China's budget shift risks local officials 'lying flat'

China’s central government is borrowing more to help diffuse a $9.3 trillion time bomb in hidden local debt. The resulting shift in fiscal power has its own risk: demotivating regional officials. Beijing’s rare decision to issue 1 trillion yuan ($137 billion) of central debt, and transfer the funds to local…

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