What are the primary, secondary and tertiary industries?

The primary industry mainly refers to industries that produce food raw materials and other biological raw materials, including planting, forestry, animal husbandry, aquaculture and other industries that directly target natural products.

The secondary industry mainly refers to the processing and manufacturing industry that uses the basic materials provided by nature and the primary industry for processing.

The tertiary industry refers to other industries other than the primary and secondary industries, with a wide range, mainly including intangible production departments such as transportation, communication, commerce, catering, finance, education and public services.

Extended data?

40 years of reform and opening up, China's industrial scale has been growing. The scale of agriculture, industry and service industry continued to expand, and the manufacturing industry performed brilliantly. The comprehensive agricultural production capacity has been greatly improved; The industrial system has been continuously improved with complete categories. The output of more than 220 kinds of industrial products such as steel, automobiles and mobile phones ranks first in the world. The rapid growth of the service industry has better met the growing consumer demand of the people.

China's industrial structure is gradually optimized and upgraded, new technologies, new industries and new formats are constantly emerging, and new economies such as digital economy, platform economy and intelligent economy are developing rapidly. The industrial structure is accelerating from labor-intensive consumer goods industry and heavy chemical industry mainly based on raw materials to capital and technology-intensive manufacturing and modern service industry to meet the needs of production and life.

Since the reform and opening up, China has established a number of industrial parks, such as economic and technological development zones, high-tech industrial parks and customs bonded zones, to gather and develop related industries. All kinds of industrial parks established by various provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have effectively promoted the development of industrial agglomeration in China, forming a number of influential industrial clusters at home and abroad, which have become the growth points for stimulating national and regional economies.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Three Industries

People's Network-China's industrial development and structural evolution in the 40 years of reform and opening up