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China Trade Unions
The most prominent mass organizations were given key
responsibility for supporting and implementing the reform program.
CCP Secretariat member Hao Jianxiu, speaking to an executive
meeting of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, said that "as
mass organizations of the working class, trade unions should stand
at the forefront of the ongoing economic reform in China. They
should blaze a new trail with distinct Chinese characteristics for
conducting trade union activities." Specifically, Federation
organizations were to aid members in acquiring modern scientific
knowledge and technological skill. Within the membership and its
affiliated organizations, intellectuals were to be protected and
considered as members of the working class. Workers acquired the
right to examine and discuss their factory director's principles,
management plans, reform programs, budgets, and accounts. They also
had the right to vote and to supervise and appraise leaders at all
organizational levels. The workers' congress, held twice a year,
was the organization empowered to exercise those rights. The
regular organization that managed the daily affairs was the trade
union body. These liberalizing changes were designed to improve
workers' morale and thereby their productivity.
Data as of July 1987
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