From AFP, via TurkishPress.com:
China’s 2005 budget deficit will amount to some two percent of gross domestic product or 300 billion yuan (36 billion dollars), down from a budgeted deficit of 319 billion yuan in both 2003 and 2004.
The budget will be presented for approval by Finance Minister Jin Renqing at the upcoming annual session of the National People’s Congress which is scheduled to open in Beijing on March 5, China Business News state press said Wednesday.