China's bureaucracy in for a 50% slash

By With Analysis From Monitor Correspondents Around The World; Edited By Susan Garland

March 3, 1982

Peking

Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang unveiled plans to slash China's central bureaucracy virtually in half. Mr. Zhao proposed that the existing 98 ministries , commissions, and agencies under the state council, or Cabinet, be cut down to 52. Approval was considered certain by the end of the week.