Government Provides Outline of Major Restructuring Plan
A new proposal put before the National People’s Congress realigns the structure of the...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 13, 2018
A new proposal put before the National People’s Congress realigns the structure of the...
by Josh Rudolph | Jan 31, 2017
On January 22, the Politburo announced the establishment of the Central Commission for Integrated...
by Cindy | Oct 24, 2014
According to state media, more than 130,000 government “leading groups” across China...
by Josh Rudolph | May 13, 2014
Catch-22, the title and starring-rule of Joseph Heller’s 1961 satire of bureaucratic folly...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 20, 2014
After Caijing recently published an article [zh] claiming that Baoding is soon to become...
by Josh Rudolph | Aug 9, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Jun 27, 2013
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...
by Josh Rudolph | Mar 24, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Mar 21, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Mar 14, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Feb 1, 2013
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...
by Scott Greene | Jan 24, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Aug 5, 2011
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....
by Sophie Beach | Feb 25, 2011
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...
by cschultz | Jan 31, 2010
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...
by Kate Zhao | Mar 5, 2008
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...
by Michael Zhao | Nov 11, 2006
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 […]
by Xiao Qiang | Aug 23, 2006
Zhang Quanjing, (º†ÂÖ®ÊôØ) is the former head of the organization department of the CPC Central Committee (1994 – 1999). The following quotes are from his interview with the Chinese official publication Oriental...