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Why China's Corruption Is So Hard to Clean Up

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Mar 21, 2013
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Last week, during the National People's Congress in Beijing, Zhang Tongxi, the board chairman of Datong Coal Group in Shanxi, told delegates that in order to open a new coal subsidiary, he had to contact 33 government departments and sub-units, show them 147 documents of various kinds and obtain 205 different permits.

That is at least partly at the root …

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