Preferred Citation: Lieberthal, Kenneth G., and David M. Lampton, editors Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0k40035t/


 

Index

A

Academy of Military Science, 165 , 166

Adjustment Office, 73

Administrative system, 19

decentralization of, 16

Agricultural Bank of China, 337 , 342 , 354

Agricultural Producer Cooperatives, 337 n.4

Allison, Graham, 10

Anhui province, 288 , 351 n.30, 356

Armaments Department of the General Staff, 174 , 175

Arms trade, 175 -76

Authoritarian systems, 61 n.3

Authority: structure of, 34

B

Bachman, David, 42

Backbone teachers, 202 , 204

Balance of power, 284

Bank of China, 302

Banking system, 258

Banks, 314 -16

independence of, 315 n.20

loans by, 315 n. 19

Bao Tong, 122 , 123

Baoshan, 251

Baoshan steel mill, 257

Bargaining, 12 , 19 n.36, 34 -35, 51 , 308 -9, 331

arenas of, 51

and budgetary process, 40 -41

and bureaucratic system, 9 , 12 , 245

causes of, 38 -40

and decision making, 245

environment of, 246

and fragmentation of authority, 126

implications of, 57 -58

importance of, 245

issues, 40 -44

limits of, 284

participants in, 50 -51

in policy formation, 51

process of, 44 -50

as reciprocal accommodation, 37

and redistributive politics, 326 -31

and reform, 35

relationships, 18 , 309

in socialist states, 308

strategies for, 54 -57, 328 -31

Barnett, A. Doak, 102 , 121 , 222

Beijing, 239 , 289 , 291 , 293 , 304 , 317 n.23, 322 , 328 , 349

Haidian district, 123

and revenues, 83

taxation in, 324

teachers in, 202 n.24, 205 , 208

Beijing Jeep, 265

Beijing Military Region, 165

Beijing Municipal People's Government, 179

Beijing Normal University, 193 , 198

Beijing Review , 50

Beijing University, 220

Bengbu, 288

Bengbu City's Chemical Industry Corporation, 288 , 305

Bengbu City's Economic Commission, 288

Bilateral monopoly, 19 n.36, 271 , 273 , 274

Bo Yibo, 44 , 66 , 108 nn.16, 17 , 115 , 116 n.30, 122 , 123

Bourgeois liberalization, 169

Brigades, 337 , 340

Budget, central, 8

Budgetary investment, 255 -56

Budgetary process: and bargaining, 40 -41

Bureau of Education, 187


370

Bureau of Scientific and Technical Cadres, 222 n.14

Bureaucracy: activity of, 24 n.38

bargaining in, 21

organization of, 69 -70, 71

Bureaucratic authoritarianism, 62 -63

Bureaucratic clusters, 17 , 20

Bureaucratic systems, 3 , 25

fragmentation of, 20

and levels of power, 5

Burford, Ann, 61

C

Cadre retirement: and bargaining, 236

financial burden of, 239

and provincial governments, 235 , 239

retirement to "second line," 226 -27

retirement to "third line," 227 a2standards, 225 , 234

See also Cadre retirment policy

Cadre retirement policy, 15 , 218 , 220 , 221 -23, 232 , 243

deviations from, 235 -41

effects of, 224

and Party support, 228 , 241

for postrevolutionaries, 238

targets of, 220

Cadres, 218

Cellular model, 11

Center. See Central government

Center for International Studies, 131 , 132 , 135 , 139 n.35, 145

influence of, 141 , 147 -48

Central Advisory Commission, 106 , 115

Central Bureau of Taxation, 317

Central-cities policy, 289 , 290 , 291 , 294 , 305

and decentralization, 307

and interurban economic networks, 301

and structural reform, 286 -91

Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party, 61 , 74 , 97 , 167

and cadre retirement, 225 , 229 , 232 , 233 , 240 -41

military membership in, 170

and People's Liberation Army, 82

and provincial governments, 43 , 82

Central Foreign Affairs Small Group, 118

Central government, 13 , 20 , 38 , 262

and bargaining, 262

control of resources, 262

and educational system, 17 , 196

guidelines from, 297

and information access, 261 -62, 263 , 275

investment quotas, 320 n.27

and investment resources, 276

priorities of, 57

projects of, 255 -56

and provincial governments, 84 n.27, 276

and rural industry, 334

and rural urbanization, 335 , 350

and taxation, 317

and Wuhan-Hubei conflict, 293 , 294 -95, 296 , 303

Central Intelligence Agency, 170

Central Organization Department, 104 , 113 , 166 , 219 , 223

and cadre retirement, 225 , 228 , 229 , 233

Central Political Structure Reform Study Group, 123

Changchun, 292

Chen Junsheng, 110 , 124

Chen Yeping, 228

Chen Yi, 118

Chen Yizi, 107

Chen Yun, 108 n.18, 122

Chen Zhongjing, 141 n.40

Chengdu, 292

Chengdu Conference, 49

Chengdu Military Region, 165

Chenggu county, 356

Chequiao, 354 n.35

Chi Haotian, 162 , 179

China Association of Science and Technology, 136

China International Engineering Consulting Corporation, 143

China International Trade and Investment Corporation, 175

"China to the Year 2000," 136 -38, 139 n.35, 140 -41

"China's Energy Policy Outline Recommendations," 138

Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 , 134

Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 117 n.37, 132 , 134 , 135 , 136

