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

COMMUNIQUÉ ON MAJOR DATA OF THE FIRST NATIONAL
ECONOMIC CENSUS OF CHINA

 (NO. 3)

Office of the Leading Group of the State Council for
the First National Economic Census

National Bureau of Statistics of China

December 20, 2005

This Communiqué contains data on the tertiary industry as a result of the First National Economic Census of China.

I. Transport, Storage and Post Service

1. Number of Corporations and Employees

By the end of 2004, there were altogether 0.073million corporations engaged in the transport, storage and post service sectors with a total employment [1] of 7.607million people, there were 6.217million individual households engaged in transport with a total number of 9.334million people, and there were 8 thousand departments and institutions engaged in transport, storage and post services with a total number of 0.408million people.

Of the total number of corporations engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors [2], the proportion of transport accounted for 83.5 percent, that of storage 14.0 percent and 2.5 percent for post service. In terms of employment structure, the proportion of people engaged in transport accounted for 85.9 percent, that of the storage 5.2 percent, and 8.9 percent for post service (see table 1).

Table 1  Number of Corporations and Employed Persons in Transport, Storage and Post Service Sectors
	Corporations	Employed Persons (10 000)
Total	72753	760.7
Railway Transport	182	172.5
Road Transport	30356	203.1
Urban Public Transport	5759	123.5
Water Transport	4700	69.0
Air Transport	459	20.6
Pipeline Transport	39	1.6
Loading, Unloading and Other Transport Services	19247	63.0
Storage	10177	39.9
Post Service	1834	67.5

2. Assets, Liabilities and Equity

By the end of 2004, the total assets of the corporations engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors reached 3,576.32 billion yuan, of this total, the transport accounted for 89.2 percent, storage 7.2 percent, and 3.6 percent for post service. The total liabilities amounted to 1,705.02 billion yuan, of this total, that of transport accounted for 87.7 percent, storage 10.5 percent and 1.8 percent fro post service. The total equity was 1,817.30 billion yuan; the shares of transport, storage and post service were 90.7 percent, 4.2 percent and 5.1 percent respectively (see table 2).

Table 2  Assets and Liabilities and Equity of Corporations Engaged in Transport, Storage and Post Service Sectors
Unit: 100 Million RMB
	Assets	Liabilities	Equity
Total	35763.2	17050.2	18713.0
Railway Transport	9972.5	2656.7	7315.8
Road Transport	9181.3	5190.4	3990.9
Urban Public Transport	1864.1	1006.0	858.1
Water Transport	4736.4	2451.6	2284.8
Air Transport	3771.4	2369.8	1401.6
Pipeline Transport	662.1	341.3	320.8
Loading, Unloading and Other Transport Services	1729.0	931.2	797.8
Storage	2578.0	1791.4	786.6
Post Service	1268.4	311.6	956.8

The asset and liability ratio of corporations engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors was 47.7 percent, in terms of different sectors, it was 46.8 percent for transport, 69.5 percent for storage and 24.6 percent for post service

The total assets of government agencies and institutions engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors were 74.75 billion yuan.

3. Business Revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities

In 2004, the total business revenue generated by principal activities of corporations engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors were 1,166.11 billion yuan. of this total, that of the transport accounted for 87.5 percent, storage 7.7 percent, post service 4.8 percent. The business revenue generated by government agencies and institutions engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors was 28.82 billion yuan. The business revenue of self-employed individuals engaged in transport was 770.17 billion yuan.

The gross profits made by corporations engaged in transport, storage and post service sectors was 102.24 billion yuan, of which that of transport accounted for 98.8 percent, and 2.3 percent for storage (see table 3).

Table 3  Business Revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities Made by Corporations Engaged in Transport, Storage and Post Service Sectors
Unit: 100 Million RMB
	Business Revenue	Gross Profits
Total	11661.1	1022.4
Railway Transport	2126.1	77.4
Road Transport	2481.0	309.3
Urban Public Transport	647.3	25.8
Water Transport	2048.8	372.2
Air Transport	1406.3	98.4
Pipeline Transport	101.2	15.8
Loading, Unloading and Other Transport Services	1389.5	110.9
Storage	897.0	23.6
Post Service	563.8	-11.0

II. Real Estate Sector

1. Number of corporations and Employees

By the end of 2004, there were 0.129million corporations engaged in real estate sector, with a total employment of 3.963million people (see table 4). There were 0.038million individual households engaged in real estate sector absorbing 0.091million people.

