“选贤任能”与国家治理现代化: 历史梳理与制度分析

Abstract

Selection plus election (选贤任能制度), a modernized version of Confucian meritocracy, is written as a key strategy for the stability of the China Communist Party (CPC) leadership system. For short, the selection plus election system is a personnel system with Chinese characteristics and it has strong vitality and strength as proven by practice. The selection plus election system is a scientific system formed from the primitive flood and famine period (洪荒时期）, andthen experienced the changes of models such as abdication system (禅让制), hereditary system (世袭制), examination system (察举制), imperial examination system (科举制), appointment system (委任制), and selection system(选任制) . Reforms and learning should be continued to promote the innovation of the selection plus election system to make it better adapt to the needs of the modernization of national governance in China. The selection plus election system is not elite politics, nor democracy merely based on popular election, but a hybrid system based more on meritocratic leadership. More understanding and tolerance should be given to this experiment and further research should be conducted to analyse this system as well.