抄録
This paper sheds new light on the debate on China’s “state capitalism.” Using some hitherto ignored data, it shows that the state sector indeed occupies a fairly large position in the Chinese economy, and its share in GDP has gradually increased after 2001. The paper suggests the existence of policy bias favoring the state sector by showing the high proportion of state owned enterprises among the petitioners of anti-dumping protection measures. After the global economic crisis in 2008, the policy bias was even strengthened, resulting in the expansion of the state sector
in China’s GDP during 2010-2011. However, at this point, the trend has already been reversed, and it is likely that the state sector’s share in the economy will continue to decline. The gradual increase of private enterprises among the petitioners for anti-dumping protection also shows that there is an irreversible trend in the reduction of policy bias towards the state sector.
