Figures include corporations, collective enterprises, partnerships, sole proprietorships and other registered legal entities. Small scale businesses run by individuals without registered legal entity and farmer cooperatives are not included in the figures.
Figures for earlier years have been taken from previous publications.
Figures have been rounded for better presentation.
This statistic shows the number of registered companies in China from 2016 to 2023. By the end of 2023, approximately million companies had been registered in China, an increase from around million companies by the end of the previous year.
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