It is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to policies that give preferential treatment to certain people or groups. For example, "The government offers preferential policies to low-income families in order to improve their quality of life."
Preferential policies toward China's coastal areas seem to be continuing, and some areas, such as Canton, are experimenting with private ownership of houses.
But he also promised that "closer attention" would be paid to the interests of Taiwanese investors, and that China would "continue to pursue preferential policies" towards them.
Dr. David M. Pariser, a dermatologist in Norfolk, Va., and the president-elect of the American Academy of Dermatology, said some practices did maintain preferential policies for cosmetic patients.
These open areas were granted preferential policies - lower taxes for foreign and domestic investors, export/import powers, and freedom to raise capital, etc. - which cut transaction costs and improved their comparative advantage.
Meanwhile, for some Han Chinese, the Uighurs seem ungrateful and backward, pampered by the state with preferential policies, such as being allowed to have more children.These prejudices are fed by another Chinese failing: the habit of secrecy and censorship.
Dalits still remain overwhelmingly poor and marginalized in many parts of India, but Ms. Mayawati's extensive use of the reservation quota system and other preferential policies in Uttar Pradesh provided opportunity to many Dalits.
He tells of the family of recent Cuban immigrants with a $500m fortune who won American government contracts set aside for disadvantaged minorities, and of how preferential policies in Nigeria and Sri Lanka caused ethnic polarisation and, eventually, civil war.
Some suggest the government needs to modify the country's seemingly inviolable preferential policies for Malays, who receive scholarships, cheaper housing and government contracts as part of a policy dating from the 1970s.
The liberalization of China since 1978 led to the launching of a series of preferential policy packages to spur foreign investment.
Despite promises in the prefecture's official investment guide of an "excellent investment environment, infrastructures and our most preferential measures," investors say that high value-added and business taxes undermine the local government's professed "investment preferential policy".
The Holsteiners were joined in 1426 by the north German trading towns of the Hanseatic League, whose trading interests were threatened by Erik's preferential policy toward Danish merchants and artisans.
