625 Local Government Representative Offices Eliminated in Beijing
Published:
2010-11-10
By the end of July, the central government had eliminated 625 Beijing representative offices of local governments, a reporter from the Xinhua News Agency learned from an official from the Government Offices Administration of the State Council. He went on to say that local governments will be punished if they maintain a representative office “in another form”
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