Table 4  Number of Corporations and Employees in Real Estate Sector
	Corporations (10 000)	Proportion (%)	Employees (10 000)	Proportion (%)
Total	12.9	100.0	396.3	100.0
Real Estate Development and Management	5.9	45.7	158.5	40.0
Property Management	3.2	24.8	143.4	36.2
Real Estate Intermediate Services	2.0	15.5	23.5	5.9
Other Activities	1.8	14.0	70.9	17.9

2. Assets, Liabilities and Equity

By the end of 2004, the total assets of the corporations engaged in real estate sector reached 6,977.47 billion yuan, the total liabilities amounted to 5,065.3 billion yuan, and total equity was 1,912.17 billion yuan. The asset and liability ratio was 72.6 percent for corporations engaged in real estate sector, in terms of different industries, it was 74.1 percent for real estate development, 62.5 percent for property management, 54.9 percent for intermediate services and 61.0 percent for other activities (see table 5).

Table 5  Assets and Liabilities and Equity of Corporations Engaged in Real Estate Sector
Unit: 100 Million RMB
	Assets	Liabilities	Equity
Total	69774.7	50653.0	19121.7
Real Estate Development and Management	61790.0	45784.1	16005.9
Property Management	2779.6	1736.1	1043.5
Real Estate Intermediate Services	718.3	394.1	324.2
Other Activities	4486.8	2738.7	1748.1

3. Business revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities

In 2004, the total business revenue generated by principal activities of corporations engaged in real estate sector was 1,474.06 billion yuan, and the gross profits reached 122.55 billion yuan (see table 6). The business revenue of individual households was 5.19 billion yuan.

Table 6  Business Revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities Made by Corporations Engaged in Real Estate Sector
Unit: 100 Million RMB
	Business Revenue	Gross Profits
Total	14740.6	1225.5
Real Estate Development and Management	13315.0	1035.2
Property Management	682.1	41.2
Real Estate Intermediate Services	211.1	46.6
Other Activities	532.4	102.5

4. Production and Management Situation of Real Estate Sector

In 2004, the floor space of commercial buildings under construction was 1,476.83 million square meters, the floor space of commercial buildings completed was 526.38 million square meters, and the floor space of commercial buildings sold was 453.62 million square meters. Of this total, the floor space of residential buildings sold was 397.23 million square meters. The total sales of commercial buildings were 1,260.13 billion yuan, that of the residential buildings were 1,035.96 billion yuan.

The floor space of buildings under the property management enterprises was 2882.52 million square meters; the contracted floor space sold from the estate agent enterprises was 86.62 million square meters with the contracted value reaching 505.23 billion yuan.

III. Wholesale and Retail Trade

1. Number of corporations, Employees and Business Volume

By the end of 2004, there were altogether 0.884million corporations engaged in wholesale and retail trade with total employment of 13.825 million people. The total wholesale and retail trade sales[3] for the whole year were 12,315.24 billion yuan, of this total, that of the wholesale trade was 10,204.24 billion yuan, and that of the retail trade was 2,111 billion yuan (see table 7).

