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The press in Communist China is essentially a pol'al instrument with which the regime conducts Socialist & Communist educ among the masses. To ensure maximum effectiveness & absolute pol'al reliability, the regime has developed a rigid control system which is much broader in scope & more positive in nature than any conventional censorship. The controls fall into 4 major categories: org'al, personnel, editorial, & operational. Through org'al control the regime determines the structural set-up of the press while personnel control enables it to have unquestionably loyal people serve as staff members of the newspapers. Editorial control is effected through several devices, including enactment of standing rules, issuance of directives, monopoly of news supply, examination of editorial plans, scrutiny of feature stories, & direct drawing up on editorial plans. Through operational control the regime supervises the finances & circulation of the paper. The regime has reaped handsome rewards from this control system. However, the same system has had certain adverse effects including sterilization of the newsmen & incapacitation of the press as a possible critic of or unofficial adviser to the gov on national nolicv AA-IPSA.

The 8th Central Committee (CC) of the Chinese Communist Party, elected in September 1956, consists of 94 men & 3 women, including almost all of the full & alternate members of the 7th CC elected 11 yrs earlier, a remarkable showing of leadership stability. Instead of having a proletarian background the leaders were mostly born to Mc or UMc families. With a (mean - average) age of 53, they are time-tested & dedicated Communists. Coming largely from the Middle Yangtze basin, with Hunan Province (home of Mao Tse-tung) sharing nearly 33% of the (total - sum) membership, an overwhelming majority of the members are well-educated & have gained recognition by working principally as military commanders & party organizers. By holding multiple, strategic posts in the party, gov & mass org's, these 97 leaders have effective control over all aspects of the national life. But the membership list also shows that a rigid seniority rule has been developed in the party that may unduly restrict the party's ability to accommodate brilliant new converts. AA-IPSA.