| 商业计划 | shāng yè jì huà | business plan |
| 启动作业 | qǐ dòng zuò yè | priming task |
| 国有企业 | guó yǒu qǐ yè | nationalized business; state-owned business |
国防科技工业委员 会 | guó fáng kē jì gōng yè wěi yuán huì | State Commission on Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (COSTIND) |
| 国际商业机器 | guó jì shāng yè jī qì | International Business Machines; IBM |
| 执业 | zhí yè | to work in a profession (e.g. doctor, lawyer); practitioner; professional |
| 基业 | jī yè | foundation; base; family estate |
| 夕阳产业 | xī yáng chǎn yè | sunset industry; declining industry |
| 外商独资企业 | wài shāng dú zī qǐ yè | Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE) (form of legal entity in China); Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise (WOFE); see also 外资企业 |
| 外资企业 | wài zī qǐ yè | abbr. for 外商独资企业 |
| 多工作业 | duō gōng zuò yè | multitasking |
| 天佑吾人基业 | tiān yòu wú rén jī yè | annuit coeptis |
| 失业率 | shī yè lǜ | unemployment rate |
| 失业者 | shī yè zhě | an unemployed person |
| 守业 | shǒu yè | to preserve one's heritage; to defend the accomplishments of previous generations; to carry on the good work; to keep one's business going |
| 安家立业 | ān jiā lì yè | stable household, established profession (idiom); settled and comfortably off |
| 安徽建筑工业学院 | Ān huī Jiàn zhù Gōng yè Xué yuàn | Anhui University of Architecture |
| 定点企业 | dìng diǎn qǐ yè | a specialized enterprise |
| 家庭作业 | jiā tíng zuò yè | homework |
| 专业人才 | zhuān yè rén cái | expert (in a field) |
| 专业性 | zhuān yè xìng | professionalism; expertise |
| 小企业 | xiǎo qǐ yè | small enterprise |
| 小型企业 | xiǎo xíng qǐ yè | small business |
| 就业培训 | jiù yè péi xùn | employment training |
| 就业机会 | jiù yè jī huì | employment opportunity; job opening |
| 就业率 | jiù yè lǜ | employment rate |
| 工业七国集团 | gōng yè qī guó jí tuán | G7, the group of 7 industrialized countries: US, Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Canada (now G8, including Russia) |
| 工业化国家 | gōng yè huà guó jiā | industrialized country |
| 工业区 | gōng yè qū | industrial zone |
| 工业园区 | gōng yè yuán qū | industrial park |
| 工业学校 | gōng yè xué xiào | technical or industrial school; CL:个,所 |
| 工业现代化 | gōng yè xiàn dài huà | modernization of industry, one of Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations |
| 工业的巨头 | gōng yè de jù tóu | industry mogul |
| 工业设计 | gōng yè shè jì | industrial design |
广东科学技术职业 学院 | Guǎng dōng Kē xué jì shù Zhí yè Xué yuàn | Guangdong Institute of Science and Technology |
| 建功立业 | jiàn gōng lì yè | to achieve or accomplish goals |
| 影业 | yǐng yè | film industry |
| 从业 | cóng yè | to practice (a trade) |
| 性服务产业 | xìng fú wù chǎn yè | sex service industry |
| 性产业 | xìng chǎn yè | the sex industry |
| 恒生中资企业指数 | Héng shēng Zhōng zī qǐ yè zhǐ shù | Hang Seng China affiliated index |
| 爱岗敬业 | ài gǎng jìng yè | industrious and hard-working; conscientious and meticulous |
| 应届毕业生 | yīng jiè bì yè shēng | student graduating in the current year; recent graduate |
| 成家立业 | chéng jiā lì yè | to get married and start a career (idiom); to settle down; to establish oneself |
| 批发业 | pī fā yè | wholesale business; bulk trade |
| 授业 | shòu yè | to teach; to bequeath |
| 采矿业 | cǎi kuàng yè | mining |
| 支柱产业 | zhī zhù chǎn yè | mainstay industry |
| 改业 | gǎi yè | to change profession or business |
| 故业 | gù yè | old estate; former empire |