POLITICAL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240812-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 812
• Publication Date: August 10, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE A t
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
REPORT
CD NO.
STAT
COUNTRY
DATE OF
INFORMATION
1949
SUBJECT
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DATE DIST.
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PUBLISHED
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Kong.
NO. OF PAGES
1
DATE
PUBLISHED
;o Jur. 1949
LANGUAGE
Chinese
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
According to an editorial issued by the New China News Agency, Pei-ping,
the form of municipal organization and mode of f"nctioniug should be adapted
to the conditions characteristic of cities. ThT system in effect in T'ien-
ching since the liberation divides the civil authority amo offices on three
different levels, the mmieipal government administration,(shih-oheng-fu),
district offices (oh'u-kung-eo), and street offices (chieh-kung-so). This system,
however, unwisely brine over into the cities the form and aethode of the rural
areas. The hsien, district and village governmental structures are dottlnes
necessary for rural areas, Ponce the rural. economy, the villages, and the Fopu3a-
tion are dispersed over a, wide territory. but conditions in the cities are
quite different: the munll.:cal econcany and the popul,tion to concentrated in
a comparatively restricted area, particularly so with modern means of oc?mtmica-
tion. Therefore, the governmental structure and mode of operation for a city
should be of a concentrated type.
Facts show that factories, banks, paiulic organizations, ^n& schools it-
volve problems with which district offices and street offices cannot and Should
not deal. When they attempt to do so, Bach inevitably tends to act as an
independent government, and the result is as though there were no goverment,
no semblance of organization. Under such a system it is difficult to giv&
full and uniform effect to the municipal govermentas policy decisions, and
Misinterpretation and perversion of orders often occurs. Such cutting up and
dispersion of civil authority seriously reducers the efficiency and effective-
-U .,* t3,?. .. +"'a eovernmentel operations; therefore, the district offices
ant' e',reet o,~fices should be abcl.irhed.
Authority for decisions should be centered in the City Government Adminis-
tration which should issue orders to its various departments. For instance,
orders pertaining to public safety should be referred to the Police, those
pertaining to health to the Board of Health, education to the School Department, etc.
Fac. of these departments may then establish such branches or substations as they
deem necessary for the proper discharge of their responsibilities.
The rural form of organization and operation may be all right for the rural
areas, bu, it is not suited to the conditions that characterize the cities, and
,nless we change over to it more suitable type of organization anJ. manner of funo-
t?oning, we shall not be able to govern the cities, nor find It poselble to
carry out the Party's policy for the cities.
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