Interests
In China, the equivalent of an interest group are groups made up of people and social classes who have the right to dominate public power and resources, which is like that of American interest groups.
China’s interest groups can be classified into several different categories of Economically Driven Interest Groups.
Institutional Interest Groups
- Institutional interest groups seek privileges or favorable policies through policy-making or through the administrative and supervising departments.
Corporation Interest Groups
- Corporate interest groups, like institutional interest groups seek privileges or favorable policies through policy-making or through the administrative and supervising departments.
Associational Interest Groups
- Associational interest groups are instrumental to mobilizing support for the institutions.
Anomic Interest Groups
- Anomic interest groups are weak interest groups that often utilize violence to express their needs.
It has been found that the influence of interest groups on policy depends on the number and types of institutions involved and their own specific roles in the policy-making process. For example, the National Development and Research Committee (NDRC) is considered a very influential institution. As its main goal is to promote fast development and economic growth, this institution is naturally very helpful to economic interest groups, while the Ministry of Environmental Protection (a weak institution) is not sought out for by interest groups due to its lack of potential support.