The Emerging Model of Economic Policy Making under Xi Jinping

In the early years after the PRC was established Meanwhile, the party rediscovered the role of the (1949–1958), the CPC controlled the government legislature — the people’s congress system — and indirectly via those party members in charge of redefined it as the source of the state’s power. [...] At the central level, congress, and the party must act within the scope the CPC created the guiding principles and policies, of both the constitution and the law made by and the central government implemented specific the people’s congress, but the party remains in policies to realize these policies. [...] In organizations, including at all levels of governments accordance with the party constitution, the (from the State Council at the top to villages’ National Congress and the Central Committee committees at the bottom), the military (from are, theoretically, the two highest organs of the the Central Military Commission at the top to the party. [...] The party’s central authorities, the CPC’s Central Committee and the Politburo, constitute the The second tier includes the Secretariat of the highest level of leadership in the party. [...] The chair of the The third tier of the party’s central organization commission is the party's general secretary, consists of the departments under the Central reflecting the party’s control of the military.