The administration to civil servants, especially to their administrative sanction, is quite important administrative affairs that are involved in the administration of the nation.

对公务员的管理特别是对公务员违法违纪的处理是事关国家行政管理的重大问题。

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Both seem to imply that the colonial inheritance of an independent class of public servants who could detach themselves from their ethnic or religious roots and serve the nation offered Africa its best chance of developing.

ECONOMIST: Books on Africa