17-18  Basic Conditions of Chain Retail Enterprises by Region
Year Region	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
				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
2010	2361	176792	225.16	12756.8	27385.4	24044.6	17412.5
Beijing	149	6875	14.17	595.7	1964.8	1739.4	771.7
Tianjin	39	1924	3.62	256.2	619.0	578.2	490.7
Hebei	92	4168	4.88	528.5	839.1	707.3	460.2
Shanxi	41	2029	3.15	115.6	229.5	186.6	109.6
Inner Mongolia	19	1775	1.46	37.4	467.5	463.0	455.5
Liaoning	91	5629	5.82	352.7	690.4	646.7	376.9
Jilin	25	852	1.25	155.8	104.7	103.4	88.3
Heilongjiang	30	1082	1.79	57.7	170.2	180.4	167.2
Shanghai	99	19196	30.38	895.7	3071.7	2249.6	1496.5
Jiangsu	172	17822	35.10	1734.2	4392.6	4128.9	3254.3
Zhejiang	230	24147	15.12	1022.2	1700.5	1589.0	1453.6
Anhui	66	8120	8.21	382.9	1038.6	1020.1	477.9
Fujian	125	2942	6.45	457.2	707.3	596.5	323.9
Jiangxi	66	2793	4.16	240.9	713.4	382.8	328.3
Shandong	116	9224	14.46	983.2	2098.5	1772.3	1377.2
Henan	153	6277	6.94	513.6	589.1	515.7	333.2
Hubei	99	4919	9.41	492.2	914.5	875.7	573.3
Hunan	90	3775	6.60	405.2	734.6	633.2	407.3
Guangdong	206	23096	24.63	2015.7	3502.1	3274.5	2729.9
Guangxi	52	3391	3.63	339.5	567.3	411.7	270.3
Hainan	4	224	0.13	2.8	1.9	2.6	2.6
Chongqing	83	10672	7.72	287.3	614.8	541.6	244.3
Sichuan	91	6401	6.01	191.7	346.1	313.1	278.0
Guizhou	25	672	0.45	8.5	19.9	15.9	10.5
Yunnan	43	3265	3.26	179.1	346.4	218.9	211.4
Tibet	1	13	0.01	0.4	0.6	0.7	0.7
Shaanxi	26	586	1.69	49.6	194.4	155.5	90.8
Gansu	27	867	0.99	90.5	234.5	228.0	158.9
Qinghai	11	94	0.43	11.3	14.2	11.0	8.5
Ningxia	18	1491	0.89	55.6	127.0	118.3	82.1
Xinjiang	72	2471	2.35	297.7	370.3	384.1	378.8
a) Total number of stores includes that from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan province and foreign countries.