Mainly refers to the industrial sector that produces consumption materials. Such as: food, textile, leather, paper, daily chemical, culture, education, art and sporting goods industries.
Light industry mainly refers to industrial sectors that provide consumer goods, including: ① industrial sectors that use agricultural products as raw materials. Such as the textile and sewing of cotton, wool, hemp and silk, leather and its products, pulping and papermaking, food manufacturing and other industries; (2) Take non-agricultural products as raw materials. Such as daily metal, daily chemicals, daily glass, daily ceramics, chemical fiber and its fabrics, matches, household wood products and other industries. Light industrial products are mostly consumer goods, and some of them are used as raw materials and semi-finished products, such as chemical fiber, industrial cloth, paper, salt and so on.
Supplement: Industry refers to the material production department engaged in the exploitation of natural resources and the processing and reprocessing of excavated materials and agricultural products. Specifically, it includes: (1) exploiting natural resources, such as mining, salt drying, logging, etc. (but excluding animal hunting and aquatic fishing); (2) Processing and reprocessing of agricultural and sideline products, such as grain and oil processing, food processing, cotton ginning, silk reeling, textile, leather making, etc. (3) Processing and reprocessing of mineral products, such as ironmaking, steelmaking, chemical production, petroleum processing, machinery manufacturing, wood processing, and production and supply of electricity, tap water and gas; (4) the repair and renovation of industrial products, such as the repair of machinery and equipment and the repair of vehicles (including sleeping cars).