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Exam-based Civil Service Prevails in China

China has employed more than 700,000 civil servants from 2.4 million candidates through the annual civil service examinations since 1994, according to the Ministry of Personnel.


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China has employed more than 700,000 civil servants from 2.4 million candidates through the annual civil service examinations since 1994, according to the Ministry of Personnel.

Of the 700,000 civil servants, 100,000 came from government agencies or state-owned enterprises, 40,000 from non-state enterprises and social institutions, and 5,000 had been farmers.

Statistics show 97,494 college graduates had been employed by various levels of government by late 2000.

"The civil servant examination is based on the principle of transparency, fairness, competition, and merit," said Liu Jialin,director of the civil servant department of the Ministry of Personnel.

Departments and subsidiaries of the central government had enrolled over 23,000 civil servants since 1994 and the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities of China had employed 439,000 from 2000 to late 2002.

Some local governments even tried to select civil servants from candidates across China, breaking the traditional rule that a local government can only employ staff from its own territory.

China now boasts 4.98 million civil servants in various governments, with all the junior civil servants in the central government departments employed via the civil service exam, according to the ministry.

The country started a trial use of the civil service system in 1989 and issued the Provisional Regulations of Public Service System on October 1, 1993, which marked its official beginning.

China had designed the exam in a bid to build a large contingent of civil servants who would be young, well-educated, politically reliable and full of vigor and vitality, said Liu.

On the other hand, China had also moved to simplify its administration by way of cutting 20 to 25 percent of the administrative personnel in the past decade.

From 1996 to 2002, 28,626 civil servants resigned due to personal reasons while some 15,000 were fired, said the personnel ministry.

Before the implementation of the dismissal system in 1992, it was very common for an office worker to stay at his post for life provided he observed the laws and avoiding committing serious mistakes.


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