Reforming China's Enterprises [electronic resource].
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2000.
 PROGRESS AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD Reforms to China's enterprises are central to the effort to complete the transformation to a market economy that has been underway since 1978. Reforms have become all the more urgent with the severe financial problems now being suffered by a large portion of China's businesses, and with China's prospective entry into the World Trade Organisation. Enterprise reforms involve both state owned and non-state businesses, and encompass a wide range of individual policies to bolster financial performances, improve behaviour, and provide supporting institutions and in
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""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Table of Contents""; ""List of Boxes""; ""Box I.1.  Fiscal constraints on economic reforms""; ""Box II.1.  Categories of enterprises in China""; ""Box III.1.  Restructuring programmes in selected industries""; ""Box III.2.  Mergers: the case of Shanghai Baosteel Group Corporation""; ""Table: Baoshan Iron and Steel Group: summary of operations""; ""Box IV.1.  OECD experience with the divestiture of public enterprises""; ""Box V.1.  Wuhan State Asset Management Company""; ""Box V.2.  System of corporate governance under Chinaâ€?s Company Law""
""Box VI.1.  The role of the financial system in promoting industry re-organisation""""Box VI.2.  Development of the stock markets in China""; ""List of Tables""; ""Table II.1.  Ownership profile of Chinese industry, 1998""; ""Table II.2.  Employment by type of ownership, 1998""; ""Table II.3.  SOE shares of industrial output by region and province, 1997""; ""Table II.4.  Alternative indicators of industry profitability""; ""Table III.1.  Estimated number of laid-off SOE workers""; ""Table IV.1.  General situation of pilot enterprise groups in selected industries""
""Table VI.1.  Major financial institutions in China""""Table VI.2.  Sources of corporate funds""; ""Table VI.3.  Lending by major classes of financial institutions""; ""Table VI.4.  Enterprise investment by financing sources, 1998""; ""Table VI.5.  Comparative stock market statistics""; ""Table VII.1.  Average social benefit expenses of SOE""; ""Table A1.  SOE financial conditions by region and province, 1997""; ""Table A2.  Enterprise financial conditions by industry, 1997""; ""Table A3.  SOE losses by industry for selected provinces, 1997""
""Table A4.  Profit status of enterprises by ownership type, 1995-1998""""Table A5.  Total time over a four-year period that enterprises spent in loss-making 1995-1998""; ""Table A6.  Transition of enterprises among profit status""; ""List of Figures""; ""Figure I.1.  Real GDP growth""; ""Figure I.2.  Dynamic of sustainable reform""; ""Figure I.3.  Schematic of the enterprise reform process""; ""Figure II.1.  Industrial output""; ""Figure II.2.  Losses and profits of SOE""; ""Figure II.3.  Incidence of firm losses""; ""Figure II.4.  Distribution of after-tax profit rates""
""Figure II.5.  Distribution of financial ratios""""Figure II.6.  Employment distribution by productivity group""; ""Figure II.7.  Value-added distribution by productivity group""; ""Figure III.1.  Capacity utilisation level""; ""Figure III.2.  Inventories/sales revenue""; ""Figure A1.  After-tax return on assets""; ""Figure A2.  Before tax return on assets""; ""Figure A3.  Firms by profit category, 1998""; ""Figure A4.  Firms by profit category, 1995""; ""Figure A5.  Distribution of liability/asset ratios""; ""Figure A6.  Interest payments as ratio of sales revenue, 1998""
""Figure A7.  After-tax profits/assets by productivity category, 1998""
 PROGRESS AND THE CHALLENGES AHEAD Reforms to China's enterprises are central to the effort to complete the transformation to a market economy that has been underway since 1978. Reforms have become all the more urgent with the severe financial problems now being suffered by a large portion of China's businesses, and with China's prospective entry into the World Trade Organisation. Enterprise reforms involve both state owned and non-state businesses, and encompass a wide range of individual policies to bolster financial performances, improve behaviour, and provide supporting institutions and in
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