| 工业革命 | gōng yè gé mìng | Industrial Revolution, c. 1750-1830 |
| 商业银行 | shāng yè yín háng | commercial bank |
| 种植业 | zhòng zhí yè | plantation |
| 旅游业 | lǚ yóu yè | tourism industry |
| 中等专业学校 | zhōng děng zhuān yè xué xiào | specialized middle school |
| 结业 | jié yè | to finish school, esp. a short course; to complete a course |
| 国防工业 | guó fáng gōng yè | defense industry |
| 业主 | yè zhǔ | owner; proprietor |
| 专业知识 | zhuān yè zhī shi | specialized knowledge |
| 营业额 | yíng yè é | sum or volume of business; turnover |
| 学业 | xué yè | schoolwork; study material |
| 产业工人 | chǎn yè gōng rén | industrial worker |
| 农业集体化 | nóng yè jí tǐ huà | collectivization of agriculture (under communism) |
| 建筑业 | jiàn zhù yè | building industry |
| 兢兢业业 | jīng jīng yè yè | cautious and conscientious |
| 开业 | kāi yè | to open a business; to open a practice; open (for business) |
| 业经 | yè jīng | already |
| 肄业 | yì yè | to attend (a school) |
| 同业公会 | tóng yè gōng huì | trade association |
| 专业教育 | zhuān yè jiào yù | specialized education; technical school |
| 安居乐业 | ān jū lè yè | live in peace and work happily (idiom) |
| 工业大学 | gōng yè dà xué | technical university; engineering college |
| 建业 | Jiàn yè | an old name for Nanjing, called Jiankang 建康 or Jianye during the Eastern Jin (317-420) |
| 家业 | jiā yè | family property |
| 实业家 | shí yè jiā | industrialist |
| 从业人员 | cóng yè rén yuán | employee; person employed in a trade or profession |
| 半失业 | bàn shī yè | semi-employed; partly employed; underemployed |
| 专业户 | zhuān yè hù | family firm producing a special product; cottage industry |
| 业余 | yè yú | spare time; amateur; extra-curricular |
| 待业 | dài yè | to await job assignment (term used only in mainland China) |
| 七大工业国集团 | qī dà gōng yè guó jí tuán | G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia) |
| 三资企业 | sān zī qǐ yè | foreign, private and joint ventures |
| 上海汽车工业 | Shàng hǎi qì chē gōng yè | Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC) |
| 上海汽车工业集团 | Shàng hǎi qì chē gōng yè jí tuán | Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp. (SAIC) |
| 不务正业 | bù wù zhèng yè | not engage in honest work; ignore one's proper occupation; not attend to one's proper duties |
| 中企业 | zhōng qǐ yè | medium sized enterprise |
| 中国北方工业公司 | Zhōng guó Běi fāng Gōng yè Gōng sī | China North Industries Corporation (Norinco) |
中国石油和化学工
业协会 | Zhōng guó shí yóu hé huà xué gōng yè xié huì | China Petrol and Chemical Industry Association CPCIA |
| 中国航天工业公司 | zhōng guó háng tiān gōng yè gōng sī | (CASC) |
| 中国航空工业公司 | zhōng guó háng kōng gōng yè gōng sī | Aviation Industries of China (AVIC) |
| 中国农业银行 | Zhōng guó Nóng yè Yín háng | Agricultural Bank of China |
中国银行业监督管
理委员会 | Zhōng guó yín háng yè jiān dū guǎn lǐ wěi yuán huì | China banking regulatory commission CBRC |
| 中国长城工业公司 | Zhōng guó Cháng chéng Gōng yè Gōng sī | China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) |
| 中小企业 | zhōng xiǎo qǐ yè | small and medium enterprise |
| 中小型企业 | zhōng xiǎo xíng qǐ yè | small or medium size enterprise (SME) |
| 中等专业教育 | zhōng děng zhuān yè jiào yù | technical middle school education |
| 主业 | zhǔ yè | main business |
| 事业心 | shì yè xīn | devotion to one's work; professional ambition |
| 企业主 | qǐ yè zhǔ | owner of enterprise |
| 企业内网路 | qǐ yè nèi wǎng lù | intranet; company-internal network |
