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China's economy: the fallout from the Evergrande crisis

By Sun Yu in Shijiazhuang and Tom Mitchell
Financial Times·
11 mins to read

Last month, China's State Council, the government's most powerful organ, unleashed its wrath on an unusually small target, accusing officials in a county of just 660,000 people of effectively extorting private sector businesses.

In a long and detailed statement issued on December 17, the State Council said the local government in Bazhou, situated just 90km south of Beijing in Hebei province, had seriously violated both government and Chinese Communist party orders by embarking on a fee-collection spree from small and

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