Application for AIPE

Essay : Describe an economic or political problem facing your country and how you would solve it as a leader.

As for my beloved motherland, People’s Republic of China, one of the most urgent political problems, in my opinion, should be the integration of the party and the government administration. It is a problem left by the history and never be considered as a problem. If I were a leader, I would say, to solve the problem is not impossible, especially with previous experience from other countries.

First of all, the problem mentioned above needs further clarification. When the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) being the one and the only party who controls the power, it becomes inevitably that from the very beginning the whole government administration is based on the party and designed by the party. Based on the party means that the government officials are mainly party members, and designed by the party indicates that the benefit-receiver is the party, though it always emphasizes that it represents the majority of Chinese. With the ideology system of the party rooted in the government administration, the other superstructures of the country, including the law, the culture, the education, etc., are all affected. Thus, the development of the country becomes party-centered, and to some extent relies on the party. It is more or less similar to the traditional Chinese empirical system, which depends largely on the quality of the center of the country.

If the history as well as the probable future of the problem to be discussed here, even 5000 words will not do. So I will directly go on to the next step: try to solve the problem as if I were the leader of China. As a matter of fact, there are two roads ahead: one is to maintain the system, until it collapses, and be the one who are to blame; or to be wiser, which means to separate the party and the government administration gradually. Being a huge country who takes more and more responsibilities in the world of globalization, revolution will never be a good idea. However, to make it a peaceful evolution, several steps can be carried out: to open the door of free press so as to diversify the ideological foundation; to encourage more non-party members to be the officials and to implant a suitable election system at the same time; to self-regulate the party in order to make the party stronger and healthier. In this way, when the separation is done, more operations on the superstructure can be carried out and more development can be expected, as shown in Poland’s case last century.

To summarize briefly, the integration of the party and the government administration is one of the political problems in China, and I would solve it in a peaceful evolution way if I were the leader.