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ID161977
Title ProperCampaign Rolls On
Other Title InformationRural Governance in China under Xi Jinping and the War on Poverty
LanguageENG
AuthorGraeme, Smith
Summary / Abstract (Note)The broad aim of this article is to analyse the institutions of China’s rural local governments in their own right, and thus further our understanding of the political and social mechanisms that maintain and support them. What changes do rural officials’ evolving notions of “development” and “modernisation” under Xi Jinping bring? What shifts can we detect? This article focuses on two developments under Xi: the increased role of the Party-led “leading small groups” in Chinese local governments, and Xi’s “war on poverty”, which aims to lift all Chinese citizens out of poverty by 2020 through a mixture of targeted fiscal support and compulsory resettlement of millions of rural residents. Examining these developments sheds some insights into Xi’s efforts to remodel the Chinese polity and society. Do they represent a real break with past practice, or do they provide evidence of continuity with previous trends in China’s institutions of rural governance?
`In' analytical NoteChina: An International Journal Vol. 16, No.3; Aug 2018: p.163-178
Journal SourceChina: An International Journal 2018-09 16, 3
Key WordsChina ;  Rural Governance ;  Xi Jinping ;  War on Poverty