Urban industry

Current development of major sectors of urban industry in Beijing

(1) Food and beverage
Beijing??s food industry includes the four categories of food production, food processing, beverage production and tobacco processing. (The country??s food industry has five categories, with the fifth one being salt collecting)
a. Scale (enterprises upon a certain scale)
In 2003, 383 enterprises of the food industry had been set up in Beijing, with total industrial output value standing at 24.9 billion Yuan and employees at 84,100.
b. Structure

Ratio of current-price output value of four categories of food and beverage industry
food production, food processing, beverage production, tobacco processing

When divided according to trades, Beijing??s food industry has formed many ?°trade blocks?±, mainly concentrated on such trades as beer, milk products, vegetable and fruit juice, and soda drinks. And Beijing has come to be one of the country??s most important bases with regard to beer and vegetable and fruit juice processing. The city has roughly formed a food production pattern with beverage production as the mainstay. Beverage production (including wine brewing) now takes a certain market share in the whole national market.

c. Layout
Beijing??s food industry can be basically divided into two parts: ?°Leading district in the Northeast?± as represented by Huairou and Shunyi, and ?°Newly rising district in the Southern suburbs?± as represented by Daxing and Tongzhou. The food industry output value produced by these two districts accounts for 70 percent of the city??s total.

(2) Clothing and textile
a. Scale
By the end of 2003, 383 enterprises of the clothing and textile industry had been set up in Beijing, with current-price output value standing at 11.52 billion Yuan, sales revenue at 11.03 billion Yuan and employees at 117,000.

b. Structure

Ratio of the three categories of clothing and textile industry

Textile industry, clothing and other fiber products, leather and eider down products

c. Layout
Currently Beijing has six clothing production bases in Pinggu, Miyun, Shunyi, Tongzhou, Daxing and Yanqing, located mainly in the East of the capital, which can be called as Beijing??s Eastern Clothing Industry Belt.

(3) Printing and packaging

a. Scale
By the end of 2003, 394 enterprises of the printing and packaging industry had been set up in Beijing, with total output value standing at 8.41 billion Yuan, sales revenue at 8.15 billion Yuan and employees at 52,000.

b. Structure
Printing: In Beijing??s printing enterprises, publishing enterprises account for 27 percent, packaging and upholstering enterprises account for 10 percent, printing enterprises for special business take 15 percent and enterprises for other publishing purposes account for 48 percent.
Packaging: Paper packaging enterprises account for more than 50 percent of the sector, metal packaging enterprises take about 40 percent, and plastic, glass and other packaging enterprises account for some 10 percent.

c. Layout
Beijing??s printing and packaging industry is basically located in the near outskirts of the city that connect with the old town or regions heavily influenced by the city??s business atmosphere. These enterprises are also greatly influenced by the cultural environment of its surrounding areas. They mainly converge in Fengtai District in the South of Beijing, Chaoyang District in the East of Beijing and Xuanwu District within the old town. Enterprises from these three districts have produced over 50 percent of total output value in the whole city.

(4) Arts and crafts industry

a. Scale
By the end of 2003, 58 enterprises of the arts and crafts industry had been set up in Beijing, with total output value standing at 650 million Yuan, sales revenue at 730 million Yuan and employees at more than 6100.

b. structure
Traditional Beijing arts and crafts can be divided into two categories of palace art and popular art, with nearly 60 classes, more than 100 kinds and over 10,000 varieties of designs. In palace art, jade article, cloisonn¨?, ivory carving, carved lacquerware, golden lacquer mosaic, palace rug and palace embroidering are called ?°Eight Consummate Arts of Beijing?±

c. Layout
Arts and crafts enterprises converge in such districts as Chongwen, Fangshan, Tongzhou, Chaoyang and Changping. Arts and crafts bases include ?°Jingcheng Baigongfang Artwork?± in Chongwen District and ?°Dashiwo Stone Carving Garden?± in Fangshan District, etc.

Apart from the above four sectors, Beijing is also laying emphasis on such urban industry sectors as furniture and home furnishing, household electric appliances, cleansing and cosmetics, recreation and sports products and plastic products.