Institute of World Economics and Politics, 136 , 139 n.35

Chinese Communist Party, 25 , 27 -29, 64 n.8, 97 , 306 , 336

accountability of, 62

authority of, 62

and cadre retirement, 219 , 233

cadres, 60

Central Advisory Commission, 66

and Central Military Commission, 160

centralization of, 250

committees of, 64 -65, 97 , 98 , 99

constitution of, 66

control of society by, 62 , 95 , 98

dual rule of, 64 , 286 , 306

and economic policy, 68

and educational system, 17 , 211

functional departments of, 63

and government, 59 , 61 , 65 , 67 , 68 , 74 , 98 , 242

and Great Leap Forward, 7

Investigation Department, 113

leadership of, 72 , 87

leading groups of, 64 , 66


371

68 , 96

membership of, 60

and municipal institutions, 317 n.22

oversight bodies of, 61

personnel system of, 222

power of, 68 , 107 , 340

propaganda apparatus of, 4 -5

and provincial governments, 66 , 82

Secretariat of, 97 , 98 , 106 , 120 , 123

secretaries of, 3 , 5 , 99

and subcounty controls, 336

and teachers, 204

territorial committees, 3

Veteran Cadre Bureau, 223

Chinese Education Union, 203 n.25

Chinese People's Institute for Foreign Affairs, 118

Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress, 111

Chongqing, 49 , 291 , 292

Civilian coercive bureaucracies, 3

Cohen, Michael D., 183 , 190

Collectivization, 336

Comintern, 119

Comisso, Ellen, 70 n. 16 , 309

Command-bureaucratic economy, 247 -51

Command economy, 250 , 266 , 274 , 289 , 357

and bargaining, 247 -48

and "command-bureaucratic" economy, 246

information flow in, 245 , 247 -49

limitations of, 264

Command model, 126

Commission on Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense, 161 , 167 , 172 -74, 175 , 177