Table 7  Number of corporations, Employees and the Total Sales of Corporations Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Trades
	Units (10 000)	Employed Persons (10 000)	Total Revenue of Sales (100 million RMB)	Of which: Total Revenue of  Retail Sales (100 million RMB)
Total	88.4	1382.5	123152.4	22295.5
Wholesale Trade	53.1	772.8	102042.4	4319.4
Farm and Animal Husbandry Products	2.9	83.0	3092.3	95.3
Food, Beverages, Tobacco	4.4	116.7	10805.7	388.8
Textiles, Clothing and Articles for Daily Use	5.4	68.2	7797.2	123.7
Cultural, Sports Articles and Appliances	2.0	22.4	1772.9	84.4
Medicine and Medical Appliances	1.6	43.7	3649.7	523.4
Mineral Products, Building Material and Chemical Products	17.5	224.9	51031.6	2062.9
Machinery Equipment, Hardware and Electronic Products	15.0	167.2	19381.0	949.3
Trade Broke and Agent	0.8	8.0	839.0	10.7
Other	3.5	38.7	3673.1	81.0
Retail Sales Trade	35.3	609.7	21110.0	17976.1
Comprehensive Retail Trade	4.6	229.6	6437.0	5773.1
Food, Beverage and Tobacco	3.3	48.7	735.5	573.1
Textiles, Clothing and Articles for Daily Use	3.7	51.0	809.9	700.6
Cultural, Sports Articles and Appliances	2.7	34.1	798.5	698.7
Medicine and Medical Appliances	2.4	43.0	1004.4	772.8
Automobile, Motorcycles, Fuels and Parts & Fittings	4.8	67.4	7024.9	5832.9
Household Appliances and Electronic Products	5.6	63.6	2629.2	2242.1
Hardware, Furniture and Decoration Materials	4.9	40.8	920.4	770.2
Non-Store and Other Retail Trade	3.3	31.5	750.1	612.6

There were 2.148 million individual households engaged in wholesale trade with a total number of 5.03 million people, that of the retail trade were 16.162 million individual households absorbing another 27.923 million people.

Of the total number of corporations in wholesale and retail trades, the proportion of state-owned, state joint ownership and state sole funded corporations was 8.3 percent, that of the collective, collective joint ownership and Share-holding cooperatives corporations was 12.8 percent, the private enterprises 63.0 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong Macao and Taiwan accounted for 0.3 percent and 0.8 percent for foreign funded enterprises, and others accounted for 14.8 percent.

Of the total number of employees, the proportion of those in state-owned, state joint ownership and state sole funded corporations accounted for 20.0 percent, state-owned, state joint ownership and state sole funded corporations was 12.7 percent, the private enterprises 39.2 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong Macao and Taiwan accounted for 0.9 percent and 2.0 percent for foreign funded enterprises and others accounted for 25.2 percent (see table 8).

Table 8  Number of Corporations and Employees in Wholesale and Retail Trades by Ownership
	Corporations (10 000)	Employed Persons (10 000)
Total	88.4	1382.5
State-owned	7.0	260.5
Collective-owned	8.6	143.5
Share-holding Cooperatives	2.6	30.4
State-joint	0.1	2.7
Collective-joint	0.1	1.7
Joint State-Collective	0.1	1.5
Other Joint Ownership	0.1	1.9
State Sole Funded	0.2	13.0
Other Limited Liability	10.2	247.3
Share-holding	1.6	89.5
Private-funded	55.7	542.1
Other Domestic-funded	1.1	9.5
Enterprises with Funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan	0.3	11.9
Foreign Funded	0.7	27.0

2. Assets, Liabilities and Equity

By the end of 2004, the total assets of the corporations engaged in wholesale and retail trades reached 6,179.58 billion yuan, the total liabilities amounted to 4,316.38 billion yuan, the total equity was 1,863.20 billion yuan. The assets and liability ratio was 69.8 percent, in terms of different trade, that of the wholesale trade was 70.7 percent and that of the retail trade was 66.6 percent (see table 9).

