China's economic efficiency indicators of the sector of medical and pharmaceutical products in the first eight months of 2005, with the value in one billion yuan:

Items Value Growth Rate (%)

Cost of management 19.74 14.6

Received debts 68.55 12.3

Inventory of manufactured products 30.67 13.0

Value added tax payable 12.88 15.2

Average employment 119.6 (10,000 persons) 5.7

The industrial statistics include all state-owned enterprises and the non-state-owned ones with annual sales income over 5 million yuan.

Source: the National Bureau of Statistics