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Parsing China’s overlooked bankruptcy stats

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Zombie companies. China has a lot of them, and getting rid of them is key to improving China’s economic efficiency.

But it’s not easy, and there has been huge resistance to the process of winding these companies down.

So far local officials have not really allowed courts to run the ...