Learning, training, and governing: the CCP’s cadre education since the reform

This article examines the current institutions, structure, function, and features of the CCP’s cadre education and training system, with particular analysis of its significance and implication to improve the quality of CCP’s cadres at different levels and to increase the CCP’s capacity to govern the country. This article argues that as the sole ruling party controlling all core political power in China, the CCP’s quality and capacity directly determine whether China’s state governance is strong or weak, and good or bad. Accordingly, the CCP’s cadre education and training system is one part of the national governance system. On the one hand, in order to modernize the national governance system, it is necessary to modernize the CCP’s cadre education and training system. On the other hand, the future reforms and innovations in the CCP’s cadre education and training system will greatly promote the modernization of both the CCP itself and the state governance.