CHINESE COMMUNIST USE OF NON-COMMUNIST PERSONNEL IN PUBLIC POSTS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004300390011-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 8, 2002
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: February 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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I. A tur-vey of lists of members of various committees and departments in the
CV,nese Communist government of Cnina indicates that non-members of the
(Linese Communist Party (CCP) are assigned only to non-essential or
r.on-policy-making positions. Lor example, one of the vice mayors of Canton
is LI Chang--ta*, a sup; orter of LI Chi--sheer, but he is not accorded an
active role. it is CHHU iiuang*4, a Party man and also a vice mayor, who is
really active in mutters affecting the city government. YEl Chien-ying is
too busy with larger affairs to concern himself vrith municipal politics.
2. The recruiting system presently in use tends to consolidate CCP control.
Trainees and technical personnel are recruited on the personal recommenda-
tion of CCP members of at least five years' standing. Recently, when
college graduates were needed for various technical positions, the call was
not made public, but each qualified CCF member was given three application
forms to distribute to candidates whom he considered suitable and safe. The
selection of trainees to study in the USSR is made in the same manner, except
that each Party member receives only one application form to pass on. It
th;..s appears that loyalty to the CCP is considered a necessary qualification
for participation in the new government.
3. The use of non-Communists in high eoverrLment posts is a temporary measure.***
One old CCP member has stated that they will eventually "reckon with" persons
like General Ceil&, G Chien* 4*, who have been given important posts for the
time being.
4. The system of filiin; public posts and technical positions on the basis of
personal reconmenaations,, which derives from the CCP fear of infiltration by
non-Communist elements, sufters from the fact that old CCP members have only
limited contacts with technicians, most of whom cone from the bourgeoisie.
Though the shortage of trairosd technical personnel is keenly felt, the
Communists insist that they must rely on the laboring class to meet the CCP'a
long-range needs in this line. They indicate that they are, confident of
solving their personnel problems within one or two years.
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 5. The CCP is speeding the establishment of training schools. In December
-l949 Nan Fang University, Canton, was recruiting about two thousand young
high school and college students for a course ,of political indoctrination.
CCP members, including OH'EN ~~ei-shih ( t * ,' ` ), vice president and the
real executive head of Nan Fang University, state that these indoctrination
schools are called universities in order to attract as many college students
as possible. After their graduation, these trainees will be used in local
administration and as political organizers.***** Their employment will be
temporary, lasting only until the CCP has a sufficiently large pool of
Communist-indoctrinated technicians of tested reliability. When the latter
are available, the persons trained on an accelerated schedule will be
transferred to other duties.
6. The training period at iian Fang University is now six months. It is
contemplated, however, that after the first six months the institution will
become a regular university, requiring a five-year course for graduation.
The Communist ideology will form the basis of the curriculum, and the
student body will be drawn from the peasant and worker classes. The
recently established People's University in Peiping, in which a number of
Russian professors are employed, has been built up along these' lines. The
Conununists assert that institutions of this type will eventually supply
competent personnel who will replace the present group of bourgeois
intellectuals with Anglo-American backgrounds. They concede that it will.
take a considerable time to reach this goal, and for the time being they
will rely on some of the better private schools, including missionary
institutions. For this reason they are paying high compliments to Lingnan
University as an educational institution.
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of CC? intentions with regard to non-Communist leaders.
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Comment. Q paragraph 32, gave a similar report
Comment. In the Hong -Kong C'gea Hui Pac, 21 October 1949,
CH'k:,'G Ch' ien was reported as a committee member of the Central
People's Government Council of the People's hepublic of China, and
as a vice chairman of the People's Revolutionary military Council.
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