The listed company has been cleaning up its balance sheet, bringing down the consolidated debt-to-equity ratio from 1.72 at the peak in 2009 to 0.57 this year.

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The foreign debt was consolidated into a few banks, which then went broke.

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The lossmaking divisions were either sold or shut down, and the debt the company owed to some 50-odd banks was consolidated and paid off.

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