中小企业是相对于大企业而言生产规模较小的企业。在国际上,有学者依据企业雇佣员工的多寡,提出了划分大、中、小企业的参考标准:雇员在1～9名之间的为微型企业;雇员在10～99名之间的为小型企业,雇员在100～499名之间的为中型企业;雇员在500名以上的为大型企业。尽管划分和界定的标准难以统一,但各地的 Small and medium-sized enterprises are smaller-scale enterprises relative to large ones. In the international arena, some scholars propose a reference standard for dividing large, medium and small enterprises according to the amount of employees employed by the enterprises: the number of employees is between 1 and 9 micro enterprises; the number of employees between 10 and 99 is small Enterprises, employees between 100 and 499 for the medium-sized enterprises; employees in more than 500 for the large-scale enterprises. Although the criteria for demarcation and delimitation are difficult to unify, they are everywhere