Brief Introduction

I. Main Contents

Data in this chapter reflect the basic conditions of the industrial sector, presenting main industrial economic indicators of 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities:

(1) Main economic indicators of industrial enterprises above designated size; as well as the main economic indicators and efficiency indicators classified by industrial sector, by size of enterprise, by type of registration, by branch of industry and by province.

(2) Main economic indicators and efficiency indicators of State-holding industrial enterprises,  private industrial enterprises, foreign-funded industrial enterprises and industrial enterprises with funds from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan classified by branch of industry and by province.

(3) Main economic indicators and efficiency indicators of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises classified by branch of industry and by province.

(4) Output and production capacity of key industrial products.

II. Scopes of Statistics

The scopes of industrial enterprises above designated size were: all State-owned industrial enterprises and the non-State-owned industrial enterprises with revenue from principal business over 5 million yuan from 1998 to 2006; all industrial enterprises with revenue from principal business over 5 million yuan from 2007 to 2010; and all industrial enterprises with revenue from principal business above 20 million yuan since 2011.

Data by branch of industry in this chapter are based on the National Industrial Classification of all Economic Activities（GB/T 4754-2011）, and data by size of enterprise are based on the 2011’s Standards of Enterprises by Size.

III. Sources of Data and Methods of Survey

The data on industrial enterprises in this Chapter are compiled mainly on the basis of annual industrial statistics reporting forms.

Ⅳ. Data Usage Notes

Data of 2017 of main indicators of industrial enterprises above designated size nationwide are not comparable with previous years, the reasons are as following: (1) According to the statistical system, the investigation scope of industrial enterprises above designated size should be adjusted regularly every year. Every year, some enterprises meet the scale criteria to be included in the scope of investigation, some enterprises withdraw from the scope of investigation because of the smaller scale, and there are other changes: new enterprises, bankruptcy, annotation (cancellation) enterprises, etc. (2) Strengthening of statistical law enforcement, cleaning up enterprises found in the inspection of statistical law enforcement that do not meet the standard of industrial statistics above designated size, and amending the relevant cardinality in accordance with regulations. (3) Strengthening data quality management and eliminating duplicated statistical data across regions and across industries. According to the latest survey of organizational structure of enterprises carried out by the National Bureau of Statistics, the repeated calculation of enterprise groups (companies) across regions and industries is weighed.  (4) After the implementation of the program to replace the business tax with a value-added tax, the value-added tax was paid by the service enterprises and the tax rate was lower. The industrial enterprises gradually stripped off the internal non-industrial production and operation activities and turned to the service industry, which reduced the financial data of the industrial enterprises.

After the completion of the Fourth National Economic Census in 2018, the National Bureau of Statistics will use the census results to study and revise historical data to ensure that historical data are comparable.