Deng Xiaoping’s Thoughts About Cadre Selection And Appointment (1949-1992)

Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts about cadre selection and appointment is on Marx, Engels, Lenin party building thought, on the basis of inherited the essence of MAO Zedong thought on the party’s cadre troop construction, and gradually developed. Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts about the cadre selection and appointment response to the party’s historical position (the "revolutionary party" to the transition of the ruling party), the reform and opening, the party’s tasks (such as democratic political construction),and summarize of experiences and lessons for the construction of the ruling party. With the development of reflection on the" Cultural Revolution", the party’s ruling legitimacy and ruling authority facing challenges and the deepening of the reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping about the cadre selection and appointment thoughts experience preliminary exploration, basic form, gradually mature and consummation stage, gradually development in practice.Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts about cadre selection and appointment with rich content, the paper discussed mainly from three aspects of selecting and appointing cadres such as standards, principles, institutional aspects of the system. Deng Xiaoping conscientiously summed up experiences and lessons of China’s socialist revolution and construction, and gradually formed a set of scientific criteria for selecting a successor, put forward the basic principles and methods of reform of the cadre and personnel system,.The main is to create cadres of the retirement system and the abolition of life tenure in leadership positions, to create an enabling institutional promotion of young cadres.Deng Xiaoping’s thoughts about cadre selection and appointment not only inherited and developed the first generation of Chinese Communist Party leadership collective thinking on selecting and appointing cadres,but also laid a theoretical foundation for the Chinese Communist Party and comprehensively improving the selection and appointment of cadres science level in the new historical conditions; On the other hand, to further consolidate the party’s ruling legitimacy and political authority,improve the Party’s governance and leadership, as well to promote the reform and opening up provide a strong security personnel and laid the basis for the scientific process for personnel system reform China practice.