{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.organization-department-of-the-chinese-communist-party","code":"thing-q1074635","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1074635/","name":"Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"The Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee is a central Party organ responsible for organizational development and cadre management, including personnel assessment and appointments within its assigned authority.","purpose":"Enable an agent to identify the Chinese Communist Party's central Organization Department, assess its organizational and cadre-management responsibilities, and distinguish its authority 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central department to local organization departments for the function being modeled?","id":"central-local-authority-links-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"How does that relationship interact with a local organization department's accountability to its own Party committee?","id":"central-local-authority-links-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"civil-service-and-talent-arrangements","name":"Civil-Service and Talent Arrangements","description":"Examines function-specific arrangements whose names or responsibilities may change through reform.","findings":[{"id":"cross-institutional-function-allocation","name":"Cross-Institutional Function Allocation","description":"Record verified civil-service and talent-work responsibilities together with counterpart institutions and effective dates.","questions":[{"text":"What is the documented relationship between the department and the institution named the National Civil Service Administration for the period under 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