GUANGZHOU - A recent survey indicated that 51 percent of the owners of private business in Guangdong province are worried that their children are unwilling to carry on their families' businesses.

Meanwhile, more than 62 percent of the business owners fear their children are incapable of maintaining and strengthening such businesses.

The survey, which did not reveal the number of people whose views it sampled, was conducted by the Guangdong Federation of Industry and Commerce.