Big Business and Cadre Management in China

Leading cadres in China are subject to rotation. An interesting form of rotation takes place between big business and the political world. That means one fifth of China’s governors and vice governors have a business background as heads of one of China’s large State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). How this takes place and which qualifications the involved business leaders possess are shrouded in mystery. Based on prosopographical studies of Chinese business leaders who have participated in the Chinese Executive Leadership Program (CELP), this article attempts to open the black box. The study examines the career pathways of CELP participants in Party, government and business positions. The study shows that 84 of the 261 CELP SOE participants (2005-2018) were subsequently promoted, and 20 of these promotions were from SOEs to leading Party and government positions. In some cases, former business leaders became Party secretaries in important provinces or ministers in key ministries. The article also argues that Chinese business leaders have managed to keep their administrative ranking in the Chinese nomenklatura system. In fact, Chinese business leaders are quasi officials (zhun guan) and form an important recruitment base for leadership renewal. As such, the article suggests that the rotation of cadres within the ‘Iron Triangle’ of Party–government–business constitutes the main unifying and stabilising factor in the Chinese political system.

Economic Responsibility Audit Transformation and Development of Township Party and Government Leading Cadres – Problems and Countermeasures

With the implementation of a series of policies to support rural development, such as the national rural revitalization strategy and poverty alleviation, the economic responsibility audit of township party and government leading cadres has been given new responsibilities and missions. However, some grass-roots audit institutions are faced with practical difficulties such as the solidification of audit thinking, slow progress of audit informatization construction, and large gap of grass-roots audit resources. The only way to overcome the difficulties is to explore the transformation of the economic responsibility audit and countermeasures of the township party and government leading cadres by tracing the source and adapting measures according to the difficulties.

Author's distance courses in the system of lifelong art education

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the advisability of using distance courses in the process of improving the qualifications of teachers of art education institutions. The methodology of the work is based on the use of methods of analysis and synthesis. The analysis of the problems of the quality of knowledge in distance courses made it possible to turn to different forms of education. On the basis of synthesizing the obtained research results, the laws of knowledge improvement are established. The method of concretization reconstructed the versatility of connections in the personality – process – education system. The method of generalization made it possible to fix the expediency of using distance courses in order to improve the qualifications of teachers of art education institutions. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that the author's distance course "Methods of teaching musical disciplines" has been analyzed and introduced into the educational process of the National Academy of Leading Cadres of Culture and Arts, the Center for Continuous Art Education. The text of the article can be used in the preparation of a lecture on the methods of teaching musical disciplines. Conclusions. Based on the analysis of work with the distance course "Methods of teaching musical disciplines", the possibilities and expediency of its use in refresher courses for teachers of art education institutions are revealed. Working with DK has advantages in improving the professional skills of teachers, allows you to save time as much as possible and receive a creative incentive for practical use in teaching, to identify new aspects of creative approaches in the art of music. The absolutely new selected material of the DK enriches the teaching experience (with a repertoire in performance, theoretical studios for musical-theoretical and musical-historical disciplines), including people of different age groups. The distribution of lectures, practical and independent tasks has a positive effect on the final learning outcome.

Economic Responsibility Audit of Leading Cadres of the Party and Government at the Grassroots Level – Existing Problems and Countermeasures

Economic responsibility audit is an important part of the socialist audit supervision system with Chinese characteristics. It is an important responsibility of audit institutions at all levels to carry out economic responsibility audit. This article conducts a comprehensive and profound analysis of the problems existing in the current grassroots economic responsibility audit work. In addition, countermeasures and suggestions are proposed in this article, which are of positive significance to promote the economic responsibility audit work of leading cadres.

A research on the ways to strengthen the ideals and beliefs of Young Party members in the New era

The first thing to solve is the major political problem of the ideals and beliefs of party members and leading cadres in order to create a new situation in the new great project of party building. In addition, young party members, as the reserve force in the new era, should pay more attention to the cultivation of ideals and beliefs. This research focuses on the research on ideal and belief education of young party members, traces the origin of classical Marxist writers, roughly summarizes the practice of ideal and belief education of Chinese Communists in the past 100 years since the founding of the Party. In addition, it analyzes the achievements and shortcomings of ideal and belief education of young party members in the new era. It intends to perfect the path of ideal and belief education for young party members in the new era as far as possible from the three aspects of building a solid theoretical basis for young party members' ideals and beliefs, broadening forms, and cultivating firm communist beliefs.