| 1. Financial Institutions include : |
| the People's Bank of China, |
| the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, |
| the Agricultural Bank of China, |
| Bank of China, |
| China Construction Bank, |
| the State Development Bank, |
| the Export and Import Bank of China, |
| the Agricultural Development Bank of China, |
| Bank of Communications, |
| CITIC Industrial Bank, |
| Everbright Bank of China, |
| Hua-Xia Bank, |
| Guangdong Development Bank, |
| Shenzhen Development Bank, |
| China Merchants Bank, |
| Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, |
| Fujian Industrial Bank, |
| China Minsheng Banking Corporation, |
| Yantai Savings Bank, |
| Benbu Housing and Savings Bank, |
| City United Commerial Banks, |
| Urban Credit Housing and Cooperatives, |
| Rural Credit Cooperatives, |
| finance companies, |
| trust and investment companies, |
| leasing companies and Postal Savings Bureau. |
| 2. Effective 1997, the financial statistics has been collected and reported |
| according to the new monetary statistics indicators system. Classification |
| of statistics items has been detailed and misclassifications, errors and |
| omissions have been addressed. The revised financial statements more |
| comprehensively and accurately reflect the aggregate credit and financial |
| operations of banking institutions. As of 1997, the statistics may not be |
| fuuly consistent with the historical data. |
| 3. After 1998, such funds were excluded from the households savings deposits. |
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