East China’s Jiangsu province kicked off Wednesday in Nanjing the fourth national economic census registration. Fan Jinlong, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and executive deputy governor, delivered a speech at the launch ceremony.
China's fourth national economic census will conduct household registrations between January 1 and the end of April. Census takers will visit households to collect information.
China conducts its national economic census every five years. City planners use the data to understand the current state of economic development and to forecast and shape the local economy over time.
The economic census is aimed at capturing the latest changes and features of the Chinese economy and helping improve the authenticity of statistics data, Jia Nan, deputy head of the National Bureau of Statistics, said Tuesday.
The economic census is one of China's major censuses of national conditions and will investigate the development of the country's industrial and tertiary sectors.
The census will cover about 30 million impersonal entities and industrial activity units as well as about 60 million self-employed entrepreneurs.
China has implemented three national economic censuses so far, conducted in 2004, 2008, and 2013 respectively.
（Source:ourjiangsu.com）
