II. Wholesale and Retail Trade

1. Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees

By the end of 2008, there were altogether 1,403,000 corporation enterprises engaged in wholesale and retail trade with total employment of 18.912 million people, up by 58.8 percent and 36.4 percent respectively as compared with those at the end of 2004.

Of the total number of corporation enterprises in wholesale and retail trade, wholesale was 854,000, and retail trade was 549,000, the proportion of each accounted for 60.9 percent and 39.1 percent respectively.

Of the total number of employees, wholesale accounted for 55.8 percent and retail trade accounted for 44.2 percent (see table 3).

Table 3 Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Trade

 

	Number of Corporation Enterprises （10,000）	Employed Persons （10,000）
Total Wholesale Trade Farm Produce and Live Stock Products Food, Beverages and Tobaccos Textiles, Garments and Daily Consumer Articles Cultural, Sports Appliances and Equipments Medicines and Medical Appliances Mineral Products, Building Material and Chemical Products Machinery, Hardware and Electronic Equipments Trade Broker and Agency Other Wholesale Trade	140.3 85.4 4.2 6.4 8.9 2.7 2.5   28.7   23.9 2.0 6.1	1891.2 1054.3 70.3 139.2 108.1 30.6 55.8   321.0   245.7 20.9 62.7
Retail Sales Trade Integrated Retail Food, Beverages and Tobaccos Textiles, Garments and Daily Consumer Articles Cultural, Sports Appliances and Equipments Medicines and Medical Appliances Motor Vehicles, Motorcycles, Fuels and Parts Household Electric Appliances and Electronic Products Hardware, Furniture and Decoration Materials Non-Shop and Other Retails	54.9 6.4 4.5 6.0 3.6 4.9 8.0   9.1 7.2 5.2	836.9 285.9 49.2 74.9 40.5 62.5 122.9   97.3 56.9 46.8

 

Of the total number of corporation enterprises in wholesale and retail trade, the number of state-owned corporations was 38,000, which accounted for 2.7 percent, that of the collective corporations was 51,000, which accounted for 3.6 percent, the number of private enterprises was 1,054,000, accounted for 75.1 percent, that of enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan was 6,000, accounted for 0.4 percent and foreign funded enterprises 11,000, accounted for 0.8 percent (see table 4).

Of the total number of employees, the proportion of those in state-owned corporation enterprises accounted for 8.3 percent, that of collective corporations was 4.6 percent, the private enterprises 54.1 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for 2.0 percent and 3.3 percent for foreign funded enterprises.

Table 4 Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees in Wholesale

and Retail Trade by Types of Registration

 

	Number of Corporation Enterprises （10,000）	Employed Persons （10,000）
Total Domestic-funded State-owned Collective-owned Share-holding Cooperatives Joint Ownership Limited Liability Corporations Share-holding Corporations Ltd. Private Other Domestic Corporations Corporations with Funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Foreign-funded	140.3 138.6 3.8 5.1 1.5 0.3 16.5 2.5 105.4 3.5   0.6 1.1	1891.2 1790.9 156.9 87.0 20.5 5.7 344.3 113.6 1022.8 40.1   37.1 63.2