国家工商总局近日发布的统计数据表明,我国个体工商业各项指标持续增长,全国大部分省区市呈现增长态势。至今年上半年,全国实有个体工商户2505.7万户,同比增长1.7%;从业人员5120.9万人,同比增长4.5%。全国实有私营企业464.8万户,比上年增加34.7万户,增长8.1%。从个体工商业发展 Statistics released recently by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce show that the indicators of individual industry and commerce in our country have continued to grow and that most of the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the country have shown a growth trend. By the first half of this year, there were 25.057 million individual industrial and commercial households in the country, an increase of 1.7% over the same period of last year. The number of employed persons was 51.209 million, an increase of 4.5% over the same period of last year. There were 4.648 million private-owned enterprises in the country, an increase of 347,000 over the previous year, an increase of 8.1%. From individual business development