At the same time, an output structure intensely skewed towards capital-intensive industries, the underdeveloped state of financial markets and privileged access to bank lending by large state-owned enterprises are all factors inducing firms to finance investment largely out of retained earnings.
This is in line with the 7th Statistical Commission recommendation for a transition from manual to digital systems and use of improved methods and new technologies to increase the reliability and accessibility of census products and other statistics in a timely manner.