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Kung Tzu-jung
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A specialist in Party organization and control, Kung Tzu-jung first emerged in 1953 during a Party campaign to train personnel in the study of key Communist Party documents. Kung was placed in charge of a two-month class to “provide personnel to guide intermediate study groups in the study of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)," one of the most important documents in the history of modern Communism. After the appropriate cadres were trained in this preparatory class, a nationwide campaign began in July 1953 to study this guide book to Communist Party theory and organization. The class was organized by two important but little-publicized organs of the Party Central Committee: the Committee for Organs Directly under the Party Central Committee and the Committee for Organs Directly under the Central People’s Government (the latter is also known as the Central State Organs Committee). Kung’s exact position at this time is not known, but it was probably associated with the Central State Organs Committee, the body charged with the supervision of Party members working in the central government. In any event, he was serving as the first secretary of this committee by 1957 (see below).
Career
Kung’s involvement with central government personnel made him a logical person for assignment to the State Council following the reorganization of the central government organs in the fall of 1954. He was named as one of the deputy secretaries-gcneral of the State Council, a post that placed him under Secretary-General Hsi Chung-hsun, another specialist in Party organizational work. Presumably, one of his major tasks has been as a liaison man between the State Council and the Party Central Committee. Little was heard of Kung until the Party’s Eighth National Congress in September 1956, when he served on the important 29-member Credentials Committee under the chairmanship of Party veteran Tung Pi-wu. Although he was the only one of the 29 not elected to the Party Central Committee at the close of the Congress, he received an appointment of considerable significance at the First Plenum, immediately after the Congress. The new post was as an alternate member of the Party’s Central Control Commission, a body also headed by Tung Pi-wu. The Commission had been established in 1955 in the wake of the alleged plot by the Kao Kang group to usurp Party leadership. When the Control Commission was reorganized and approximately tripled in size in September 1962 (at the 10th Plenum of the Central Committee), Kung was raised from alternate to full membership.
In October 1958 Kung was first identified in still another significant Party post, that of deputy director of the Staff Office of the Central Committee, an office that might be described as the headquarters of the Party’s Central Secretariat. In this position he serves under Yang Shang- k’un, who also heads the Committee for Organs Directly under the Party Central Committee, thus being placed in work that is very similar to that engaged in by Kung. In September 1959, Kung was reappointed as a deputy secretary- general of the State Council. Although he was relieved from this post in March 1965, the fact that he continues to hold three important Party posts suggests that this removal had no political significance. Furthermore, Kung had received another new post not long before; he was named in late 1964 to membership on the Fourth National Committee of the CPPCC as a representative of the CCP, and when the National Committee ended its initial session in January 1965, he was elected to membership on the Standing Committee of the CPPCC.
Politics
As already noted, Kung became first secretary of the Party’s Central State Organs Committee by 1957. This identification occurred in December 1957 during the peak of the 1957-58 “rectification” campaign designed to eliminate “rightist” thinking from Chinese society. In this post Kung is presumably the person in charge of the day-to-day training, guidance, and discipline of Party members working for the central government. It was in this capacity that he reported to a meeting of the Central State Organs Committee on December 5, 1957, on the progress of the “rectification” campaign among Party workers in the government. He spoke in a similar vein and in the same capacity to another meeting of the Committee held in mid-January 1958, as well as before a conference of Communist Youth League members employed by the central government (March 1958) and still another conference of “youth activists in socialists construction working for the national government” (October 1958). Kung also took part, in June 1958, in one of the Party campaigns to promote the egalitarian image of a leadership willing to work side by side with the masses in manual labor. Along with some of the most senior members of the Party elite, he participated in the work on the Ming Tombs Reservoir near Peking, serving as the “political commissar of a sub-division of workers” during this brief stint at toiling among the masses.
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Political Party
Chinese Communist Party
Career
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1954
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September, 1956
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October, 1958
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1964