This March, I was in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, where many Tibetans live.

But the Sichuan earthquake was not completely irrelevant to China s political progress.

China's biggest private firm, the Hope Group, is located in Sichuan and started in the animal feed business.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the central government curtailed private sector activity in urban centers so as to minimize competition with SOEs.

Although the Party uses various means to suppress their development, the Sichuan earthquake demonstrated that it has failed to eliminate NGOs as a social force.

Shanghai Tight media control of the unrest in Tibet has been followed by what, to some, looks like far more open coverage of the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province.

A provincial education document titled The Notice of Recommendation of Core Internet Commenters and Ziganwu , issued mid May by the Sichuan education office, indirectly confirms the term's inclusion in official language.

BEIJING The Chinese government s very public display of compassion and transparency in response to the devastating earthquake in Sichuan province appears to have strengthened its authority and its bonds with ordinary Chinese people.

A township government in Sichuan Province is being called China s first completely nude government after township officials issued salary and expenditure information online.

Police in Sichuan burst into the home of the 64 Tianwang founder, searching it and detaining Huang on Monday night, a local activist told US backed Radio Free Asia (RFA).

BEIJING Now that the aftershocks from the great Sichuan earthquake appear to have dissipated, it is time to ask what shocks, if any, the earthquake delivered to China s political system.

Even the recent earthquake in Sichuan revealed how Chinese politics are changing.

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The government of Baimiao Township in northeastern Sichuan disclosed its proposed 2010 expenditure Mar. 12, along with the salaries of local officials and 2009 expenditure information, reports Southern Weekend.

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