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Useful but I can't bebeve it's quite this

mechanistic.

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1 8 MAN 1997

FROM: R Fletcher-Cooke

Far Eastern Department

DATE: 24 February 1987

CC: PS

PS/Mr Renton

PS/PUS

Mr Boyd

Sir B Wilson

Mr McLaren

Planning Staff

HKD

Research D

Sir P Craddock, No 10

Assessment Staff

CHINESE LEADERSHIP

JA

1. In a manuscript note on Peking telno 173, Mr Gillmore asked if

we had a chart or organigram of the Chinese leadership.

To my

knowledge, nothing exists which effectively draws together the most

important Party and State posts, and the personalities occupying those posts. Nevertheless, I have attempted to set out some of the

relationships on the attached chart.

2. I have listed the principal organs of political power down the

left side of the page, in more or less descending order of

importance: ie. Party positions are more influential than State

positions, and within the State apparatus, Government and State

Council posts (effectively the Executive) are more influential than

Congress posts, although Congress is technically the superior body

and is indeed slowly becoming more influential over time. Below

those, I have listed two further positions which have been mentioned

recently.