Communiqué on Major Data of the Second National Economic Census(No. 3)

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 the major statistics on the tertiary industry from the Second National Economic Census.

 

I. Transport, Storage and Post

 

1. Number of Units and Employees

 

By the end of 2008, there were altogether 148,000 corporation enterprises engaged in the transport, storage and post sectors, an increase of 75,000 as compared with that at the end of 2004. There were 10,202,000 people working in theses sectors, an increase of 2,595,000 as compared with that at the end of 2004 (see table 1). There were 7,000 corporations of government agencies and institutions engaged in transport, storage and post, a decrease of 1,000 as compared with that at the end of 2004, and there were 449,000 people employed, an increase of 41,000 as compared with that at the end of 2004.

 

Of the total number of corporation enterprises engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors, the proportion of transport^[1] accounted for 85.3 percent, that of storage 11.7 percent and 3.0 percent for post service. In terms of employment structure, the proportion of people engaged in transport accounted for 87.3 percent, that of the storage 5.0 percent, and 7.7 percent for post service.

Table 1 Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employed Persons in Transport, Storage and Post Service Sectors

 

	Number of Corporation Enterprises (unit)	Employed Persons (10,000)
Total Railway Transport Road Transport Urban Public Transport Water Transport Air Transport Pipeline Transport Loading, Unloading and Other Transport Services Storage Post	148289 252 66527 7503 7431 735 83   43955 17416 4387	1020.2 179.3 333.2 159.0 79.4 31.3 2.5   106.0 51.1 78.4

2. Total Assets, Business Revenue and Operating Profits

             

By the end of 2008, the total assets of the corporation enterprises engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors reached 7,480.74 billion yuan, up by 109.2 percent over the end of 2004; the share of transport, storage and post service of the total was 90.3 percent, 7.6 percent and 2.1 percent respectively.

 

In 2008, the total business revenue of the corporation enterprises engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors was 3,116.80 billion yuan, up by 153.8 percent over 2004; the share of transport, storage and post service was 87.3 percent, 9.7 percent and 3.0 percent respectively.

 

In 2008, the operating profits of the corporation enterprises engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors was 327.02 billion yuan, up by 258.1 percent over 2004, the share of transport, storage and post service was 93.3 percent, 7.3 percent and -0.6 percent respectively (see table 2).

Table 2 Total Assets, Business Revenue, and Operating Profits of Corporation Enterprises in Transport, Storage and Post Sectors

                                                        

Unit:100 million yuan

	Total Assets	Business Revenue	Operating Profits
Total	74807.4	31168.0	3270.2
Railway Transport	14936.2	3457.6	6.8
Road Transport	24829.4	9128.5	1909.6
Urban Public Transport	3517.6	1392.9	-18.3
Water Transport	10502.4	5000.8	902.9
Air Transport	6871.4	2778.0	-275.8
Pipeline Transport	1286.9	344.2	85.0
Loading, Unloading and Other Transport Services	5585.6	5106.0	441.7
Storage	5694.5	3020.9	240.3
Post	1583.4	939.1	-22.0

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

2. Total Assets

 

By the end of 2008, the total assets of the corporation enterprises engaged in wholesale and retail trade reached 12,161.94 billion yuan, an increase of 96.8 percent as compared with that at the end of 2004. Of this, asset of corporations in wholesales trade was 9,605.58 billion yuan, and asset of corporations in retail trade was 2556.36 billion yuan, up by 98.4 percent and 91.1 percent respectively over 2004 (see table 5).

Table 5 Total Assets of Corporation Enterprises Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Trade

                                    

	Assets (100 million yuan)
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	121619.4 96055.8 4620.7 8978.6 7049.6 1982.8 3408.6 40157.2 21843.7 3768.4 4246.2
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	25563.6 7364.5 994.2 1597.2 1250.7 1252.4 7432.5 2903.1 1466.3 1302.7

3. Business Revenue from Principal Activities

 

In 2008, the total business revenue generated by principal activities of corporation enterprises engaged in wholesale and retail trades was 24,748.26 billion yuan, up by 123.1 percent against 2004. Of this total, wholesale was 20,412.92 billion yuan, and retail trades was 4,335.34 billion yuan, up by 121.3 percent and 132.1 percent respectively against 2004 (see table 6).

