Industry refers to the material production sector which is engaged in extraction of natural resources and processing and
reprocessing of minerals and agricultural products, including (1) extraction of natural resources, such as mining, salt
production, logging (but not including hunting and fishing); (2) processing and reprocessing of farm and sideline produces,
such as rice husking, flour milling, wine making, oil pressing, cotton ginning, silk reeling, spinning and weaving, and leather
making; (3) manufacture of industrial products, such as steel making, iron smelting, chemicals manufacturing, petroleum
processing, machine building, timber processing; water and gas production and electricity generation and supply; (4)repairing
of industrial products such as the repairing of machinery and means of transport (including cars).
Prior to 1984, the rural industry run by villages and cooperative organizations under village was classified into agriculture.
Since 1984, it has been grouped into industry.
Units of Industrial Statistics and Inquiry: They are classified into two categories (1) corporate industrial enterprises
with independent accounting system (2) industrial establishments.
(1) Corporate industrial enterprises with independent accounting system refer to enterprises engaging in
industrial production activities, which meet the following requirements: ①They are established legally, having their own
names, organizations, location, able to take civil liability; ②They possess and use their assets independently, assume
liabilities, and are entitled to sign contracts with other units; ③They are financially independent and compile their own balance
sheets.
(2)Industrial establishments refer to economic units which located in one single place and engaged entirely or primarily
in one kind of industrial activity, including financially independent industrial enterprises and units engaged in industrial
activities under the non industrial enterprises (or financially dependent). Industrial establishments generally meet the
following requirements: ① They have each one location and are engaged in one kind of industrial activity each; ② They
operate and manage their industrial production activities separately;③ They have accounts of income and expenditures
separately.
(1) State-owned Enterprises refer to industrial enterprises where the means of production or income are owned by the
state. Joint state-private industries and private industries, which existed before 1957, have been transformed into state
industries. Statistics on these enterprises has been included in the state-owned industries since 1957 when separation of data
was no longer necessary.
(2) Collective-owned Enterprises refer to industrial enterprises where the means of production are owned collectively,
including urban and rural enterprises invested by collectives and some enterprises which were formerly owned privately but
have been registered in industrial and commercial administration agency as collective units through raising fund from the
public.
(3) Share-holding Cooperative Enterprises refer to economic units set up on cooperative basis, with funding partly
from members of the enterprise and partly from outside investment, where the operation and management is decided by the
members who also participate in the production, and the distribution of income is based both on work (labour input) and on
shares (capital input).
(4) Joint-operation enterprises refer to economic units that are established by joint investment by two or more corporate
enterprises or institutions of the same or different types of ownership on voluntary, equal and mutual-beneficial basis. They
include:
a) state-owned joint-operation enterprises (joint operation between state-owned enterprises);
b) collective joint-operation enterprises (joint operation between collective enterprises; and
c) state-collective joint-operation enterprises (joint operation between state and collective enterprises).
(5) Limited Liability Corporations refer to economic units registered in accordance with the Regulation of the People's
Republic of China on the Management of Registration of Corporations, with capitals from 2 to 49 investors, each investor
bears limited liability to the corporation depending on his/her holding of shares, and the corporation bears liability to its debt
to the maximum of its total assets.
(6) Share-holding Corporations Ltd. refer to economic units registered in accordance with the Regulation of the People's
Republic of China on the Management of Registration of Corporate Enterprises, with total registered capitals divided into
equal shares and raised through issuing stocks. Each investor bears limited liability to the corporation depending on the
holding of shares, and the corporation bears liability to its debt to the maximum of its total assets.
(7) Private Enterprises refer to economic units invested or controlled (by holding the majority of the shares) by natural
persons who hire labours for profit-making activities. Included in this category are private limited liability corporations, private
share-holding corporations Ltd., private partnership enterprises and private sole investment enterprises registered in
accordance with the Corporation Law, Partnership Enterprise Law and Tentative Regulation on Private Enterprises.
