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| CPC committee takes on a new look (11/11/2002) |
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Bao Fumin is an independent producer and
director in Shanghai. Many of his TV serials have proved a hit with
viewers in the city. In 1993, he resigned from Shanghai Film Studio to xiahai, meaning to resign from one's work unit and set up one's own business. It has made it more convenient for Bao to make and shoot TV dramas on his own, instead of working at the State-owned film studio. But as a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), he ran into a small - yet important - problem. One month after he left Shanghai Film Studio, Bao came back to the Party branch there to hand in his membership dues. Since he joined the CPC several years ago, he had been making the payments every month. To his surprise, the secretary of the Party branch would not accept the dues any more. "You have left Shanghai Film Studio, so you should not hand in membership dues here," he was informed. Bao recalled: "Suddenly I felt as if I had been abandoned by the Party." Many CPC members in China have experienced similar problems. After the country launched its ambitious reform and opening up efforts, non-State economic elements boomed. Many CPC members left their State-owned work units, such as government departments, academic institutions and State-owned enterprises, and joined private domestic or overseas-funded companies, or set up their own businesses. This left them without a place to hand in membership dues and lead "Party lives," as there were no Party branches in most private enterprises for many years. In Shanghai alone, there are currently more than 13,000 non-State enterprises with as many as 1.4 million employees. In 1992, the first Party committee for the new economic elements was founded. For CPC members such as Bao, who could not find an appropriate Party branch to join. In the 10 years that followed, Party committees of new economic elements have acquired nearly 7,000 members. Many Party branch secretaries are general managers of the private companies. Zhang Qianqian, the general manager at the Shanghai office of a Hong Kong-funded enterprise, is also the secretary of the 201 Party Branch with more than 80 members from more than 30 enterprises. It takes him a great deal of time to organize activities for the 80-odd Party members, but Zhang said he is willing to do these things. (China Daily)
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