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Abstract This study empirically examines whether mixed-ownership intensity influences the level of financial investment across state-owned enterprise (SOE) samples, using the hand-collected mixed-ownership data of A-share non-financial listed SOEs from 2003 to 2018 in China. Consistent with the results of the robustness tests, we found that the greater the mixed-ownership intensity, the less the level of financial investment of non-financial SOEs. Furthermore, the cross-sectional analysis confirmed that the negative influence of the mixed-ownership intensity on the level of financial investment was more significant in firms located in the eastern region of China and firms controlled by the local government.