FACTBOX: Selected figures from China's 2008 budget

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Ministry of Finance unveiled China's 2008 budget on Wednesday and reported on last year's fiscal performance. Premier Wen Jiabao also highlighted some spending plans in his annual report to parliament.

The main points include:

BUDGET DEFICIT

The ministry projects a deficit of 180 billion yuan (0.6 percent of GDP) this year, compared with 245 billion yuan (0.8 percent of GDP) in 2007. The original target for 2007 was a deficit of 1.1 percent of GDP.

"Focusing on restructuring and achieving balanced development, we will improve and follow the prudent fiscal policy. We will coordinate this policy more closely with monetary policy and organically integrate efforts to balance total supply and demand, keep prices stable, make structural adjustments and foster equilibrium," the ministry said.

2008 TARGETS

-- Total national revenue up 14 percent from 2007

-- Total national spending up 22.6 percent

"The implementation of the new law on corporate income tax, the effects of lowering the individual income tax rate on the interest from saving accounts, the VAT reform taking place in some cities in the central region, and raising the earnings threshold for the individual income tax will all markedly decrease revenue," the ministry said.

2008 REVENUE TARGETS

-- Domestic VAT receipts will reach 1.34 trillion yuan, a rise of 15.5 percent

-- Domestic consumption tax receipts will reach 247 billion yuan, a rise of 11.9 percent

-- VAT and consumption tax receipts from imports will be 685.5 billion yuan, up 11.4 percent; VAT and consumption tax rebates for exports will hit 575 billion yuan (decreasing revenue by that amount), an increase of 2 percent

-- business tax receipts will reach 22.5 billion yuan, up 11 percent

-- corporate income tax receipts will be 643 billion yuan, an increase of 13.9 percent

-- individual income tax receipts will be 203 billion yuan, up 6.2 percent

-- stamp tax receipts will come to 194.5 billion yuan, basically the same as 2007

-- tariff receipts will be 160 billion yuan, up 11.7 percent

-- non-tax revenue will reach 144 billion yuan, up 5 percent

-- Special treasury bond issues for investment purposes 30 billion yuan vs 50 billion in 2007

2008 EXPENDITURE TARGETS (central government spending only)

-- Education: 156.2 billion, up 45.1 percent

-- Science and technology: 113.4 billion yuan, up 26 percent

-- Social security: 276.2 billion yuan, up 24.2 percent

-- Medical and health care: 83.16 billion yuan, an increase of 25.2 percent

-- Environmental protection: 102.75 billion yuan, up 31.4 percent

-- Agriculture, forestry and water conservancy: 145.05 billion yuan, up 17.2 percent

-- Industry, commerce and banking: 337.32 billion yuan, a rise of 38.9 percent

-- General public services: 265.54 billion yuan, up 14.3 percent (including 123.6 billion yuan to pay interest on domestic and foreign debts, up 24.4 percent)

-- Tax rebates and fiscal transfers to local governments will total 1.23 trillion yuan, up 12.8 percent

2007 REVENUES

Total national revenue 5.13 trillion yuan, up 32.4 percent.

Sources of tax revenue:

-- domestic VAT, up 17 percent

-- domestic consumption tax, up 17 percent

-- business tax, up 28.3 percent

-- corporate income tax, up 37.9 percent

-- individual income tax, up 29.8 percent

-- stamp tax, up 500.5 percent

-- tariff receipts, up 25.5 percent

2007 EXPENDITURES

Total national spending 4.96 trillion yuan, up 22.6 percent.

-- education, up 76 percent

-- science and technology, up 26 percent

-- social safety net, up 13.7 percent

-- medical and health care, up 296.8 percent

-- environmental protection, up 61 percent

-- agriculture, forestry and water, up 43.9 percent

-- industry, commerce and banking, up 41 percent

-- national defense, up 18.1 percent

-- general public services, up 5 percent

-- tax rebates and fiscal transfers to local governments, up 21.2 percent

OLYMPICS

From 2002 to 2008, a total of 17.3 billion yuan was allocated from the central budget to support the hosting of August's Olympic Games and the following Paralympics.

(Reporting by Simon Rabinovitch; Editing by Alan Wheatley)