	2602.2	2691.7	1659.8	1667.6
Number of Persons in Rural Households
with Livelihood Guaranteed in Five Aspects	249.4	267.5	279.1	282.8	303.7	270.6
Number of Persons Receiving
Periodical and Fixed Government Relief Funds	25.4	25.6	21.8	21.7	52.5	62.5
Number of Persons Receiving Collective Subsidies	209.5	213.0	200.3	200.9	195.4	208.1
Number of Persons in Urban Poor
Households Receiving Relief Funds and Subsidies	374.9	268.3	268.3	332.2	157.1	155.6
Number of Persons Receiving
Periodical and Fixed Government Relief Funds	12.7	20.0	14.0	16.4	23.2	22.3
Number of Laid-Off, Retired, Elderly and
Disabled Staff and Workers Receiving Relief Funds	53.8	53.5	53.1	54.9	51.5	49.7
Persons Receiving 40% of Their Original Wages	23.9	23.6	23.3	24.9	22.5	22.1
Persons Receiving Periodical
and Fixed Government Relief Funds	29.9	29.9	29.8	29.9	28.7	27.6