Simplifying?
Maybe this will make it easier to teach and learn about China's regime. Instead of having to keep track of parallel government and Party organizations, we'll only have to keep track of Party elements and the government organs that are puppets of the Party.By the way, there is a great interactive graphic in the original of this article illustrating the Chinese regime.
China unveils bold overhaul to tighten Communist Party control
Beijing on Wednesday unveiled a massive plan to further assert the Communist Party’s control over economic and foreign affairs, cultural policies, and the appointment and training of cadres.
While the central government is restructured every five years after each term of cabinet, major overhauls of the party organs are rarely seen…
The party’s influence has grown under President Xi Jinping, in line with his slogan “the party leads everything”, reversing past practice of leaving policy implementation to the state.
Four of the party’s “leading groups” – on financial and economic affairs, cybersecurity, reforms and foreign affairs – have been upgraded to become commissions…
All four of those groups are chaired by Xi, and the reforms and cybersecurity bodies were set up after he took the party’s top job in 2012…
Aside from the upgrades, some party agencies will also take responsibility for offices that were previously under the State Council, China’s cabinet…
It will set up another two party commissions that will oversee ministries with almost identical functions. To establish an “authentic and effective” audit system and strengthen supervision, it will create the Central Audit Commission above the cabinet-level National Audit Office…
Beijing-based political commentator Zhang Lifan said the overhaul would help the party to consolidate its control.
“It will be good for the party to cut its operating costs and increase efficiency by merging offices with overlapping functions,” Zhang said…
This graphic is interactive in the original post.
Politics professor Li said the shift reflected Beijing’s growing confidence in the party’s status, even on the global stage.
“China used to follow in the footsteps of the West, but now it’s more confident and doesn’t believe that it has to do certain things via the government.”
But he was not concerned that blurring the line between party and state could result in an over-concentration of power, saying Beijing’s rationale for the reforms was partly to avoid a situation like the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“The Soviet collapse was caused by the separation of the party and the state,” Li said. “The West’s notion of separation of power is not always a good idea.”
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