In this undated photo, employees from a subsidiary of China Shipbuilding Industry Corp install clean-energy equipment in Nantong, Jiangsu province. (PHOTO / XINHUA)

BEIJING – China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) posted increased revenues last year, according to official data released Monday.

The SOEs raked in 82.6 trillion yuan (about $12.2 trillion) in operating revenues in 2022, up 8.3 percent from a year ago, data from the Ministry of Finance shows.

The combined profits of SOEs decreased 5.1 percent year-on-year to 4.31 trillion yuan last year, the ministry said.

The SOEs saw their debt-to-asset ratio reach 64.4 percent as of the end of 2022, up 0.4 percentage points from the previous year, according to the ministry.

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The net profits of centrally-administered SOEs climbed 5 percent year-on-year to 1.9 trillion yuan in 2022, according to data from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council.