Central SOEs鈥 debts played down
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Responding to concerns over rising bond defaults by some local state-owned enterprises, China has reiterated that the debt risk of central enterprises is generally under control.
The higher number of debt defaults by local SOEs should be attributed to multiple factors, including external factors such as the impact of COVID-19 and market fluctuations, as well as internal factors such as enterprises growing blindly and poor management, according to Peng Huagang, secretary general of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.
To ease investor concern over SOE bond defaults, the commission pledged to promote the long-term healthy development of the financial market.
All violations, including fraudulent issuance, false disclosure, maliciously evading debts, should be severely punished, and investors鈥 legitimate rights and interests must be protected, Peng insisted.
鈥淥nly when the government practically implements strict supervision, issuing enterprises assume primary responsibility, and investing institutions improve the pricing ability of risky assets, can they jointly safeguard the financial ecology and the credit environment,鈥 the official added.
He also noted that although the default rate of SOE bonds had increased recently, it was still below the market鈥檚 average level, and the default risk was generally controllable.
Central enterprises, meanwhile, had never defaulted on their bonds in recent years.
Despite last year鈥檚 difficulties, central enterprises had successfully fulfilled the target of 鈥渞educing the three-year asset-liability ratio by 2 percentage points鈥 set by the State Council. The average debt ratio fell to 64.5 percent, a relatively healthy and safe level.
Hao Peng, director of the SASAC, said that it will push for net profit and total profits of central enterprises to grow at a faster pace than the national economy in 2021.
The SASAC will also raise the profit rate of operating income, increase the intensity of investment in research and development, and boost the productivity of all employees, while keeping the balance sheet ratio stable and controllable.
It will ensure that at least 70 percent of the three-year tasks of the SOE reform will be completed by the end of this year.
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