Chief Editor: Dr. Chen Xin
Preface
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are wholly or majority state-owned companies that are engaging in various activities on behalf of the state. They play an important role in key sectors. They can generate significant revenue for the state, enable a government to exercise greater control over the key sectors, stabilize the national economy and economic security, help improve local technologies and skills, just to name a few. Nevertheless, the status quo of SOEs differs from one country to another due to a series of factors including the privatization process in the countries. Therefore, it would be very interesting to observe the changes experienced by the SOEs and their contribution to the national economy in the past years.
This book is providing a brief and historical overview of the status quo of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and some representative SOEs in the Central and Eastern European countries. The authors have analyzed the status quo of the SOEs from different angles and explained the situations that the SOEs are currently facing. Some reports even cover the recent dynamics of the SOEs under the background of the coronavirus pandemic. The book is a collection of 17 reports written by the associate researchers of the China-CEE Institute. The reports are originally published as the February economic issue of the 2021 Weekly Briefings. Weekly Briefing is a core product of the China-CEE Institute. The views in the book are represented by the individual authors instead of the China-CEE Institute.
China-CEE Institute, registered as a non-profit limited company in Budapest, Hungary, was established by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) in April 2017. China-CEE Institute builds ties and strengthens partnerships with academic institutions and think tanks in Hungary, Central and Eastern European countries, as well as other parts of Europe. China-CEE Institute aims to encourage scholars and researchers to carry out joint research and field studies, organize seminars and lecture series, hold some training programs for younger students, and to publish academic results, etc.
I hope this book will be helpful to enrich the knowledge of the status quo of the SOEs of the CEE countries, the contribution from the SOEs to the CEE national economy, and the future development of the SOEs.
Prof. Dr. CHEN Xin
Executive President and Managing Director, China-CEE Institute Deputy Director General, Institute of European Studies, CASS
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