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Milking the cow

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Beijing wants state-owned enterprises (SOE) to pay more dividends.

That’s clear from the State Council’s revised SOE budget management regime, published Saturday.

The problem: Central SOEs only remit between 10-25% of their profits to the central government, a rate considerably lower than that pai...