China’s Communist Party to reinforce ‘crucial’ grass-roots controls
- New directive says community-level operations should be improved through better data collection and use
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“[We] must conscientiously review and summarise our experience in the prevention and containment of the coronavirus pandemic, fix the shortcomings in our community controls, and effectively consolidate our positions in our community prevention and control work,” read the directive, according to state news agency Xinhua.
The directive was jointly issued by the Communist Party Central Committee and the State Council, and is guidance on how to improve grass-roots governance.
The grass roots is the lowest level of China’s governance system, and refers to residential communities in cities, and villages in rural areas.
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