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Number of employed persons in China 2016, by work unit

Number of employed persons in rural and urban China in 2016, by work unit (in millions)

The data displays rural and urban employment figures in China by work unit. In 2016, urban state-owned units in China employed over 61 million people.

Urban employed persons	41428
Rural employed persons	361.75
Urban private enterprises	120.83
Urban self-employed persons	86.27
Limited liability corporations	63.81
State-owned units	61.7
Rural private enterprises	59.14
Rural self-employed persons	42.35
Share-holding corporation ltd.	18.24
Foreign funded units	13.61
Units funded by Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan	13.05
Urban collective-owned units	4.53
Cooperative units	0.86
Joint ownership units	0.18

Number of employed persons in China 2016, by work unit

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