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Revised code for Communist Party officials lays out quickest ways to lose a job
- Updated directive seeks to galvanise leaders around Chinese President Xi Jinping, while weeding out cadres with ‘shaky ideals and beliefs’
- Amended code issued less than a month before party’s pivotal 20th national congress
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Chinese officials who fail to effectively perform in tough and urgent missions, or those who have a vague stance on key political issues, should be sidelined, according to a Communist Party directive recently amended and published on Monday.
The code is intended to create a political environment that ensures the capable are promoted, the outstanding are awarded, the mediocre are demoted and the unqualified are abolished, according to the code, which was published by state news agency Xinhua.
The code lays out a set of circumstances in which officials would be sidelined from important positions. One addition in the update to the 2015 version is to sideline those who have “shaky ideals and beliefs, soft stances and vague attitudes on major issues involving the party’s leadership”, and thus could not stand tests at “key moments”.
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Another revision says the party should also sideline those who have “a weak sense of responsibility and fighting spirit”, as well as leaders who dodge or bungle “urgent and major missions”.
The positions of those officials will be “adjusted in time”, the code stated.
The major revision to the demotion code comes less than a month before the pivotal 20th national congress, during which President Xi Jinping is expected to secure a third term in power.
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