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Since the implementation of China's National Economic Accounting System ( 2002 ) for more than a decade, with the development of the socialist market economy in our country, many new situations and changes have taken place in our economic life. Macroeconomic management and the public have had an impact on the national accounts Many new demands, so we need to revise our current system of national accounts so that they can adapt to the new situation and new demand of economic development. 2009 , the United Nations and other international organizations issued five new international standards for national accounts - "System of National Accounts 2008 " (hereinafter referred to as 2008 Nian the SNA ). Currently, most developed countries and some developing countries have begun to implement 2008 Nian the SNA . The system of national accounts of our country also needs to be revised accordingly so as to link it with the new international standards and enhance its international comparability.
In 2016 , the accounting system enriched and perfected the accounting content, introduced new concepts, expanded the scope of accounting, refined the basic classification, revised the basic accounting indicators and improved the basic accounting methods, which are significant to the current national economic accounting system in our country reform. The implementation of the new accounting system is conducive to more comprehensively and accurately reflecting the operation of our national economy, better reflecting the new features of China's economic development, and improving the international comparability of national accounts in our country. It is also conducive to raising the level of macroeconomic policy-making and macro-management.
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China revises GDP calculation method
BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhua) -- China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has adopted a new method of calculating GDP that it says "better reflects the contribution of innovation to economic growth."
Research and development (R&D) expenditures that can economically benefit companies will no longer be calculated as intermediate consumption, but as fixed capital formation, the NBS said in a statement.
The adjustment was made according to the 2008 SNA (System of National Accounts), which was unveiled by five international organizations, including the United Nations, in 2009 to provide a "comprehensive, consistent and flexible set of macroeconomic accounts."
The NBS will use the method for future GDP calculations, and has also recalculated all figures dating back to 1952.
GDP for the previous six decades all rose due to the reform. In the past decade, the average annual increase in GDP volume due to the adjustment was 1.06 percent.
Recorded GDP growth rates in the past 10 years rose by an annual average of 0.06 percentage point. The growth rate for 2015 remained at 6.9 percent, revised upward by 0.04 percentage point.
The reform can "better reflect the contribution of innovation to economic growth," the statement said.
In recent years, China has promoted science, technology and creative development, with rapid growth in R&D expenditures and an increasingly important role for R&D to economic growth.
However, the old calculation method failed to reflect the importance of R&D, as intermediate consumption only measures value of goods and services that are transformed or entirely used up in the course of production.
In reality, R&D expenditures that yield economic benefit should not be considered "completely used up in the accounting period," and thus should be recorded as fixed capital formation, according to the 2008 SNA.
At present, most member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and some developing countries use the 2008 SNA framework to calculate R&D expenditures.
For the world's second largest economy, reforming the GDP calculation method according to the same framework will bring China's GDP figures more in line with those of other countries, the NBS said.
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