81.   Economists say it is seeking a way to balance its needs for private-sector capital against potential job losses from the sale of state enterprises.

82.   Enormous problems accompany this declining rate of growth, including state enterprises that need reform, unemployment, underemployment, and regional economic disparities.

83.   Economic change in other former Communist countries in Europe was powered by small businesses that took the place of huge, ineffective state enterprises.

84.   Every bust, inefficient, polluting state enterprise is a potential efficiency gain if it could only be managed by different hands.

85.   Foreign companies with tough management styles run a number of former state enterprises.

86.   Four years later, he said the government had basically fulfilled the goals he set out, including turning around inefficient state enterprises and reforming the financial sector.

87.   Freed from close supervision, managers of state enterprises stole everything not nailed down.

88.   Generous dividends reflect hard times at many Chinese state enterprises, including the majority shareholders of companies that trade stock foreign investors can own.

89.   Goskomstat is a state enterprise and, as such, is most knowledgeable about the operations of other state enterprises.

90.   Government loan restrictions are reducing the ability of Chinese state enterprises to meet payments, causing inter-enterprise debt to mushroom.