1 to establish

2 to set up

3 to found

1 government

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 politics

2 political

1 policy

2 classifier: 个 gè

1 to rule

2 to govern

3 to manage

4 to control

5 to harness (a river)

6 to treat (a disease)

7 to wipe out (a pest)

8 to punish

9 to research

1 thirty years old and therefore independent (idiom, from Confucius)

1 The higher ups have policies while the lower downs have their own ways of getting around them. (idiom)

1 to use an opponent's own methods to obtain retribution (idiom, from Song dynasty neo-Confucianist Zhu Xi 朱熹); to get revenge by playing sb back at his own game

2 to give sb a taste of his own medicine

1 the two cannot exist together (idiom); irreconcilable differences

2 incompatible standpoints

1 honest and industrious government functionaries (idiom)