Workers in the huge state-run factories are usually out on leave or work three hours a day.

At state-run factories and farms, personnel rosters were bloated and workers were putting in only four or five hours a day.

Right now, state-run factories that raise their pay above a narrow limit must pay a punitive tax.

Under China's former socialist system, virtually all cars belonged to Government offices and state-run factories.

Several physicians said that medical reports in state-run factories are routinely hidden or falsified.

Directors of state-run factories and senior Government officials made up what was called the nomenklatura.

Iraq is to sell 47 state-run factories in a drive to spur private industry, The Baghdad Observer said.

The Germans, after unification, tore down the obsolete state-run factories of the east.

Soviet booths represent state-run factories, state agencies, cooperatives and regional trade associations.

East Germans who stay in work will have to work a lot harder as tough private bosses take over flabby state-run factories.