*Positive reasons for exiting a business include: opportunity to sell, another job or business opportunity, planned exit, retirement; negative reasons include: not profitable, financial problems, family or personal reasons, incident, taxes or government bureaucracy, do not know or no reply.
This statistic displays the results of a survey asking entrepreneurs in China about business exits and reasons for the exit as of June 2019. During the survey period, approximately *** percent of respondents replied that they had exited a business during the last year. While *** percent of adults had positive reasons for exiting their business, *** had negative. Unprofitability was among the major negative reasons for exiting a business.
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