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Abstract
In the last 30 years, China's ruling party, with its Reform and Opening, has made achievements that have astonished the world. In that same time span, the Party has overcome a variety of foreseeable and non-foreseeable challenges. Meeting these challenges, even turning them into momentum for reform and resources for institutional innovation, is a matter of great importance for the existence and evolution of the current system. This article considers three challenges facing the Party from the angle of organization-building: the challenge of democratic elections, revolving around village self-government; the challenge of social fragmentation resulting from the market economy; and the challenge, intimately linked to the first two, of a growing civil society. Amidst our missteps, as we "cross the river by feeling the stones", the ruling Party has adopted various policy responses to these challenges. This article focuses on three organizing techniques: transition, co-optation, and permeation. After briefly introducing these three techniques, the article then attempts a holistic analysis and explores a few related theoretical issues.