Table 9  Assets and Liabilities and Equity of Corporations Engaged in Real Estate Sector
Unit: 100 Million RMB
	Assets	Liabilities	Equity
Total	61795.8	43163.8	18632.0
Wholesale Trade	48420.7	34249.8	14170.9
Farm and Animal Husbandry Products	5393.0	5077.5	315.5
Food, Beverages, Tobacco	5762.2	3764.6	1997.6
Textiles, Clothing and Articles for Daily Use	3782.2	2574.1	1208.1
Cultural, Sports Articles and Appliances	1072.8	673.5	399.3
Medicine and Medical Appliances	1905.6	1561.7	343.9
Mineral Products, Building Material and Chemical Products	17091.4	11662.1	5429.3
Machinery Equipment, Hardware and Electronic Products	9728.2	6664.4	3063.8
Trade Broke and Agent	1578.7	900.8	677.9
Other	2106.6	1371.1	735.5
Retail Sales Trade	13375.1	8914.0	4461.1
Comprehensive Retail Trade	4491.8	3238.1	1253.7
Food, Beverage and Tobacco	891.8	698.3	193.5
Textiles, Clothing and Articles for Daily Use	781.4	520.7	260.7
Cultural, Sports Articles and Appliances	728.1	400.5	327.6
Medicine and Medical Appliances	646.8	436.9	209.9
Automobile, Motorcycles, Fuels and Parts & Fittings	2936.4	1853.9	1082.5
Household Appliances and Electronic Products	1384.8	912.0	472.8
Hardware, Furniture and Decoration Materials	826.4	473.2	353.2
Non-Store and Other Retail Trade	687.5	380.3	307.2

3. Business revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities

In 2004, the total business revenue generated by principal activities of corporations engaged in wholesale and retail trades was 11,092.45 billion yuan, and the gross profits reached 214.96 billion yuan (see table 10).

Table 9  Assets and Liabilities and Equity of Corporations Engaged in Real Estate Sector
Unit: 100 Million RMB
	Business Revenue	Gross Profits
Total	110924.5	2149.6
Wholesale Trade	92242.7	1900.1
Farm and Animal Husbandry Products	2921.7	-97.6
Food, Beverages, Tobacco	9665.3	593.7
Textiles, Clothing and Articles for Daily Use	7191.4	89.8
Cultural, Sports Articles and Appliances	1558.3	34.4
Medicine and Medical Appliances	3282.9	35.0
Mineral Products, Building Material and Chemical Products	45527.7	871.9
Machinery Equipment, Hardware and Electronic Products	17497.3	281.2
Trade Broke and Agent	1104.3	27.8
Other	3493.8	63.9
Retail Sales Trade	18681.8	249.5
Comprehensive Retail Trade	5472.8	72.3
Food, Beverage and Tobacco	681.7	1.9
Textiles, Clothing and Articles for Daily Use	707.1	15.4
Cultural, Sports Articles and Appliances	705.0	15.6
Medicine and Medical Appliances	890.6	5.9
Automobile, Motorcycles, Fuels and Parts & Fittings	6273.5	73.3
Household Appliances and Electronic Products	2467.6	26.4
Hardware, Furniture and Decoration Materials	806.0	21.7
Non-Store and Other Retail Trade	677.5	17.0

The business revenue of individual households engaged in wholesale trade was 1,394.45 billion yuan, that of those engaged in retail trade was 2,743.87 billion yuan.

IV. Hotel and Catering Services

1. Number of corporations, Employees and Business Volume

By the end of 2004, there were altogether 0.093 million corporations engaged in hotel and catering services with total employment of 4.293million people. The business volume [4] for the whole year was 310.67 billion yuan (see table 11).

Table 11  Number of corporations, Employees and the Total Sales of Corporations engaged in Hotel and Catering Services
	Corporations	Employed Persons (10 000)	Total Sales (100 million RMB)
Total	92820	429.3	3106.7
Hotel Services	39262	205.6	1567.0
Tourism Hotels	12244	137.0	1226.2
General Hotels	24058	61.3	299.5
Others	2960	7.3	41.3
Catering Services	53558	223.7	1539.7
Restaurants	43093	188.9	1240.3
Snack Counters	3452	21.8	226.8
Beverage and Cold Drinks	2834	3.9	20.4
Others	4179	9.1	52.2

There were 0.178 million individual households engaged in hotel services with a total number of 0.505 million people, that of the catering services were 2.761 million individual households absorbing another 9.048 million people.

Of the total number of corporations in hotel and catering services, the proportion of state-owned, state joint ownership and state sole funded corporations was 14.7 percent, that of the collective, collective joint ownership and Share-holding cooperatives corporations was 18.3 percent, the private enterprises 50.5 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong Macao and Taiwan account for 1.6 percent and 2.1 percent for foreign funded enterprises and others account for 12.8 percent.

