Founded in 1981, TCL is one of the largest consumer electronics enterprises in China with a global presence.
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In the following two decades, the village-based factory developed into a multi-billion-dollar agricultural enterprise, which has been ranked among the top 500 private enterprises in China.
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China has the world's largest manufacturing workforce: more than 112m people at the end of 2006, according to Erin Lett, formerly of America's Bureau of Labour Statistics, and Judith Banister of the Conference Board, who include enterprises in China's towns and villages, where 70% of its metal-bashers work.
That skill, unusual in China's state enterprises, will be further tested in future.
Just a few years ago, a claim like that one could be dismissed as overly premature or alarmist, but a number of legal and social developments are rapidly changing the labor landscape in China, especially for workers employed in foreign enterprises.
In 1999, Ma founded "Alibaba.com, " which currently operates the world's largest online marketplace, serving small- and medium-sized enterprises by connecting global buyers with sellers in China.
Bamboo Capitalism describes the thicket of almost 40 million enterprises of all kinds in every part of China that do not have the central government hanging over their shoulder.
He points to a campaign this year against management buy-outs of such enterprises, a once common form of privatisation in China.
The company operates 11 joint ventures in China and two wholly owned foreign enterprises, and counts with more than 35, 000 employees.
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But in China, all the carriers are state-owned enterprises (SOEs) reporting to the State Council.
Between 1995 and 2002 (the latest figures available) the number of such jobs fell by 15m in China, mainly due to the restructuring of inefficient state-owned enterprises.
It needs to create new jobs for the millions employed in state-owned enterprises and the farming sector whose jobs will become redundant after China joins the World Trade Organization.
In return, Beijing is getting engineering contracts to build port and road infrastructure, winning business for Chinese state-owned enterprises, and showing off what China is good at: building major infrastructure projects in record time.
Over 1, 000 enterprises were closed down during the past two years for illegal discharge of toxic heavy metals in China, according to the government.
That it now takes a billion dollars to make the Hong Kong 50 (or the China 100) does not mean our correspondents lack an interest in the enterprises that are still aspiring to such heights.
Part of the United Nations Environment Programme's China Rural Energy Enterprises Development (CREED) initiative, the program has successful precedents in five African nations -- Senegal, Mali, Ghana, Zambia and Tanzania -- and northeast Brazil.
Like many other companies that operate in China, Huawei receives tax incentives provided by the Chinese government to high-tech enterprises and support for some of our research and development initiatives.
Alternative lending is popular in China because state-owned banks tend to favour large companies, particularly state-owned enterprises, leaving small and medium-sized companies starved of credit.
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China's state-owned enterprises have won contracts to build railways, houses and power stations in the country.
On Thursday, it was reported that China is considering a proposal to set up a regional bank to help its small and medium enterprises invest in Southeast Asian neighbors and fund infrastructure projects in an effort to buy goodwill in the region.
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