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Institution File

Central Organization Department and Cadre Management System

Controls senior cadre assessment, appointment, rotation, files, and personal-matters verification.

Contents

Formal position

Organization departments implement the principle that the Party manages cadres through assessment, appointment recommendations, training, rotation, and file management.

Authority and tools

Tools include cadre files, annual assessment, recommendations, interviews, personal-matters checks, pre-appointment review, and cross-regional transfers.

Interfaces with other bodies

Party committees decide major appointments, discipline bodies provide integrity opinions and case information, inspection findings affect evaluation, and local organization systems execute changes.

Power logic

Control over posts and evaluation connects policy performance with personal career security. Replacement after anti-corruption cases can also reconstruct networks.

Evidence limits

Public appointment notices establish personnel changes, but assessment material, candidate comparison, and veto reasons are generally unavailable. [1] [2]

Sources

  1. Regulations on the Work of CPC Discipline Inspection Commissionsprimary-record
  2. Regulations on CPC Inspection Workprimary-record
  3. NPC Standing Committee Decision Amending the Supervision Lawprimary-record
  4. Rules on Leading Cadres Reporting Personal Mattersprimary-record
  5. Zhou Yongkang Sentenced to Life Imprisonmentjudicial-record
  6. Final Appellate Ruling in the Bo Xilai Casejudicial-record
  7. First Instance Judgment in the Lai Xiaomin Casejudicial-record
  8. Judicial Interpretation on Corruption and Bribery Casesjudicial-record
  9. Cadre Rotation and Campaign Mobilization in China's Anti-Corruption Enforcementacademic-research
  10. Campaign-Style Personnel Management and Selective Delocalizationacademic-research
  11. The Impact of a Broad Purge on Political Decision-Making in Chinaacademic-research

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