• China's economy is 40% state-owned – compare Lenin's NEP period, 70-77%

  • Soviet state-owned enterprises were designed to make a thing (like the water service, like the post office). Chinese state-owned enterprises are different: they are profit-making players in the market.

  • China has enterprises owned by local and provincial government – sometimes they compete with each other! So the state competes with itself on the market!

  • They can sell 49% of their stock on the stock market, even to foreigners.

  • The State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC) is an institution directly under the management of the State Council. It is an ad-hoc ministerial-level organization directly subordinated to the State Council – http://en.sasac.gov.cn/sasacaboutus.html – It's like the Chinese statist Berkshire Hathaway. In theory, it can control a company as much as a shareholder can.

  • Li-Wen Lin & Curtis J Milhaupt write about Chinese corporate structure. They say when direct state industries (like post offices or Soviet bureaux) turned into profit-seeking state-owned things and essentially bought the party off, made it rich.

  • Abraxiel
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    1 year ago

    Mia is an anticommunist shitass with a grudge against China so I highly doubt this is worthwhile.

    • Vampire [any]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Are you saying that Chinese state-owned enterprises are based on planning, not profit?

      • Abraxiel
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        1 year ago

        I am not educated enough to comment on the nature of Chinese state-owned enterprises. I just don't trust Mia with regard to China.