SOLID ORGANIZATIONAL CONSTRUCTION
In September 1927, Mao Zedong decreed that every company in the revolutionary army should have a Party branch, with a commissar to give political instruction to the company. This military rearrangement gave the CPC absolute control over its military forces and is considered to have had a profound impact upon the Chinese revolution.
Today, such Party branches are not only established in the Party's strongholds, like army, governments, universities and state-owned enterprises, but private enterprises and foreign-owned enterprises.
The Roche R&D Center China (RRDCC), located in Shanghai's Zhangjiang High-Tech Park, established its own Party branch in 2007. The branch currently has over 20 Party members, most of whom are researchers with postgraduate or doctorate degrees.
"We notify all of our staff through the company's intranet when the Party branch organizes activities or meetings. Our foreign boss even attends sometimes," said Hong Di, the company's Party branch secretary.
The RRDCC believes that the Party members who work for the company have helped it to develop and grow.
An increasing number of foreign-owned enterprises in China's economically prosperous coastal cities are also forming their own Party branches. For instance, Suzhou, a city in east China's Jiangsu Province, is home to more than 6,000 foreign-owned enterprises, over 1,000 of which have established their own Party branches.
Private enterprises are creating their own branches as well. In east China's Zhejiang Province, where private businesses have flourished, about 66,000 private enterprises have established their own Party branches.
The Party constitution stipulates that "primary Party organizations may be 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."
By the end of 2010, the CPC had had over 3.892 million grassroots Party organizations, through which the CPC fulfills effective leadership to the country.
Prof. Zheng Yongnian, director of East Asia Institute of the National University of Singapore, said that "the successful ruling of the CPC lies in its strong mobilization mechanism."
For instance, China's success in holding Beijing Olympic Games and the Shanghai World Expo, as well as the efficient reconstruction in earthquake-affected areas could be attributed to the Party's strong mobilization mechanism and its solid organizational system," said Zheng.
