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Disgraced Bo Xilai’s “Chongqing Model” Officially Renounced
Friday, November 9, 2012 23:32
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The current leader of Chongqing, Zhang Dejiang, gave an audience to reporters in which he addressed the issue of Bo Xilai's legacy. His predecessor's continued popularity among hardline Maoists, as well as the poor people he claimed to be helping, have been challenging questions for the Communist Party central authorities. Zhang was blunt about the Party's current position on what Bo had promoted as the “Chongqing Model” of development with greater equality: He simply said that the model “did not exist.” In contrast, he said, the policy of economic reform begun under former Party leader Deng Xiaoping would continue, “The policy of reform and opening up for Chongqing will not change.” With Bo Xilai's rise to national prominence, there had been much media attention to his “Chongqing Model”, which mostly involved incurring massive local government debt to finance populist projects, while maintaining tight control of society and stifling dissent. Now, though, the Party seems to be saying that the whole affair was a misguided betrayal of Deng Xiaoping's reformist legacy. Bo had promoted other glamorously-named policies during his time in office, including his “beat the black” anti-crime movement, accused of massive human rights abuses, and also his “red songs” movement to revive popular Communist culture. This was accused by many of being a revival of Cultural Revolution era extremism, where Mao Zedong was treated as a god-like figure and no differing opinions were tolerated …
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