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The Party-State Relationship in Post-Mao China

party, for which the special term ’party-state’ has been created. The Communist Party is ’the state of the state’. All the key policy decisions in China since 1949 are made outside the government but are entirely monopolised by the party. The Party defines its function as that of making all the crucial decisions, which the government must carry out. The existence of party leading groups in units of the state organ ensures the structural dominance of the party. Members of Party standing committees at the various levels are each in charge of one or the other governmental function or operation. Two decades of post-Mao reform have brought about a considerable change in many aspects of China. However, to what extent has the post-Mao reform changed the nature of the Chinese political system? Does the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continue to construct and mould government, regime and state in its own ideology, principles, norms, rules, image and need? Does the CCP continue to dictate politics and do party organisations continue to dominate every sector of the state? In other words, what is the party-