Profits at Chinese state-owned firms fell 5.1% year-on-year in 2022 to 4.3 trillion yuan ($637.01 billion), according to data from the Finance Ministry on Monday.

The decline was steeper than the 4.4% fall in the first 11 months of 2022. ($1 = 6.7503 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Ellen Zhang and Ryan Woo, Editing by Louise Heavens)