ABSTRACT
This chapter first concentrates on analyzing the political importance of China's regions, using empirical data of different regional governments' social and economic achievements over the past some decades. The political importance of a region can be evaluated through the center's fiscal indicator, that is, by taking a look at the tax revenue indexes in recent years. The chapter then presents an evaluation of Chinese regional leaders' previous posts and professional experiences, and how both factors can affect the Chinese regional leaders' political mobility. The professional experiences of regional leaders certainly play an important part in influencing the center's final decisions on regional political personnel arrangements, and the center is surely willing to promote a technocrat who combines loyalty, capability, and integrity. One's previous work experiences would supply some of the information that the center seeks to make such decisions. The chapter also sorts out some of the most important patterns of career mobility among Chinese regional leaders.
