One school reckons that the government should give ever more autonomy to itsenterprises and managers, and hope that this will lead to more transparency and cleaner accounting.
Officials appear miffed that Shenyang, a nearby city in Liaoning province with huge state-enterprise troubles of its own, has stolen a march by putting dozens of itsenterprises on the block for just one yuan each.
Mr Sarkozy has turned from a stout defender of the euro into a shrill critic of the EU. A Europe that opens its markets without counterparties, and which does not defend itsenterprises and farmers, is finished, he says.