China Tuesday published first bulletin on the results of its first national economic census, making public basic information about the country's secondary and tertiary industries.

The bulletin, published jointly by the Leading Group of First National Economic Census of the State Council and the National Bureau of Statistics, contains major information on legal entities, industrial entities and privately-owned businesses involved in the two sectors.

Officials said they will make public other major information gained from the national census.

The first-ever national economic census, which formally began on Dec. 31, 2004, was designed to draw an economic panorama of the country's fast-expanding secondary and tertiary industries and complete a database covering all economic sectors.

The census was also expected to help policy-makers and experts to have a better understanding of the overall situation of the two sectors so as to help policy-makers to draft the country's economic and social development program during 2006-2010 and formulate macro-regulation policies and industrial readjustment and restructuring.

Nearly 10 millions of statisticians and volunteers have completed the registration of 5 million corporate people, 4 million industrial enterprises and more than 30 million privately-owned enterprises during the census, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

The survey covers such economic sectors as construction, transportation, and scientific research. It collects information on staff size, financial conditions and productivity management.

(Xinhua News Agency December 6, 2005)