Provincial-level propaganda officials said they were unable to persuade the local authorities to co-operate.
Data released by provincial-level statistics offices and compiled by the group showed that the increase could be nearer 8.5%.
The most affected areas will be the provincial-level cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin plus Hebei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces.
In the past few months, at provincial-level congresses across the country, delegates have vetoed government appointees in favour of their own candidates.
He does not expect such methods to be promoted in provincial-level party organs or higher until at least the end of the next decade.
Provincial-level police chiefs, it appears, are being dissuaded from simultaneously serving on regional Political Legal Committees - powerful organisations governing the courts, the police and prosecutors.
Once part of Sichuan province, it was carved off in 1997 to become what Beijing calls a provincial-level city, joining Beijing, Shanghai, and Tianjin in that category.
Of the 30 provincial-level committees named so far this year (ie, all except Beijing's, whose congress begins on June 29th), only ten include the regional police chief, down from 14 less than five years ago.
Provincial and lower-level authorities may be reluctant to divert resources to areas that do not produce immediate benefits in terms of boosting employment and GDP growth.
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As party chairman, Mr Kalla wields enormous power in determining party platforms and crucially for 2005, when provincial and district-level governments will for the first time be directly elected electoral candidates.
Hardest hit, say analysts, are those brands that haven't built up nationally by expanding into second- and third-tier cities developed provincial capitals and prefecture or country-level city capitals where consumer demand is still strong.
It is recommended that ministries, ministerial-level agencies, governmental agencies, provincial people's committees, and centrally-affiliated cities instruct the specialized agencies to effectively implement youth-related programmes at national and sub-national levels.
Narco-corruption reaches to cabinet level and most provincial governors and police chiefs are known to be directly or indirectly involved.
Precedent allows it, and Canada is a decent, well-run place, where much is decided at the provincial level.
The government has encouraged banks to offer lower mortgage rates for first-time home buyers, called on developers to increase construction of smaller and cheaper apartments, and is tolerating moves by some cash-hungry municipal and provincial governments to loosen property restrictions at the local level.
An 80-page scheme proposed last month would vest authority in four tiers of government below the provincial level, with some seats reserved for women and lots of mechanisms to make representatives and bureaucrats answerable to ordinary people.
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