Government Provides Outline of Major Restructuring Plan
A new proposal put before the National People’s Congress realigns the structure of the...
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Badiucao: Xi Jinping’s New Business Card
On January 22, the Politburo announced the establishment of the Central Commission for Integrated...
China Scraps 130,000 ‘Leading Groups’
According to state media, more than 130,000 government “leading groups” across China...
‘Catch-22’ Enters the Chinese Lexicon
Catch-22, the title and starring-rule of Joseph Heller’s 1961 satire of bureaucratic folly...
Baoding to Become ‘Auxiliary Capital’ of China?
After Caijing recently published an article [zh] claiming that Baoding is soon to become...
Family Planning Reform: “Two-Child Policy”?
Amid a worsening demographic dilemma, there have been rumors that China’s new leadership might reform the controversial one-child policy. Bloomberg looks at a significant change being considered for vexed family planning...
One Child Policy – Is Reform Gaining Momentum?
The reorganization of the Population and Family Planning Commission, and its merger with the Ministry of Health as part of a broader restructuring to streamline China’s bureaucracy, has raised expectations that Xi...
Pollution Solutions Succumb to Infighting
Pollution in China has reached heights forcing officials to acknowledge “ecological progress” as essential for both the nation’s well-being and their own political legitimacy. While forming policy to help clean...
Who Benefits From Railway Ministry Spin-off?
The State Council announced plans earlier this month to break up the Ministry of Railways as part of a broader restructuring of China’s massive bureaucracy, with a new commercial entity called China Railway Co. assuming...
Will New Government Reform One-Child Policy?
While demographers claim that the reorganization of China’s Population and Family Planning Commission will not change the controversial one-child policy, Caijing reports that the new government is expected to amend the...
Masters of Subservience: China’s ‘Bureaucracy Lit’
At The New York Times, NPR’s Louisa Lim examines China’s popular ‘bureaucracy lit’, focusing on former official Wang Xiaofang’s Civil Servant’s Notebook. The genre has recently attracted increased...
Reform Rumors Surround China’s Intelligence Service
Amid rumors of a restructuring of China’s bureaucracy under the leadership of Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang, the Jamestown Foundation’s Peter Mattis assesses the implications of a potential shakeup of the Ministry of...
Shanghai Gay Club Hits Difficulties
A gay megaclub which opened in Shanghai earlier this summer has been forced to close, but accounts differ over whether this is due to discrimination, conspiring competitors or fire regulations and other licensing issues....
Wang Xiaofang Exposes World of Chinese Bureaucracy
Author Wang Xiaofang has written a novel about corruption and the inner workings of Chinese bureaucracy that is not so loosely based on his experience working as secretary to Ma Xiangdong, deputy mayor of Shenyang who was...
China Opens Cracks in Its Deep Culture of Government Secrecy
Published in the Times Argus: The Chinese businessman battled for years to get cities to reveal their budgets, but his quest seemed quixotic in a country notorious for keeping citizens in the dark. Then China did what would once...
China to Wage Battle Against Bureaucracy
Chinese people are frustrated by the politicians and their bureaucracy. In this year’s CPPCC, the Communist Party tried to reconfigure the overlapped ones to be more efficient and effecive, from Los Angeles Times : China...
Former CPC Official Lambasts Selling of Gov’t Jobs – Xinhua
From Xinhua via China Daily: Buying and selling government jobs has become one of the main causes of government corruption in China, says a former head of the CPC’s organization department. Zhang Quanjing (º†ÂÖ®ÊôØ), who headed the department for five years until 1999, says some people will stop at nothing, including murder, to move up […]
China has too many officials – Zhang Quanjing
Zhang Quanjing, (张全景) is the former head of the organization department of the CPC Central Committee (1994 Р1999). The following quotes are from his interview with the Chinese official publication Oriental...
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