Description based on: 1981.
Some issues accompanied by CD-ROM.
Publisher varies. 1986- published by: Zhongguo tong ji chu ban she.
Published: Hong Kong : Economic Information & Agency, <1981->; Beijing : China Statistical Publishing House, <1985->
In Chinese, <1981>-1993; in Chinese and English, 1994- .
Issued also in English: Statistical yearbook of China, 1981-1987; and in two separate English versions as: China statistical yearbook, 1988-<1993>
Absorbed the English-language ed. published by the State Statistical Bureau of the PRC in 1994.
Complemented by: Zhongguo tong ji gong zuo nian jian, 1992-
Complemented by: 中国统计工作年鉴, 1992-