Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju
said Sunday at a meeting of officials in charge of central
State-owned enterprises (SOEs)?that central SOEs should strive
to change development mode for a growth of better quality next
year.
The national economy has gained good momentum in 2005 and the
central SOEs have deepened reforms and improved their assets
quality in the year, said Huang at a meeting held on Sunday.
In the first year of China's 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-2010),
the central SOEs should play an important role in the balance of
China's reform, development and stability, Huang said.
The state-owned capital should further concentrate on important
industries and key areas vital to the national economy, said the
vice premier, adding that big enterprises and company groups with
international competitiveness should be formed.
Huang also urged the SOEs to invest more in hi-tech and new
product development and set up a mechanism favorable to
innovation.
SOEs should be models of saving resources and protecting
environment, he said, asking the companies to speed up concerned
technology research and develop recycling economy.
The vice premier also urged SOEs' to implement "go-out" strategy
and improve their work safety.
51 listed central SOEs undertake split equity structure
reform
Fifty-one Chinese central State-owned enterprises (SOEs) had
completed or started the split equity structure reform by December
23 this year, said Li Rongrong, director of the State-owned Assets
Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC), at a
meeting of officials in charge of central SOEs.
Li had announced at an earlier press conference that 310
companies had passed their reform scheme on split equity structure,
including 34 central SOEs.
The reform has been going on smoothly among companies of
blue-chip stocks including Changjiang Power and Wuhan Steel, and
that has helped stabilize the market expectation, Li said at
Sunday's meeting.
To promote the split equity structure reform will be one of the
major tasks of SASAC next year, Li said.
He urged concerned listed central SOEs to complete their reform
on slit equity structure as soon as possible.
The split share structure refers to the existence of both
tradable shares and a large volume of non-tradable shares owned by
the state and legal persons.
To make all their shares tradable, listed companies
participating in the reform have to offer additional shares or
funds to public investors as compensation.
(Xinhua News Agency December 26, 2005)
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