Commissions: and research centers, 133

Commune system, 337 , 340

Competitive persuasion, 126 , 139 , 140 n.36

and research centers, 147

Compulsory Education Law (1986), 183 , 200 , 203 , 209

Computer Leading Group, 116 n.30

Consensus and policy, 76 -77

Construction Bank, 314 , 315 , 354

Contracting system, 268

Coordination groups, 317

Council of Economic Advisors, 105

County governments, 271 , 336 , 338 , 342 -43, 345 -46, 346

land-use plans, 340 n.12

powers of, 346 , 347

and rural settlements, 357

and taxation, 342 , 350 -51, 358

County Labor Bureau, 346

County Land Management Bureau, 344

County seats, 359

County-towns, 336 , 338 , 342 , 345 -46, 360

and access to funds, 354 , 357

development of, 346 , 349

developmental label of, 344

government of, 347 , 358

County Urban Construction Leadership Small Group, 343

County Urban Development Bureau, 344

Court system, 284

Cultural Revolution, 13 , 75 , 99 , 236 , 244 , 250 , 251

bureaucratic decline during, 129 , 266

damage from, 58

and education, 181 , 188 , 189

and information flow, 135

and military, 152

and veteran cadres, 229

D

Dahl, Robert, 36 , 37

Dalian, 292 , 317 , 320 n.26

Danjiangkou Dam, 44 , 45 -48, 56

Decentralization, 6 , 7 , 16 , 20 , 82

and decision making, 6

and distribution of resources, 6

fiscal, 8 , 83 -84

Decision making: and bargaining, 36

and economic management, 8 n.19

and sharing of authority, 283

Decision to Establish a Veteran Cadre Retirement System (1982), 233

Defense industries, 154 , 154 n.1

Deng Liqun, 108

Deng Xiaoping, 66 , 75 , 87 , 98

and bargaining, 53

and cadre retirement, 229

and economic reforms, 60 , 67 , 115

and economic system, 25

and foreign affairs, 114

and leadership system, 106

and military, 151 , 164 -65, 167 , 178 , 179

and Military Commission, 160 , 161 , 169

and military reform, 155 , 156 -58, 164

and political reform, 107

political strategy of, 86 -87

and political system, 304

and provincial officials, 83

provincial support of, 82

and reforms, 17 -18, 77

tenure of, 111

and Three Gorges Dam, 49

Designated towns, 359

Destler, I. M., 126

Ding Guangen, 103

Ding Henggao, 161

Discipline Inspection Commission, 108 n.18, 112 , 113 , 115 , 165 , 166 -67

Dongliu, 346

Dongting, 342 n.18

Dongzhi, 346


372

Downs, Anthony, 212 , 286 , 301 , 307

Du Runsheng, 113 n.24

Dual rule, 286 , 306

Dual-track system, 78

E

East China Normal, 193 , 198

Economic bureaucracies, 2 , 4

Economic commissions, 316 -17

Economic development, 254

Economic Legislation Center, 131

Economic Reform Bureau, 73 n.20

Economic Reform Decision (1984), 199

Economic Reform Leading Group, 117

Economic reforms, 13 , 75 , 79 , 80 , 287

and decentralization, 251 -63

and Party control, 67

and political system, 59 , 86 -87

Economic Research Center, 131

Economic system, 19

and outside world, 2

Economic System Reform Commission, 117 , 120

Economic System Reform Institute, 117

Economic, Technical, and Social Development Research Center, 117 , 131 , 132 , 135 , 140 , 148

influence of, 139 , 141

and long-term planning, 136

resources of, 142

Economy: marketization of, 264

Education Conference (1985), 200

Education Decision. See Education Reform Decision

Education Reform Decision (1985), 183 , 190 , 194 , 200 , 209

Educational system, 17 , 181 , 184 , 187 , 198

and curriculum reform, 192

finances of, 182

fragmentation of, 182

local, 187 , 194 , 195 , 211

and local governments, 210

municipal level of, 188

and the Party, 212

policy, 210

provincial, 187 -88, 194

research centers, 197

resources of, 182 , 198

reward structure in, 199

and teacher attrition, 202 -3

and teacher credentials, 188 -201, 192 n. 12 , 193 n. 14 , 199 , 199 n. 19

and teacher life, 201 -10

Eighth Party Congress, 64 , 106

Electrical Power Bureau, 47

Electrical Power Ministry, 47 , 53

Electronic Vitalization Leading Group, 116 n.30

Electronics Leading Group, 120

Employment substitution, 240 -41

Energy production, 254

Energy Research Association, 138

Enterprise Management Bureau, 73 n.20

Enterprises, 311 -12

accountability of, 275 -76

autonomy of, 310 , 319

bargaining position of, 326 -28

and decentralization, 272

decision making in, 272

financial activities of, 313

internal organization of, 274

ownership of, 310 n.9

and profits, 42 , 267

reforms of, 263

and relations with superiors, 268 , 270 , 271 , 273 , 330

revenues of, 318

risk in, 324

taxation of, 311 , 321 -22

and two-track system, 264 -65

Essence of Decision (Allison), 10

F

Fei Xiaotong, 344 , 345 n.25

Fifth National People's Congress, 289

Finance and Economics Commission  See State Finance and Economics Commission

Finance and Economics Leadership Small Group, 65

Finance and Economics Leading Group, 101 , 103 , 114 , 115 , 117 , 119 , 120 , 132

