a form of public ownership in which the means of production are owned and managed by the whole society; in socialist contexts, it is represented as state ownership

an economic system where the means of production and the resulting products are owned by the individual worker as an individual

state ownership; the system by which the state owns the means of production and products, where the nature of ownership is determined by the social system

A Chinese economic strategy aimed at improving the efficiency and competitiveness of state-owned enterprises by introducing private investment and management practices.

System of ownership where the means of production and the resulting products are owned collectively by the workers of a unit or community; a form of socialist ownership.