Central enterprises may often need to discuss cooperation with some foreign companies and communicate with each other in English.

Central enterprises, referred to as "centrally managed enterprises" for short, refer to wholly state-owned or state-owned holding enterprises directly managed by the central government or entrusted by the Central People's Government (the State Council) or the state-owned assets supervision and administration institution to exercise the responsibilities of investors, and their leading institutions are entrusted by the Central Organization Department, SASAC of the State Council and other central ministries and commissions. Central enterprises occupy a dominant position in major industries and key areas related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy, and are an important pillar of the national economy. According to the authority of state-owned assets management, state-owned enterprises are divided into central enterprises (state-owned enterprises supervised and managed by the central government) and local enterprises (state-owned enterprises supervised and managed by local governments). In addition to the broad and narrow definitions of central enterprises, the responsibility of individual central enterprises in the process of national social and economic development is more special. These central enterprises are directly managed by the State Council and belong to the ministerial level.