Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party
The Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, also known as the Propaganda Department or Central Propaganda Department, is an internal division of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in charge of spreading its ideology, media regulation, as well as creation and dissemination of propaganda.[1][2][3] The department is also one of the main entities that enforces media censorship and control in the People's Republic of China.[2][4] The department is a key organ in the CCP's propaganda system, and its inner operations are highly secretive.[1][5]
"Central Propaganda Department" redirects here. For the Vietnamese department, see Central Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of Vietnam.Abbreviation
Zhongxuanbu (中宣部)
May 1924
Department directly reporting to the Central Committee
Ministerial level agency
5 Chang'an Avenue, Xicheng District, Beijing
中共中央宣传部
中共中央宣傳部
Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Xuānchuán Bù
Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Xuānchuán Bù
History[edit]
The department was founded in May 1924, and was suspended during the Cultural Revolution, until it was restored in October 1977.[1] In 2018, the newly created National Radio and Television Administration was put under its control.[4][6]
Structure[edit]
A 1977 directive on the re-establishment of the Central Propaganda Department reveals the structure and organization of the "extremely secretive" body, according to Anne-Marie Brady.[1] The directive states that the department will be set up with one Director and several deputies, and the organizational structure will be set up with one office and five bureaus. The office is in charge of political, secretarial and administrative work, and the five bureaus are: the Bureau of Theory, Bureau of Propaganda and Education, Bureau of Arts and Culture, Bureau of News, and Bureau of Publishing. The directive states that the staff will be fixed at around 200 personnel, selected from propaganda personnel across the country in consultation with the Central Organization Department.[1]
The leadership of the Propaganda Department is selected with guidance from the CCP General Secretary and the Politburo Standing Committee member responsible for the media, while local committees of the Propaganda Department work with lower levels of the party-state hierarchy to transmit content priorities to the media.[22]
New departments and offices were set up in 2004 to deal with the growing demands of information control. One, the Bureau of Public Opinion, is in charge of commissioning public opinion surveys and other relevant research.[1]
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