The local committees of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have
been downsized in the ongoing elections, respondence to a call by
the CPC Central Committee for optimized local Party leadership.
The number of party leader posts, deputy party chiefs in local
CPC committees has been reduced, according to the Organization
Department of the CPC Central Committee.
The department, together with the Central Commission for
Discipline Inspection of the CPC, started in August an inspection
on local party committee elections.
The inspection found that the elections being held to select new
committees at municipal, county and township levels are going well
in pushing the personnel reform, promoting democracy within the
CPC, and tightening the organization disciplines.
In Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Liaoning,
the numbers of the members of the standing committees of local
Party committees have been reduced over 30 on the municipal level,
over 200 on the county level and over 5,000 on the township level,
the department said.
In Qinghai Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 14 deputy
secretaries on municipal level, 50 on county level and 124 on
township level were cut down in the new local CPC committees.
Meanwhile, more young, female and ethnic cadres have also been
elected during the local Party elections.
The average ages of new local CPC committees are much younger
than the previous ones, the department said.
He Guoqiang, head of the Organization Department, said earlier
that public opinion would be a major criterion for selecting new
CPC cadres while nearly 100,000 officials of the CPC committees at
provincial, municipal, county and township levels are running for
re-elections in 2006-2007 period.
(Xinhua News Agency November 20, 2006)