ate-owned, declined in=erview requests. Their finances are opaque, though there are some statisti=s on their Web sites and in the state news media. The China North Industries Group Corporation<http://www.norinco.com/c1024/e=glish/>, or the Norinco Group, said on its Web site that its profits in 20=2 were 9.81 billion renminbi, or about $1.