Table 6 Business Revenue from Principal Activities Made by Corporation Enterprises Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Trade

 

	Business revenue from Principal Activities (100 million yuan)
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	247482.6 204129.2 4961.0 16281.0 14540.7 3071.5 6705.5 111199.1 34457.3 4558.5 8354.6
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	43353.4 11416.0 1284.7 2189.8 1356.5 1999.2 16932.7 4756.4 1828.6 1589.5

III. Hotel and Catering Services

 

1. Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees

 

By the end of 2008, there were altogether 145,000 corporation enterprises engaged in hotel and catering services with a total employment of 5,852,000 people, up by 56.3 percent and 36.4 percent respectively as compared with those at the end of 2004.

 

Of the total number of corporations in hotel and catering services, the number of hotel was 54,000, that of catering was 91,000, accounted for 37.2 percent and 62.8 percent respectively. Of the total number of employees working in the corporations in hotel and catering services, the share of hotel was 45.6 percent and 54.4 percent for catering services (see table 7).

Table 7 Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees Engaged in

Hotel and Catering Services

 

	Number of Corporation Enterprises (10,000)	Employed Persons （10,000）
Total Hotel Services Tourism Hotels General Hotels Other Hotel Services	14.5 5.4 1.8 3.3 0.3	585.2 267.1 190.0 69.1 8.0
Catering Services Restaurants Fast Food Beverages and Cold Drinks Others	9.1 7.5 0.6 0.4 0.6	318.1 262.6 37.3 5.5 12.7

Of the total number of corporation enterprises in hotel and catering services, the number of state-owned corporation enterprises was 10,000, accounted for 6.9 percent, that of the collective enterprises was 7,000, accounted for 4.8 percent, the private enterprises 100,000, accounted for 69.0 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan 2,000, accounted for 1.4 percent and 2,000 for foreign funded enterprises, accounted for 1.4 percent.

 

Of the total number of employees, the proportion of those in state-owned corporations accounted for 11.8 percent, that of collective corporations was 3.1 percent, the private enterprises 49.4 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for 5.2 percent and 7.2 percent for foreign funded enterprises (see table 8).

Table 8 Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees in

Hotel and Catering Services 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	14.5 14.1 1.0 0.7 0.2 0.1 1.3 0.3 10.0 0.5   0.2 0.2	585.2 512.6 69.2 18.2 7.0 1.9 94.2 17.7 289.2 15.2   30.3 42.3

2. Total Assets

 

By the end of 2008, the total assets of the corporations engaged in hotel and catering services reached 1,107.91 billion yuan, an increase of 58.8 percent as compared with that at the end of 2004 (see table 9).

Table 9 Total Assets of Corporation Enterprises Engaged in Hotel and Catering Services

                                      

	Assets (100 million yuan)
Total Hotel Services Tourism Hotels General Hotels Other Hotel Services	11079.1 7877.9 6425.6 1277.2 175.1
Catering Services Restaurants Fast Food Beverages and Cold Drinks Others	3201.2 2766.9 274.4 46.6 113.3

3. Business revenue from Principal Activities

 

In 2008, the total business revenue generated by principal activities of corporation enterprises engaged in hotel and catering services was 614.69 billion yuan, up by 102.2 percent against 2004. Of this total, hotel was 268.55 billion yuan, and catering services was 346.14 billion yuan, up by 77.9 percent and 126.1 percent respectively against 2004 (see table 10).

