Air China won acceptance of an offer to take a unit private, increasing its stake in Cathay Pacific Airways and completing a $2.3 billion shake-up of Hong Kong airlines.
Deliveries in private hospitals increased during the study period, and private hospitals did have higher rates of caesarean delivery.
Use of private healthcare increased during the study, although the proportion with private health insurance remained steady.
Private consumption increased 4.7percentt in the second quarter from a year earlier, according to the report.
Private landlords increased the rents they charge tenants by 8.2% last year, new government figures suggest.
From December 2005 to April of this year, total enrollment in private plans increased 39percentto to more than 8.5 million.
Rarely has a stake in a private company increased in value so quickly, and other investors took note.
In 2000, his first year of stewardship, private donations increased by more than 25percentt over those of 1999.
These budget surpluses were partly supported by trade surpluses (foreign sector deficits) but even so, private debt increased dramatically.
During that time, wage inequality in the private sector increased by more than 40 percent, the study found.
