Logo 28 Jul 2017

Regional economic divergence is national policy

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Not all provinces are created equal. The central government is learning to embrace that reality.

At yesterday’s presser, Yang Weimin, the deputy head of the small group on the economy put it this way:

“Critically (we) need to see whether (each region) develops in accordance with (Xi’s) g...