一、《甘肃年鉴》是甘肃省人民政府按年连续出版的大型综合性年刊。它以大量翔实可靠的资料，全面记载了甘肃政治、经济、军事、法律及社会发展情况，是各级党政领导、经济管理部门、企事业单位、科研部门和中外投资者了解省情、市情、县情，进行科学决策、咨询和研究的重要工具书。
二、本年鉴是创刊以来的第13卷，全部为中英文对照版并配有电子版。主要记载2005年甘肃社会经济发展情况，但统计资料在时间上有所上溯。
三、本年鉴共分为三部分：第一部分设特载、大事记、概况、政治、法制、地方武装、农业经济、工业、建设环保测绘、交通通信、贸易业、财政税务、金融保险、经济管理、国土资源地震气象、社会事业、地县概况17个篇目；第二部分设综合、人口劳动力、固定资产投资、能源消费、财政金融保险、物价、人民生活、城市概况、环境保护、农业、工业、建筑业、交通运输邮电通信业、批发零售贸易业及餐饮业、对外经济贸易及旅游、教育科技及文化、卫生、社会福利及其他、少数民族、企业集团及企业景气指数统计资料；第三部分以彩色插图的形式，介绍了甘肃省名优新特产品，部分机关、企业和事业单位。
四、本年鉴的体例分为篇目、分目和条目三个层次，以条目作为基本结构单元。条目标题均用黑体字加【】。
五、本年鉴中的统计资料由省统计局提供。由于制度方法改革，有些统计指标的口径、包括范围和计算方法有所变化，使用时请注意。文稿中的数据由各单位提供，部分为初步统计数，如与统计表中不一致，以统计表为准。
六、感谢广大读者多年来对《甘肃年鉴》编辑出版工作的支持和帮助，欢迎继续提出宝贵意见，使《甘肃年鉴》的形式和内容更趋完善。
1.Gansu Yearbook is a regular large-scale, synthetic annual publication of Gansu Peoples Government.
It records Gansu politics, economy, military affairs, law and social development with large, full and accurent, reliable data. It is a important reference book for the Party and government leaders at all levels, the economic management departments, enterprises and institutions, the scientific research departments, China and foreign investors to comprehend provincial, city's and county's situation, carry out scientific decision, consultation and research.
2. Gansu Yearbook 2005 is the thirteen volume since establishment, it is published in complete Chinese-English edition, has electronic edition, mainly records the condition of Gansu social and economic development in 2005. But statistical data has certain tracing to the source.
3.Gansu Yearbook 2005 has three parts. The first part consists of 17 chapters concerning Featured articles, Survey politics, Law, Military affairs, Rural economy, Industry, Urban construstion Environmental protection and Survey drawing, Transportation Post and telecommunication, Trade and Tourism, Finance and Taxation, Banking and Insurance, Economic management, Land resource, Earthquake and Meteorology, Social undertaking, Survey of prefectures and counties. The second part consists of General survey, Population and employment, Fixed assets investment, Energy consumption, Finance, Banking and Insurance, Commodity price, People's livelihood, Urban survey, Agriculture, Industry, Construction, Transportation, post and telecommunication, Wholesale and Retail sale, Catering trades, Foreign economy, Trade and Tourism, Education, Science, Technology and Culture, Health case Social welfare and Other, Ethnic minority groups,Enterprise group and economic indicators of enterprise, Economic index of main cities XiLongHaiXian. The third part introduces famous, excellent, new and special products, certain offices enterprises and institutions by the way of color pictures.
4.The style of Gansu Yearbook 2005 is divided into contents, entry three overlapping, the entry is based on basic structure unit. The headline of entry is added 【 】 by blackbody word.
5. Basic statistical dates used in Gansu Yearbook 2005 all take the dates of provincial bureau of statistics as the standard. Since the reformation of system and method, scope, statement and calculating method of some statistical dates have been changed, pay attention please. The some figures of the articles are the tentative statistical dates, if inconsistent with the statistical tables, regarding the tables as standard.
6.We express thanks to the general readers for supporting and helping to the work of compilation and publication of Gansu Yearbook, welcome continued valuable suggestions, so that the form and content of Gansu Yearbook can be further improved.
Editors
August 2006
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