The research about the issues of firm survival by life table methods —an empirical research based on the samples of Hunan’s firms

Using the life table methods, this paper analyses the enterprises which were established after 1980 in Hunan Province, then it makes a comparative study of median survival time from the angle of cities, industries, capital size, type of ownership and the establishment time and the results show that there is a big difference in survival time of enterprises with different cities, industry, capital size, type of ownership of enterprises and the establishment time. This paper explained and analyzed the differences, the results showed that Chinese enterprises living conditions are not only impacted by of geographic of the business, industry and the scale in the traditional Western theory of industrial organization, but also are impacted by the nature of the ownership and the establishment time which are determined by Chinapsilas national conditions.