Of the total number of employees, the proportion of those in state-owned, state joint ownership and state sole funded corporations accounted for 20.5 percent, state-owned, state joint ownership and state sole funded corporations was 9.9 percent, the private enterprises 38.1 percent, enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan accounted for 5.5 percent and 7.4 percent for foreign funded enterprises and others account for 18.6 percent (see table 12).

Table 12  Number of Corporations and Employees in Hotel and Catering Services by Ownership
	Units	Employed Persons (10 000)
Total	92820	429.3
State-owned	13293	83.7
Collective-owned	12861	30.9
Share-holding Cooperatives	3905	10.8
State-joint	150	1.5
Collective-joint	251	0.6
Joint State-Collective	119	0.6
Other Joint Ownership	177	0.7
State Sole Funded	240	2.8
Other Limited Liability	7669	59.8
Share-holding	1684	13.3
Private-funded	46892	163.7
Other Domestic-funded	2146	5.8
Enterprises with Funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan	1495	23.5
Foreign Funded	1938	31.6

2. Assets, Liabilities and Equity

By the end of 2004, the total assets of the corporations engaged in hotel and catering services reached 697.58 billion yuan, the total liabilities amounted to 422.22 billion yuan, the total equity was 275.36 billion yuan. The assets and liability ratio was 60.5 percent, in terms of different trade, that of the hotel service was 61.3 percent and that of the catering service was 58.1 percent (see table 13).

Table 13  Assets and Liabilities and Equity of Corporations Engaged in Hotel and Catering Services
Unit: 100 Million RMB
	Assets	Liabilities	Equity
Total	6975.8	4222.2	2753.6
Hotel Services	5258.3	3224.9	2033.4
Tourism Hotels	4223.1	2698.2	1524.9
General Hotels	922.9	470.7	452.2
Others	112.3	56.0	56.3
Catering Services	1717.5	997.3	720.2
Restaurants	1490.7	874.4	616.3
Snack Counters	133.1	79.7	53.4
Beverage and Cold Drinks	24.1	11.6	12.5
Others	69.6	31.6	38.0

3. Business revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities

In 2004, the total business revenue generated by principal activities of corporations engaged in hotel and catering services was 164.96 billion yuan, and the gross profits reached 2.75 billion yuan (see table 14).

Table 14  Business Revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities Made by Corporations Engaged in Hotel and Catering Services
Unit: 100 Million RMB
	Business Revenue	Gross Profits
Total	6975.8	2753.6
Hotel Services	5258.3	2033.4
Tourism Hotels	4223.1	1524.9
General Hotels	922.9	452.2
Others	112.3	56.3
Catering Services	1717.5	720.2
Restaurants	1490.7	616.3
Snack Counters	133.1	53.4
Beverage and Cold Drinks	24.1	12.5
Others	69.6	38.0

The business revenue of individual households engaged in hotel and catering services was 24.34 billion yuan, that of those engaged in retail trade was 534.44 billion yuan.

V. Other Sectors in Tertiary Industry

1. Number of Units and Employees

By the end of 2004, there were 2.401million legal person units engaged in other sectors [5] in the tertiary industry with a total employment of 58.528 million people. Of this total, 0.489million were corporations with total employment of 14.123million people; 1.912million were government agencies and institution and non-corporation units with a total employment of 44.405 million people. There were 5.825million individual households engaged in other sectors in the tertiary industry with a total number of 12.018 million people (see table 15).

Table 15  Number of Legal Person Units and Employees in Other Sectors of the Tertiary Industry
	Legal Person Unit (10 000)		Employed Persons (10 000)
	Corporations	Government Agencies, Institutions, and Other	Corporations	Government Agencies, Institutions, and Other
Total	48.9	191.2	1412.3	4440.5
Financial Intermediation	2.2	0.1	353.9	20.8
Information Transmission, Computer Service and Software	6.2	1.1	228.3	10.3
Leasing and Business Services	19.7	5.2	380.9	67.4
Scientific Research, Technical Services and Geological Prospecting	7.0	6.7	167.7	158.7
Management of Water Conservancy, Environment and Public Facilities	1.3	3.2	41.8	142.2
Services to Households and Other Services	7.0	1.4	116.6	19.5
Education	1.5	28.4	33.7	1488.1
Health, Social Securities and Social Welfare	1.7	16.5	31.7	518.6
Culture, Sports and Entertainment	2.3	4.2	57.7	89.7
Public Management and Social Organization	--	124.4	--	1925.2

