Party: United Front Work of the Communist Party Among the Business-Persons and Non-Public Economic Organizations

Opinions on “Strengthening the United Front Work within the Non-public sector of Economy in the New Era” issued and circulated by the General Office of the CPC Central Committee

Sep 15, 2020

Translator: Ali Elik

Translator’s note: Since CPC thinks public economic sector and non-public economic sector are complementary, CPC generally uses the term non-public economic sector instead of private economic sector. According to political terminology in China “business-persons” or “Non-public economic persons” refer to representative figures among groups such as individual industrial and commercial households, private business owners, and natural person shareholders in joint-stock companies. In the actual work of the united front, they mainly refer to representative figures among private business owners. Non-public economic organizations are companies, groups, firms, enterprises, institutions, research institutes, agencies , associations, private equity funds, or parts or combinations of the above organizations. The Government’s (State Council’s) Leading Group for Small and Medium Enterprises, the Non- state-owned Economy Division of the Enterprise Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, the China Non-public Economy Yearbook, the Institute of Private Economy of Peking University, the China Non-state-owned Economy Yearbook , the China Non-state-owned Economy Network , the China Non-state-owned Economy Briefing , the China Non-state-owned Economy Research Association , the China Private Economy Research Association.

As of the end of March 2023, the number of registered non-public enterprises in China has exceeded 49 million

The Text of the Opinion on Strengthening the United Front Work within the Non-public sector of Economy in the New Era”  is as follows:

Since reform and opening up, China’s non-public sector of economy has continued to develop rapidly, and the Party has performed its United Front work within the non-public sector of economy with constant innovation. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (2012), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has put forward a series of new concepts, thoughts, and strategies and has adopted a series of major measures to guide and promote the United Front work in the non-public sector of economy, achieving remarkable results. the same time, it must be seen that socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era. The scale of the non-public sector of economy has continued to expand; risks and challenges have increased significantly; the values ​​and interest demands of practitioners in the non-public sector of economy is becoming increasingly diverse; and United Front work in the non-public sector of economy is facing new situations and new tasks.

In order to thoroughly implement the major decisions and plans of the Party Central Committee, further strengthen the Party’s leadership over United Front work in the non-public sector of economy, and better integrate the wisdom and strength of non-public sector of economy practitioners to achieve the goals and tasks of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation the following opinions are hereby offered.

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