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China Mass Organizations
In its efforts toward enlisting broad popular support and
involvement, the CCP in 1987 continued to rely on mass
organizations,
"democratic parties"
(see Glossary), and
professional organizations. These organizations, affiliated
directly and indirectly with the CCP, were without exception headed
by and permeated with party cadres. As secondary or auxiliary
vehicles for the party's "mass line," the organizations constituted
a united front of support for the party line and policies and
conveyed the impression desired by the party that the broad strata
of the population endorsed and was unified behind the communist
leadership. Moreover, mass organizations were used as a means to
penetrate the society at large, encourage popular participation,
mobilize the masses, and integrate them into party-directed
political life.
Data as of July 1987
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