Is forte a state-owned enterprise or a central enterprise?

Forte is neither a state-owned enterprise nor a central enterprise, but a joint-stock company.

Forte (Group) Co., Ltd. is one of the largest real estate development groups in China, and a first-class development qualified enterprise of the Ministry of Construction. The company is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

Concept of state-owned enterprise company:

State-owned enterprises are defined as state-owned enterprises in a big sense. According to the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on State-owned Assets of Enterprises, the classification includes: wholly state-owned enterprises, wholly state-owned companies, state-owned capital holding companies and state-owned shareholding companies.

At present, wholly state-owned enterprises are rare, and most of them have been restructured into the latter three categories. This is also the reason for the following phenomenon: a classmate searched for "state-owned enterprises" on the Internet, and most of the results were articles related to the reform of state-owned enterprises.