Teikoku Data: Trends in Japanese companies entering China (2019)
The largest decline in “retail”, down 6.2% from 2016-
Japanese companies entering China, down 249 companies since 2016, to 13,685 companies.
Japan External Trade Organization: JETRO Survey
About 6% of the exports from the Chinese base by Japanese companies to the United States remain.
The intensification of US-China trade friction is emerging as a new “China risk” that makes the future of China’s economy even more uncertain.
Investigation result:
1 China: Entering Japanese companies
It became 13685 companies as of May 2019.
249 companies have decreased since the survey in 2016.
Compared with 2012 (10,394 companies: most in the past), 709 companies decreased.
2 Industries: Entry of Japanese companies
“Manufacturing industry”: 5695 companies (41.6% composition ratio), the most.
In 2016, it increased to 503 companies.
Retail: 472 companies (3.4% of composition) decreased 6.2%.
3 Sales by business scale: Entry of Japanese companies
The largest number was 6066 companies (44.3% of the composition), with an annual sales of less than 10 billion yen.
Of the top five industries with a large number of companies operating,
“Retail business” decreased from 2016, and the downward trend from major to small became noticeable
Teikoku Databank [TDB]