According to a report in Xinhua, “An internal survey by the Chinese Communist Party has found that more than half its higher-echelon cadres are incompetent… A recent survey by the party school of leading cadres above county level showed more than half lacked the ability to ‘make a scientific judgement of a situation’. More than one-third either ‘had difficulty tackling a complicated situation’ or ‘totally lost their heads’ in such a situation.”
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