Reuters with headlines from China's state assets regulator
Says centrally-owned SOEs' Q1 profits up 20.9 pct at 377.06 bln yuan
- Says centrally-owned SOE March profit up 17.8 pct to 169.87 bln yuan
- average debt-to-assets ratio is 65.9 pct at end-March
Says will complete excess coal capacity cut, firmly deal with "zombie firms"
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SOE is State Owned Enterprise
Cutting excess capacity at these is all part of reforms being undertaken on China.
Cutting mining capacity should net be a positive input for those exporting resources to China (hello AUD)