THE THIRTEENTH CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY
 From Mobilizers to Managers 


Li Cheng and Lynn White 
https://tinyurl.com/yb5kk2cq


Empirical Findings: The Emergence of Managerial-Technocratic Leadership 

This article therefore analyzes the Thirteenth Central Committee of the CCP-the most obvious outcome of the elite transformation. We will approach this topic in historical context through empirical data, along with discussion of its theoretical significance. The paper is divided into two parts. In the first, we present original data on members of the Politburo and Central Committee (hereafter CC).

These include (1) biographical data on representation by age, sex, geographical location, and ethnicity; (2) educational background by level, foreign training (if any), and speciality; (3) career pattern by date of joining the party and the CC, and past administrative, party, or military work; and (4) current occupational position in the government, party organization, or military. The data come from a variety of sources. 1 Increased availability of biographical data from China often makes it possible to seek verification in multiple PRC sources
and other sources from Japan, Germany, Hongkong, and Taiwan.

Although our primary concern is with the Thirteenth Central Committee,
we bring it into historical perspective by reviewing information on the five
previous central committees in place since the Communist Party came to
power.

In the second part, we begin with a discussion of technocracy theory
and review its development in worldwide perspective. Then we evaluate
the theory as applied to China. Technocracy theory can guide our analysis
because it can link newly perceived functional needs in society to changing
values among party leaders. These values we will explore through their
writings and speeches as well as their reform policies. 
Adopting this functional, systematic approach to new social trends and new
 leadership values, we argue that the new Chinese leaders are subjects
 of social change,
not just agents of sociopolitical transformation. Many serious problems
without obvious solutions now confront the new Chinese leaders and their
society, but we argue that despite these problems, China is in a historical
transition with potential for both progress and tumult. Scholarly research
in the China field lacks enough new theoretical approaches to understand
China's recent political changes. 
So this paper suggests some new hypotheses for further investigation of 
Chinese elite transformation, Chinese society, and its "skilled sailors in an 
uncharted sea."

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 THIS WASHE CC MEETING THAT BEGAN CHINA'S MOVE TOWARDS STATE MONOPOLY CAPITALISM, LATER UNDER DENG ZHOU PENG TO BE OPENED 
UP TO A SUCCESSFUL NEW ECONOMIC PLAN THAT THE BOLSHEVIKS NEVER COULD DO.

AND THE THE OLIGARCHS THAT FOLLOWED THE COLLAPSE IN 1989 PROVED IT.

I WOULD NOTE THAT THE 13TH CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING OF THE BOLSHEVIK PARTY ALSO MADE A SIGNIFICANT SHIFT IN PLANNING
TOWARDS A NEW ECONOMIC PLAN, NEP, OR PARTIAL PRIVATIZATION.