Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, August 8, 2013
Chinese citizen anger has been stoked to dangerous levels by reports of urban management officers, or chengguan, employing extreme violence against street vendors. Chengguan are auxiliary para-police organized and hired by city governments…. Despite years of bitter public complaints over the thug-like, and often violent, behavior of many chengguan, little has been done to rein them in.