The government influences prices through the large state-owned sector.

"It's going to get at the whole state-owned sector and at subsidies that are hard to quantify."

The state-owned sector still accounts for about 40% of GDP.

It was however only available to nationalised bus companies (Bristol itself being part of the state-owned sector at that time).

The plan called to strengthen the state-owned sector of the economy.

Private industrial production, for example, increased by 8.5 percent, while it fell by 25 percent in the much larger state-owned sector.

Industry was dominated by the state-owned sector, which included the largest, most technically advanced, and most important enterprises.

A debate is under way about proposals to use a stock system to transfer ownership of much of the country's state-owned industrial sector to shareholders.

The state-owned sector makes up 33.3% of the economy, the private sector 4.6%, and the remainder in foreign investment.

What is more, most of the Chinese companies that list stocks are from the state-owned sector, which is the weakest part of the economy.