Report - P lateau China: Reform in the ten years after the

Reform of the political system was not 1 ‘Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Some Major Issues Concerning Comprehensively Deepening the Reform’, The Central People’s Government of the People’s Republic of China, 16/01/2014, (checked: 18/10/2023). [...] Hence the emphasis then on the setting up of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei zone (‘JingJinJi’): The P eople’s Daily published an article stating that it is unprecedented for the general secretary of the party to preside over the meeting to study the coordinated development of a region…The Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development Leading Group…will take the lead in making breakthroughs in three key. [...] Income tax makes up around 6% of the state’s revenue, compared to an average of 23.5% in countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2016.3 8 T he ‘Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Accelerating t he Improvement of the Socialist Market Economic System in the New Era’, released on 18th May 2020, show that. [...] 50 ‘浙江省人民政府办公厅关于印发浙江省推动落实常住地提供基本公共服务制度有序推进农业转移人口市 民化实施方案（2023—2027年）的通知’ [‘Notice of the General Oce of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province on Printing and Distribution of the Implementation Plan (2023-2027) of Zhejiang Province to Promote and Implement the System of Permanent Residence and the P rovision of Basic Public Services, and to Promote the Orderly Urbanisation of the Agricultura. [...] The last decade has seen the return of Marxist ideology, centralisation, ‘partification’ (strengthening of the CCP in all organisations and sectors), and the prioritisation of national security over economic performance – of the 16 elements of national security, political (i.e., CCP) security is the most important.