公营企业

Traditional form:

公營企業

Pinyin (reading):

gōngyíngqǐyè

Definitions:

• public enterprise, as opposed to private enterprise 私營企業／私营企业 (sīyíngqǐyè)

Characters:

• 公 - fair, equitable; public; duke
• 营 - camp, barracks, army; to run, to manage
• 企 - to plan a project; to stand on tiptoe
• 业 - business, profession; to study, to work

Traditional characters:

• 公 - fair, equitable; public; duke
• 營 - camp, barracks, army; to run, to manage
• 企 - to plan a project; to stand on tiptoe
• 業 - business, profession; to study, to work