Example of SOEs

What example should State-owned enterprises (SOEs), those directly under the auspice of central government, set for business and industry?

Doubtless, they should be models for private businesses to follow in sticking to the rules. As businesses run by the State and supposed to belong to all the people in a nominal sense they have to be models. They are supposed to put the interest of the people and the State above the pursuit of profit.

Yet scandals show that some of them are not run the way they should be.