Since former leader Deng Xiaoping’s public call for the country to learn from the Singaporean experience, thousands of Chinese officials and executives from state-owned enterprises have been coming to the city-state to study. At the end of 2011, China sent 30,000 officials to study in Singapore. The Nanyang University of Technology’s special master of public policy program has been dubbed the “mayor class” for Chinese officials.

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