According to the data published by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce, it is about120,000. Generally speaking, an enterprise refers to a legal person or other social and economic organization that uses various factors of production (land, labor, capital, technology and entrepreneurial talents) to provide goods or services to the market in order to obtain profits, and implements independent operation, self-financing and independent accounting.

In the category of commodity economy, as one of the various modes of organizational unit, according to certain organizational rules, an organic economic entity generally aims at profit, maximizing the interests of investors, customers, employees and the public, and exchanging income by providing products or services.