A meeting by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (Sasac), which appoints top executives in SOEs and approves mergers and sales of their assets, was held in Beijing on Monday.
It was decided that the rules will link pay, appointment or dismissal and other rewards or punishments to assessments of how well individuals carrying out “party building” work, the article said.
“We must resolutely assess party building, without tests there is no way to hold (people) accountable,” Hao Peng, party secretary of Sasac said at the meeting, according to the state broadcaster.
The party appoints party executives to top positions in SOEs, and party loyalty has always been a part of assessing officials’ performance. All institutions and companies must have a party unit to register with the authorities.
But as China’s SOEs began to internationalize and take some entities public, the party role has waned in some organizations, with executives choosing their business role over party work, a phenomenon the new rules hope to address.
“The party committee secretary and chairman are shouldered as one; two jobs, two duties with only one person in charge; we must resolutely avoid paying attention to one while neglecting the other,” Hao Peng said, according to the People’s Daily.
