China's economic efficiency indicators of beverage manufacturing in the January-June period of 2005:

sales expenses: 16.29 billion yuan; growth rate: 23.2 percent;

total profits: 10.86 billion yuan; growth rate: 25.0 percent.

The industrial statistics include all state-owned enterprises and the non-state-owned ones with annual sales income over 5 million yuan (602,410 US dollars).

Source: the National Bureau of Statistics