China Labour Statistical Yearbook 2008 is an annual statistics publication, which is comprehensively reported the labour economic situation for 2007 and some main indicators series for historically years at nation and provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities levels and parts of cities， Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and Macao Special Administrative Region in People's Republic of China.
The book is organized into 14 parts, which are:1.General Survey; 2.Employment and Unemployment; 3.Employment and Earnings in Urban Units; 4.Employment and Earnings in State-owned Units; 5.Employment and Earnings in Urban Collective-owned Units; 6.Employment and Earnings in Other Ownership Units; 7.Employment in Township and Village Enterprises; 8. Vocational Training and Skill Appraisal; 9.Labour Relation; 10.Social Security; 11. Trade Union Works; 12.Main Indicators of Hong Kong; 13.Main Indicators of Macao;14.Main Indicators of Taiwan. In addition, Main Indicators of Other Countries and Explanatory Notes on Main Statistical Indicators are provided in the end of the book.
Besides National Bureau of Statistical and Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, Ministry of Agriculture and All-China Federation of Trade Unions also participate in the compiling work of this book.
Data resources of this book mainly come from state and departments reporting system, administration records and sampling surveys. Since the information of labor resources and employment for the whole country are calculated according to relevant data, they are not equal to the add-results of all sub-items.
