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54 The Economy

Chart 6

Transport, storage and communication

9.4%

Employment by Major Service Sector

1991

Wholesale, retail and import/export trades, restaurants and hotels 30.5%

Other sectors 33.8%

2011

Import/export trade and wholesale, retail, accommodation and food services 31.8%

Finance,

insurance,

real estate

and business

services

7.9%

Transportation, storage, postal

Other sectors 11.5%

Public administration,

social and

Community, social

and courier services,

information and

Financing and

personal

and personal services 18.4%

communications

insurance, real estate,

services

11.5%

professional and

25.9%

business services 19.3%

Import/export trade and wholesale, retail, accommodation and food services employed the most people in 2011.

Notes: The compilation methodology of composite employment estimates was reviewed in June 2005. Employment figures from 1996 onwards have thus been revised accordingly. They are not strictly comparable with those of earlier years.

Starting from the first quarter of 2009, industrial classification of employment has adopted the Hong Kong Standard Industrial Classification Version 2.0 while that in the previous years is based on Version 1.1.

Chart 7

Visible Trade between Hong Kong and the Mainland

1,000

900

800

700

600

500

400

300

HK$ Billion

Total trade value (left scale)

Year-on-year rate of change (right scale)

Per cent

35

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

10

20

15

ŏ ū ~ ~ ☺ ☺

25

30

5

0

-5

-10

-15

-20

-25

Since the Mainland adopted economic reform and an open door policy in 1978, there has been a rapid expansion in merchandise trade, especially in re-export trade, between Hong Kong and the Mainland.

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