IMF Staff Country Reports

People’s Republic of China: Selected Issues

September 8, 1997

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People’s Republic of China: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed September 18, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper analyzes state-owned enterprise (SOE) development and reform in China. The paper discusses the role of state ownership in the Chinese economy, providing a “snapshot” of key features of the state sector, and a review of the growth, efficiency, and profitability of SOEs. The paper argues that economic performance in SOEs has declined in the last few years as evidenced by falling profitability, increasing losses, growing industrial inventories, and low rates of capacity utilization in some sectors. The paper also examines banking sector development and policy issues in China.

Subject: Banking, Commercial banks, Economic sectors, Expenditure, Financial institutions, Fiscal federalism, Fiscal policy, Inflation, Prices, Public enterprises

Keywords: Administered price, Asia and Pacific, Authorities definition, Bank, Bank lending, Commercial banks, CR, E. bank soundness, East Asia, Eastern Europe, Enterprise, Fiscal federalism, Global, Government, Government debt, Inflation, ISCR, Light industry, Loan, People's Bank of China, Policy bank, Price liberalization, Price reform, Public enterprises

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    157

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 1997/072

  • Stock No:

    1CHNEA0021997

  • ISBN:

    9781451807783

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685