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

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 Enterprises and Employees by Status of Registration

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 Enterprises and Employees by Industries

 

2. Output of Main Industrial Products

 

See table 3 for output of main industrial products in 2008.

Table 3 Output of Main Industrial Products

Industrial products	Unit	Output
Coal	100million tons	28.0
Crude petroleum	10,000 tons	19505.0
Natural gas	100 million cube meters	803.0
Gasoline	10,000  tons	6434.8
Diesel oil	10,000  tons	13458.3
Sulfuric acid（100％ equivalent）	10, 000  tons	5097.9
Ethylene	10, 000  tons	987.6
Synthetic ammonia (Anhydrous ammonia)	10, 000  tons	4887.2
Cement	10, 000  tons	142355.7
Coke	10, 000  tons	32031.5
Pig iron	10, 000  tons	47824.4
Crude steel	10, 000  tons	50305.8
Rolled steel	10, 000  tons	60460.6
Crude aluminum (Electrolyzed aluminum)	10, 000  tons	1316.5
Alumina oxide	10, 000  tons	2302.9
Metal-cutting machine tools	10 ,000  units	71.7
Large and medium tractors	set	284387.0
Motor vehicles	10, 000  sets	930.6
Includes: cars	10, 000  sets	503.8
Electricity	100 million kwh	34957.6
Includes: thermal power	100 million kwh	27072.3

3. Assets, liabilities and equity

 

By the end of 2008，the assets of industrial enterprises totaled 47,304.83 billion yuan, the liabilities 26,891.92 billion yuan and the equity〔1〕 20,407.63 billion yuan, which increased by 96.5 percent, 96.6 percent and 96.4 percent over the 2004 respectively. (see table 4)

 

Asset-liability ratio is 50.0 percent for industrial enterprises in mining，56.6 percent for manufacturing, and 62.2 percent for production and supply of electricity, gas and water.

Table 4 Assets, Liabilities and Equity of Industrial Enterprises by Industries

Unit：100 million yuan

	Total assets	Total liabilities	Total equity		Total assets	Total liabilities	Total equity
Total	473048.3	268919.2	204076.3	Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products	29824.1	16124.3	13687.0
Mining and quarrying	42246.1	21103.2	21142.9	Manufacture of pharmaceutical products	8520.1	4100.8	4417.9
Mining and washing of coal	20735.1	12032.0	8703.0	Manufacture of chemical fibers	3529.8	2084.1	1445.7
Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas	12862.8	5036.2	7826.6	Manufacture of rubber products	3656.4	2100.5	1555.9
Mining of ferrous metal	3724.3	1751.2	1973.1	Manufacture of plastics products	8650.9	4689.0	3961.9
Mining of non-ferrous metal	2779.7	1304.8	1474.9	Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products	21833.1	11821.6	10011.2
Mining of non-metallic mineral products	2117.0	966.5	1150.5	Smelting and pressing of ferrous metal	35642.4	22550.1	13091.1
Other mining and quarrying	27.2	12.4	14.8	Smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metal	14684.4	8447.7	6236.8
Manufacturing	358447.1	202800.2	155603.4	Manufacture of metallic products	12100.3	6817.5	5282.8
Processing of agriculture and related products	12752.9	6809.0	5943.9	Manufacture of general equipment	22725.2	13325.8	9399.4
Manufacture of food	6054.4	3152.0	2902.4	Manufacture of special equipment	15480.5	8978.7	6501.8
Manufacture of beverages	6684.5	3356.6	3327.9	Manufacture of transport equipment	32870.2	20254.6	12609.0
Manufacture of tobacco products	4433.4	1044.2	3389.2	Manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus	22586.5	12869.2	9717.3
Manufacture of textiles	17290.3	10008.6	7281.7	Manufacture of communication equipment, computer and other electronic devices	28405.0	16466.3	11925.4
Manufacture of wearing apparel, footwear and headwear	6904.2	3683.0	3221.0	Manufacture of instruments, and machinery for culture and office use	4322.9	2182.4	2140.3
Manufacture of leather, fur and down and related products	3486.6	1844.3	1642.2	Manufacture of artwork and other manufacturing	3234.1	1626.3	1607.8
Manufacture of wood, articles of wood, bamboo, cane, palm fiber and straw	3732.0	1807.1	1924.9	Recycle and processing of waste or used resources and materials	703.9	431.8	272.0
Manufacture of furniture	2524.0	1347.1	1177.0	Production and supply of electricity, gas and water	72355.2	45015.9	27330.0
Manufacture of paper and paper products	8312.4	4741.7	3563.2	Production and supply of electricity and thermo power	64818.9	41096.0	23713.6
Printing, reproduction of recorded media	3528.8	1701.3	1827.5	Production and supply of gas	2376.7	1314.4	1062.2
Manufacture of culture, education and sport articles	1915.4	1006.3	909.1	Production and supply of water	5159.6	2605.5	2554.1
Manufacture of refined petroleum products, coke, and nuclear fuel	12058.4	7428.2	4630.2

4. Business Revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activity

 

In 2008, business revenue from principal activity of all industrial enterprises totaled 53,562.94 billion yuan, up by 145.2 percent over the year of 2004. Of which, mining accounts for 6.9 percent，manufacturing 86.8 percent, and production and supply of electricity, gas and water 6.3 percent. There are eighteen industrial sectors with business revenue from principal activity of 1 trillion yuan or more, eleven more than 2004.

 

Gross profits from industrial enterprises totaled 3,385.43 billion yuan, up by 159.1 percent over the year of 2004.Of which, mining accounts for 25.5 percent, manufacturing 72.3 percent, and production and supply of electricity, gas and water 2.2 percent. Gross profits exceed 50 billion yuan in twenty-three industrial sectors, fourteen more than 2004. (see table 5).

