17-17 Basic Conditions of Chain Retail Enterprises by Sector and Business Categories(2009)
Item	Number	Number	Engaged	Operating	Total Sales	Total	Centralized
	of Head	of Stores	Persons	Area of	of Commo-	Purchases	Purchase
	Stores		at Year-	Retail	dities	Value	and
			end	Enterprises	(100	(100	Delivery
	(unit)	(unit)	(10 000	at Year-end	million	million	(100 million
			persons)	(10 000	yuan)	yuan)	yuan)
				sq.m)
Total	2327	175677	210.9	11809.2	22240.0	19343.7	14723.1
By Sector
Integrated Retail	790	56568	125.5	5670.7	9111.9	7651.3	5261.5
Retail of Food, Beverages	179	9105	5.3	78.9	253.5	209.2	196.5
and Tobaccos
Special Retail of Textiles, Garments	114	11192	8.9	92.6	222.8	173.8	130.0
and Daily Consumer Articles
Retail of Culture, Sports	78	2093	4.3	148.1	351.3	344.3	327.9
Appliances and Equipments
Retail of Medicines and	527	30543	17.0	335.8	417.9	351.1	297.2
Medical Appliances
Retail of Motor Vehicles,	183	19583	16.6	2211.6	5879.6	5305.5	4569.2
Motorcycles, Fuel and Parts
Special Retail of Household  Electric	207	2949	11.9	667.8	1517.7	1409.6	1005.5
Appliances and Electronic Products
Special Retail of Hardware, Furniture	24	147	1.3	93.6	82.9	60.4	37.0
and Decoration Materials
Non-shop and Other Retails	32	822	0.5	38.2	75.6	78.6	51.5
By Business Categories
Convenience Store	96	15779	9.3	144.3	269.8	235.3	186.1
Discount Store	4	859	0.8	24.3	37.2	33.4	24.8
Supermarket	458	33224	48.9	1924.9	2569.5	2068.3	1644.8
Hypermarket	134	2493	32.7	1844.8	2443.5	1942.1	1191.8
Warehouse Club	6	179	1.5	54.8	142.5	142.6	29.2
Department Store	105	5304	23.9	1338.4	2498.3	2061.3	1126.4
Specialty Store	1203	82704	75.3	6075.3	13373.9	12146.4	9990.9
Gas Station	209	29345	26.0	4295.2	8996.2	8038.8	6510.8
Franchised Store	268	24075	16.1	247.1	697.3	546.9	402.9
Building Material Store	19	102	0.9	79.3	63.3	43.8	24.6
Factory Outlets Center	6	410	0.1	3.2	1.5	1.8	1.8
Other Store	28	10548	1.6	72.7	143.0	121.7	99.8