THE PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Dong Lisheng

  My research plan consits of two main parts. The first part
consists of several articles on the Chinese civil service system.
One deals with the recruitment of executives (cadres) and civil
servants in the PRC, in which four recruitment models are
presented, viz: (a) open competitive examinations; (b) partially
open and competitive examinations; (c) selection of civil
servants by the Communist Party from workers, peasants and
servicemen; and (d) the orthodox methods based on the Marxist
ideology.
  Another article will analyse the delayed implementation of the
Chinese civil service system. In 1987 the Chinese Communist Party
announced the establishment of a civil service system. But due
to political opposition inside and outside the Party, changes in
the fortune of the reforms and fledgling organizational
conditions, the programme has yet to be implemented.
  The second part of my plan is to gather materials for a book
or handbook on personnel management in China. Although my project
will cover most aspects of personnel management in the PRC from
recruitment, training, appointment, promotion and appraisal to
compensation, welfare and retirement, I shall emphasize the basic
elements essential to the PRC system, thus providing keys to an
understanding of the subject. In this respect the three
interrelated questions of the term 'executives', 'the principle
of Communist Party control of cadres', and the 'nomenklatura'
system are of particular importance. My research will focus on
how the Communist Party installed the executive system throughout
the mainland after it came to power, which devices and mechanisms
are essential to its functioning, what are its shortcomings, and
how the Party is attempting to reform it.                      
                                                               
                                        
Dong Lisheng (1955) received his Bachelor of Art with honours in
English Language and Literature from Hangzhou University in July
1982, his Master of Law in Journalism from the Graduate Institute
of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in July 1985, and his
Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences from the Universitaire
Instelling Antwerpen in July 1992. From July 1985 to October
1988, he worked as a journalist for China Daily, the sole English
language newspaper published in mainland China. His doctoral
thesis is a comparative study of the recruitment of civil
servants in the People's Republic of China, France and the United
Kingdom. His master's thesis analyses Time magazine's coverage
of China from 1979 to 1981. He has a collection of more than 300
news reports, analyses and commentaries printed in China Daily.
Some have been reprinted by the People's Daily (China), Japan
Times and Strait News (Singapore).