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How Party Organizations Actually Work Inside Chinese Companies

An inside explanation, it is not what you think.

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Neil Zhu
Dec 05, 2025
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When people outside China hear that big Chinese companies have Communist Party organizations inside them, they usually jump to one word: control.

That reaction is predictable if all you see are headlines and Cold War language.
Inside China, Party organizations in enterprises are part of a very concrete system that links national strategy, corporate governance and long term planning.

This piece explains how that structure works from a Chinese institutional perspective, in simple, practical terms。

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