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Now, we really want to emphasize though that there
is horizontal control by the CCP at all levels of the system.
And we can see this in this structure.
And you may have to get closer, to be able to see this clearly.
So here we have the legislature,
running basically from the I'll use my magic pen, running
from the National People's Congress, all the way down, level by level by level.
So, these are the legislature except that
law making is really only at the National People's Congress Level.
Some provincial level people's congresses can actually make some laws.
Over here, we have the government.
And so, the key player in the government is the Prime Minister.
And then he has a state council, and
then ministries running down level by level all the way to the county.
And you also have a government at each level of the system.
Provincial, municipal, county, township, and here, down here we have the village
committee which is actually the one place where there are relatively
Democratic elections, that's changed over time, but by in large but maybe 30,
40% of the elections that take place at the village committee are relatively free.
And so there, we actually find some democratic process going on,
people running for office.
We also have the courts and we have the Supreme Court, Supreme People's Court.
And here we have the Supreme People's Procurator, which is really the people,
the officials who try people, much like the Attorney General in the United States.
And then you have the courts that run down to the county level.
But the most important organization within the country and
you can see the arrows running across even here.
Provincial Party Committee running across to the bureaus,
they're running across the Provincial Level Government.
The key organization in all of this, is the party, the CCP,
the Chinese Communist Party.
Now, the Chinese Communist Party, I guess I'm going to have to go back and
forth on this to show you.
So here, what happens is that every five years, there will be
a National Party Congress, where people will get together and they party, right?
They have a National Party Congress, delegates are elected from
the localities to go into Beijing, to participate for about two weeks.
And during that time, they will elect a Central Committee.
I'll show you later, a slide that'll give you, show you the basic size of
the Central Committee, but it's about 200 full members, right?
Then the Central Committee will elect the Politburo.
And the Politburo will then elect a Secretariat.
There should be an arrow running here from the Politburo to the Standing Committee of
the Politburo and this is really the seat of power