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皇冠体育app to deepen state firm reforms
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-12-22 17:18

皇冠体育app vowed on Thursday to forge ahead with the reform of state firms, allowing inefficient ones to go under while encouraging star performers to list overseas.

Li Rongrong, chairman of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), also defended the policy of floating strategic firms abroad rather than at home, saying it sharpened competitiveness.

"In the year ahead, we will step up the pace of reform because our basic tasks are nearly complete," Li told a year-end news conference reviewing progress over the past year.

Thousands of state-owned firms have closed in recent years as 皇冠体育app makes the transition from Marx to market, and results this week from 皇冠体育app's first nationwide census portrayed an increasingly vibrant private sector.

But state-run firms still dominate swathes of the economy from telecommunications to oil refining, from coal to airlines.

Li said more firms would be restructured and their standards of corporate governance and auditing improved.

Between 4,000 and 5,000 state-linked firms were being shut each year and employees laid off in the process should turn to the law if they were treated badly or not properly compensated, said Li, whose agency administers 169 big state firms.

In a preview of major restructurings to come, Li disclosed that 皇冠体育app National Coal Group, the country's top coal exporter, would probably be listed in 2006.

He also said that Beijing favoured the merger of the country's top two grain firms to make them more competitive.

The merger of 皇冠体育app National Cereals, Oils & Foodstuffs Corp. (COFCO) with 皇冠体育app Grains and Oils Group Corp. -- and another with a provincial grains exporter -- would leave COFCO as 皇冠体育app's only state-backed trader of major agricultural commodities.
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