context: The new document stipulates standards for cadres' promotion and removal, stressing loyalty towards the Party Centre, eschewing factionalism and personal morality, and prioritising the implementation of the Party Centre's policy. The standards also place importance on implementation in accordance with 'reality', thereby emphasising that cadres should not implement policies rigidly. This may aim to prevent the common phenomenon of cadres forcibly pushing certain policies and causing resistance, but will also confuse local cadres striving to balance flexibility and 'loyalty'.
CCP Central Committee released revised 'Regulations on promoting leading cadres to be ready to take a lower as well as higher post', which specify
- promoting the formation of a personnel selection procedure and a political environment in which
- the capable are promoted
- the excellent are rewarded
- the mediocre are demoted
- the incompetent are removed
- adjusting leadership posts of incompetent cadres
- standards for judging incompetence
- procedures for post-adjustment action