The Communist Party claims to be setting forth these new regulations as a way to counter corruption. These regulations have been approved by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, but will be effective starting on May 1, 2008.
This move to counter corruption may be most likely to to the 2008 Olympics. The CCP is trying to engrave an image of its government as effective in countering corruption and giving their citizens more rights.
The new regulations will give farmers more rights to official information of land seizures. This will allow the farmers to fight illegal land seizures. Could these regulations be influenced by the demands of the now billionaires in the real-estate business? Money brings power, and power can influence very much what others do. The CCP may be listening to these entrepreneurs’ demands to avoid negative publicity.
Still caveats suggest that these regulations will still maintain government secrecy since mostly all information is still classified as state secrets.
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