Village cadres occupy a niche in China’s governance structure. On the one hand, like civil servants, they are expected to carry out orders and complete tasks passed down by local or national ...

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the United Cadres Front (UCF) says the identity of the Cadre movement within the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is certain and no group of persons could ...

Despite repeated directives to ease the burden on local officials and curb formalism, many of China’s cadres still find themselves trapped in a frustrating cycle of working harder yet achieving fewer ...

In a recent essay, Lu Dewen (吕德文, Lǚ Déwén)—a sometimes controversial Wuhan University sociologist whose research focuses on rural governance—argues that bureaucratic formalism, meaningless busywork, ...

This announcement was made in a press release by the "Inter-Cadre Discrimination Elimination Council (ICDEC)," on Wednesday, after observing the second day of their pen-down strike. According to the ...