Adapting to Bureaucracy: The Case of the Changsha Planning Reporters' Association

摘要

This Paper tries to illustrate the role of guanxi and its rationale by using the case of Changsha Planning Reporter Assooiation(CPRA)．Reporter is the professional whose job is to make applications to corresponding governmental authorities for various permits necessary for real estate development projects．Cpra is a formally registered social sooiety supervised by Changsha Planning Bureau．This Paper finds that organizations like CPRA and the exoessive use ofguanxi，informal institutions．Are as adaptation to the formalinsfitufions and the bureaucracy．These broadly existing guanxi serve as lubricant of daily exchange activities and complements to formal institutions．Despite some small payments may be involved during the process of cultivating guanx~it is not necessarily distort allocation efficiency because guamci in China is a widely accepted social norm．