China’s plan B to save the economy: A crusade against busywork
Live MintWhen China’s top leaders pledged this summer to act more aggressively to stimulate economic growth, they rounded off their remedies with a political order: Slash red tape. In other words, as one municipal party office put it, officials encumbered by busywork are “stepping hard on the accelerator without shifting into gear." “The grassroots represent the ‘last kilometer’ in implementing the party center’s decisions and deployments, and shouldn’t be constrained by formalism and bureaucratism," the Politburo said in July. Under Xi, the party has punished officials deemed to have deviated from, or neglected, Beijing’s goals—often discouraging the economic experimentation that had powered China’s rapid growth in past decades. “The Politburo is now signaling to lower-level officials that they will not be punished for taking decisions to support economic growth, even if those later prove misguided—a contrast to its occasional earlier message to ‘strictly observe political discipline,’ " Christopher Beddor, a China analyst at research firm Gavekal Dragonomics, wrote in a note to clients.
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