Government Revenue refers to income for the government finance through participating in the distribution of social products. It is the financial guarantee to ensure government functioning.The contents of government revenue have undergone constant changes. Currently they mainly include the following items:
    (1) Various tax revenues, including value added tax, business tax, consumption tax, land value added tax, city maintenance and construction tax, resources tax, tax on use of urban land, stamp tax, individual income tax, corporate income tax, tariff, tax on agriculture and animal husbandry and tax on occupancy of cultivated land, etc.
    (2) Special program receipts, including receipts of pollutant discharge fee, urban water resource charge, education surtax, etc.
    (3) Other receipts, including receipts of the repayment of capital construction loan, income of capital construction projects, donations, etc.
    (4) Planned subsidies to the loss of the state owned enterprises. This is an item of negative revenue, used to eat up part of the government revenue.
    Government Expenditure refers to the distribution and use of the funds which the government finance has raised, so as to meet the needs of economic construction and various causes. It mainly includes the following items: expenditure for capital construction, innovation funds for enterprises, geological prospecting expenses, expenditures for science and technology promotion, expenditure for supporting rural production, operating expenses of the authorities of farming, forestry, water conservancy and meteorology and others, operating expenses of the authorities of industry, transport and commerce, operating expenses of the authorities of culture, education, science and public health, pension for the disabled or for the families of the bereaved and relief funds for social welfare, expenditures for national defense, administrative expenses and expenditure for price subsidies, etc.
    Credit Funds refer to the monetary funds accumulated and distributed in the means of credit by the financial institutions. The sources of credit funds include deposits, liabilities to international financial institutions, currency in circulation, self-owned funds and current retained profits, etc. The uses of credit funds include loans, position for bullion purchase, position for foreign exchange purchase, advances to treasury, and assets with international financial institutions.
    Deposit is a form of credit by which enterprises, institutions, organizations or residents can put money into banks and other credit institutions for safekeeping and interest earning under the principle of free withdrawal. According to the different depositors, deposits are divided into enterprise deposits, treasury deposits, deposits of government agencies and organizations, capital construction deposits, urban savings deposits, rural deposits and other deposits. Deposits are major sources of the credit funds of banks.
    Loan is a form of credit by which banks and other credit institutions provide funds at certain interest rates to enterprises and individuals in the light of the principle of unconditional repayment. Loans from Chinese banks include circulating capital loans, fixed assets loans, loans to urban and rural individuals engaged in industrial and commercial business and agricultural loans.
    Savings Deposits by Urban and Rural Residents refer to the total value of savings deposits of urban and rural households in banks and rural credit cooperatives at a given point of time, including the savings deposit of urban residents and the savings deposit of rural residents. The cash in hand by residents and the deposits of organizations such as enterprises, military units, government agencies, institutions and others are not included.
    Amount Insured refers to the maximum that the insurant will get for the claim of the caseinsured.
    Premium is the fee paid by the insurant to the insurer to obtain the obligation of compensation from the insurance within the agreed terms. is the compensation paid by the insurer to the insurant in accordance with the insurance contract.
    Settled Claim is the compensation paid by the insurer to the insurant in accordance with the insurance contract.
    Payment includes payment for death, injury or medical treatment and payment at maturity. Payment for death, injury or medical treatment refers to the money paid to the insurant (or the beneficiary) in accordance with the life or health insurance contract when the insurant encounters accidents within the insured period covered in the contract. Payment at maturity refers to the payment to the insurant in accordance with the life insurance contract at the end of the insured period.