23 Aug 2021
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On Friday, Politburo member and Xi Jinping’s chief-of-staff Ding Xuexiang chaired a meeting of the Party's special working mechanism for rectifying formalism and alleviating burdens on the grassroots.
Translation: The Party is looking to cut lower-level cadres some slack.
How will they do that?
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