The economic scale is expanded, the quality of development is steadily improved

On November 20, the National Bureau of statistics officially released the bulletin of the fourth national economic census. The census has made a comprehensive understanding of the background of China's secondary and tertiary industries. The census results also reflect the positive changes in economic structure, market vitality, innovation power and other aspects. Find out the background comprehensively - the number of legal entities in the secondary and tertiary industries has doubled. According to the census results, by the end of 2018, there were 21.789 million legal entities engaged in the activities of the secondary and tertiary industries in China, an increase of 100.7% compared with the third national economic census in 2013. "The fourth national economic census is a major survey of the national conditions and national strength of socialism with Chinese characteristics at the decisive stage of entering a new era and building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way." Xian Zude, deputy director of the office of the leading group of the fourth national economic census of the State Council and deputy director of the National Bureau of statistics, said that more than 1.6 million grassroots census workers in China completed the data collection one by one for the legal entities, industrial activity units and selected self-employed households engaged in the second and third industries in China, and comprehensively found out the background of the second and third industries in China It reflects the economic and social development of our country and obtains precious massive data. It is a comprehensive "physical examination" of the national economy.

It is of great significance for building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, promoting supply side structural reform and other major reform tasks. It will also provide scientific data support for formulating major development goals and reforms. "As a result, China's economic scale has increased significantly compared with the previous economic census." Mao Shengyong, spokesman of the National Bureau of statistics, said that in recent years, China has continuously promoted the reform of "deregulation services", deepened the reform of the commercial system, optimized the business environment, promoted mass entrepreneurship and innovation, and improved the market environment, providing more convenient conditions for the creation and innovation of enterprises. Whether it is the number of legal entities, industrial activities or individual businesses, there has been a significant increase. Continuous optimization of economic structure - the tertiary industry has a large proportion of advantages. Xian Zude said that China is in the critical period of transforming development mode, optimizing economic structure and transforming growth momentum. The census data well reflect the new progress made in the optimization and upgrading of economic structure and coordinated development. For example, in terms of the number of units, employees, assets, operating income and other aspects, the proportion of the tertiary industry has a great advantage. As the largest industry in the national economy, it really deserves its name. In terms of the number of employees, by the end of 2018, there were 383.236 million employees in the second and third industry legal entities nationwide, an increase of 7.6% over the end of 2013.

Among them, the number of employees in the secondary industry decreased by 10.4%, and the number of employees in the tertiary industry increased by 28.9%. There are 149312000 employees in self-employed households. Mao Shengyong said that the proportion of employees in the manufacturing industry is declining, and the proportion of employees in the tertiary industry is rising substantially. On the one hand, the scale benefit of manufacturing industry is expanding, the labor productivity of manufacturing industry is improving, the technology is improving, and the employment scale of manufacturing industry is generally stable. On the other hand, the tertiary industry has many aspects, the number of enterprises has increased greatly, and the function of the tertiary industry to absorb employment "reservoir" is increasing. To maximize the utility - the head of the National Bureau of Statistics said that he would make good use of the census data with all relevant parties, promote the open sharing of data, ensure that the census results are drawn from and used by the people, maximize the utility, and provide a solid statistical guarantee for promoting high-quality development. According to the relevant work deployment, according to the data of this census, the country will revise the GDP data of 2018 and history according to regulations. According to China's current national economic accounting system, China's annual GDP needs to be accounted twice, one is preliminary accounting and the other is final verification. When encountering the year of economic census, it is necessary to revise the preliminary GDP accounting in that year according to the more comprehensive and detailed data provided by the economic census. Li Xiaochao, deputy director of the National Bureau of statistics, said 2018 was the year of economic census. The successful completion of the census provides a comprehensive range of basic data with rich content for GDP accounting. The National Bureau of statistics will revise the preliminary GDP accounting in 2018 according to the annual GDP accounting method of the fourth national economic census based on the data of the economic census and the data of relevant departments, and publish the revised results of the GDP data in 2018 recently. Li Xiaochao said that after the census, the ratio of basic data to annual regular statistics has been greatly enriched, and the change of data sources has provided a detailed basis for the revision of GDP.