Hundreds of thousands of workers in state-owned enterprises will have to find other jobs when their industries are fully exposed to market forces.

ECONOMIST: Unfinished business

In Beijing they call him Zhu Fengzi, Madman Zhu, as he crashes through the rickety communist superstructure in the name of reform, laying off millions of workers from state-owned enterprises, terrorizing corrupt officials, having smugglers shot.

CNN: Red star

At present, China's banks shovel workers' savings into state-owned enterprises, depriving workers of spending power and private companies of capital.

ECONOMIST: China

The Alliance's opposition to the government's economic policy is shared by the Christian Democrats (UDC), who want to protect the privileges of public-sector workers and state-owned enterprises.

ECONOMIST: Renaissance? What renaissance? | The

As farmland ceases to support the nation's peasants and bankrupt state-owned enterprises lay off millions of workers, whole villages are moving to start anew in China's teeming cities.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | The Numbers Game

Many state-owned enterprises are now attempting to implement different forms of workers' control, with mixed results.

ECONOMIST: Venezuela

This year, he was one of only four private entrepreneurs out of nearly 1, 000 recipients of the May First Labour Medal usually awarded to model workers and managers in state-owned enterprises.

ECONOMIST: Being an entrepreneur in China has its own special problems