Rural Policy China’s Western Provinces Continue to Lag Behind A new three-part investigate report by the South China Morning Post has been covering Beijing’s Go West policy aimed at developing the country’s central and western provinces. In May, the central government released an updated “blueprint” to address the underdeveloped aspects of these regions, which run from Inner Mongolia in the northwest to Guangxi province in the south. The second article, which appeared this morning, focuses on how the current strategy is a continuance of previous flawed initiatives, which to date have born little fruit, and have left many of the impoverished communities and Tier 3 and Tier 4 cities shackled with significant de...