China's Big and Messy Bureaucracy

China's bureaucracy is a big mess. Yes, it's big and a mess because from top to bottom, there are six levels of government: national, provincial, prefecture, county, township, and village.

In fact, the Chinese constitution only provides four levels of government: national, provincial, county, and township.

Therefore, prefectures and villages are extra-constitutional entities.

And given that the current six-level government setup is too big, much wasteful, and corruption-prone, it's time to abolish the prefecture and village level governments and return to the constitution.
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