17-1 Basic Conditions of Domestic Trade
Item	1998	2000	2001	2002	2003
Number of Corporation Unit (unit)
Wholesale and Retail Trades		25567	25543	26605	27340
Catering Services		3508	4132	5021	5935
Number of Economic Active Unit (unit)
Wholesale and Retail Trades		42438	47099	60019	57237
Catering Services		5363	6386	7424	8908
Persons Employed (10 000 persons)
Wholesale and Retail Trades		448.5	404.6	419.1	406.8
Catering Services		66.5	77.9	97.8	113.3
Wholesale and Retail Trade
Total Purchases (100 million yuan)	24297.4	29784.1	32489.0	36885.9	45383.9
Total Sales (100 million yuan)	56437.7	66359.5	72415.2	81266.2	99446.1
Total Inventory (100 million yuan)	3789.7	3569.9	3618.0	3577.9	3898.2
Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods
(100 million yuan)	29152.5	34152.6	37595.2	42027.1	45842.0
By Location of Establishments
City	17825.2	21110.3	23543.4	26986.3	29777.3
County	3681.9	4217.2	4583.2	4860.0	5247.8
Under County Level	7645.4	8825.1	9468.6	10180.8	10816.9
By Sector
Wholesale and Retail Trade	19185.8	23042.3	25510.8	34514.2	37692.5
Catering Services	2816.4	3752.6	4368.9	5433.3	6065.7
Others	7150.3	7357.7	7715.5	2079.6	2083.8
a) Figures on purchase, sales and inventory by wholesale and retail trade refer to units above designated size.
b) Data on total retail sales of consumer goods exclude purchase of commodity housing by households, and since 2002, that excludes the sales of
commodity, which directly sold to urban and rural households and social groups by the various types of registration of manufacturing enterprises,
economic active units and individual industries, and farmer produce, which sold by agricultural producer. Similarly in the following tables.
c) Number of corporation unit, economic active units and persons employed refer to those enterprises above designated size.