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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by hollerith on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:04AM (#45760839)
>Is the job market too restrictive with maximize profit over maximum knowledge transfer and upkeep?

Victor Shih (China scholar) says that employers in China mostly don't care about profit margins nor do the banks that lend to them.

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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by seanmcdirmid on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:05AM (#45760851)
SOEs maybe, but not Chinese private companies.
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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by hollerith on Thursday October 30, 2025 @11:08AM (#45760886)
Whether a private company can get a loan however depends more on whether it is in a sector that Beijing wants to encourage than on the company's expected profit margin or expected return on investment--according to Shih.
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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by seanmcdirmid on Thursday October 30, 2025 @01:10PM (#45762368)
A bank loan sure, but most of the capital private companies are working on aren't coming from banks (especially state owned banks).
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Re:China Has Added Forest the Size of Texas Since 1990 by hollerith on Thursday October 30, 2025 @05:41PM (#45765717)
OK, but I think the banks do most of the Chinese economy's investing (and Beijing exerts a lot of influence on the nature of that investing by the banks).
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