the process. China is not only remaking its public management, but it is also restructuring its
party-state organisation. This project applies a local perspective to study state transformation
and the focus is on the introduction of the cadre responsibility system at the local level. It is
suggested that part of the radical reform proposals of the 1980s have in fact been carried out
at the local level. Findings show that the CCP is ridding itself of some functions to enable it to …