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The Assertive Center: Beijing Moves Against Local Government Control of Land

Barry Naughton
China Leadership Monitor No. 20 Winter 2007: Economic Policy Hoover Institution

Over the past year there have been numerous signs of an increasingly assertive central government in China. Now, Beijing has promulgated a series of measures that aim to change dramatically the way urban land markets work, curtailing local government discretion, and greatly increasing central government oversight. These measures strike directly at the most important single source of power and income for local government officials. Combined with the fall of Shanghai Party secretary Chen Liangyu, these actions indicate a significant shift in the balance of political power in China away from local governments and toward the center.

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