CHINA-INTERNAL: CCP
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The Chinese Communist Party on July 29, 2015, issued new regulations on the promotion and demotion of Party cadres. The authoritative official news agency Xinhua described it as intended to 'strengthen the management of officials' and 'create a clean political environment'. The new regulations recitifies the current system that allows CCP officials to be promoted or stay at the same level, but does not let them be demoted unless they commit violations of CCP rules or the law. Described as a "breakthrough", the new rule is the first the CCP has made for demotion and identifies six criteria on which a cadre can be demoted. Yao Wenzhi, Vice Minister of the Party's Organization Department of Zhejiang Province, said: "In China's official personnel system, there's a lingering problem in which convention seems to allow officials to be promoted or stay at the same level, and they can only be demoted if they make mistakes." He added "We can expect that the implementation of the regulation will strengthen the CPC's management of officials and help build a clean political environment and a team of competent cadres".
Dai Yanjun, Professor at the CCP CC's Central Party School in Beijing said the regulation stipulates concrete rules for the demotion of officials based on lessons taken from CPC cadre team-building, especially in recent years.
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