| 4-1 Employment | ||||
| Category | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
| Economically Active Population (10 000 persons) | 5941.8 | 6063.4 | 6182.9 | |
| Total Number of Employed Persons (10 000 persons) | 5840.7 | 5960.0 | 6081.4 | |
| Primary Industry (10 000 persons) | 2350.3 | 2328.0 | 2265.2 | |
| Secondary Industry (10 000 persons) | 1781.4 | 1870.3 | 1989.9 | |
| Tertiary Industry (10 000 persons) | 1709.0 | 1761.7 | 1826.3 | |
| Composition of Employed Persons (total=100) | ||||
| Primary Industry (%) | 40.2 | 39.1 | 37.3 | |
| Secondary Industry (%) | 30.5 | 31.4 | 32.7 | |
| Tertiary Industry (%) | 29.3 | 29.5 | 30.0 | |
| Number of Employed Persons by Urban and | ||||
| Rural Areas (10 000 persons) | ||||
| Urban Employed Persons (10 000 persons) | 2276.8 | 2425.0 | 2561.5 | |
| State-owned Units (10 000 persons) | 423.9 | 419.2 | 422.2 | |
| Urban Collective-owned Units (10 000 persons) | 65.3 | 61.5 | 59.4 | |
| Cooperative Units (10 000 persons) | 14.9 | 15.8 | 15.2 | |
| Joint Ownership Units (10 000 persons) | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.7 | |
| Limited Liability Corporations (10 000 persons) | 189.2 | 190.5 | 189.1 | |
| Share-holding Corporations Ltd. (10 000 persons) | 62.0 | 64.1 | 68.9 | |
| Private Enterprises (10 000 persons) | 262.9 | 289.5 | 314.5 | |
| Units with Funds from Hong Kong,Macao | 25.9 | 27.5 | 27.4 | |
| & Taiwan (10 000 persons) | ||||
| Foreign Funded Units (10 000 persons) | 98.2 | 106.8 | 108.3 | |
| Self-employed Individuals (10 000 persons) | 174.7 | 188.5 | 185.2 | |
| Rural Employed Persons (10 000 persons) | 3563.9 | 3535.0 | 3519.9 | |
| Township and Village Enterprises (10 000 persons) | 1653.5 | 1772.1 | 1159.9 | |
| Private Enterprises (10 000 persons) | 181.3 | 218.1 | 208.3 | |
| Self-employed Individuals (10 000 persons) | 190.2 | 198.4 | 214.6 | |
| Number of Staff and Workers (10 000 persons) | 871.1 | 874.3 | 879.7 | |
| State-owned Units (10 000 persons) | 415.8 | 409.3 | 411.6 | |
| Urban Collective-owned Units (10 000 persons) | 63.3 | 59.6 | 57.8 | |
| Units of Other Types of Ownership (10 000 persons) | 392.0 | 405.5 | 410.2 | |
| Urban Employed Female Persons (10 000 persons) | 352.7 | 357.7 | 356.4 | |
| Number of Newly Employed Persons in | 106.5 | 107.3 | 110.0 | |
| Urban Areas (10 000 persons) | ||||
| Number of reemployed Persons (10 000 persons) | 46.0 | 51.4 | 52.0 | |
| Reemployed Persons in Difficult Groups (10 000 persons) | 10.1 | 10.4 | 10.9 | |
| Reemployed Persons in Difficult Groups (10 000 persons) | 169.2 | 159.2 | 155.0 | |
| Number of Registered Unemployed Persons in | 42.9 | 43.7 | 43.5 | |
| Urban Areas (10 000 persons) | ||||
| Registered Unemployment Rate in Urban Areas (%) | 3.3 | 3.3 | 3.2 | |
| a)Data on economically active populations,employed persons and employed persons in urban and rural areas are based on the 5th National Population. | ||||
| Census and the annual population sample survey.As a result,the sum of the data by region,by ownership and by sector is not equal to the total. The | ||||
| same as in the following tables. | ||||
| b)The labor statistics report of 2005 is based on the data obtained from the first economic census,so the composition of different items has changed | ||||
| greatly. | ||||