The CCP this month ordered members to greet each other as “comrade” and eliminate the growing importance attached to rank and titles. A document entitled “Norms of political life within the party under current conditions” was issued early this month after a meeting at which Xi Jinping was designated the “core” of the party. It said “To uphold the democratic and equal relations between comrades within the party, [Party members] must call each other comrades.” In April, the CDIC had objected to the widespread practice of dropping the word “deputy” when addressing a “deputy manager” or “deputy department head”, calling it a type of “word bribery.