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21:49, September 10, 2007 |
"I used to draw up cultural policies by mainly following guidelines from above, but today I tend to consider more about how a new policy will affect the people and the industry."
Liu Yuzhu, director of Culture Market Department of Ministry of Culture, attributed the change of his policy-making philosophy to his two months'' intensive training in the Harvard University''s Kennedy School of Government.
Five years ago, the then 44-year-old Liu was selected as one of the first group of central government officials sent to study public management in Harvard University.
"The aim of the training program is to broaden the horizon of Chinese officials and enable them to learn advanced working mode and enhance their analyzing, decision-making and ruling capabilities," he said.
In the past several years, local government also followed the suit of the central government to have their local civil servants educated by institutes of higher learning in developed counties.
There have been no national data on how many officials have been trained in development countries, however, incomplete figures from local media may reveal the tip of the iceberg:
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