Table 10 Business Revenue from Principal Activities Made by Corporation

Enterprises Engaged in Hotel and Catering Services

 

	Business revenue from Principal Activities (100 million yuan)
Total Hotel Services Tourism Hotels General Hotels Other Hotel Services	6146.9 2685.5 2071.5 553.7 60.3
Catering Services Restaurants Fast Food Beverages and Cold Drinks Others	3461.4 2788.7 503.4 46.0 123.3

IV. Real Estate

 

1. Number of Enterprises

 

By the end of 2008, there were 214,397 enterprises engaged in real estate sector in China, an increase of 85,354 as compared with that at the end of 2004. Of this total, the number of enterprises for real estate development was 87,881, that of property management was 58,406, real estate intermediate services 33,890, and 34,220 for other activities, up by 28,639, 26,724, 13,850, and 16,141 respectively as compared with those at the end of 2004 (see table 11).

 

Table 11 Number of Enterprises Engaged in Real Estate Sector by Region

 

Region	Enterprises
	In Real Estate	Real Estate	Property	Real Estate	Other
	Sector (unit)	Development	Management	Intermediate Services	Activities
Total	214397	87881	58406	33890	34220
Beijing	10955	3433	3314	2471	1737
Tianjin	3825	1257	1101	628	839
Hebei	5523	2564	1688	709	562
Shanxi	3886	1836	1056	301	693
Inner Mongolia	3905	2232	1055	290	328
Liaoning	11379	4841	3659	1802	1077
Jilin	3361	1376	1196	420	369
Heilongjiang	4426	1589	1449	833	555
Shanghai	11850	3898	3165	3597	1190
Jiangsu	16970	6928	4282	2935	2825
Zhejiang	13267	5601	2715	2802	2149
Anhui	7130	3279	1805	815	1231
Fujian	7726	3268	1869	995	1594
Jiangxi	4170	2410	952	338	470
Shandong	14015	5825	3986	2602	1602
Henan	6765	4149	1465	750	401
Hubei	10122	3412	2959	1583	2168
Hunan	6004	3595	1524	350	535
Guangdong	28527	6821	8507	4289	8910
Guangxi	5628	3134	1020	729	745
Hainan	2763	1564	604	396	199
Chongqing	5363	2280	1708	780	595
Sichuan	8427	3911	2511	1262	743
Guizhou	3722	2078	729	263	652
Yunnan	4298	2222	844	719	513
Tibet	94	55	35	—	4
Shanxi	4111	1373	1328	443	967
Gansu	2063	1080	684	253	46
Qinghai	713	370	220	67	56
Ningxia	778	370	259	120	29
Xinjiang	2631	1130	717	348	436

2. Number of Employees

 

By the end of 2008, there were altogether 5,522,000 employees in China working in the enterprises engaged in real estate sector, an increase of 1,566,000 as compared with that at the end of 2004. The number of employees in real estate development was 2,077,000, that of property management was 2,501,000, real estate intermediate services 374,000, up by 492,000, 1,067,000, and 139,000 respectively over the end of 2004; there were 569,000 employees in other activities, down by 131,000 as compared with that at the end of 2004 (see table 12).

Table 12 Number of Employees of Enterprises Engaged in Real Estate Sector by Region

 

Region	Employees
	In Real Estate	Real Estate	Property	Real Estate	Other
	Sector (person)	Development	Management	Intermediate Services	Activities
Total	5521990	2077214	2501195	374302	569279
Beijing	409868	97684	230477	36197	45510
Tianjin	97986	30388	44518	7886	15194
Hebei	175423	67873	87322	6887	13341
Shanxi	88756	41723	29661	3124	14248
Inner Mongolia	96899	55310	33171	3069	5349
Liaoning	216566	77200	103228	15714	20424
Jilin	83376	30932	36313	5060	11071
Heilongjiang	130587	35862	76117	6958	11650
Shanghai	391266	96076	232775	41002	21413
Jiangsu	399003	150884	177489	28068	42562
Zhejiang	262643	95202	127334	19677	20430
Anhui	161854	74951	58734	8802	19367
Fujian	169820	63620	75959	10161	20080
Jiangxi	100789	60162	27441	4478	8708
Shandong	355514	168394	125539	28170	33411
Henan	169584	91885	59929	10270	7500
Hubei	223140	92548	76521	13689	40382
Hunan	170486	95396	58192	6438	10460
Guangdong	782140	184004	412960	63068	122108
Guangxi	118213	59730	40344	7740	10399
Hainan	48416	23078	19255	3224	2859
Chongqing	190292	86094	82336	10047	11815
Sichuan	237403	103859	107883	13563	12098
Guizhou	74692	39611	22973	2252	9856
Yunnan	90334	41870	34351	5338	8775
Tibet	5253	3992	1216	—	45
Shanxi	117721	43417	46476	5949	21879
Gansu	54083	27966	23096	2051	970
Qinghai	16421	7538	6950	1076	857
Ningxia	26471	9563	14726	1576	606
Xinjiang	56991	20402	27909	2768	5912

