Reforms helping keep SOEs in good shape
China DailyEmployees from a subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Industry Corp install clean-energy equipment in Nantong, Jiangsu province. China's centrally administered State-owned enterprises have completed over 95 percent of the measures outlined in the country's three-year action plan for SOE reforms by the end of June, the country's top State-owned assets regulator said on Friday. For instance, major strides were made by central SOEs, such as Beijing-based China Oil and Gas Pipeline Network Corp, Shanghai-based China Baowu Steel Group Corp and Liaoning province-based Ansteel Group Corp in the reorganization of their main business operations. Regarding central SOE growth in the second half, Peng said SASAC will make greater efforts to reach its goals for this year and raise SOEs' operational efficiency and products' added value to support China's economic growth. Net profits of central SOEs grew 6.1 percent year-on-year to 1.08 trillion yuan in the first half, while their research and development expenditures jumped 19.7 percent to 379 billion yuan, according to SASAC data.