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China to Job-Seeking C.E.O.’s: Come Work for China
By MICHAEL WINES
Published: August 30, 2010
CloseLinkedinDiggMixxMySpaceYahoo! BuzzPermalink BEIJING — China’s government ran an enormous help-wanted advertisement on Monday seeking professional managers for some of its biggest state-controlled companies, a novel but not unprecedented move that apparently reflected unhappiness with the companies’ current performance.
The advertisement, two broadsheet-newspaper pages of small type, sought applicants for 20 senior management jobs in industries such as nuclear power, automaking and textiles. While some of the positions were restricted to Chinese nationals, many of the posts were open to foreign applicants, and several required proficiency in foreign languages like English and French.
The advertisements were placed by the Chinese Communist Party’s central organization department and the State Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, the high-level government body that oversees the operations of China’s 129 biggest state-controlled corporations. They appeared in major Chinese and English-language newspapers, including the Communist Party-organ The People’s Daily, and on most major Internet portals.
Most of the 129 companies, nicknamed the national champions, dominate industries like mining, power generation and transportation, which are considered by the central government to be vital to China’s national security. But some, including most state-owned auto manufacturers, have struggled to gain traction against nimbler private competitors, and the Administration Commission has warned lately that it plans to merge its weakest sisters into its more successful companies.
State-owned companies that monopolize their industries, like those in tobacco, telecommunications and oil production, are quite profitable. But the profitability of state companies in competitive industries is generally much poorer than the average, according to a World Bank analysis earlier this year.
The advertisement sought five general managers — roughly the same as a chief executive officer — for the Dongfeng Motor Corporation, China State Construction Engineering Corporation, China Travel Service Hong Kong, the State Nuclear Power Technology Corporation, and Chinatex Corporation, a textile manufacturer.
More junior executives were being sought for posts in mining, communications, construction, nuclear power and shipping companies, among others. The advertisement stated that the candidates are expected to “serve the reform and development of the S.O.E.s,” or state-owned enterprises.
The solicitation quickly drew hundreds of comments on Internet chat boards, some less than complimentary. On one major Web site, Sohu.com, the 800 comments were briefly led by one anonymous posting that referred to the state companies’ longstanding practice of handing out jobs to relatives of well-placed Communist Party and government officials.
“They are doing this because the sons and daughters of the leaders are now coming back from their overseas studies,” that person wrote.
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