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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