17-09-2020

The private businesses in China have been hit by the US-China trade war and the Covid pandemic.

China�s Communist Party is looking to strengthen its leadership and control of the country�s growing private sector and its employees by extending the work of the United Front further into the business community.

The party called on the United Front to improve the government�s leadership role in the nation�s private sector, according to guidelines issued by the General Office of the CPC�s Central Committee on Tuesday.

While it is unclear what the new policy will mean for China�s millions of private firms, it comes as the state and party are pushing for greater control and influence over more of the economy. That increasingly unclear dividing line between public and private sector is one of the factors behind rising tensions with the US and other states, with ostensibly private firms such as Huawei Technologies Co seen overseas as tools of Chinese state power.