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CPC Branches in Private Enterprises
Bu Yaohu, a private enterprise owner in east China's Zhejiang Province, regards the grassroots organization of the Communist Party of China in his company as a dependable participator.
Bu rebuilt a 20-sq-m office as a room for the Party branch. In the room, colored photos of the ten members of the Party branch were hung on the wall.
Bu runs a supermarket chain-store company in Haining City. With 700 employees, the company has four supermarkets and 25 chain- stores.
"The Party branch is of great help to my company," the private enterprise owner said.
With the support and cooperation of the Party branch, the company is carrying out a reform of the employees' wage system.
The reform will change the current wage system, he said. The new system will focus on working ability and results rather than being based on working years, to raise or lower employees' wages.
Those performing outstanding work will earn 1,000 yuan (about 120 U.S. dollars) per month, up 300 yuan from their current wages.
The Party branch held a discussion on the change, and held that it would facilitate management and the tapping of the employees' initiative.
Qian Mengqing, secretary of the Party branch, said that after work the ten CPC members in the company often make efforts to solve problems which concern the employees.
Qian, 39 years old, is also chairman of the company's workers' union. "We by no means ask for extra pay from the company for our extra efforts," she said. "What we do is the duty of each Party member."
She joined the CPC 16 years ago. She was re-employed by the company four years ago as a laid-off worker from a local state- owned cotton-textile enterprise.
The Party is calling for its members to play an outstanding role in all walks of life, including the sector of private industry.
Last year, the CPC members were cited as outstanding employees of the company.
"Promoting the development of the privately-owned economy is one of the Party's polices," Qian said.
The company's Party branch was established last February, with the theme of implementing the Party's policies, and improving employee quality and the company's development.
"Studying related policies and laws about the country's private economy and playing the role of pioneer for the company's development in the new century have been listed in the Party branch's work plan this year.
Operating the business is the responsibility of the owner, but enhancing the employees' unity and initiative is the work of the Party branch, she said.
The Party branch is responsible for providing solutions for all employee marriage problems and poverty-relief issues. Meanwhile, it has sponsored diversified professional training programs for the employees.
In addition, the Party branch has organized a series of cultural and sports activities for the employees.
The development of the company would be impossible without the Party branch, Bu said.
"It is a bridge between me and the employees," he explained, adding that many valuable opinions and suggestions as well as supervision ideas are conveyed to the company's managers via the branch.
Last year, the Party branch suggested improving the living conditions of the employees during the hot summer. As a result, the company bought electric fans for the employees' dormitory, and promised to install air-conditioners.
Bao said that no conflicts have ever occurred between him and the Party branch.
"So far as I have not violated related laws and regulations in business operation, the Party branch has always supported and respected my decisions and property rights," he said.
The province's first batch of CPC branches set up in private companies, including that in Bu's company, were established about five years ago. More and more private enterprises in China favor the establishment of Party organizations in their enterprises.
Statistics show that more than 44,000 CPC branches and committees have been set up in private enterprises in the country. Zhejiang has over 10,000 such organizations in its private enterprises, and the CPC members in the enterprises reach 150,000, accounting for 2.08 percent of the total number of employees in the enterprises.
Zhejiang is one of the parts of China where private enterprises are most concentrated. By the end of 2000, the province had 180, 000 private enterprises, with three million employees.
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