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Why China’s companies are unprofitable

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Unleashing water to a fish farm – that’s the analogy for cutting business costs used by both Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang. The problem is that efforts to unleash that water have been minimally effective.  

Over the past three years, a survey of 14,709 companies has found that total costs ...