Statistical Communique on China's 2014 National Economic and Social Development

By the end of 2014, there were altogether 27,051 laboratories for product inspection, including 597 national inspection centers. There were 183 agencies for product quality and management system certification, which accumulatively certified products in 118,354 enterprises. There were 4,056 authorized measurement institutions in the year, enforcing compulsory inspection on 61.62 million measurement instruments. A total of 1,530 national standards were developed or revised in the year, including 1,067 new standards. There were 1,687 seismological monitor stations and 32 regional seismological monitor network stations. The number of oceanic observation stations was 79. Mapping and geographic information departments published 1,678 maps.

At the end of 2014, there were 2,008 art-performing groups and 2,760 museums in the cultural system throughout China. A total of 3,110 public libraries received[32] 522.52 million people. There were 3,311 culture centers. Subscribers to cable television programs and digital cable television programs numbered 231 million and 187 million respectively. Radio broadcasting and television broadcasting coverage rates were 98.0 percent and 98.6 percent respectively. Totally 15,983 episodes of 429 TV series and 138,496 minutes of TV cartoons were made in 2014. The country produced 618 feature movies and 140 science, educational, documentary, cartoon and special movies[33]. A total of 46.5 billion copies of newspapers and 3.2 billion copies of magazines were issued, and 8.4 billion copies of books were published. The average number of books possessed per person[34] was 6.12 copies. By the end of the year, there were 4,246 archives in China and 128.35 million documents were made accessible to the public.

According to the Sixth National Sports Fields Census[35], there were 1,695,000 sports fields in China covering 1.99 billion square meters of space[36]. In 2014, Chinese athletes won 98 world championships on 22 sports events and broke 10 world records. Chinese physically-challenged athletes won 122 world championships in 19 international sports competitions.

XI. Public Health and Social Services

The public health and social services continued to make progress. By the end of 2014, there were 982,443 medical and health institutions in China, including 25,865 hospitals, 36,899 township health centers, 34,264 community health service centers, 188,415 clinics, 646,044 village clinics, 3,491 epidemic disease prevention centers and 2,975 health monitoring institutions. There were 7.39 million health workers in China, including 2.82 million practicing doctors and assistant practicing doctors and 2.92 million registered nurses. The medical and health institutions in China possessed 6.52 million beds, of which, hospitals possessed 4.84 million and township health centers had 1.17 million.

By the end of 2014, there were altogether 38 thousand social welfare institutions[37] of various types, of which 34 thousand were elder-caring organizations. The social welfare institutions provided 5.865 million beds[38], and 5.514 million of them were for old-age caring. A total of 3.046 million inmates were accommodated, of which 2.887 million were for old-age caring. There were 22 thousand community service centers and 114 thousand community service stations. Minimum living allowances were granted to 18.802 million urban residents and 52.090 million rural residents, and 5.295 million rural residents received five-guarantees supporting[39]. Another 13.109 million needy people in urban areas were financed to participate in urban medical insurance system, and 41.189 million needy people in rural areas were financed to participate in new rural cooperative medical care system.