According to the inquiry, Weihai Water Supply Company is a state-owned enterprise, which belongs to the cause establishment. According to the authority of state-owned assets management, state-owned enterprises are divided into central enterprises (state-owned enterprises supervised and managed by the central government) and local enterprises (state-owned enterprises supervised and managed by local governments). Individual central enterprises have a special responsibility in the process of national social and economic development, which belongs to the direct management of the State Council, and these central enterprises belong to the ministerial level. Weihai Water Supply Company belongs to local state-owned enterprises.