The following are statistics with the total assets and liabilities of China's industrial enterprises in the metal sector by the end of 2004, with the value in 1 billion yuan, citing results of China's first national economic survey:
Items | Total Assets | Total Liabilities |
Smelting and Pressing of Ferrous Metals | 1613.06 | 967.64 |
Smelting and Pressing of Nonferrous Metals | 570.07 | 365.24 |
Metal Products | 553.54 | 323.52 |
The first-ever national economic survey, which formally began on Dec. 31, 2004, was jointly published by the Leading Group of First National Economic Census of the State Council and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).