Finance bureaus, 313 -14, 315

Finance Ministry, 317

"Finance responsibility system," 342 n.18, 348 , 351

Fiscal responsibility and autonomy, 331

Five-Year Plans: First, 7

Sixth, 262

Seventh, 140 , 177 , 285

Foreign affairs, 118

Foreign Affairs Leading Group, 102 , 103 , 114 , 121

Foreign Cultural Liaison Committee, 124

Foreign Investment Leading Group, 101 , 120

Foreign Ministry Sales program, 176

Foreign Ministry's Comprehensive Issues Bureau, 119

Four Modernizations, 171

Fragmentation: as policy, 310

Fragmented authoritarianism, 5 , 6 -12, 24 , 126

and economic decision making, 2

modification of, 20 -21

France, 69

Fujian province, 83 , 101 , 341

Functional departments: authority of, 221

Fuzhou Military Region, 158


373

G

Gan Ziyu, 122

Gang of Four, 155

Gansu highlands, 43

Gao Gang, 97

Gao Yang, 108 n.19

Gao Yi, 193

General Bureau for Taxation, 314

General Labor Bureau, 222 n.14

Geng Biao, 116 n.30

Gezhouba Dam, 41

Gilmour, Robert, 127

Government Organs Personnel Bureau, 222 n.14

Grain Bureau, 337

Great Leap Forward, 7 , 98 , 249

and agricultural cooperatives, 337

Guan Guangfu, 292 , 299 , 303 , 306

Guangdong province, 83 , 101 , 309 n.5, 341 , 351 n.30, 353 n.34, 355

Guangdong township, 339

Guangzhou, 291 , 292

Guangzhou Peugeot, 265

Guizhou province, 236

Guo Linxiang, 166

Guomindang, 226 , 336

Gustafson, Thane, 183

H

Hainan Island, 101

Halpern, Nina, 5 , 13 , 21 , 24 , 197

on research institutes, 14 -15, 68

Hamrin, Carol Lee, 5 , 13 -14, 21 , 29 , 65

Han River, 45

Harbin, 292

He Dongchang, 202 n.23

He Guanghui, 122 , 123 , 124

He Long, 175

He Pengfei, 175

He Ping, 175

Heavy-industry ministries, 79 , 80

Henan province

and Danjiangkou Dam, 45 , 46 -47, 48

"Hoarding" behavior, 329

Hong Kong-Macao Work Committee, 113

Hong Xuezhi, 161

Hongqi , 229 , 232

Hough, Jerry F., 37

Hu Qiaomu, 108 n.18

Hu Qili, 40 , 108 , 109 , 123

Hu Yaobang, 87 , 106 , 112 , 114 n.24, 115 , 157

fall of, 107 -8

and Military Commission, 162

Hua Guofeng, 155 , 169

Huan Xiang, 135 , 139 n.35, 141 n.40, 148 , 171

Huang Hua, 116 n.30

Huang Zhen, 116 n.30

Huang Zhizhen, 292

Huangshi, 293 , 305

Hubei province, 16 , 18 -19, 283 , 285 , 286 , 301

and Danjiangkou Dam, 45 , 46 -47, 48

revenue of, 295

and Wuhan, 292 -98, 301 , 305 , 307

Hubei Provincial Party Committee, 306

Hunan province, 123 , 229 , 354 , 356

Hungary, 69 , 268 , 308 , 317 n.22

I

Ideology: as instrument of control, 9

Incentive systems, 9

Industrial and Commercial Bureau, 355

Industrial bureaus, 311 , 312 -13, 316 , 320 , 323 , 325

and project proposals, 325

Industrial-Commercial Bank, 314 , 315

Industrialization: policy of, 70

Information: availability of, 12

as resource, 127

Information systems, 9

Inner cabinet, 105 , 106

Inner Mongolia, 204

Institute of Contemporary International Relations, 119 , 141 n.40

Institute of International Relations, 119

International Liaison Department, 118

International Studies Center, 119

Investment funds: and local governments, 269

Investment projects: responsibility for, 326

risk of, 325

Investment resources: government control of, 252

J

J-8 II avionics, 176

Japan, 6 , 69

Japanese Development Bank, 257

Jiang Zemin, 148 , 169

Jiangpu county, 339 , 341 , 342 , 342 n.18, 343 , 344 , 345 , 346 , 349 , 351 , 352 , 355 , 356 nn.41, 42

Jiangsu province, 269 , 339 , 341 -42, 346 -47, 349 , 351 n.30, 352 n.33, 353 -54, 355 -56

