Late last year, the central government notified local officials that all private markets could operate only three days a month in 2009 - yet the new restriction was never adopted, Lankov said.
My book tries to shed light on the interplay and often diverging interests between local and central government officials and why improvements are sometimes much slower than the central government wants.
Banks cried foul, central government officials said the plan usurps their prerogatives to set policy, and many economists criticized its logic.
In September, Cuomo and other top state officials took part in a press conference with writers from around the state at Boreas Ponds in the central Adirondacks, where writers and government officials spent an afternoon paddling and fishing.
Africa's largest economy is expected to grow just 2.7% this year, according to the country's central bank, far below the 7% annual rate that government officials say would be necessary to create significant numbers of jobs.
Since then, the central government has sacked several of his top officials.
Government officials have said the central issue is whether Mr Gore lied over the incidents when he was questioned by the prosecutor on 18 April.
The coordinated nature of the attacks underscored renewed determination by Sunni insurgents, including those linked to al Qaeda, to bring down the current Shiite-led central government, Iraqi officials and analysts said.
But local officials know that the central government has over 400 regencies and cities to keep track of, and little stomach for a fight if it catches them doing anything wrong.
Of the planned 850 billion yuan in spending, officials say only 40% will come from the central government.
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In the late 1980s, the central government started paring back its support for local education, compelling local officials, or the schools themselves, to pay their own way.
There may be no official Olympic cultural events in 798 it is still too edgy a scene to be endorsed by the conservative ministry of culture but local officials understand that visitors will want more than the central government's staid official arts programme.
Another big change in China in recent years, however, has been the central government's diminishing grip on the actions of local officials.
Many petitioners believe that central-government officials are ignorant of wrongdoing in the provinces, and so they flock to Beijing to file their complaints at the various offices of the petitions bureau.
The forum unites flaxroots community representatives, volunteers, central and local government officials, media, academics, health professionals, language advocates, sports people, librarians, teachers, artists, museum staff, faith groups, employers, worker and young people to talk about practical ways cultural diversity can be fostered and all New Zealanders can enjoy equal opportunities and live in harmony.
The central government might try to shut brothels but is stopped by corrupt local officials.
In Padang, an impoverished industrial town in Sumatra, local officials have simply seized a cement plant that the central government wanted to privatise.
While central government officials devoted great sums to grandiose projects, they ignored the country's reservoirs and water utilities in the countryside.
Besides increasing banks' reserve requirements, the central bank and the government have also instructed banks to curb new lending to sectors which officials believe are growing too fast, namely steel, cars, cement, aluminium and property.
But central-government officials have repeatedly pledged that curbs will remain to limit how much the market can heat up.
Monday, Coe plans to ride a special train service from central London to the Olympic Park along with athletes and officials including London Mayor Boris Johnson and the government's Olympics minister, Tessa Jowell.
As part of the school's summer program, Khan spent a month in Egypt and two weeks in Dubai, where he attended meetings with corporate and government officials, including Farouk al-Okdah, a Wharton alumnus and governor of the Central Bank of Egypt.
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