Cultural Institutions refer to units, which have their own organizat ional system and independent accounting system and
specialize in or serve cultural development . They exclude other es tablishments run by these cult ural ins titutions and
amateur cultural groups established by various departments. This indicator reflects the development of cultural units.

Art Troupe refers to t he troupe which is engaged in drama, opera, music, dance, acrobatics or other art performance,
opens independent accounts with banks and has s elf-supp orting accounting sy stem; excluding the t roupes which are
engaged partly in industrial or agricultural activit ies, p artly in art p erformance and the professional troupes organized by the
people. This indicator reflects the development of national professional art troupes.

Number of Spectators at Art Performance refers to the number of att endants at commercial shows, comp letely
booked shows or free shows given in minority national areas, and does not include the number of spectators at rehearsals for
examination and internal shows for study. This indicator reflects beneficial results of

Number of Athlete s in Grades refers to t he number of at hlet es who have been given tit les through examination. The
titles of athletes include international masters of sports, masters of sport s, first-grade, second-grade and third-grade
sportsmen and young athletes. This indicator reflects skill of the athletes.

Number of Referees in Grade s refers to the number of referees who have been given tit les after examination. They are
classified as int ernational referees, national referees and referees of the first, s econd and third grades. This indicat or
reflects the skill of referees.

Stadiums refer to stadiums for track and field events with six lane 400-meter t racks around soccer fields, permanent t rack
marks and permanent bleachers. Stadiums are classified according to seating capacity. They include: Class A s tadiums have
the cap acity of s eating 25000 people each. Class B stadiums have the capacity of seating 15000 to 25000 p eop le each.
Class C st adiums have t he cap acity of s eat ing 5000 to 15000 peop le each, and Clas s D st adiums have the capacity of
seat ing fewer than 5000 people. This indicator reflects numbers of large and medium-sized stadiums.

Gymnas iums refer to indoor sports grounds with permanent s eats in which basketball, volley ball. badminton, table tennis
and gymnastics comp etitions can be held. Gymnasiums are classified according t o seating capacity. They include: Clas s A
gymnasiums with seating over 6000 people. Class B gymnasiums with seating 4000 to 6000 p eop le. Class C gymnasiums
with seating 2000 to 4000 people, and Class D gymnasiums with eating fewer than 2000 people. This indicator reflects the t
otal number of large and medium-sized gymnasiums

Healt h Care Ins titutions include: medical ins titutions, diseas e prevent ion and control centers (epidemic prevention s
tations), blood gathering and supplying institutions, health supervis ion and inspection (check up) ins titut ions, medicinal
scientific research and on-job training institutions , health educat ion and son on.

Medical Organizations include: hospitals, health service centers (st ations) of communities , nursing homes, health
centers, clinics , clinics (health s tations and infirmaries ), maternity and child care agencies (centers and s tations), special
disease prevention and curing agencies (cent ers and stations), first aid centers (stations) and clinical inspection centers.
Medical organiz ations are grouped by two types: profit-making and non-profit-making medical organizations.

Hospi tals include: polyclinics, traditional Chinese medical hospitals, hosp itals integrated with traditional Chinese
therapeutics and western therapeutics, ethical hospitals, various specialties hospitals and nursing hospitals.

Medical Technical Personnel refers to doct ors, assistant nurses, pharmacists, and laboratory technicians working in
medical institutions.

Doctors refer to cert ified physicians and certified assistant physicians with certifications working in medical and health care
and prevention agencies.

Total Cost of Health Services reflects the total exp enditures on medical and health care services for the whole country,
calculated on basis of sources of funding. Healt h expenditure from government budget refers to budgetary allocation for
health undertakings by governments at all levels. Social health expenditure refers t o non-government budgetary cap ital
input , mainly the health insurance. It includes exp endit ure on health institutions run by enterprises and rural collect ive
entities, expenditure on medical and healt h care of employees of enterprises, and excessive healt h expenditure of
government employees that could be covered by the government health care system. Healt h expenditure on individuals
refers to expenditure on health service and health insurance paid by residents from their disposable income.