China to Step up Personnel Management ReformTo make its state-funded institutions more dynamic, China will speed up reforms of their personnel management, including offering contracted employment and flexible salaries.Speaking Friday at a joint press conference, Zhang Xuezhong, executive vice-minister of personnel, said the move, designed to build an army of better quality professionals and give full play to their initiative, will be introduced into the institutions of scientific research, higher learning and public health. Such reforms will then move on to state-funded cultural, radio and television, and publishing institutions, according to senior officials from the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee, and the ministries of Education, Science and Technology, and Health. Officials say new personnel management systems suited to different institutions should be established, and the personnel management system for the Communist Party of China (CPC) and government departments should no longer be used by state-funded institutions. The personnel management systems of the state-funded institutions should separate themselves from those of the party and the government departments, said the officials. The reform measures also include the expansion of power of different institutions in personnel management in line with their actual conditions and establishment of a mechanism of self-review by state-funded institutions. |
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