Net profits of China's centrally-administered state-owned enterprises (SOEs) saw robust growth amid steady economic recovery and reforms to make their operations more efficient, data from the country's top state assets regulator showed.

During the January-July period, net profits of central SOEs soared 112.4 percent on a yearly basis to 1.2 trillion yuan ($185.03 billion), the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) of the State Council said in a conference.

According to the SASAC, the country's 96 central SOEs raked in 20 trillion yuan in combined revenues in the first seven months of 2021, up 27.4 percent year on year.