17-1  Basic Conditions of Domestic Trade
Item	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
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
Employed Persons       (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)	29784.1	32489.0	36885.9	45383.9
Total Sales                  (100 million yuan)	66359.5	72415.2	81266.2	99446.1	114071.4
Total Inventory           (100 million yuan)	3569.9	3618.0	3577.9	3898.2	3527.6
Total Retail Sales of Consumer Goods
(100 million yuan)	34152.6	37595.2	42027.1	45842.0	53950.1
By Location of Establishments
City	21110.3	23543.4	26986.3	29777.3	35573.2
County	4217.2	4583.2	4860.0	5247.8	6161.4
Under County Level	8825.1	9468.6	10180.8	10816.9	12215.5
By Sector
Wholesale and Retail Trade	23042.3	25510.8	34514.2	37692.5	44839.9
Catering Services	3752.6	4368.9	5433.3	6065.7	7486.0
Others	7357.7	7715.5	2079.6	2083.8	1624.2
a) Figures on number of corporation unit, number of economic active unit, persons employed, and total purchae, total inventory of 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
which directly sold to urban and rural households and social groups, economic active units and individual industries, and farmer produce, which
sold by agricultural producer.
c) Figure on total retail sales of consumer goods in 2003 is unadjusted figure, it is firstly adjusted in 2004, and it is 4760.21 billion yuan. The same as
in the following tables.
d) Data in 2004 were preliminary statistics. The same as from this table to table 17-4.