In 2013, the national state-owned enterprises achieved a 5.9% year-on-year increase in profits, and the growth rate continued to slow, but on the whole it is still running smoothly in a reasonable range. Especially in the profits of local state-owned enterprises experienced negative growth in the three quarter, the fourth quarter of three consecutive months of positive growth, it is not easy. It is one of the important tasks of this year's economic work to deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises and continuously strengthen the vitality, control and influence of the state-owned economy.
In the first half of last year, the profits of local state-owned enterprises fell 10.6% year on year, and have been in negative growth. As China's economy stabilizes, the profits of local state-owned enterprises have gradually recovered. Before the three quarter decline narrowed to 2.4%, 1-10 months, the local state-owned enterprises profit from negative to positive; by the end of December, the local state-owned enterprises total annual profits year-on-year growth of 2.7%, an increase of expanding.
We should also see the growth of state-owned enterprises total profit in 2013 fall, show that China's economy is in some deep-seated contradictions to be resolved, economic growth also need to cultivate. For example, the profits of the nonferrous metals, chemical industry and coal industry decreased a lot, which is related to the overcapacity of these industries and the increase of environmental investment. In order to solve these problems, we need to speed up the transformation, adjust the structure and deepen the reform in an all-round way.
At present, many provinces and cities have taken action to deepen the reform of state-owned enterprises. At the end of last year, Shanghai first announced the "20 reform of state-owned state-owned enterprises", and Guangdong, Chongqing, Beijing and other state-owned enterprises reform programs were also brewing. In the state-owned assets management system, realize the fundamental transformation of pipe to pipe capital asset based, to promote the state capital more for important industries and key areas of relationship between national security and national economy, accelerate the strategic adjustment of the layout structure of the state-owned economy, to safeguard national economic security, national security, energy security, food security, and increase the investment in public service enterprises, especially to make a greater contribution in the provision of public services.
This means that the investment and operation of state-owned capital should play the leading role of the state economy, serve the national strategic goal and bear more social responsibility. The national security is more secure, the economic and social development is healthier, and the development results will benefit all the people more and more fairly and more.