High-level officials monopolise party promotion mechanism, study finds
Top Communist Party leaders are monopolising promotions, nepotism is rampant and appointments are bought and sold, research by its Organisation Department has found.
The process for selecting and promoting Communist Party officials is deeply flawed, research by its Organisation Department has found.
Top leaders were monopolising promotions, nepotism was rampant and appointments were bought and sold, it said.
The findings came after the department, which is under the Central Committee, sent teams out across the country and distributed questionnaires to more than 3,000 cadres in 16 provinces, the People's Daily reported yesterday.
President Xi Jinping has called on the party to improve its recruitment process, stressing that the quality of cadres, not the quantity, was most important.
The study, by the department's Party Building Institute, said high-level officials were monopolising the promotion process in their jurisdictions.
The centralised power was distorting the recommendation, inspection and multi-candidate election of cadres, it said.