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Premier Li Qiang gives critical market-oriented reform a second chance

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At Friday’s State Council executive meeting, Premier Li Qiang backed pilot reforms to give market forces greater weight in allocating "production factors."
Translation: Beijing wants economic inputs – like land, labor, money, tech, data, and other resources – to flow to where they’re most useful, re...