{"id":149704,"date":"2026-04-15T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149704"},"modified":"2026-04-15T08:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:00:24","slug":"sour-note-china-criticises-local-governments-for-imprudent-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=149704","title":{"rendered":"Sour note: China criticises local governments for \u2018imprudent\u2019 spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s central government has publicly criticised several local authorities \u2013 including a relatively poor county in Sichuan province \u2013 for \u201cimprudent\u201d fiscal spending for the first time in an ongoing campaign urging officials to adopt a \u201ccorrect view\u201d of political performance.<br \/>\nAmong those named was a county in the southwestern province of Sichuan once ranked among the country\u2019s poorest. Zhaojue county was said to have used transfer payments from higher-level governments to fund three tourism&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/economy\/china-economy\/article\/3350133\/sour-note-china-criticises-local-governments-imprudent-spending?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina\u2019s central government has publicly criticised several local authorities \u2013 including a relatively poor county in Sichuan province \u2013 for \u201cimprudent\u201d fiscal spending for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149704"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}