24 November, 2005

shanghai’s possible new mayor

If rumors being reported by Fons are true, Shanghai is going to get its first woman mayor. There are reasons not to be happy about that.:

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“They send us a maoist,” rages one of my Shanghai friends. “She is totally unfit to lead Shanghai.” According to yet-unconfirmed rumors the current governor of Qinhai Song Xiuyuan is going to be the next mayor of Shanghai.

Song has been making her way though the Chinese bureaucracy mainly in China’s provinces and it seen as an effort by the current central leadership to get rid of the more city-oriented officials that emerged under former president Jiang Zemin. “It shows how much the central leadership hates Shanghai,” says my friend.

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