Jiangxi province, 351 n.30, 352 n.33, 358

Jiao Shanmin, 238 , 240


374

Jiefangjun Bao , 155 , 156 , 169

Jinan Military Region, 179

Jingmen, 305

Jinzhou, 205

Judiciary, absence of, 76

Jun Xian, 48

Junsheng, Chen, 76 n.23

K

Keohane, Robert, 145

Kingdon, John W., 198 , 199

Korean War, 163

Kornai, Janos, 268

Kunming Military Region, 158

L

Lampton, David M., 29 , 72 , 217 , 292

Land Law (April 1987), 343

Law of Countervailing Goal Pressures, 307

Leadership system: evolution of, 97 -99

norms of, 99 -105

and Politburo, 111

political abuse of, 107 -9

reforms of, 95

Leading groups, 14 , 16 , 96 , 219

control of, 96

lines of authority in, 104 -5

membership of, 115

and Politburo, 102

responsibilities of, 99

tasks of, 103

Leading small groups, 99

Lee, Yok-shiu, 352

Legal system, 19 , 284

Li Chonghuai, 289 -91, 305

Li Da, 116 n.30

Li Fuchun, 122

Li Kenong, 118

Li Peng, 40 , 66 , 108 , 114 n.26, 123 , 148 , 179

and economic reform, 115 , 116

and State Education Commission, 184

and Three Gorges Dam, 49

Li Ruihuan, 85

Li Tieying, 185

Li Xiannian, 102 , 114 n.24, 122 , 292 , 295

Liao Chengzhi, 118

Liaoning province, 274 , 294

teachers in, 202 n.24

Liaowang , 128 , 129 , 285

Lieberthal, Kenneth G., 42 , 53 , 72 , 130 , 310 , 357

Lifelong tenure system, 220 , 228 , 229 , 243

Lin Biao, 63 , 153 , 155 , 159

and Military Commission, 161

Lindblom, Charles E., 36 , 37 , 127

Liu Bin, 185 , 199

Liu Huaqing, 162 , 163 , 164 , 169

Liu Ningyi, 118

Loans, 323 -24

Local governments: and central government, 260 -61

size of, 85

Long March, 166

Longgang, 355

Lu Dingyi, 122

Lushan Plenum, 249 n.2

M

Ma Hong, 115 , 133 n.21, 136 , 139

McCubbins, Mathew, 62 , 69 n.15

Machine Building Commission, 44

Machinery Research Institute of the Wuhan Machinery Bureau, 287

Management-by-exception, 68 , 69 n.15, 71 , 72 , 75 -76, 81

and bargaining, 73

conservative bias of, 77

and ministries, 73

performance of, 74

and reform policies, 87

Management-worker relations, 273

Manion, Melanie, 15 , 30

Mao Zedong, 35 , 38 , 75 , 341

authority of, 25

and bargaining, 35 , 53

bureaucratic practice of, 26

and economic policy, 72

and foreign affairs, 114

and ideological indoctrination, 6

and military system, 152

provincial support for, 82

retirement of to "second line," 226 n.23

and Three Gorges Dam, 49

March, James, 183 , 190

Market reform, 81

Market towns, 336 , 337 , 338 , 339 , 360

Martial Law Command, 179

Material allocation system, 256

Mayor's office, 317 -18

Meicun, 342 n.18

Military Affairs Committee, 3

Military Commission of Chinese Communist Party, 98 , 112 , 119 , 151 , 155 , 156 , 157 , 164 -65, 167 -68

changes in, 162 -63

and Tiananmen Square, 179

See also State Military Commission

Military industrial system, 176

Military Legislation Bureau, 163

Military system, 3

budget of, 170

command and control of, 17 , 160 -69, 180

and military-service legislation, 159

and nuclear weapons, 168 n.30

personalistic character of, 18 , 178

ranks in, 159

regional commanders of, 168

See also People's Liberation Army


375

Ministries, 44 , 71 , 143

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Animal Husbandry, 47

Ministry of Civil Affairs, 222 n.14

Ministry of Communications, 41 , 44

Ministry of Education, 184 , 191 , 193 , 194 , 204 , 208

and reforms, 201

Teacher Education Bureau, 194

Ministry of Electric Power, 53

Ministry of Energy Resources, 53

Ministry of Finance, 42 , 53 , 71 , 186 , 209 , 314

and economic reforms, 79 , 86

organization of, 70

and State Education Commission, 185

and taxation, 80 -81

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 124 , 148

influence of, 139 n.35, 145

Institute of International Studies, 140 n.36

Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade, 86

Ministry of Foreign Trade, 124

Ministry of Justice, 98

Ministry of Labor and Personnel, 186 , 206 , 208 , 209 , 220 , 222 n.14, 238

and cadre retirement, 225

and State Education Commission, 185

Ministry of Light Industry, 43

Ministry of Machine Building, 43 , 44

Ministry of Metallurgy, 64

Ministry of National Defense, 49 , 118 , 124 , 162

Ministry of Railways, 136

Ministry of Water Conservancy [Water Resources], 47 , 53

Ministry of Water Conservancy [Water Resources] and Electric Power, 41 , 47 , 52 -53

Municipal government, 18

and economic reforms, 85

Municipal institutions, 311

and the Party, 317 n.22

N

Nanhai county, 353 n.34

Nanjing, 292 , 341 , 344

Nanjing Military Region, 165

Nanyang Special District, 48

National Defense Industries Office, 173

National Defense University, 165 , 166

National Education Work Conference (1978), 191

National Finance Conference, 53

National People's Congress, 53 -54, 61 , 68 n.13, 69 n.15, 109 , 111 , 113 , 135

and bargaining, 51

election of, 107

and provincial representation, 72

National Planning Conference, 53

National Research Center for Science and Technology for Development, 131 , 133 , 140 , 148

influence of, 141

and long-term planning, 137

resources of, 142

National Science Planning and Technical Commissions, 124

National Security Council, 105

National Teacher Education Work Conference (1980), 191 , 193

National Work Meeting on Elementary and Secondary School Teachers, 202 n.23, 204

Naughton, Barry, 12 , 13 , 29 , 30 , 38 , 55 , 217

on investment allocation, 41

Nie Li, 161

Nie Rongzhen, 122 , 161 , 167 , 173

Ningbo, 292

Ningxia, 204

Ninth Party Congress, 170

O

Office of Management and Budget, 105

Oksenberg, Michel, 42 , 44 , 52 , 53 , 72 , 130 , 131 , 140 n.36, 310 , 357

Olsen, Johan P., 183 , 190

"On the Reform of the System of Party and State Leadership" (Deng Xiaoping), 75 , 106 n.16

