Chinese Personnel and Organization Work Timeline
组织人事工作大事记
What this is
Below, you will find an interactive explorer for personnel and organization work in the Chinese Reform Era (1978–1997). In total, there are about 2,700 organization work entries and 170 personnel work entries. Naturally, there’s some overlap between these entries, but they are not the same, and even when they note the same event, the events are glossed differently.
I compiled these entries from three sources I collected, scanned, OCR’d, and manually corrected: first, three timelines of significant events from the Research Office of the Central Organization Department — one covering 1978–1988, another covering 1989–1992, and a third covering 1993–1997. These cover not just relevant meetings, speeches, the release of relevant reports, and some statistics, but also the appointments and removals of significant figures. To these, I also added a less-exhaustive set of “personnel work” events from Xu and Sun’s 2009 book, “Reform of China’s Personnel Institutions, 1978–2008” (for the overlapping years).1
As you explore, please note that the format of entries changes over time; while some entries were possible to separate into discrete events, others list multiple events that took place on the same day. The Chinese text is the authoritative version. These data are provided for reference only; I make no guarantees as to their completeness or accuracy.
Footnotes
中共中央组织部研究室《党的组织工作大事记》(1978-1988,1989-1992,1993-1997); 徐颂陶 & 孙建立,《中国人事制度改革（1978-2008）》.↩︎