1, everyone is different: private enterprises, that is, non-state-owned enterprises. Private enterprise refers to an enterprise whose assets are privately owned.

2. Different mechanisms and property rights: private enterprises are based on the operating mechanism of the company, while private enterprises are based on the property rights of the company.

3. Privatization is a concept of non-state-owned and state-owned, that is, all non-state-owned and state-owned can be called privatization. Privatization is not the same as privatization. Under the realistic conditions in China, private economy includes individual industrial and commercial households, private enterprises, private scientific and technological enterprises, foreign-funded economy, township enterprises, cooperatives or joint-stock cooperative enterprises, joint-stock enterprises in China and state-owned private enterprises.

4. Private enterprise is a concept with clear legal definition. Article 2 of the Provisional Regulations on Private Enterprises in People's Republic of China (PRC) clearly stipulates that the private enterprises mentioned in these regulations refer to profit-making economic organizations with private ownership of enterprise assets and more than eight employees. After defining the concept of private enterprises, the regulations also describe the characteristics of private enterprises, including:

(1) Enterprise assets are privately owned,

(2) The enterprise has an employment relationship with more than 8 employees.

(3) It is a profit-making economic organization.

5. Private enterprises and private enterprises are completely different concepts. Privatization is based on management mechanism, and privatization is based on property rights. The latter is protected by relevant laws. The former is just an academic theory. Although it is often said in practice that the industrial and commercial departments have no statistical caliber of private technology enterprises, the science and technology departments have statistics of private technology enterprises.

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How to check whether the enterprise is state-owned or private?

State-owned enterprises refer to enterprises invested or controlled by the national government, while private enterprises refer to enterprises employing labor force invested or controlled by natural persons. 1. Visit the website of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce. 2. Find the enterprise credit information publicity system; 3. Then enter the provincial site of the enterprise; 4, and then enter the enterprise name query; 5. Click on the inquired enterprise information, and it will show whether it is a state-owned enterprise.