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

Items Value Growth Rate (%)

Cost of management 45.71 17.4

Received debts 140.94 18.2

Inventory of manufactured products 82.69 26.7

Value added tax payable 32.19 20.1

Average employment 326.8 3.2 (10,000 persons)

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.

Source: Xinhua