(8) Enterprises with Funds form Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan refers to all industrial enterprises registered as the
joint-venture, cooperative, sole (exclusive) investment industrial enterprises and limited liability corporations with funds from
Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
(9) Foreign Funded Enterprises refers to all industrial enterprises registered as the joint-venture, cooperative, sole
(exclusive) investment industrial enterprises and limited liability corporations with foreign funds.
Light Industry refers to the industry that produces consumer goods and hand tools. It consists of two categories,
depending on the materials used:
(1)Industries using farm products as raw materials. These are branches of light industry which directly or indirectly use farm
products as basic raw materials, including the manufacture of food and beverages, tobacco processing, textile, clothing, fur
and leather manufacturing, paper making, printing, etc.
(2)Industries using non farm products as raw materials. These are branches of light industry which use manufactured goods
as raw materials, including the manufacture of cultural, educational articles and sports goods, chemicals, synthetic fiber,
chemical products for daily use, glass products for daily use, metal products for daily use, hand tools, medical apparatus and
instruments, and the manufacture of cultural and clerical machinery.
Heavy Industry refers to the industry which produces capital goods, and provides various sectors of the national economy
with necessary material and technical basis. It consists of the following three branches according to the purpose of production
or the use of products:
(1)Mining, quarrying and logging industry refers to the industry that extracts natural resources, including extraction of
petroleum, coal, metal and non-metal ores and logging.
(2)Raw materials industry refers to the industry that provides various sectors of the national economy with raw materials, fuels
and power. It includes smelting and processing of metals, coking and coke chemistry, chemical materials and building
materials such as cement, plywood, and power, petroleum refining and coal dressing.
(3)Manufacturing industry refers to the industry that processes raw materials. It includes machine building industry which
equips sectors of the national economy, industries of metal structure and cement products, industries producing means of
agricultural production, such as chemical fertilizers and pesticides. According to the above principle of classification, the
repairing trades which are engaged primarily in repairing products of heavy industry are classified into heavy industry while
these engaged in repairing products of light industry are classified into light industry.
Gross Industrial Output Value is the total volume of industrial products sold or available for sale in value terms which
reflects the total achievements and overall scale of industrial production during a given period. It includes the value of the
finished products, which are not to be further processed in the enterprises and have been inspected, packed and put in
storage, the value of industrial services rendered to other units, and the changes in the value of the semi-finished products
and products in process between the beginning and closing of the period. The gross industrial output value is calculated with
"factory method". No double calculations are to be made within the same enterprise. However, double counting does occur
among different enterprises.
Output value of light and heavy industries is based on the "factory" method. If the major products of an industrial enterprise
are classified as light industry products, the entire gross output value of that enterprise is classified into the light industry; the
same principle applies to heavy industry.
Value-added of Industry refers to the final results of industrial production of the industrial trade in money terms during
the reference period.
Capital Obtained refers to capital actually received by the enterprise from investors. It can be further classified by investors
as state capital, collective capital, corporate capital, individual capital, capital from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and foreign
capital.
Total Assets refer to all economic resources, owned or controlled by enterprises, that could be measured in monetary
terms, including properties, creditors equity and other economic rights of all forms. Classified by the degree of equitability,
total assets include circulating assets, long term investment, fixed assets, intangible assets and deferred assets, and other
assets.
(1)Circulating assets (working capital) refer to assets which can be cashed in or spent or consumed in an operating
cycle of one year or over one year, including cash, all kinds of deposits, short term investment, receivables, advance
payment, stock, etc.
(2)Fixed assets refer to the net value of fixed assets, clearance of fixed assets, project under construction, fixed assets
losses in suspense. These are corporations fund holdings.
(3)Intangible assets refer to the assets without material form used by enterprises over a long time, such as patents, non-
patent technologies, trade marks, copyright, land use right, business reputation, etc.
Total Liabilities refer to the debts, measured in monetary terms, that enterprises are responsible for repayment in the
form of cash, assets or labour. Classified by terms of repayment, liability include liquid liabilities and long-term liabilities.