Table 5 Business Revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activity of Industrial Corporations by Industries

 

Unit: 100 million yuan

 

In 2008, the top five provinces in the proportion of their business revenue to the total are: Jiangsu with 13.2 percent, Guangdong with 12.5 percent, Shandong with 12.2 percent, Zhejiang with 8.2 percent and Henan with 5.3 percent. Provinces that saw their gross industrial profits surpass 100 billion yuan include: Jiangsu, Guangdong, Henna, Zhejiang, Heilongjiang, Hebei, Shanxi, Hubei and Fujian.

 

5. Science and Technology Activities of Enterprises

 

By the end of 2008，48,637 industrial enterprises above designated size〔2〕carried out science and technology activities〔3〕, or 11.6 percent of the total. 27,278, or 6.5 percent of the total, conducted Research and Development (R&D) activities. Of the large and medium-sized enterprises, 37.1 percent carried out science and technology activities and 24.9 percent conducted Research and Development activities.

 

By the end of 2008，for industrial enterprises above designated size, a total of 3,092 thousand people were engaged in scientific and technological activities, up by 68.2 percent than the end of 2004. 594.17 billion yuan was invested in science and technology activities, up by 147.4 percent than the end of 2004.

 

Of the investment in science and technology activities, funds earmarked for research and development (R&D), which represents the independent innovation capacity of enterprises, grew rapidly. It reached 307.31 billion yuan in 2008, up by 178.2 percent than 2004. The investment intensity〔4〕 of 0.61 percent in 2008 was higher than that of 2004, 0.56 percent. Large and medium-sized enterprises invested 268.13 billion yuan in R&D with an investment intensity of 0.84 percent, which was higher than the rate of 2004, 0.71 percent. See table 6 for investment in R&D by industrial enterprises above designated size by sector.

There were eight provinces that invested over 10 billion yuan in R&D are: Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shandong, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Liaoning, Tianjin and Beijing.

 

Table 6 Investment in R&D by Industries above Designated Size

 

	Investment （100 million yuan）	Investment intensity （%）		Investment （100 million yuan）	Investment intensity （%）
Total	3073.1	0.61	Manufacture of chemicals and chemical products	226.7	0.68
Mining and quarrying	110.1	0.29	Manufacture of pharmaceutical products	102.8	1.39
Mining and washing of coal	63.9	0.37	Manufacture of chemical fibers	32.4	0.83
Extraction of crude petroleum and natural gas	36.9	0.30	Manufacture of rubber products	34.6	0.84
Mining of ferrous metal	2.4	0.07	Manufacture of plastics products	36.1	0.38
Mining of non-ferrous metal	4.2	0.16	Manufacture of non-metallic mineral products	60.7	0.30
Mining of non-metallic mineral products	2.7	0.15	Smelting and pressing of ferrous metal	305.5	0.67
Manufacturing	2929.8	0.68	Smelting and pressing of non-ferrous metal	98.9	0.48
Processing of agriculture and related products	38.8	0.17	Manufacture of metallic products	55.8	0.38
Manufacture of food	25.7	0.34	Manufacture of general equipment	217.7	0.91
Manufacture of beverages	37.1	0.59	Manufacture of special equipment	183.2	1.31
Manufacture of tobacco products	9.6	0.22	Manufacture of transport equipment	392.2	1.19
Manufacture of textiles	61.0	0.29	Manufacture of electrical machinery and apparatus	319.8	1.09
Manufacture of wearing apparel, footwear and headwear	13.6	0.15	Manufacture of communication equipment, computer and other electronic devices	520.3	1.20
Manufacture of leather, fur and down and related products	6.4	0.11	Manufacture of instruments, and machinery for culture and office use	56.0	1.15
Manufacture of wood, articles of wood, bamboo, cane, palm fiber and straw	8.1	0.18	Manufacture of artwork and other manufacturing	9.2	0.23
Manufacture of furniture	4.6	0.15	Recycle and processing of waste or used resources and materials	0.4	0.04
Manufacture of paper and paper products	28.3	0.38	Production and supply of electricity, gas and water	33.3	0.10
Printing, reproduction of recorded media	7.2	0.28	Production and supply of electricity and thermo power	31.9	0.10
Manufacture of culture, education and sport articles	7.2	0.30	Production and supply of gas	0.3	0.02
Manufacture of refined petroleum products, coke, and nuclear fuel	30.1	0.13	Production and supply of water	1.0	0.11

In 2008, Industrial enterprises above designated size achieved an output value of 5852.27 billion yuan for new products〔5〕, or 11.3 percent of the total output value of industrial enterprises above designated size. About 173,573 applications for patents were filed, of which 59,254 were invention patents, accounting for 34.1 percent of the total 2.4 percent higher than the rate of 2004.

 

II. Construction

 

1. Number of Enterprises and Employees

 

By the end of 2008, there were 227,000 enterprises in construction hiring 39.011 million employees and 264,000 individual and household enterprises with operation license engaging 1.999 million employees in the sector.

 

Of the construction enterprises, 9,000 are state-owned and state sole funded enterprises, accounting for 3.8 percent, 10,000 are collective-owned enterprises, or 4.5 percent, 153,000 are private enterprises, or 67.6 percent, 1000 are enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, or 0.4 percent, 1000 are foreign-funded enterprises, or 0.4 percent and 53,000 are enterprises of other types of ownership, or 23.4 percent.

 

Of the employment in construction enterprises 12.7 percent work in state-owned and state sole funded enterprises, 6.7 percent in collective-owned enterprises, 37.0 percent in private enterprises, 34.6 percent in other limited liability enterprises, 9.1 percent in others (see table7).

Table 7 Number of Construction Enterprises and Employees by Status of Registration