Chapter V
Primary
Organizations of the Party
Article 29. Primary Party organizations are formed in
enterprises, rural areas, government organs, schools, research institutes,
communities, social organizations, companies of the People's Liberation Army and
other basic units, where there are at least three full Party members.
In primary organizations, primary Party committees
and committees of general Party branches or Party branches are set up as the
work requires and according to the number of Party members, subject to approval
by the higher Party organizations. A primary Party committee is elected by a
general membership meeting or a meeting of delegates, the committee of a general
Party branch or a Party branch is elected by a general membership meeting, and
candidates for these committees are nominated on the basis of extensively
soliciting opinions from Party members and non-Party persons.
Article 30. A primary Party committee is elected for
a term of three to five years, while a general Party branch committee or a Party
branch committee is elected for a term of two or three years. Results of the
election of a secretary and deputy secretaries of a primary committee, general
branch committee or branch committee of the Party shall be reported to the next
higher Party organization for approval.
Article 31. The primary Party organizations are
militant bastions of the Party in the basic units of society, where all the
Party's work proceeds and they serve as the foundation of its fighting capacity.
Their main tasks are:
1) To disseminate and carry out the Party's line,
principles and policies, the resolutions of the Central Committee of the Party
and other higher Party organizations, and their own resolutions; to give full
play to the exemplary and vanguard role of Party members, and to unite and
organize the cadres and the rank and file inside and outside the Party to
fulfill the tasks of their own units.
2) To organize Party members to conscientiously study
Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important
thought of Three Represents, study the Scientific Outlook on Development, study
the Party's line, principles, policies and resolutions, acquire essential
knowledge concerning the Party and obtain general, scientific, legal and
professional knowledge.
3) To educate, manage, oversee and serve Party
members; raise their overall quality; strengthen their Party spirit; ensure that
they regularly participate in the activities of Party organizations, make
criticism and self-criticism, and maintain and observe Party discipline; see
that they truly fulfill their duties; protect their rights from encroachment;
and improve management of Party members among the floating population.
4) To maintain close ties with the masses, constantly
seek their criticisms and opinions regarding Party members and the Party's work,
safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the masses and do effective
ideological and political work among them.
5) To give full scope to the initiative and
creativity of Party members and the masses and to discover, nurture and
recommend fine, talented people from among Party members and the masses and
encourage them to contribute their skills and learning to reform, opening up and
socialist modernization.
6) To educate and train the activists who apply for
Party membership, attend to the routine work concerning the recruitment of new
members and attach great importance to recruiting Party members from among those
in the forefront of production and work and from among young people.
7) To see to it that Party and non-Party cadres
strictly observe the law and administrative discipline and the financial and
economic statutes and personnel regulations of the state and that none of them
infringe on the interests of the state, the collective or the masses.
8) To encourage Party members and the masses to
conscientiously resist unhealthy practices and wage resolute struggles against
all illegal and criminal activities.
Article 32. The primary Party committees in
communities, townships and towns and the Party organizations in villages and
communities provide leadership for the work in their localities and assist
administrative departments, economic institutions and self-governing mass
organizations in fully exercising their functions and powers.
In a state-owned or collective enterprise, the
primary Party organization acts as the political nucleus and works for the
operation of the enterprise. The primary Party organization guarantees and
oversees the implementation of the principles and policies of the Party and the
state in its own enterprise and backs the meeting of shareholders, board of
directors, board of supervisors and manager (factory director) in the exercise
of their functions and powers according to law. It relies wholeheartedly on the
workers and office staff, supports the work of the congresses of representatives
of workers and office staff and participates in making final decisions on major
questions in the enterprise. It works to improve its own organization and
provides leadership over ideological and political work, efforts for cultural
and ethical progress and the trade unions, the Communist Youth League and other
mass organizations.
In a non-public economic institution, the primary
Party organization carries out the Party's principles and policies, provides
guidance to and oversees the enterprise in observing the laws and regulations of
the state, exercises leadership over the trade union, the Communist Youth League
organization and other mass organizations, rallies the workers and office staff
around it, safeguards the legitimate rights and interests of all quarters and
stimulates the healthy development of the enterprise.
In an institution where the administrative leaders
assume full responsibility, the primary Party organization acts as the political
nucleus. In an institution where the administrative leaders assume full
responsibility under the leadership of the Party committee, the primary Party
organization discusses and decides on major issues and at the same time ensures
that the administrative leaders are able to fully exercise their functions and
powers.
In offices of the Party or the state at all levels, the primary Party organizations assist the chief administrators in fulfilling their tasks and improving their work. They exercise oversight overall Party members, including the chief administrators who are Party members, but do not direct the work of their units.
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