Is China Southern Airlines a central enterprise or a state-owned enterprise?

China Southern Airlines is a state-owned enterprise.

China Southern Airlines Group Co., Ltd. (referred to as China Southern Airlines or China Southern Airlines), headquartered in Guangzhou, was officially established on February 1, 1991. Its company logo is a blue vertical tail with red kapok. , is the airline with the most transport aircraft, the most developed route network and the largest annual passenger volume in China.

China Southern ranks first in Asia and third in the world in annual passenger volume; its fleet size ranks first in Asia and fourth in the world. It is the first airline in the world to operate both Airbus A380 and Boeing 787. It is the airline with the most flights, the densest route network and the largest annual passenger volume in China.

China Southern takes "Sunshine China Southern" as its cultural character, "connecting the world and creating a better life" as its corporate mission, and "customer first, respecting talents, pursuing excellence, continuous innovation, and loving return" as its core Values, vigorously promote China Southern’s spirit of “diligence, pragmatism, tolerance and innovation”, and is committed to building a world-class air transport enterprise with global competitiveness.

Definition of state-owned enterprises:

State-owned enterprises refer to wholly state-owned enterprises, wholly state-owned companies and state-owned capital holding companies in which the State Council and local people's governments respectively perform investor responsibilities on behalf of the country, including Enterprises supervised by central and local state-owned assets supervision and administration agencies and other departments at the same level and enterprises formed by investment at different levels.

For state-owned enterprises, the state has ownership or control over their capital. The will and interests of the government determine the behavior of state-owned enterprises. State-owned enterprises are the backbone of national economic development and the pillar of socialism with Chinese characteristics.