Chapter 003 entered the Central Organization Department

Beijing, Chang'an Street.

Located on Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, near Liubukou, the eight-storey office building of the Central Organization Department is an unlisted building, which is composed of the main building on the north side, the east and west annex buildings and the north and south gate towers, and is generally enclosed into a triad-style layout. Across the endless Chang'an Avenue, it faces the Xidan Commercial Center across the street, and echoes with Zhongnanhai on the east side. Compared with the old office building originally located at the west exit of Xidan Lingjing Hutong, this building, which won the first prize of the National Green Sè Building Innovation Award, is more modern. As the "official department" of the Chinese Communist Party system, the Central Organization Department rarely appears in public, as if wearing a veil of mystery. To paraphrase the words of a former director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, this is because the organizational work has a certain degree of confidentiality.

A department, in charge of the world's officials and personnel, is very rare, and it is difficult not to be mysterious. But all this mystery no longer exists for Xiao Chen today.

The dark brown Sè Phaeton sedan, which was as low-key as a Passat, stopped at the entrance of the Central Organization Department on Chang'an Avenue surrounded by several military cars in front and behind, and on the radio in the car, a female anchor with a sweet voice was broadcasting a news: "The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China recently decided: Comrade Xiao Chen, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and secretary of the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee, will concurrently serve as director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and will no longer concurrently serve ......as secretary, member of the Standing Committee, and member of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee."

The door of the Phaeton sedan opened from the inside out, and a young, calm, energetic and restrained man stepped out of the car. Those who are familiar with Xiao Chen know that Xiao Chen almost never needs others to open the door for him, he always pushes the door by himself, walks out calmly, calmly and calmly. Many foreign current affairs media have also made a lot of inferences about this particularly personalized move, and most media believe that this is one of the manifestations of Xiao Chen's strong personality.

The arrival of the head of the Central Organization Committee, as is the usual practice, was that no reporters were present -- Chang'an Avenue had already been closed. Although Xiao Chen has always opposed the police car driving at every turn, today is obviously a special situation, and when such an arrangement is made below, even Xiao Chen did not say anything against it.

This time, Xiao Chen entered the Central Organization Department, and there was a lot of speculation from the outside world. In particular, Comrade Li Yuanzhuo's ranking in this session has given the outside world endless reverie, and he is likely to be elected vice president of the state at the two sessions in 2013 - in fact, this is almost a sure thing, because at the same time as Xiao Chen's appointment, Comrade Yuanzhuo has also served as the president of the Central Party School, and this position has "traditionally" been concurrently held by vice chairman. As for the folk saying that the president of the party school must be the next general secretary, that is not necessarily, Comrade Gu Banglan became the general secretary later, and the position of the president of the party school was also given to Comrade Jia Lehong, the vice chairman at that time, and Comrade Jia Lehong only served as the vice chairman for one term, and then retired, and the vice chairman and the president of the party school were later taken over by Comrade Xue Yuanlan.

This time, the outside world mainly focused on two points about Xiao Chen's entry into the Central Organization Department: first, whether Xiao Chen could quickly sort out and straighten out the relationship within the Central Organization Department, and second, what kind of new changes would occur in the Central Organization Department after Xiao Chen, a new leader, took charge of the Central Organization Department.

As for the first point, there are two kinds of speculations, one is that since General Secretary Xue Yuanlan himself is from the Xiao family cadres or at least has more intersections with the Xiao political forces, Xiao Chen will inevitably receive direct support from the top of the Chinese power pyramid, and it will be easy to straighten out the relationship between the Central Organization Department. Another speculation is that things will not be so simple, the Central Organization Department has been operating for five years by Li Yuanzhuo, and the Li character is obviously imprinted, even if Xiao Chen can finally erase this Li character, it will definitely not be able to be achieved overnight. Moreover, Li Yuanzhuo is now a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, concurrently serving as the president of the Central Party School, and obviously will also serve as the vice president of the state, and he is in charge of the national organization work.

Most foreign media believe that Xiao Chen is the most reforming leader in the leadership of the Communist Party of China at the present stage, and his resolute and firm administration has already been vividly reflected in his political career in the past nearly 20 years, and the spirit of "openness and transparency" and "sunshine administration" advocated by Wu Cheng in the past is very likely to be brought into the Central Organization Department, bringing a ray of sunshine and a hint of fresh air to the mysterious and even somewhat strange Central Organization Department.

The Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee has a total of 17 organs, including the General Office, the Party Building Research Office, the Organization Bureau, the Cadre Supervision Bureau, the Cadre Education Bureau, the Cadre Deployment Bureau, the Party, Government and Foreign Affairs Cadres Bureau, the Economic, Science, Technology and Education Cadres Bureau, the Cadre Bureau of Central and State Organs, the Enterprise Cadre Bureau, the Veteran Cadres Bureau, the Talent Work Bureau, the Personnel Bureau, the Administration Bureau of the Directly Affiliated Organs, the Party Committee of the Organs, the Party Building Reading Publishing House, and the Guest House of the Ministry Organs. In addition to Xiao Chen, there are eight other deputy ministers in charge of various daily affairs. At the same time, the Minister of Personnel and the Minister of Human Resources and Social Security of the Government Council are also vice ministers of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee. At the same time, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee also leads, in a sense, the Civil Service Bureau of the Government Affairs Yuan, and other personnel organs.

Originally, just after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, there were many new personnel appointments, and at least three vice ministers of the Central Organization Department originally planned to go to different ministries and commissions, provinces, and large state-owned enterprises to announce personnel appointments, but because today was the first day of official work after Minister Xiao Chen took up his new post, the three vice ministers all chose to stay and postponed their trips by one day.

