Moreover, the very weak performance of state-owned enterprises, which continue to play a large role in heavy industry and in some service sectors, represents a powerful brake on growth. Although official policy aims to reduce these firms’ role so that “the market can play the decisive role in resource allocation,” shrinking these firms has proved to be difficult, owing to their strong political backing within the Chinese Communist Party.
此外，国有企业——它们在重工业和一些服务业中仍扮演着主要角色——的拙劣表现也是增长的一大障碍。尽管官方政策要降低这些企业的重要性，以便“市场在资源配置中起决定性作用”，但缩减这些企业十分困难，因为它们在中共内部拥有强大的政治背景。