On the afternoon of April 24, China’s Ministry of Finance held a press conference on fiscal revenue and expenditure in the first quarter. According to the person in charge of the relevant department of the Ministry of Finance, in the first quarter of this year, my country's economy got off to a strong start, and the growth rate of fiscal revenue hit a new high for the same period in three years.
In the first quarter of this year, the growth rate of my country's main macro indicators rebounded, prices showed positive changes, and the import and export of goods grew rapidly, providing strong support for the growth of fiscal revenue.
National fiscal revenue was 6.1613 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.4%. Central fiscal revenue was 2,499.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.7%. Local fiscal revenue was 3,662.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.1%. The income of 80% of the regions has increased, and the income of the eastern, central, western and northeastern regions have all increased.
Tax revenue growth rebounded, with most tax categories maintaining growth. Among them, domestic value-added tax was 2.1473 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 4.9%. Value-added tax and consumption tax on imported goods were 458.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 12.9%.
In the first quarter, national fiscal expenditure was 7,470.6 billion yuan, an increase of 2.6%. Among them, social security and employment expenditures increased by 9%; health expenditures increased by 12.1%; and urban and rural community expenditures increased by 2.8%.
Wang Jianxun, director of the Treasury Payment Center of the Ministry of Finance, said that the growth rate of national general public budget revenue in the first quarter was 1.7 percentage points higher than the previous two months, which was higher than the same period in the past three years. This reflects that my country's economic operation has made a strong start in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan". The expenditure progress is the fastest in the past five years, and expenditures in key areas such as people's livelihood are well protected.
(CCTV reporters Zhao Shuguang and Jiang Yong)
