SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1981
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IN TERMS OF CENSUS VALUE ADDED CONTRIBUTION, THE MORE IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES WERE WEARING APPAREL ($5 593 MILLION OR 25 PER CENT OF TOTAL CENSUS VALUE ADDED IN MANUFACTURING), METAL PRODUCTS AND MACHINERY ($3 674 MILLION OR 17 PER CENT), TEXTILES ($3 578 MILLION OR 16 PER CENT), ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS ($2 704 MILLION OR 12 PER CENT), AND PLASTIC PRODUCTS ($1 899 MILLION OR 9 PER CENT).
COMPARED WITH THE AVERAGE FOR THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR AS A WHOLE, INDUSTRIES HAVING A HIGHER CONTENT OF CENSUS VALUE ADDED IN GROSS OUTPUT WERE PAPER PRODUCTS AND PRINTING (42 PER CEN)T, PLASTIC PRODUCTS (41 PER CENT), FOOD, BEVERAGES AND TOBACCO (41 PER CENT), LEATHER AND WOODEN PRODUCTS (39 PER CENT), AND WEARING APPAREL (36 PER CENT)- WHILE INDUSTRIES HAVING A HIGHER LABOUR COST CONTENT IN CENSUS VALUE ADDED WERE WEARING APPAREL (66 PER CENT), LEATHER AND WOODEN PRODUCTS (63 PER CENT), PLASTIC PRODUCTS (61 PER CENT), AND METAL PRODUCTS AND MACHINERY (59 PER CENT).
B. ANALYSIS BY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION
NUMBER OF
REPORTING
MANUFACTURING
DISTRICT
CONSUMPTION OF MATERIALS, SUPPLIES AND
LABOUR INDUSTRIAL
SERVICES
ESTABLISHMENTS COST
GROSS
CENSUS
VALUE
OUTPUT ADDED
($MN)
($MN)
($MN) ($MN)
HONG KONG ISLAND
5 818
1 764
6 089
9 684
3 595
KOWLOON
7 256
1 856
4 948
7 926
2 978
NEW KOWLOON
12 975
5 517
17 634
26 770 9 136
TSUEN WAN, KWAI
CHUNG, TSING YI
4 746
2 588
10 306
15 144
4 837
REST OF N.T.
2 695
719
2 814
4 206
1 392
ALL DISTRICTS
33 489
12 443
41 791
63 729 21 938
NEW KOWLOON WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT MANUFACTURING ZONE, FOLLOWED BY THE TSUEN WAN AND KWAI CHUNG DISTRICT. THEY TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR $41 914 MILLION WORTH OR 66 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL GROSS OUTPUT, AND $13 973 MILLION WORTH OR 64 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL CENSUS VALUE ADDED IN MANUFACTURING.
/C. ANALYSIS