Represented by the clothing industry, furniture industry, household appliances industry and food industry.
1, the food industry
Including food 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 to provide profits and taxes for China. This industry is characterized by a small industrial scale compared with the heavy industry, but the distribution is more decentralized.
2, 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 region, Wuhan as the center of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi region, Chongqing, Chengdu as the center of the Sichuan Basin area, Beijing, Tianjin as the center of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
Shandong region centered on Qingdao and Jinan, Henan region centered on Zhengzhou, Shanxi region centered on Taiyuan, Northeast region and Northwest region.
The big cotton textile cities for Shanghai, Tianjin, Shijiazhuang, Zhengzhou, Wuhan; people woolen textile cities and regions are Shanghai, Tianjin, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Qingdao.
Large silk spinning cities and regions are Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao, Dalian, Wuxi, Zhuzhou, Yiyang, Heilongjiang, etc.; large chemical fiber cities and regions are Shanghai, Liaoning, Yizheng, Pingxiangshan, 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 located in Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Fujian and other places.
Expanded Information:
Light industry vs. heavy industry:
Light industry: refers to industries that mainly provide consumer goods for living 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 production, papermaking, and printing industries;
(2) light industry based on non-agricultural products as raw materials, refers to light industry based on 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 culture and office use.
Heavy industry: refers to all sectors of the national economy to provide the material and technological basis of the main means of production industry. According to the nature of its production and product use, can be divided into the following three categories:
(1) extractive industries, refers to the extraction of natural resources, including oil mining, coal mining, metal mining, non-metallic mining and other industries;
(2) raw materials industry, refers to the various sectors of the national economy to provide the basic materials, power and fuel for the industry. Including metal smelting and processing, coking and coke, chemical, chemical raw materials, cement, man-made boards, as well as electric power, petroleum and coal processing and other industries;
(3) Processing industry, refers to industrial raw materials reprocessing manufacturing industry. It includes machinery and equipment manufacturing industries that equip various sectors of the national economy, metal structures, cement products and other industries, as well as industries that provide means of production for agriculture such as fertilizers and pesticides.
Based on the above principles, the repair industry is categorized as a heavy industry if the products of heavy industry are the object of repair work, and vice versa for light industry.
Features:
There are two obvious features of modern light industry in China. The first is that it is mainly operated by hand, and before the 1950s, except for a few enterprises in pulp, paper, sugar, beer, cigarettes, and monosodium glutamate (MSG) industries, the degree of mechanization was higher in all light industries.
Most of the industry's degree of mechanization is only about 20%. The second is that most of the technical equipment and major industrial raw materials rely on imports. Since the development of modern light industry in China is about half a century later than that of the advanced capitalist countries.
Scientific and technological strength is very weak, coupled with the lack of a foundation for heavy industry, the development of light industry does not have the backing of the service, so the majority of technical equipment used in light industry, the vast majority of the purchase of foreign. 70% to 80% of the chemical and metal raw materials needed for light industry rely on imports.
In the course of about seventy years of history, China's modern light industry development rate is quite slow, when the development of the industry only thirty or so, categories are very incomplete, is such a modern light industry into the 1950s.
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