 

2. Assets, Liabilities and Equity

By the end of 2004, the total assets of the corporations engaged in other sectors in the tertiary industry reached 43,568.02 billion yuan, the total liabilities amounted to 35,813.80 billion yuan, The total equity was 7,754.22 billion yuan. The assets and liability ratio was 82.2 percent (see table 16).

3. Business Revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities

By the end of 2004, the total business revenue generated by principal activities of corporations engaged in other sectors in tertiary industry was 4,447.94 billion yuan, and the gross profits reached 455.01 billion yuan. of the total business revenue, the proportions of that from the financial intermediation, information transmission, computer service and software, leasing and business services were 54.4 percent, 17.1 percent and 15.6 percent respectively or accounting for 87.1 percent of the total. Their proportions in gross profits were 20.0 percent, 36.8 percent and 32.6 percent respectively, or 89.4 percent of the tertiary industry (see table 17).

Table 17  Business Revenue and Gross Profits from Principal Activities Made by Corporations Engaged in Other Sectors of the Tertiary Industry
Unit: 100 million RMB
	Business Revenue	Gross Profits
Total	44479.4	4550.1
Financial Intermediation	24191.2	909.4
Information Transmission, Computer Service and Software	7607.5	1674.2
Leasing and Business Services	6938.1	1482.7
Scientific Research, Technical Services and Geological Prospecting	2887.9	271.7
Management of Water Conservancy, Environment and Public Facilities	487.9	23.3
Services to Households and Other Services	937.7	67.9
Education	253.6	47.1
Health, Social Securities and Social Welfare	293.2	11.9
Culture, Sports and Entertainment	882.3	61.9
Public Management and Social Organization	--	--

4. Assets, Revenue and Expenditure of Government Agencies, Institutions and other Non-corporation Legal Person Units

By the end of 2004, the total assets of government agencies, institutions and other non-corporation legal person units were 14,195.08 billion yuan, the annual revenue was 2,882.70 billion yuan and the annual expenditure was 2,712.92 billion yuan (see table 18).

Table 18  Assets, Revenue and Expenditure of Government Agencies, Institutions and other Non-corporation Legal Person Units
Unit: 100 million RMB
	Year-end Assets	Annual Revenue	Annual Expenditure
Total	141950.8	28827.0	27129.2
Financial Intermediation	78676.6	1840.6	1183.5
Information Transmission, Computer Service and Software	250.6	80.9	76.4
Leasing and Business Services	2549.5	452.2	409.2
Scientific Research, Technical Services and Geological Prospecting	3368.9	1521.9	1436.8
Management of Water Conservancy, Environment and Public Facilities	3288.6	712.4	703.7
Services to Households and Other Services	305.2	115.0	109.6
Education	15602.0	6472.1	6347.2
Health, Social Securities and Social Welfare	6848.9	4505.5	4321.9
Culture, Sports and Entertainment	2112.4	915.2	864.7
Public Management and Social Organization	28948.1	12211.2	11676.2

Note:

[1]Employed Persons: refer to those employed by economic units or self-employed individuals in December 31, 2004, not including those not covered above.

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

[3]Total Sales of Commodities by Wholesale and Retail Enterprises: refer to value of commodities sold by the establishments to other establishments and individuals, including wholesale trade and retail trade. The retail trade includes value of commodities sold to households and social groups; the wholesale trade includes the value of commodities sold to establishments for production and operation and value of commodities for exports.

[4]Business Revenue of Hotel and Catering Services: refer to income from providing services or selling of commodities by legal person units and establishments engaged in hotel and restaurants, including income from hotel rooms, meals, commodities and other services.

[5]Other Sectors in the Tertiary Industry: refer to financial intermediation sector; 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.