State-owned enterprises are state-owned enterprises, and all the assets of enterprises are owned by the state. They are independent and profitable legal entities or unincorporated entities. Its characteristics are self-supporting, cost accounting, profit and loss matching, solving its own personnel support and social services through its own profits, and creating wealth value.

Public institutions are relative to public institutions. First of all, institutions include some units with civil servants. Unlike state-owned enterprises, they are not for profit, but branches of some state institutions. For example, industrial and commercial bureau, tax bureau, bank and post office are all institutions.

Institutions are some public welfare units and non-public welfare functional departments whose main purpose is government functions and public welfare services. Generally speaking, a social organization whose direct purpose is to improve social welfare, meet the needs of social culture, education, science and health, and provide various social services.

To sum up, there are three differences between state-owned enterprises and institutions

First, state-owned enterprises are for profit, but institutions are not;

Two, financial institutions and other units allocated funds mainly do not return the economic interests of the acquirer, while state-owned enterprises do not return;

3. State-owned enterprises pay their own salaries, and institutions pay their own salaries.