From the article:
BEIJING — China has delayed the publication of a report on its economy, written in conjunction with the World Bank, as it tries to tone down recommendations about reforming its state-owned enterprises and allowing more market-led principles to reign.
The report, titled “New Drivers of Growth in China,” has been ready for a year, according to four people involved in drafting the report, but the Chinese authorities have not allowed it to be published.
The delays underscore the Chinese Communist Party’s extreme sensitivity about its economy as growth slows rapidly and, more recently, amid a protracted trade war with the United States.
Many of the core recommendations of the report echo the calls from the United States and other industrialized countries for China to make its trading practices more fair. Beijing’s objections to the report underscore just how difficult it will be for Washington to persuade China to change.
--
China is one of a handful of developing countries that is borrowing from the World Bank at the same time as making contributions to its funds. But all the other countries in this situation are small.
“China’s size is off the scale,” said Dollar, who is now at the Brookings Institution. “I would think that the World Bank management would treat China very carefully.”
The World Bank’s International Bank for Reconstruction and Development has committed about $2 billion a year to China for the last three years, making it one of the bank’s largest borrowers, according to a report from the Center for Global Development published in January.
But at the same time as China has grown richer, its influence on the bank has also grown — and that has concerned the United States. It now has a seat on the bank’s 25 member board and has started contributing increasingly large amounts to the International Development Association, the part of the World Bank that helps the world's poorest countries.
Beijing contributed almost $600 million in the last round and is expected to contribute more than $1 billion in the next replenishment.