Xiao Chen's appointment was announced yesterday at the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, accompanied by Comrade Li Yuanzhuo. In accordance with the established pattern, Comrade Li Yuanzhuo, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, on behalf of the Central Committee, after reviewing Xiao Chen's past work experience and summing up his work achievements, said on behalf of the Central Committee: "The Central Committee believes that it is appropriate for Comrade Xiao Chen to serve as the head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee. Then, as a former minister, he welcomed Xiao Chen's arrival, and after a brief handover of work with him, he introduced the main leaders of the Organization Department of the Central Committee and Xiao Chen's acquaintance.

However, this is just a convention, in fact, Xiao Chen, the main leader of the Central Organization Department, knows it, but some of them have a deeper friendship, some have a shallow friendship, and some just know each other, which can be regarded as nodding friends.

This time, Xiao Chen came to the Central Organization Department to take office, and there was originally another thing that was not a big deal, which made him feel a little embarrassed, that is, Hua Dongying, the former deputy director of the Central Organization Department, once sent him to Wucheng and Jinning to take office, that is to say, when Xiao Chen served as secretary of the Wucheng City Party Committee, deputy secretary of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee, and secretary of the Jiangdong Provincial Party Committee, he was accompanied by Hua Dongying.

However, fortunately, the Central Committee seems to have taken this into account, and before that, Hua Dongying was transferred to be the head of the United Front Work Department of the Central Committee, avoiding this embarrassment. After all, Hua Dongying is no longer young, and he will retire after finishing this term as the head of the United Front Work Department, which is also a kind of sympathy of the Central Committee for this old deputy director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

As a Chinese official department, the Central Organization Department naturally cannot follow the example of those local officials when they greeted the higher-level leaders, and they all stood in line at the gate, and they were all gathered in the No. 2 conference room of the Central Organization Department building, because today is Monday, and Minister Xiao Chen, as a new official, is also going to hold a work meeting here.

When Xiao Chen walked into the conference room, all the deputy ministers and ministerial members stood up to greet him, Xiao Chen smiled and stretched out his hand to press it: "Sit, sit, everyone sit." ”

Having said that, naturally they would not sit down until Xiao Chen sat down on the main seat. Xiao Chen looked around the big elliptical conference table, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. Even if they are secretaries of the provincial party committees and municipal party committees, unless those who enter the Politburo, they will never offend the members of the Central Organization Department. And the more than 20 people who are sitting here today waiting for Xiao Chen to put forward their work requirements are all in such power, but now they are all sitting upright and meticulous.

"Thanks to the trust of the Central Committee, I am honored to be able to work and study with all comrades, and I am also treading on thin ice. Organizational work has always been the top priority of our party's work, the quality of cadres, related to the life and death of our party, I have been secretary of the district party committee, the secretary of the municipal party committee, and the secretary of the provincial party committee, what kind of person am I, what basic requirements do I have for the work of party members and cadres, I think you comrades may have some understanding, here I briefly talk about a few principles. Xiao Chen was as simple and clear as ever, and he started with a clear meaning, and as soon as he came up, there was almost no nonsense, and he went directly to the topic.

The room was so quiet that it was audible that the deputy ministers and ministers seemed to sit more upright and their expressions became more serious.

"We all know that the organization department has always given the impression of being more than stable and not lively, and the organization cadres are often with a straight face and a serious face. Since more than 30 years of reform and opening up, reforms in various fields have been in full swing and have continued to develop in depth. But organizational reforms are often hidden from outsiders. On the one hand, it may have something to do with the fact that the organizational department does not like to advertise itself, and many of the information that should be made public, they are also accustomed to keeping it secret; On the other hand, some reform efforts have not yet met the aspirations and demands of the masses of the people, and in particular, the selection and appointment of personnel has often been criticized by people. Therefore, in the future, there are several principles that need to be paid attention to in our organizational work: first, fairness and transparency, second, clear rewards and punishments; The third is to select the wise. ”

Xiao Chen paused slightly, and explained: "Fairness and transparency means to change the so-called 'mysterious' of the Central Organization Department in the past, what you want to do and how to do it, no longer as in the past, it is no longer done internally and circulated within the system, but it is announced through the media, websites, etc., firstly, to increase the intensity of propaganda and let more people know, and secondly, it can also accept the supervision of the masses more extensively." Look at what we have achieved, what shortcomings and deficiencies there are, and all sectors of society can 'judge' and 'make irresponsible remarks'. Even if our party has to accept supervision, why can't we, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee? ”

"The rewards and punishments are clear, that is, it is never allowed to engage in any 'not as an example', let alone 'promotion with illness', and those who should be punished must be punished! In the same way, we must also intensify the promotion of good cadres, and some cadres have worked conscientiously in their posts for decades, just because they do not know how to lead the party, they have been working until retirement and have not moved, and this is a huge loss for our party! For such cadres, we should increase our promotion efforts, and in special times, we can even consider promoting them exceptionally! This is the clear distinction between reward and punishment. ”

"As for the selection of virtuous people, there is no need for good people who do not pay attention to principles, and there is no need for monks who ring the bell for days without doing practical things. Whether a cadre does a good job or not does not mean that he has done a good job if nothing happens in his office, but that he has done a good job if he has not had an accident; that is the director of the public security bureau, and our Central Organization Department does not only select a few directors of the public security bureau. In the future, we must pay attention to employing people, and those who have the ability will be on it! Incompetent, next! Hún days, please retire early. ”

Xiao Chen's words came to an abrupt end here, and he looked around: "My words are finished, what do you have to say, you can talk about it." ”