Manufacturing statistics for the Republic of China era
| Title of survey | When conducted | Agency conducting the survey |
| 1. Statistical Tables on Agriculture and Commerce | 1912-21 | Industry and Commerce Bureau of the Republican Government (later the Agriculture and Commerce Bureau) |
| 2. National Industrial Employee Livelihood and Manufacturing Survey | 1930 | same as above |
| 3. Business Survey in China | 1932-36 | Business Bureau of the Republican Government |
| 4. Report on the Survey of Manufacturing in China | 1932-33 | China Economic Statistics Research Institute (represented by D.K. Lieu) |
| 5. Important Manufacturing and Mining Output Statistics in Backward Areas | 1943 | Economics Bureau of the Republican Government |
| 6. Survey of Factories in Major Cities | 1947 | same as above |
| 7. North China Factory Survey, 1939 | 1939 | * North China Factory Survey Commission |
| 8. North China Factory Survey, 1943 | 1943 | * North China Military Staff Office Section, others |
Notes: Surveys of the former Manchuria territory are not included. *Japanese sources