After participatory budget reforms in a handful of Zhejiang towns, local representatives are seizing upon their newfound right to vet budget proposals.
The last of our five-part special on the "five haves" delves on guaranteed housing in China. With the days of housing allotments arranged under the planned economy long gone, the Chinese government is now looking to guarantee housing through market means.
Against the backdrop of China's state revenues growing faster than its GDP, representatives at the country's top legislative sessions called for lower taxes and more transparency.
Two new reform plans take up the torch for a leaner State Council with clearer jurisdictions for its member organs. But can it make sense of managing China's colossal energy resources?
Interviews: The Chinese government's interventions in food prices have stirred concerns among businesses. The EO interviews a government official and a market researcher.
In what is possibly the largest ever survey on Chinese government administration since 1949, academics go from province to province to interview officials and collect data. The EO has an exclusive interview with Shi Yajun, director of the project.
Despite 15 years of deliberation and significant progress, the latest draft of a state-owned assets bill still leaves much to be desired, says Li Shuguang, a drafter.
An exclusive interview with Zhang Yuejiao, the first Chinese national who has made it into the WTO appellate body. Zhang reflects on her career and shares a lighther side of her personality with EO journalist Meng Fanhong.
The Chinese government has passed stricter guidelines on foreign investment in real estate, chiefly to prevent the manipulation of prices on residential units.
A year after the Department of Health began a drug price reform pilot in Beijing, government funding and drug inventories at clinics are drying up, leaving many customers unable to buy the medicine they rely on.
The government has urged various ministries to spend the rest of their budgets on time or risk having cuts next year. The call has led to a knee-jerk reaction, but are the funds being well-spent?
Against the backdrop of an emerging traffic crisis, Beijing has slashed subway fares and introduced unlimited transfers to coax commuters into leaving their keys at home.
Months after the state environmental watchdog shut down a slew of polluting businesses, a city on the brink of an environmental meltdown turns around key industries.
Hubei province is in the midst of a pilot project to scatter its best and brightest throughout the countryside to manage towns and villages with official sanction. But it's not good news to all...
