Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical
Indicators
Corporate units refer to units meeting such
conditions as: (1) established according to law, having its own name, organization and
site, capable of assuming civil responsibilities independently;
(2)independently owning and using (or using under authority) assets and
assuming liabilities, having the right to signing contracts with other units;
(3) keeping independent accounts, capable of preparing balance sheet. Corporate
units include enterprise, public institutions, government agencies, social
groups, and civilian-run enterprises as corporate units and other corporate
units.
Single-industry Corporate Units refer to those located at one site and mainly
engaged in one sort of social economic activity.
Multi-industry Corporate
Units refer to those located
at several sites and engaged in multiple economic activities. A multi-industry
unit consists of two or more establishments.
Establishments are attached
to corporate units. They shall meet such conditions as: (1) conducting one or mainly conducting one
economic activity at one site; (2) organizing production, operation or business
activities in a relatively independent manner; (3) capable of getting business
accounting data such as income and payment.
Type of Registration applies for various enterprises registered in the administration for industry
and commerce, and applies for administrative agencies, public institutions,
social groups and other economic organizations by reference.
State-owned
Enterprises refer
to non-corporation economic units where the entire assets are owned by the
state and which have registered in accordance with the Regulation of the
People’s Republic of China on the Management of Registration of Corporate
Enterprises, which excluding sole state-funded corporations in the limited
liability corporations.
Collective-owned
Enterprises refer to economic units where
the assets are owned collectively and which have registered in accordance with
the Regulation of the People’s Republic of
Cooperative
Enterprises refer to a form of
collective economic units (enterprises) where capitals come mainly from
employees as their shares, with certain proportion of capital from the outside,
where production is organized on the basis of independent operation,
independent accounting for profits and losses, joint work, democratic
management, a distribution system that integrates distribution according to
work with distribution according to capital share.
Joint
Ownership Enterprises
refer to economic units established by two or
more corporate enterprises or corporate institutions of the same or different
ownership, through joint investment on the basis of equality, voluntary
participation and mutual benefits. They include state joint ownership
enterprises, collective joint ownership enterprises, joint state-collective
enterprises and other joint ownership enterprises.
Limited
Liability Corporations refer
to economic units established with investment from 2-50 investors and
registered in accordance with the Regulation of the People’s Republic of China
on the Management of Registration of Corporations, each investor bearing
limited liability to the corporation depending on its share of investment, and
the corporation bearing liability to its debt to the maximum of its total
assets. Limited liability corporations include exclusive state-funded limited
liability corporations and other limited liability corporations.
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 Corporations, 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.
Private
Enterprises refer to profit-making
economic units invested and established by natural persons or controlled by
natural persons using employed labor. Private enterprises include private
limited liability corporations, private share-holding corporations Ltd.,
private partnership enterprises and private-funded enterprises registered in
accordance with the Corporation Law, Partnership Enterprises Law, Interim
Regulations on Private Enterprises and Sole Proprietorship Enterprise Law.
Other
Domestic-funded Enterprises refer to domestic-funded
economic units other than those mentioned above.
Enterprises
funded by
Foreign-funded
Enterprises refer to enterprises established
as joint ventures, cooperative enterprises, wholly-funded enterprises and joint-stock
companies limited in the mainland of
Changes
to the main framework of the Classification and Codes of Sectors in National
Economy Version GB/T 4754-2002 as compared with the former Version GB/T
4754-1994:
Sectors
added: a). information transmission, computer
service and software sectors, b). leasing and business
service sectors, c). accommodation, food and drink sector, d). water
conservancy, environment, public facility management sectors, e). education, f).
international organizations.
Sectors
with name or range changed: a).agriculture, forestry, livestock raising,
fishery, b). mining, c). manufacturing,
d). transportation, warehouse storage, postal
service, e). wholesale and retail trades, f). finance, g). scientific research,
technical service, geologic survey, h). residents service and other service sectors, i). health, social security, and
social welfare, j). culture, sports and entertainment,
k). public management social organizations.
Sectors cancelled: a). geologic survey, water conservancy management,
b). other sectors.
Employment Elasticity
Factor is a function for the research of the
relationship between economic development and job increase. It refers to a
ratio of labor employment growth rate to economic growth rate. Economically, it
means: how many percentage points will be brought for the growth of jobs by
every one percent of economic growth.