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About 98 per cent of all businesses run by women in China were profitable, compared with 80 per cent overall, the Xinhua news agency reported, citing a survey conducted by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem).

'Generally speaking, females are better at communication than men, and a lot of women display more rational thinking than their gender counterparts,' said Ms Shi Qingqi, vice- director of China's Association of Female Entrepreneurs, which conducted the survey jointly with Unifem.

'Chinese businesswomen also share a common strength: They are determined and persistent. Once they set a goal to carve out a career, they will pursue it to the end with unshakeable resolve,' the official People's

Daily quoted Ms Shi as having said.

The vice-director was in the capital to attend the five-day Ninth National Women's Congress, which started on Friday.

According to the Unifem survey, Chinese businesswomen on average made more money than their male counterparts - especially those in the annual income bracket of 100,000 to 500,000 yuan (S$20,000 to S$100,000), where women surpassed men by 5.2 per cent.

Chinese businesswomen could also be extremely hardworking, in some cases clocking up to 17 hours of work a day, AFP cited the survey as having said.

About 13,000 people participated in the survey, according to the People's Daily.