The Central Policy Research Office (CPRO) is an institution of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party responsible for providing policy recommendations and insights to matters of governance,spanning political,social,and economic realms. It is responsible for drafting the ideology and theories of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),as well as various policy pronouncements at major congresses or plenums.
This office was founded in 1981,[1] following the Cultural Revolution and Boluan Fanzheng. Initially,it was an office under the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party. Deng Liqun served as its first director. In 1987,after the ouster of reformer Hu Yaobang as CCP General Secretary and also as a result of Deng Liqun being politically sidelined,the office was re-organized and renamed as the Central Office for Political Structure Reform,headed by Bao Tong,at the time the main secretary to then-party leader Zhao Ziyang. Bao was later purged along with his boss,when Zhao fell out of favour after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. In that year,the Political Reform Office was merged with the "Central Rural Research Office",after which it took on its current name.[citation needed]
The office is tasked with drafting the work reports to the party congresses and major party conferences,including Party Congress reports and plenum decisions,as well as drafting and revising "major documents of the party centre" and "some major speeches of central leaders." It also provides insights and research for party ideology and theories,as well as the feasibility of major policy initiatives.[1][5] It is also to analyze and collect data on the state of the economy and send related recommendations to the party leadership.[3]
Structure
The office is composed of several departments,each overseeing politics,economics,"party-building",philosophy and history,culture,international affairs,general affairs,and rural affairs,respectively. In 2007,a department focused on "social affairs" was created.[3] The office is located within the CCP General Office,which has been called the party's "nerve center".[4]
1 2 3 "中共中央政策研究室原副主任解密：中央深改组将如何推进"[Former deputy director of the Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee declassified: How will the deep reorganization of the Central Committee be promoted?]. Xinhua News Agency. March 13, 2014. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014.
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