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Tuesday, November 12, 2013
ANBOUND: There Is No Simple Way to Handle The Central and Local Governments' Relationship
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One of the important future reforms is to focus on China central and local governments' relationship. Any idea or action that intends to simplify the central-local relation is likely to jeopardize China’s overall development. The general direction of decentralization reform should be carried on, but there must a good balance between the central and local governments’ interests. Although China is a "Unitary State" which practices the system of “Unified Central Leadership”, the local governments might deviate from the central government’s policies if the interest mechanism is not straightened out.

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