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When rumours broke in October of a possible merger between SinoChem Group and China National Chemical Corp, it brought into focus many of the interesting and difficult issues surrounding state-owned enterprise reform in China.
If true – and neither company had confirmed it at the time of writing – the merger takes on new levels of complexity. China National Chemical Corp, better known to the world as ChemChina, has been one of the most acquisitive of all Chinese businesses in recent years, picking off overseas businesses on a roughly annual basis since it bought France’s Adisseo Group in 2006.
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