3. Business revenue from Principal Activities, called up Capital and Operating Profits

      

In 2008, the total business revenue generated by principal activities of enterprises engaged in real estate sector was 3058.65 billion yuan, an increase of 107.5 percent over 2004, of this, the business revenue of real estate development was 2669.42 billion yuan, that of property management was 207.67 billion yuan, real estate intermediate service 57.24 billion yuan, and 124.32 billion yuan for other activities, up by 100.5 percent, 204.5 percent, 171.2 percent, and 133.5 percent respectively over 2004 (see table 13). The total called up capital was 3305.24 billion yuan, and the operating profits was 386.13 billion yuan, an increase of 123.2 percent and 290.4 percent respectively over 2004.

 

In 2008, there were eight regions with business revenue from principal activities more than one hundred billion yuan, by sequence, they were: Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shanghai, Beijing, Zhejiang, Shandong, Liaoning, and Sichuan.

Table 13 Business Revenue from Principal Activities Made by Enterprises

Engaged in Real Estate Sector by Region

 

Region	Business Revenue
	from Principal Activities	Real Estate	Property	Real Estate	Other
	（100 Million yuan）	Development	Management	Intermediate Services	Activities
Total	30586.5	26694.2	2076.7	572.4	1243.2
Beijing	2455.6	2038.5	255.4	52.2	109.5
Tianjin	563.3	511.5	22.3	7.5	22.0
Hebei	739.7	578.9	140.8	3.4	16.6
Shanxi	215.9	192.6	13.3	2.4	7.6
Inner Mongolia	621.8	556.1	52.6	7.0	6.1
Liaoning	1292.7	1173.1	82.9	15.4	21.2
Jilin	366.5	308.1	36.1	9.2	13.3
Heilongjiang	457.1	344.0	93.7	10.2	9.2
Shanghai	3425.7	2774.1	324.4	179.7	147.6
Jiangsu	3821.9	3506.0	101.6	35.4	178.9
Zhejiang	2367.4	2225.8	62.9	26.6	52.1
Anhui	757.5	695.3	22.0	8.0	32.3
Fujian	871.7	797.6	32.8	9.6	31.8
Jiangxi	474.5	444.9	16.0	5.9	7.6
Shandong	1958.0	1727.4	111.7	43.3	75.6
Henan	735.0	704.7	18.7	7.7	4.0
Hubei	813.6	688.0	46.0	14.6	64.9
Hunan	657.5	617.1	26.4	4.3	9.8
Guangdong	3778.6	2958.7	428.2	83.7	308.1
Guangxi	406.0	377.5	15.1	4.5	8.8
Hainan	197.6	186.5	6.5	3.1	1.5
Chongqing	905.0	837.1	37.4	9.7	20.8
Sichuan	1101.4	1022.3	44.4	12.5	22.2
Guizhou	171.9	160.1	6.8	1.1	3.9
Yunnan	402.6	377.0	12.5	3.5	9.5
Tibet	10.2	9.4	0.7	—	0.0
Shanxi	496.5	403.1	35.9	7.5	50.1
Gansu	131.8	122.0	8.9	0.8	0.2
Qinghai	36.1	32.2	2.5	0.6	0.9
Ningxia	124.6	117.0	5.6	1.6	0.3
Xinjiang	228.9	207.6	12.6	1.7	7.0

