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Communiqué on Major Data of the 2nd National Economic Census (No. 2)

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Office of the Leading Group of the State Council for the Second National Economic Census National Bureau of Statistics of China

December 25, 2009

This communiqué contains data on the secondary industry as a result of the Second National Economic Census of China.

I. Industry

1. Number of Enterprises and Employees

By the end of 2008, there were 1.903 million industrial enterprises hiring 117.383 million employees,up by 31.2 and 21.7 percent respectively as compared with those at the end of 2004. 2.274 million individual and household enterprises with operation license employed 14.027 million workers. The number of individual and household enterprises and employees increased by 4.6 and 3.8 percent over the end of 2004 respectively.

Of the industrial enterprises 28,000 are state-owned and state sole funded enterprises, or 1.5 percent of the total. 66,000 are collective-owned enterprises, or 3.4 percent. 1,457,000 are private enterprises, or 76.6 percent. 57,000 are enterprises with investment from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, or 3.0 percent. 65,000 are foreign-funded enterprises, or 3.4 percent, and 231,000 are enterprises of other types of ownership, or 12.1 percent. 

Of the total employees in industrial enterprises, 9.2 percent were employed by state-owned and state sole funded enterprises, 2.9 percent by collective-owned enterprises,44.4 percent by private enterprises,10.7 percent by enterprises with investment from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan ,11.7 percent by foreign-funded enterprises, and 21.1 percent by enterprises of other types of ownership (see table 1).

Table 1 Number of Industrial Enterprisesand Employees by Statusof Registration

 

Enterprises (10, 000)

Employees (10, 000)

 

 

 

Total

190.3

11738.3

Domestic-funded

178.1

9107.9

  State-owned

2.6

761.8

  Collective-owned

6.6

345.2

  Share-holding Cooperatives

2.6

111.7

  Joint ownership

0.3

26.5

    State Joint ownership

0.04

7.5

    Collective Joint ownership

0.2

9.4

    Joint State-collective

0.05

4.9

    Other Joint ownership

0.1

4.7

  Limited liability

14.5

1967.0

    State Sole Funded

0.2

314.4

    Other limited liability corporations

14.3

1652.6

  Share-holding limited

2.5

593.3

  Private

145.7

5205.8

  Other domestic corporations

3.4

96.6

Corporations with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan

5.7

1251.5

Foreign-funded

6.5

1379.0

 

 

 


 

Of the industrial enterprises, 94,000 are engaged in mining and quarrying, 1.753 million in manufacturing, and 56,000 in production and supply of electricity, gas and water, accounting for 5.0 percent, 92.1 percent and 2.9 percent of the total respectively.

Of the employment in industrial enterprises, 8.3 percent of employees work in mining and quarrying, 88.3 percent in manufacturing, and 3.4 percent in production and supply of electricity, gas and water. The three top-ranking industries in the number of employees are: manufacture of non-metallic minerals, manufacture of textiles, and manufacture of general equipment, hiring 7.9 percent, 6.9percent and 6.1 percent of the total employees(see table 2).

Table 2 Number of Industrial Enterprisesand Employees by Industries

 

 

 

 

Enterprises

(10,000)

Employees

(10,000)

 

Enterprises

(10,000)

Employees

(10,000)

Total

190.3

11738.3

Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products

9.3

557.0

Mining and quarrying

9.4

978.5

Manufacture of pharmaceutical products

1.5

167.4

Mining and washing of coal

2.1

570.7

Manufacture of chemical fibers

0.4

48.5

Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas

0.1

110.8

Manufacture of rubber products

2.0

127.7

Mining of ferrous metal

1.7

92.3

Manufacture of plastics products

9.5

387.4

Mining of non-ferrous metal

1.0

73.7

Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products

20.6

932.9

Mining of non-metallic minerals

4.4

129.4

Smelting and pressing of ferrous metals

1.8

329.7

Other mining and quarrying

0.1

1.5

Smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metals

2.1

202.5

Manufacturing

175.3

10359.3

Manufacture of metallic products

12.7

499.2

Processing of agriculture and related products

10.0

452.4

Manufacture of general equipment

17.6

717.2

Manufacture of food products

4.0

217.2

Manufacture of special equipment

8.9

431.1

Manufacture of beverages

3.4

164.3

Manufacture of transport equipment

7.6

577.3

Manufacture of tobacco products

0.0

20.5

Manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus

8.9

624.8

Manufacture of textiles

 

10.4

 

804.6

Manufacture of communication equipment, computer and other electronic devices

4.3

698.8

Manufacture of wearing apparel, footwear and headwear

7.6

640.9

Manufacture of instruments, and   machinery for culture and office use

2.3

149.0

Manufacture of leather, fur and down and related products

2.9

336.7

Manufacture of artwork and other manufacturing

4.6

223.7

Manufacture of wood, and articles of wood, bamboo, cane, palm fiber and straw

6.1

237.3

Recycle and processing of waste or used resources and materials

0.8

23.4

Manufacture of furniture

3.5

157.5

Production and

supply of

electricity, gas and water

5.6

400.5

Manufacture of paper and paper products

4.7

218.3

Production and supply of electricity and thermo power

3.7

311.2

Printing, reproduction of recorded media

5.2

153.4

Production and supply of gas

0.3

22.4

Manufacture of culture, education and sport  articles

1.9

167.5

Production and supply of water

1.6

67.0

Manufacture of refined petroleum products, coke, and nuclear fuel

0.6

91.4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

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