Shan Gao on ” Reshaping the leadership of People’s Democratic Dictatorship: Mass Line Education in a nutshell”

Reshaping the leadership of People’s Democratic Dictatorship: Mass Line Education in a nutshell

Shan Gao

Introduction

Since the new administration of 18th Central Committee of CPC, there is a visible shift of Party work from emphasizing the governing power of the democratic dictatorship into emphasizing what qualify as proper execution of democratic dictatorship. The party leader understand that undesired working style and illegal or malpractice during the execution are the real elephant in room that deteriorate people-party ties and destabilized governing power , thus reshaping the leadership became an imminent theme for this administration. The lunch of Anti-Corruption campaign and the current Mass Line Education campaign focused on improving public perception of party leadership through two aspects: prosecute illegal and malpractice conducts by party members; exposed and intervene problems of working and life style. Both of the campaigns revealed party intent to reshape the leadership in the short term and reinstall law and orders in the long term.