Weeding out poor performers
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CHINA’S Communist Party is coming up with ways to vote out members who have not broken laws and Party regulations but whose conduct is poor.
Huang Genbao was deemed unqualified for Party membership in a vote in a village-level Party branch in Yichun in east China’s Jiangxi Province last year. The decision to expel him from the Party was endorsed earlier this month.
Though a member for 40 years, Huang was unfamiliar with the process that led to his expulsion.
Normally, anyone leaving the Party does so voluntarily or after being expelled by disciplinary organs for breaching codes of conduct. Neither situation applied to Huang.
Public discontent toward him emerged after he joined his son in abusing inspectors checking an unauthorized construction built by the son last year. The village branch held that his behavior was not worthy of a Party member.
Yichun was one of the first cities in China to explore means to vote out Party members. Between 2003 and the end of June, 114 members were forced out from its total of around 220,000.
“Democratic appraisal has proved its power in strengthening members’ self-discipline, as there is no other effective penalty to awe Party members who have flaws,” said a Yichun Party official.
The Party’s constitution stipulates that members are the vanguard of the Chinese working class, people and nation.
But there are people who strive to join the Party in order to receive a push up the bureaucratic ladder or seek personal interest in other ways, said Chen Shenghua, a professor with the China Executive Leadership Academy, Jinggangshan, a Jiangxi-based Party cadre training institution.
He said some members have become indifferent to the Party’s vanguard role. Although not breaking laws, their behavior does not follow social morality and their work has flaws.
Earlier this month, the Party’s Central Committee adopted new rules for enlisting members, stipulating that efforts should be made to control the overall size of the Party and improve its structure and quality.
The revamped rules give guidance to all localities and grassroots organizations to enlist new members in a “prudent” and “balanced” manner.
Xie Chuntao, a professor with the Central Committee’s Party School, said unqualified members had infiltrated the Party. Both corrupt and inactive officials should be weeded out.
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