(1)Liquid liabilities (also called quick liabilities or immediate liabilities) refer to enterprises' total debt payable
within an operating cycle of one year or over one year, including short term loans, payable and advance payments, wages
payable, taxes payable and profit payable, etc.
(2)Long term liabilities refers to total debt payable within an operating cycle of one year or over one year, including
long-term loans, payable liabilities, long-term payable, etc.
Creditors' Equity refers to investors ownership of net assets of the enterprise. It is equal to the total assets of the
enterprise minus its total liabilities, including the primary input from investors, capital accumulation fund, surplus
accumulation fund and undistributed profit. It is the shareholder's equity in share-holding companies.
Original Value of Fixed Assets refers to the original value of all fixed assets owned by industrial enterprises, calculated
at the cost paid at the time of purchase, installation, reconstruction, expansion, and technical innovation and transformation
of the said assets, which includes expenses on purchase, package, transportation, and installation, etc.
Net Value of Fixed Assets is obtained by deducting depreciation over years from the original value of fixed assets.
Working Capital (Circulating Assets) refers to assets which can be cashed in or spent or consumed in an operating
cycle of one year or over one year, which includes cash, various deposits, short term investment, and receivable payments,
and advance payments, stock, etc.
Sales Revenue of Industrial Products refers to the revenue from the sales of products by industrial enterprises and the
revenue from services provided and etc.
Sales Cost of Industrial Products refers to the actual cost of products of industrial enterprises and industrial services
provided, etc..
Tax and Extra Charges on Sales of Products refer to the tax on city maintenance and construction, consumption tax,
resources tax and extra charges for education, which should be borne by the enterprises in selling products and providing
industrial services.
Sales Profit of Products refers to the profit gained by the enterprises by deducting cost, charges and taxes from the
business income of the enterprises obtained in selling products and providing industrial services.
Total Profits refer to the profits gained by the enterprises.
Value-added Tax Payable refers to the amount of the value added tax which should be paid by the enterprises in the
reporting period.
Ratio of Profits, Taxes and Interests to Average Assets reflects the profit-making capability of all assets of the
enterprise and is a key indicator manifesting the performance and management and evaluating the profit-making potential
of the enterprise. It is calculated as follows:
Ratio of profits, taxes and interests to average assets (%) = [(Total profits+total Taxes+interest payment) / average assets
]×100%
Ratio of Debts to Assets reflect both the operation risk and the capability of the enterprise in making use of the capital
from the creditors. It is calculated as follows:
Ratio of debts to assets (%) = (Total debts / total assets)×100%
Ratio of Profits to Total Industrial Costs refers to the ratio of profits realized in a given period to the total costs in the
same period, which reflects the economic efficiency of input cost and is calculated as follows:
Ratio of Profits to Total Industrial Cost(%)=(Total Profits/ Total Costs)×100%
Value-added Rate of Industry refers to the ratio of value added of industry in a given period to the gross output value in
the same period, which reflects the economic efficiency of cutting down the intermediate input and is calculated as follows:
Value-added Rate of Industry(%)=[Value-added of Industry (at current prices) ] / [Gross Output Value (at Current Prices)]
×100%
Turnover of Working Capital refers to the number of times of turnover of working capital in a given period of time, which
reflects the speed of the turnover of working capital and is calculated as follows:
Turnover of Working Capital(%)=(Sales Revenue of Products) / (Average Balance of Total Working Capital)×100%
Ratio of Sales to Gross Output Value refers to the sales of industrial products to the gross industrial output value during
the reference period, and is important in reflecting the linkage between production and sales and the extent of the needs of
the society that has been met by the supply of industrial products. It is calculated as follows:
Ratio of Sales to Gross Output Value=[Industrial sales / Gross industrial output value (at current prices)] ×100%
Overall Labour Productivity of Industrial Enterprises refers to the average output per employed person in industrial
enterprises in value terms. At present, the value added and the average number of staff and workers of an industrial
enterprises in a given period are used to calculate the overall labour productivity. The formula used is:
Overall Labour Productivity=(Value Added of Industry) / (Average Number of Staff and Workers)
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