Organization and Personnel bureaucracies, 3

Organization and Personnel Leading Group, 113

Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, 124

P

Paine, Lynn, 17 , 21 , 30 , 71

Parliamentary systems, 69

Party History Research Institute, 97

Party History Research Office, 109

Party Rectification Commission, 108 n.18, 113

Peasants, 358

Peng Chong, 123

Peng Dehuai, 161

Peng Peiyuan, 205

Peng Zhen, 68 n.13, 108 nn.18, 19, 109

People's Communes, 337

People's Daily,81


376

People's Liberation Army, 3 , 17 , 151 , 168 , 172

access of to resources, 153 , 170

and Chinese Communist Party, 82 , 151 , 152 , 163 , 178

and defense-technology planning, 177 -78

and Deng Xiaoping, 178

General Logistics Department, 3 , 161 , 166

General Political Department, 161 , 163 , 166

General Staff Department, 161 , 166 , 168

leadership of, 152 , 153 -54, 170

manpower of, 157 , 170

ranks in, 76 -77

and retirement, 159

social control by, 154 , 172

Soviet influence on, 152

technical cadres in, 159

See also Military system

Personnel system, 222

and cadre retirement, 15

in local government, 223

Pingdu County Education Commission, 195 n.16

Planning commissions, 316 -17, 320

See also State Planning Commission

Policy coordination, 126 -28

and information flow, 125

institutions of, 129

lack of, 127

problems for, 128

Policy decisions, 76

Policy implementation: and authority relations, 242

at local levels, 217 -18

and middlemen, 218 -19

and policy targets, 243

Politburo, 13 , 40 , 65 , 97 , 98 , 114

and bargaining, 51

decision making in, 53 , 101 , 102

leadership arrangements in, 111 -21

and People's Liberation Army, 170

Standing Committee of, 60 , 68

Political and Legal Affairs Commission, 101 , 113 , 119 , 121 -22

Political and Legal Affairs Leading Group, 119

Political organizations: grouping of, 2

Political Reform Study Group, 107

Political system, 21 , 304

reform of, 305

Pollack, Jonathan, 76

on military system, 17 -18, 30

Polytechnologies, 175

Price, Don K., 144

Price Research Center, 131 , 132 n.18, 135 , 137

Prices, 266 , 327

control of, 266 -67

reform of, 79 , 81 , 319

Priority projects, 256 -57

Production brigade, 337 n.5

Production team, 337 n.5

"Professional guidance," 221

Propaganda and education bureaucracies, 2

Propaganda and Ideology Leading Group, 113 , 122

Propaganda Department, 104 , 113

Provinces: export revenues of, 296

and foreign trade, 84

representation of, 72

and State Council, 72

See also Provincial governments; names of provinces

Provincial Bureau of Education, 201 , 205

Provincial Education Commission, 187 n.5

Provincial governments, 18 , 286

and central-cities policy, 290

and central government, 284 , 305

and decentralization, 288

decision-making power of, 284 , 305 n.75

and economic reforms, 85

and interprovincial competition, 285

resources of, 284 , 296

and rural urbanization, 350

See also Provinces names of provinces

Public supervision, 110 -11

Q

Qian Jiaju, 54

Qiao Shi, 40 , 108

Qin dynasty, 284

Qin Jiwei, 108 , 162 , 163 , 164 , 169

Qing dynasty, 336

Qingdao, 292

Qingyang, 350

R

Rao Shushi, 97

Rationality model, 10

Redistributional bargaining, 268 -70

Reforms, 26 , 55

and bargaining, 39 , 245

and bureaucratic practice, 25 , 36

and consensus decision making, 80 -81

and corruption, 24

and ideology, 25

local experimentation with, 270

and military system, 18

objectives of, 23 -24

policy of, 16 , 20 , 84

strategy of, 263 -64

"Relation of leadership," 221

Renmun Jiaoyu , 195

Research centers, 130 -34, 131 , 132 , 146 -47

authority of, 138 -43, 147

and commissions, 133 , 139

and competitive persuasion, 147

and coordination, 134 -46

incentives for, 143 -46

influence of, 147 -48

and ministries, 139 , 144 -45

purpose of, 131

and State Council, 139

See also National Re-


377

search Center for Science and Technology for Development

Research institutes: effectiveness of, 15

Resources, 40 , 357

allocation of, 9

control of, 12

economic, 19 , 20

fragmentation of, 125

redistribution of, 319 -22

Retirement system, 220

Revenues: division of, 318

Rosen, Stanley, 216 -17

