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Wuhan Catering Industrial Development Overview

Release time:2017-08-10 16:01

  

  Recent years have seen rapid development in Wuhan. Wuhan, different every day. Its economy has exceeded one trillion Yuan. According to the newly released 13th Five Year Plan, the future city positioning of Wuhan is that of an international metropolis, so as to lay a solid foundation for building itself into a national central city and for the revitalization of the grand Wuhan. Catering industry in service to Wuhan’s economy has also maintained sustained development momentum. Wuhan’s catering industry has formed a pattern of international catering brands, domestic catering brands and local catering brands, featuring time-honored establishments, newly opened stores, approved brands, as well as the four types of enterprises namely large-, medium-, small- and micro-sized enterprises. Currently, the city has 53089 catering business outlets (registered under the Industry and Commerce Administration, among which are 969 mega- and large-sized restaurants, 2723 medium-sized restaurants, 12700 small-sized restaurants, 26074 snack shops, 2506 school cafeterias, and 8117 other types of catering units such as collective canteen), employing nearly half a million people. 2013 saw 36.388 billion Yuan in sales revenue. Annual sales in 2014 reached a total of 40.322 billion Yuan. 2015 was 47.553 billion Yuan, ranking 7th in China in terms of scale, only after Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Tianjin, Chongqing, and Shenzhen.