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
2010	2361	176792	225.16	12756.8	27385.4	24044.6	17412.5
2011	2411	195779	249.06	13670.7	34510.7	29653.0	22919.6
Beijing	147	6950	14.99	637.2	2352.2	2068.7	994.3
Tianjin	38	1866	3.80	251.3	690.0	702.6	551.3
Hebei	88	4168	4.96	513.8	1054.3	958.2	631.2
Shanxi	43	2376	3.34	122.4	328.2	211.7	99.7
Inner Mongolia	17	1772	1.42	42.9	564.6	556.8	554.1
Liaoning	86	5547	5.78	364.4	860.1	767.2	590.7
Jilin	25	867	1.17	59.3	145.8	136.7	126.7
Heilongjiang	36	1520	2.11	60.7	244.4	223.5	211.4
Shanghai	90	19658	30.86	987.6	3573.8	2779.7	2069.1
Jiangsu	166	18247	42.21	1861.0	5232.9	4501.0	3608.6
Zhejiang	233	27346	17.13	1062.5	2115.7	1984.5	1810.2
Anhui	64	8811	8.59	455.2	1341.9	1285.6	1010.6
Fujian	131	3526	7.37	530.5	1079.3	769.4	473.1
Jiangxi	69	2996	4.79	292.2	901.2	461.9	391.6
Shandong	139	9123	16.80	1089.7	2337.2	2012.5	1399.1
Henan	141	5719	7.01	569.8	720.6	689.9	373.1
Hubei	106	4803	12.27	575.7	1189.8	1020.1	753.9
Hunan	84	5548	6.32	486.0	816.1	709.1	610.5
Guangdong	213	29170	27.70	2099.1	5398.4	4937.2	4358.4
Guangxi	61	3438	3.77	336.3	709.8	350.8	317.6
Hainan	4	234	0.14	3.6	3.7	3.8	3.5
Chongqing	88	11316	8.62	333.0	862.5	830.6	504.8
Sichuan	112	9770	6.91	207.0	430.6	388.0	358.3
Guizhou	23	723	0.47	9.3	12.0	11.3	11.2
Yunnan	43	3632	3.52	195.6	442.7	292.0	281.3
Tibet	2	15	0.06	2.5	1.9	2.2	2.2
Shaanxi	26	652	1.90	71.2	245.0	190.4	128.1
Gansu	13	407	0.57	22.4	87.7	87.8	87.8
Qinghai	8	76	0.53	14.3	14.5	9.5	5.4
Ningxia	20	1897	1.03	64.2	150.9	172.5	167.8
Xinjiang	95	3606	2.92	350.0	603.2	537.9	434.2
a) Total number of stores includes that from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan province and foreign countries.