Light industry refers to industries that mainly provide consumer goods and make hand tools. According to the different raw materials it uses, it can be divided into two major categories:
(1) Light industry using agricultural products as raw materials refers to the light industry that directly or indirectly uses agricultural products as basic raw materials. It mainly includes food manufacturing, beverage manufacturing, tobacco processing, textile, sewing, leather and fur making, paper making, and printing industries.
(2) Light industry using non-agricultural products as raw materials refers to light industry using industrial products as raw materials. It mainly includes such industries as cultural, educational and sporting goods, chemical and drug manufacturing, synthetic fiber manufacturing, daily-use chemical products, daily-use glass products, daily-use metal products, hand tool manufacturing, medical equipment manufacturing, and machinery manufacturing for cultural and office use, etc.?
Heavy industry refers to the industries that provide the main means of production of the material and technological basis for all sectors of the national economy. According to the nature of their production and the use of their products, they can be divided into the following three categories:
(1) Extractive (logging) industries, which refer to the extraction of natural resources, including oil mining, coal mining, metal mining, non-metallic mining, and timber logging industries.
(2) Raw materials industry, refers to the industry that provides basic materials, power and fuel to all sectors of the national economy. It includes metal smelting and processing, coking and coke, chemistry, chemical raw materials, cement, man-made boards, as well as electric power, petroleum and coal processing industries.
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Light Industry Classification:
Industries run by villages and below in the countryside were categorized as agriculture before 1984, and were classified as industry after 1984.
1, food industry
Including grain processing industry, oil and grease industry, sugar industry, cigarette industry, tea industry, brewing industry, this type of industry is a large number of industrial sectors for China to provide profits and taxes. This industry is characterized by the comparison with the heavy industry, industrial scale is not large, but the distribution is more decentralized. One of the main tobacco production enterprises in Shanghai, Tianjin, Kunming, Qingdao; tea main production enterprises in Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangsu, Sichuan, and other places; wine main production enterprises in Sichuan, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shanxi and other places.
2, the textile industry
distribution is very common, and a certain degree of concentration, the country's large textile industry area has Shanghai as the center of Suzhou, Zhejiang and Anhui, Wuhan as the center of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, Chongqing as the center of the Sichuan Basin area, Tianjin as the center of the Beijing-Tianjin-Jiibei area, Qingdao, Jinan as the center of Shandong, Zhengzhou as the center of Henan, Shanxi as the center of Shanxi area, Beijing area, Beijing area, Beijing area, Jinan area and the center of Shandong, Zhengzhou as the center of Henan, Shanxi as the center of Shanxi area. Shanxi region centered on Zhengzhou, Beijing, Northeast and Northwest regions, and so on.
The big cotton textile cities are Shanghai, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan; human wool textile cities and regions are Shanghai, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Qinghai; big silk textile cities and regions are Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao, Dalian, Wuxi, Zhuzhou, Yiyang, Heilongjiang and so on; the big chemical fiber cities and regions are Shanghai, Liaoning, Yizheng, Pingshan, Dandong, Baoding, Beijing and other places.
3, home appliance industry
The main production sites are located in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Changzhou, Beijing, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao and other large and medium-sized cities, a wider distribution.
4, paper industry
The main production places are distributed in Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Fujian and other places.
Reference links ? Baidu Encyclopedia ? Light Industry