1. State-owned enterprises: they are divided into wholly state-owned enterprises, state-owned holding enterprises (generally more than 5 1%) and state-owned holding enterprises under state-owned enterprise groups.
2. Private enterprises: generally called private enterprises now, they are all kinds of companies composed of non-state-owned shareholders.
The main difference between state-owned enterprises and private enterprises is different ownership. The ownership of state-owned enterprises belongs to the state, and the ownership of private enterprises belongs to specific people.
State-owned enterprises, in international practice, only refer to enterprises invested or controlled by the central government or the federal government of a country. In China, state-owned enterprises also include enterprises invested and controlled by local governments. The will and interests of the government determine the behavior of state-owned enterprises. State-owned enterprises as a kind of production and operation.
The organizational form has the characteristics of both for-profit legal persons and public welfare legal persons. Its profitability is reflected in the pursuit of maintaining and increasing the value of state-owned assets. Its public welfare is reflected in the fact that the establishment of state-owned enterprises is usually to achieve the goal of national economic regulation and play a role in coordinating the development of all aspects of the national economy.
A private enterprise refers to a profit-making economic organization based on wage labor, which is established by natural person's investment or controlled by natural person according to Article 9 of Provisions of National Bureau of Statistics and State Administration for Industry and Commerce on Classification of Enterprise Registration Types (1No.200 of August 28th, 998).
Including private limited liability companies, private joint-stock companies, private partnerships and private enterprises registered in accordance with the Company Law, the Partnership Law and the Provisional Regulations on Private Enterprises.
Extended data
The method for distinguish enterprises from state-owned enterprise or private enterprises are as follows:
First, define the difference.
State-owned enterprises refer to enterprises invested or controlled by the central government or the federal government of a country.
Private enterprise: a profit-making economic organization invested or controlled by a natural person and based on wage labor.
Second, the nature is different.
State-owned enterprises: enterprises owned by the whole people, and the means of production of enterprises are owned by the whole people. State-owned enterprises mean that enterprises belong to the government.
Private enterprise: private enterprise, the owner of the means of production is private.