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Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ1074635 ↗
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The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party is the human resource management department of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that controls staffing positions within the CCP.

The Organization Department is one of the most important organs of the CCP. It forms the institutional heart of the Leninist party system. It controls party personnel assignments throughout the national system, and compiles detailed and confidential reports on future potential leaders of the CCP. The department is known for its highly secretive nature; state media outlet China News Service stated it "always wears a mysterious veil" and historically interacted little with the public or press.

Because the People's Republic of China (PRC) is a one-party state, the CCP Organization Department has an enormous amount of control over state personnel. The Organization Department is indispensable to the CCP's power, and the key to its hold over personnel throughout every level of government and industry. It is one of the key agencies of the Central Committee, along with the Central Propaganda Department, United Front Work Department and International Department.

History

In May 1924, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party officially decided to establish the Organization Department, with Mao Zedong as its head. The 4th National Party Congress's Resolution on Organizational Issues said that "establishing a powerful Central Organization Department can actually guide the local party organizations".

On 20 March 1943, the CCP Politburo passed the Decision of the CCP Central Committee on the Adjustment and Streamlining of Central Institutions, which stipulated that all major political, ideological, military, policy and organizational issues must be discussed and approved at the Politburo meeting. Under the Politburo and the Secretariat, the Propaganda Committee and the Organization Committee were established as assistant organs of the Politburo and Secretariat. Mao Zedong served as secretary of the Propaganda Committee while Liu Shaoqi served as secretary of the Organization Committee.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party” as party organization. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1924, 1943—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Organization, Department and Chinese can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as party organization. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1074635. The first chronological checks are 1924 and 1943.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.