12-4 RURAL LABOR FORCE BY SECTOR
The number of laborers by sector in this table is classified by main activity. For example, those engaged primarily in agriculture and secondarily in commerce are classified under farming, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery.
(year-end) (10 000 persons)
	Farming,	Industry	Construction	Transpor-	Wholesale,	Other
Year Region	Forestry,			tation	Retail Sale	Non-
	Animal			and Storage	and Catering	agricultural
	Husbandry				Trades	Trades
	and Fishery
1978	28455.6
1980	29808.4
1985	30351.5	2741.0	1130.1	434.1	462.6	1945.8
1987	30870.0	3297.2	1431.3	562.5	606.9	2232.5
1988	31455.7	3412.8	1525.5	607.3	657.1	2408.3
1989	32440.5	3255.6	1501.8	614.2	652.4	2474.3
1990	33336.4	3228.7	1522.8	635.3	693.2	2593.1
1991	34186.3	3267.9	1533.8	655.0	722.8	2726.7
1992	34037.0	3468.2	1658.8	706.3	813.7	3117.6
1993	33258.2	3659.0	1886.8	799.9	948.8	3703.1
1994	32690.3	3849.5	2057.3	908.3	1084.3	4064.5
1995	32334.5	3970.7	2203.6	983.0	1170.4	4379.7
1996	32260.4	4018.5	2304.3	1027.6	1261.5	4415.7
1997	32434.9	4031.3	2372.7	1057.8	1381.5	4683.9
1998	32626.4	3928.6	2393.5	1087.9	1461.9	4933.9
Beijing	67.7	36.6	11.8	10.2	8.7	26.0
Tianjin	79.4	49.0	9.7	9.5	8.7	16.6
Hebei	1635.5	380.1	191.5	89.6	126.1	213.1
Shanxi	639.9	115.2	46.2	52.3	39.2	76.9
Inner Mongolia	512.4	15.5	18.1	10.8	11.5	38.6
Liaoning	633.0	78.1	49.2	33.4	43.8	95.6
Jilin	517.0	20.1	17.7	12.3	16.3	32.9
Heilongjiang	760.3	34.3	21.5	15.8	23.8	48.6
Shanghai	76.3	88.8	8.2	4.5	6.4	39.0
Jiangsu	1531.5	462.5	245.7	91.2	95.1	309.9
Zhejiang	1102.7	439.9	102.1	64.3	112.3	275.1
Anhui	1992.9	148.1	144.2	52.8	78.2	301.3
Fujian	776.8	128.1	14.5	36.0	51.0	193.9
Jiangxi	1073.7	91.5	56.2	21.0	29.8	269.3
Shandong	2487.0	339.2	279.7	106.1	134.5	249.3
Henan	2940.3	312.6	254.3	98.6	123.1	338.3
Hubei	1232.9	122.2	95.7	42.6	69.8	207.3
Hunan	2062.9	176.3	111.2	43.8	67.5	325.2
Guangdong	1508.2	380.0	187.5	72.0	108.3	376.9
Guangxi	1604.1	61.7	78.0	30.8	44.7	248.9
Hainan	170.2	5.4	7.4	5.9	7.4	14.0
Chongqing	943.7	51.9	68.4	15.8	27.9	209.3
Sichuan	2811.9	173.4	180.6	49.2	95.8	518.6
Guizhou	1388.4	54.1	25.3	16.4	24.7	173.9
Yunnan	1661.8	50.2	46.3	34.1	30.0	86.2
Tibet	89.3	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.4	2.0
Shaanxi	1047.4	61.8	68.0	33.3	40.0	105.3
Gansu	683.8	30.8	37.5	18.2	18.7	117.7
Qinghai	138.2	6.1	3.6	3.9	3.0	7.6
Ningxia	146.6	5.7	8.1	5.9	5.2	9.8
Xinjiang	310.7	7.8	3.8	5.9	9.0	6.7
a)The number of industrial laborers includes those working in enterprises at village and lower levels.

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