The first group contains managers and white-collar employees of state-owned enterprises, accountants and civil servants, and teachers and doctors in the public education and health systems.

ECONOMIST: Beyond Wisteria Lane

It followed an upsurge of debate about the frequent sale of state-owned enterprises at rock-bottom prices to their managers.

ECONOMIST: Governing China

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