Rural Affairs Work Department, 113 n.24

Rural Development Research Center, 113 n.24, 131 , 134 , 147 , 148

influence of, 141

Rural Industry Bureau, 352

Rural Policy Research Center, 113 n.24

Rural towns, 338

Rural-urban migration, 354 -56

Rural urbanization, 19 , 334 -35, 350 , 358 , 359

and central government, 335

and distribution of power, 340 -48

S

Sanqiao county, 355

Schroeder, Paul, 16 , 18 -19, 20 , 30

Schwartz, Tom, 62

Science and Technology Commission. See State Science and Technology Commission

Science and Technology Conference, 103

Science and Technology Daily , 119

Science and Technology Development Research Center, 117

Science and Technology Leading Group, 101 , 114 , 117 , 120 , 122

Science and Technology System Reform (1985), 199

Seidman, Harold, 127

Seventh Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 50 , 113

Shaanxi province, 356

Shandong province, 195 n.16, 259 -60

Shanghai, 44 , 83 , 187 n.5, 251 , 289 , 291 , 293 , 304 , 356

Shanghai Institute of International Studies, 119

Shangrao county, 352 n.33, 358

Shanxi province, 42 , 134

Shashi, 293 , 305

Shenyang, 292 , 294 , 317 n.23, 322 n.33, 323 n.36

Shenyang Military Region, 179

Shenzhen, 292 , 304

Shirk, Susan, 3 , 16 , 28 , 29 , 39 , 52

Shue, Vivienne, 38

Shurmann, Franz, 82

Sichuan province, 48 , 355

Sino-Vietnamese War, 170

Siu, Helen, 355

Sixth National Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, 54

Solinger, Dorothy J., 217 , 295 , 298 , 301 , 302

Solomon, Richard, 36

Song Jian, 138 n.34

Song Ping, 123

Song Renqiong, 108 n.19

Soviet Communist Party, 63

Soviet Union, 63 , 64 , 171 , 250

decentralization of, 82

and reform, 86

Special Economic Zones work group, 101

Stakhanovite movement, 248 , 249 n.3

State Capital Construction Commission, 135

State Commission on Restructuring the Economy, 292

State Council, 45 , 53 , 65 , 66 , 98 , 106 , 120 -21, 143 , 251 , 253 , 292

and bargaining, 52

and cadre retirement, 225 , 229 , 241

leading groups, 96

meetings of, 102

and Ministry of Education, 184

position of, 71

Standing Committee of, 51 , 68 , 73

State Council Foreign Affairs Leading Group, 119

State Council Foreign Affairs Office, 118

State Council Foreign Trade Office, 118

State Council General Office, 101

State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, 118

State Council Small Group Office on Settlement of Demobilized Military Personnel, 222 n.14

State Council Temporary Measures on Arrangements for Aged, Weak, Ill, and Disabled Cadres, 225 n.20, 231

State Council Temporary Measures on Worker Retirement, 231

State Council Temporary Regulations on Veteran Cadre Special Retirement, 225 n.20

State Economic Commission, 51 , 70 , 135 , 137 , 138 , 186

and annual planning, 136

function of, 73

and ministries, 71

and State Education Commission, 185


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State Education Commission, 182 , 184 , 190 , 194 , 204 , 207 , 208 , 209

Capital Construction Bureau, 186

and Chinese Communist Party, 212

Educational Development and Research Policy Center, 197

and Finance Ministry, 186 , 195 n.16

Office of Policy Study, 197

organization of, 185 -88

Planning and Financial Affairs Bureau, 186

Political and Ideological Education Department, 186

power of, 186

Precollegiate Education Department, 186

and reforms, 201

research centers, 197

resources of, 205 , 210

role of, 206

and social position of teachers, 203

Teacher Education Department, 186

and teacher preparation, 193 , 195 , 200

State Establishment Commission, 222 n.14

State Finance and Economics Commission, 117 , 119

State Military Commission, 163 -64

State Personnel Bureau, 222 n.14

State Planning Commission, 41 , 43 , 53 , 129 , 135 , 137 , 138 , 143 , 186 , 313 n.15

and bargaining, 52

and five-year planning, 136

function of, 73

funding, 141 -42

and ministries, 71

organization of, 70

and reform policies, 79 , 86

and State Education Commission, 185

and taxation, 317

and Three Gorges Dam, 50

State Price Commission, 132 n.18

State Science and Technology Commission, 117 , 129 , 131 , 136 , 137 , 138 , 142 , 186

