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8.
The Commune C.C.P. Committee is headed by a First
Secretary with a Second Secretary as deputy and as is normal
practice, it has a small Standing Committee of an uneven
number of selected leading members, headed by the First
Secretary, whose permanent task is to deal with routine
Party or policy affairs for which they account at full or
plenary meetings of the Committee. It is with this inner
core of leading Party members that the real power lies.
9.
Leading appointments in many commune C.C.P.
Committees and R.C.s are held concurrently by the same
individuals and in FU SHING, the appointments of Party
Committee First Secretary and R.C. Chairman are held by the
same individual. A diagrammatic chart showing the organi-
sation, subordination and inter-relation of the Party Commi-
ttee and R.C. vis-a-vis the County and subordinate units,. is
attached at Annex 'B'.
Commune R.C.
10.
The Commune R.C. is composed of leading C.C.P.
Committee members, together with prominent personalities
of the various management and administrative departments at
Commune HQ, together with activist personnel drawn from sub-
ordinate production or other units. The R.C. is responsible,
under the overall direction of the C.C.P. Committee, for
implementing policy, and for the leadership and administration
of all aspects of commune life.
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