The New Period To Improve Public Confidence In The Selection And Appointment Of Party And Government Leaders

Personnel power is the core power for our party in administration. Cadres management isthe core issue in political reform. Our party has been sticking to the principles of valuingoutstanding cadres with both morality and capability, which has guaranteed the success of ourcause in different periods. Since the reform and open-up, our party has been working onenhancing democracy in the carders recruitment and promotion work. The reform has positiveprogress as well as negative problems which caused low public credibility. The cadres andleaders are the backbones of our party's administration. The focus of deepening the personnelwork reform is to improve the credibility.It is necessary to enhance the credibility in the promotion and recruitment of officials workfor the aim of our party serving the public interests. It also has profound theoretical basis. Thecadres work was the historical result in the development of our proletarian revolutionarymovement. The classic Marxist writers have formed a series of important theories on cadreswork. The theories in cadres work created by our party in the historic process of localization ofMarxism in China especially in the reform and open-up period are in line with the theories by theclassic Marxist writers. These theories provide valuable guidance for us in the research ofimproving credibility in the promotion and recruitment of officials work in the current situation.The period since the reform and open-up is a remarkable period for our party and country.The promotion and recruitment of officials work is developed in line with the reform andopen-up and socialist modernization. The author has divided the reform of promotion andrecruitment of officials work into four stages which are preliminary stage, one-way experimentalstage, deep development stage, comprehensive enhancing stage. The author has done research toevery stage and tried to seek the truth. Shortly speaking, the goal is expanding democracy. Theachievements are in four transformations. The subject is transforming from minority to majority;the object is transforming from officials to breaking identity boundaries; method is transformingfrom appointment to diverse ways; the process is transforming from mysteriousness totransparency. However, it is necessary to resolve some fundamental problem and handle the fourrelationships for improving the credibility between procedure democracy and substantialdemocracy, expanding democracy and identity barriers, expanding democracy and personnelresponsibility, expanding democracy and system.In order to solve the problem, we have to make clear the causes. The factors that influencethe credibility are in two aspects. One is the credit of the officials and the other is public trustaccording to the sociological theory. The author has done an analysis to the credibility in fivelevels of subject, system, procedure, result and trend. The complicated causes are related to history, the economic and political development, the flaw of the cadres work, the cognition of thepublic, the operation and the system.We can learn from the experience of foreign countries in improving credibility in promotionand recruitment of officials. We can get inspiration from the experience of some developedcountries and socialist countries such as Vietnam, Laos, and Cuba. We can also draw lessonsfrom the failure due to ignorance of credibility by the communist party of former Soviet Union,Indian National Congress Party and Thailand ruling party. The ruling party must adopt scientificand efficient measures in the personnel work. Democracy is the trend, and we should expanddemocracy in the promotion and recruitment of officials. Legalization is the guarantee of the willof the people, and is the success of improving credibility.The resolutions for improving the credibility in the promotion and recruitment of party andgovernment officials are the conclusion and focus of the essay. The democratization, scientificmethods and system are closely related with each other. Expanding democracy is mostfundamental and principal. The methods must be scientific. System is the guarantee. Legalizationwill be the result along with the development of socialist market economy.