How academies for cadres shape China’s ruling class
Bold, innovative thinking was once encouraged. No more
Communist party congresses are rubber-stamp affairs. The 2,300 delegates who will attend the five-yearly jamboree later this month in Beijing will have almost no chance of scuppering the decisions—already made in secret—that will be unveiled at the event. To ensure that they stay in line, many of them must undergo training. Delivering it is often the job of a vast system of schools that the party uses to transmit skills and ideology to bureaucrats.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Class struggle”
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