The State Council has expanded on its call for policy support for the economy to be stepped up. But nothing has been done about the funding strains faced by local governments who bear much of the responsibility for implementation. Those strains are about to get worse since fiscal transfers and bond issuance have both been front-loaded this year and are about to dry up. Local authorities are approaching a fiscal cliff while the central government is telling them to go faster.
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