It's difficult to firmly characterize the difference between such business, but it's probably not fair to refer to every registered business as a 'startup'.
This is actually important, as, for example, the Lean Startup methodology is applicable to almost any new venture that has to deal with significant uncertainty, regardless of whether it is a high-growth venture, an SME such as a VAR, or non-tech lifestyle businesses.
A single hot-dog stand will not do something that will change the economy, create 10K jobs, attract investment, R&D etc..
Well, you never know (McDonald's was once a small new company).
But that was exactly what I was trying to say: High-growth companies with those sort of ambitions are not the only kind of startup. ALL new ventures are startups, even if they are not intended to grow much, and including quite a few that aren't even necessarily businesses at all.
"China's liaoning province admitted that it inflated GDP figures from 2011 to 2014"
https://qz.com/887709/chinas-liaoning-province-admitted-that...
So, when people are talking about 1,5 billion Chinese - have these figures have been independently confirmed, or just taken straight from the government?
Those children have no rights, and according to the state, don't exist. They can't go to school, get an official job, etc. They are born to do physical work on the fields and support their parents into their old age.
1 in 50,000 per day = 1 in ~136 per year. That sounds about right, perhaps even low.