 

V. Other Sectors in Tertiary Industry

 

1. Number of Units and Employees

 

By the end of 2008, there were 2,975,000 legal units engaged in other sectors in the tertiary industry^[2], an increase of 574,000 over the end of 2004. There were 72,729,000 employees, an increase of 14,201,000 over the end of 2004. Of this total, 857,000 were enterprises with total employment of 21.389 million people; 2,118,000 were government agencies and institutions and non-corporation enterprises with a total employment of 51.340 million people (see table 14).

Table 14 Number of Corporation Enterprises and Employees in Other

Sectors of the Tertiary Industry

 

 

2. Total Assets, Business Revenue and Operating Profits of Corporation Enterprises

 

In 2008, the total assets, business revenue and operating profits of other corporation enterprises engaged in other sectors of the tertiary industry were 113,698.38 billion yuan, 12,169.66 billion yuan and 1,865.39 billion yuan respectively. Of the total assets, the proportions of that from banking, information transmission, computer service and software, leasing and business services were 75.9 percent, 3.0 percent and 17.0 percent respectively or the three parts accounted for 95.9 percent of the total. Of the business revenue, the proportions of that from banking, information transmission, computer service and software, leasing and business services were 59.5 percent, 12.4 percent and 15.5 percent respectively or accounting for 87.4 percent of the three sectors of the total. Of the operating profits, the proportion of the above-mentioned three sectors were 48.8 percent, 18.4 percent and 21.6 percent respectively or accounting for 88.8 percent of the total (see table 15).

Table 15 Total Assets, Business Revenue and Operating Profits of Corporation

Enterprises Engaged in Other Sectors of the Tertiary Industry

 

                                     Unit: 100 million yuan

 

3. Assets, Revenue and Expenditure of Government Agencies, Institutions and Other Non-Corporation Enterprises Units

 

By the end of 2008, the total original price of fixed asset of government agencies, institutions and other non-corporation enterprises units was 8,427.98 billion yuan, the annual revenue was 5,744.51 billion yuan and the annual expenditure was 5,397.98 billion yuan (see table 16).

Table 16 Fixed Asset, Revenue and Expenditure of Government Agencies,

Institutions and other Non-corporation Enterprises Units

 

Unit: 100 million yuan

	Original Price of Fixed Assets	Annual Revenue	Annual Expenditure
Total	84279.8	57445.1	53979.8
Information Transmission, Computer Service and Software	278.9	148.2	137.2
Banking	223.6	95.5	313.6
Leasing and Business Services	1584.9	935.8	821.1
Scientific Research, Technical Service and Geological Prospecting	2827.3	3126.0	2774.2
Management of Water Conservancy, Environment and Public Facilities	3414.3	1355.2	2500.1
Services to Households and Other Services	257.3	163.3	144.7
Education	24040.5	13054.0	12578.8
Health, Social Securities and Social Welfare	9705.5	9448.1	8626.6
Culture, Sports and Entertainment	2457.6	1622.1	1467.0
Public Management and Social Organization	39489.9	27496.9	24616.5

 

Notes:

[1] Transport Sector: includes railway transport, road transport, urban public transport, water transport, air transport, pipeline transport, loading, unloading and other transport services.

[2] Other Sectors in the Tertiary Industry: refer to banking; information transmission, computer service and software sector; leasing and business service sector; scientific research, technical service and geological prospecting sector; management of water conservancy, environment and public facilities sector; services to households and other services sector; education sector; health, social securities and social welfare sector; culture, sports and entertainment sector and public management and social organization sector.

[3] Due to the errors arising from choosing decimals, the total number in the tables and some calculations are not mechanically adjusted.

 

(In case of any divergence in interpretation of the communiqué, the Chinese version of the communiqué shall take precedence.)