17-18 Basic Conditions of Chain Retail Enterprises by Region
Year	Number	Number	Engaged	Operating	Total Sales	Total	Centralized
	of Head	of Stores	Persons	Area of	of	Purchases	Purchase
	Stores		at Year-end	Retail	Commodities	Value	and Delivery
Region				Enterprises
	(unit)	(unit)	(10 000	at Year-end	(100 million	(100 million	(100 million
			persons)	(10 000 sq.m)	yuan)	yuan)	yuan)
2005	1416	105684	160.10	8687.5	12587.8	10734.6	8409.4
2006	1696	128924	187.10	8979.0	14952.2	13447.4	10565.7
2007	1729	145366	186.19	10044.0	17754.3	15917.0	12542.4
2008	2457	168502	197.08	10197.8	20466.5	17193.1	13782.1
2009	2327	175677	210.88	11809.2	22240.0	19343.7	14723.1
Beijing	153	6767	13.05	543.8	1593.6	1387.2	633.8
Tianjin	38	1742	3.10	245.8	439.5	435.4	351.6
Hebei	92	5528	5.55	554.7	707.2	568.2	380.8
Shanxi	40	2031	3.20	116.0	209.3	198.1	122.5
Inner Mongolia	19	1743	1.34	33.7	360.2	361.4	360.9
Liaoning	78	5228	5.34	239.1	525.9	464.8	317.5
Jilin	21	790	0.92	60.0	87.3	90.5	73.0
Heilongjiang	29	937	1.60	45.2	134.7	133.4	122.2
Shanghai	65	17332	28.22	794.7	2722.5	1998.3	1246.1
Jiangsu	181	16172	32.58	1565.2	3587.8	3351.6	3116.6
Zhejiang	228	21941	14.20	965.4	1491.5	1350.7	1265.1
Anhui	67	7622	7.16	318.8	804.3	803.9	333.0
Fujian	120	2814	5.66	370.9	535.6	442.0	352.7
Jiangxi	66	2270	3.20	170.6	390.3	211.4	142.0
Shandong	114	9610	13.77	1256.7	1736.7	1544.2	1080.9
Henan	160	8249	6.41	483.5	474.9	423.0	311.8
Hubei	108	5449	9.41	485.4	762.0	679.2	527.7
Hunan	91	3719	5.80	374.5	583.7	551.2	504.5
Guangdong	233	22088	26.00	1781.6	2962.7	2677.2	2233.8
Guangxi	46	2847	2.51	257.1	339.6	189.5	79.4
Hainan	4	112	0.08	2.4	1.7	1.5	1.2
Chongqing	77	9735	7.15	296.1	483.8	396.0	275.4
Sichuan	86	4770	5.20	178.1	303.4	273.9	218.9
Guizhou	24	583	0.43	10.8	13.8	15.2	4.9
Yunnan	42	10392	3.07	174.9	286.0	172.6	166.2
Tibet	1	12	0.01	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.5
Shaanxi	26	571	2.05	76.4	160.0	134.3	92.2
Gansu	27	858	0.86	81.7	179.4	148.1	92.9
Qinghai	12	99	0.41	14.6	11.9	8.4	6.4
Ningxia	14	1305	0.56	24.0	36.6	36.5	29.0
Xinjiang	65	2361	2.08	287.1	313.8	295.5	279.5
a) Total number of stores includes that from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan province and foreign countries.