ABSTRACT
Political-military policymaking and policy implementation in the People's Republic of China involve many institutions. At the regional level four institutions are included for analysis: the military region headquarters, the province level military district headquarters, the province level party organization, and province level government leadership organizations. The general role of the party committee in each province is to adapt national party policy to local conditions. This requires the development of more specific policy guidelines and monitoring the implementation of policy within the province. Commanders and deputy commanders in the command system and first political commissars and commissars in the political commissar system. In center-province relations local interests conflict with national interests and at the province level parochial interests create tensions between institutions. Institutional interests are based upon the organizational task. The task of the party is to define goals and direction and to provide the leadership for all aspects and levels of social, political and economic change.
