How is the “Ministry-Level Official” Made?: From the Perspective of Human Capital Value

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10.2991/assehr.k.200826.249How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Ministry-level Officials, Human Capital, Résumé Analysis, Proper Official Selection and Appointment

Abstract

As a key elite group, political leaders and officials play a critical role in the course of China’s reform and the performance of holistic governance. Taking the "first level officials" of China, namely the ministerial level officials, as the research object, this study attempts to analyze the composition of human capital of Chinese political leaders and officials and explore the capabilities of Chinese senior political leaders and officials, in order to provide support for the official selection and appointment of modern governance in China. Public personal résumés of 239 ministry-level officials and 36 ousted province- and ministry-level officials were gleaned and started from the analysis of their personal information, educational background, professional competence, experiences of studying or working abroad and position transfers. Thereafter, on the one hand, descriptive statistics were used to describe a general picture of these officials, analyze unique traits of ousted officials and attempt to explore cumulative factors of these officials’ human capital; on the other hand, correlation tests and hierarchical regression analysis were used to analyze the influence of variables on political promotion. Finally, we believe that the human capital of public-sector political leaders and officials mainly accrues from general human capital based on personal traits, cultural capital, technical capital, social capital and political capital. Moral virtues and professional competence ministry-level officials should be possessed of and the human capital they should accrue for their current positions has been explored with a view to making them overcome weaknesses and become more competent.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Na PAN
AU  - Zhi-dan DING
AU  - Ning ZHAO
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/28
TI  - How is the “Ministry-Level Official” Made?: From the Perspective of Human Capital Value
BT  - Proceedings of the 2020 4th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1200
EP  - 1212
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200826.249
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200826.249
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