and ministries, 71

organization of, 70

and State Education Commission, 185

State Statistical Bureau, 12 , 250 , 253

Subcounty level, 18

Sun Yatsen: and Three Gorges Dam, 49

Sunan township, 342

Supply and Marketing Co-ops, 337 , 341 , 355 n.37

Suzhou district, 341 , 345 , 350

T

Taishan county, 355

Taiwan Work Leading Group, 113

Taiyuan, 271

Tang dynasty, 48

Tang Tsou, 67

Tangquan, 344 , 345 , 351 , 356

Tax-for-profit system, 268 , 318

Taxation, 267 , 269 , 318 , 350

and adjustment tax, 81

and annual quotas, 314

and bargaining, 308

and concentration of funds, 322

and county governments, 339 n.11

of enterprises, 311

and industry, 80

and loan repayment, 324

rates of, 319 , 320 , 321 , 322

and tax bases, 357

and tax breaks, 312 , 321 -22, 324 -25

and tax evasion, 329

and tax forgiveness, 269

and township governments, 339 n.11

Taxation bureaus, 313 -14, 315

Teachers: assaults on, 203

attrition among, 202

and Chinese Communist Party, 204

health care of, 206

housing of, 205 -6, 210

political legitimacy of, 204

preparation of, 193 , 195 , 200 , 210

wages of, 206 -10, 211

Teachers' Day, 203 , 204

Technical Economic Research Center, 131 , 134 , 135 , 143

influence of, 139 , 141 , 147

long-term planning, 136

Ten-Year Plan, 252

Territorially based organizations, 221

"Third Front," 249

Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee, 183 , 188

Thirteenth Party Congress, 28 , 102 , 107 , 108 , 115 , 121 , 161 , 170

and constitution, 33

Three Gorges Dam, 44 , 48 -50, 55 -56, 57 , 140 n.37, 141

Tian Jiyun, 59 , 109 , 120 , 123

Tiananmen, 34 , 126 , 131 , 134 , 148 , 180

Tianjin, 83 , 85 , 187 n.5, 289 , 293 , 304

Tongli, 345 n.25, 346

Town development: resources for, 348 -56

and taxation, 350

Township enterprises, 351

Township governments, 338 , 339 , 340

access to funds, 354 , 358

Townships, 336 , 340 , 342 , 348 , 357

Twelfth Communist Party Central Committee, 289

Twelfth Party Congress, 108

Twenty-seventh Army, 179

Two-track system, 252 , 264 -65, 271

and command economy, 275

and information flow, 275

U

United Front Leading Group, 113

United Front Work Department, 104 , 113

United States, 43 , 171 , 176 , 198

defense


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planning, 168

Environmental Protection Agency, 61

Urban Planning Ministry, 344

Urumqi Military Region, 158

V

Value integration: among officials, 8

Vietnam, 155

Villages: enterprises in, 351

in Great Leap Forward, 337

W

Walder, Andrew, 18 , 19 , 20 , 29 , 30 , 77 , 217

Wan Li, 66 , 108 n.19, 109 , 110

Wang Jiaxiang, 118

Wang Xicheng, 122

Wang Zhen, 109 n.19

Weber, Max, 127

Wen Jiabo, 123

White House staff organizations, 105

World Bank, 2 , 257 , 351 n.30

Wu Mingyu, 122

Wu Xiuquan, 109 n.19

Wuhan, 16 , 18 -19, 73 n.20, 158 , 283 , 285 , 286 , 292

and Danjiangkou Dam, 45 , 47 , 48

development of, 291

and Hubei, 292 -98, 305 , 306 , 307

municipal government of, 288

population of, 300 n.62

production in, 305

provincial-level status of, 283 , 289 , 297 , 304

revenue of, 294 -95, 296

Wuhan Economic Commission, 288

Wuhan Economic Cooperation Region, 301

Wuhan-Hubei conflict, 292 -304

and materials distribution, 298

and personnel problems, 300 -301

and price structure, 299

Wuhan Hydraulic and Pneumatic Industry Corporation, 287 , 288

Wuhan Hydraulic Cylinder Plant, 287

Wuhan Iron and Steel, 48 , 293

Wuhan Machinery Bureau, 287 , 288

Wuhan University, 289 , 300 n.62

Wujiang county, 341 , 342 , 343 , 345 , 346 , 351 , 352 , 353 , 358

Wuxi county, 341 , 342 , 352 n.33, 358

X

Xi Zhongxun, 108 nn.18, 19

Xiamen, 292

Xian, 292

Xiangyang Special District, 48

Xingdian, 356 n.42

Xinhua , 54

Xu Penghang, 305

Xu Xiangqian, 161

Xue Muqiao, 289

Y

Yan Jiaqi, 123

Yang Baibing, 162 , 164 , 169

Yang Dezhi, 161 , 162

Yang Lieyu, 54

Yang Shangkun, 108 n.19, 157 , 158 , 162 , 165 , 171 , 179

and military affairs, 167

and Military Commission, 160 , 161 , 169 , 172

and military rank, 164 -65

Yang Zhong, 61

Yangtze River, 45 , 291 , 292 , 301 , 304

Yangtze River bridge, 293

Yangtze River Joint Transportation Company, 301

Yangtze River Valley Planning Office, 50 , 55

Yao Yilin, 40 , 108 n.19, 109

and economic reform, 115

Yu Qiuli, 56 , 109 n.19, 161 , 162

Yueyang district, 354 , 355

Z

Zhang Aiping, 161 , 162 , 167 , 173 , 177

Zhang Jingfu, 103 , 122

Zhang Wentian, 118

Zhao Donghuan, 124

Zhao Nanqi, 162 , 163

Zhao Ziyang, 28 , 40 , 64 , 87 , 102 , 106 , 108 , 112 , 114 n.26, 122 , 123 , 125 , 147 , 179 , 289

and administrative decentralization, 84

and decision-making apparatus, 24

and economic reforms, 60 , 67 , 77 -79, 81 , 115 , 116 , 288

and education, 184

and Finance and Economics Leading Group, 120

and Military Commission, 161 -62

and military rank, 164 -65

and the Party, 66

political strategy of, 86 -87

and political system, 65 , 109 -11

and research centers, 131 , 133 n.23

and research institutes, 14 , 15

and Three Gorges Dam, 49

Zhechuan Xian, 48

Zheng Yunfei, 285 , 288 , 291 , 299 , 306

Zhengzhou, 48

Zhongguo Jiaoyubao , 195

Zhongnanhai, 65 , 130

Zhou Jie, 123

Zhou Taihe, 122 , 292 , 293

Zhujiang, 343 , 355

Zweig, David, 16 , 18 , 19 -20, 22 , 29 , 30


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Preferred Citation: Lieberthal, Kenneth G., and David M. Lampton, editors Bureaucracy, Politics, and Decision Making in Post-Mao China. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1992 1992. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft0k40035t/