ABSTRACT
The strategic aims and objectives of employee education are two-fold: to improve labour productivity and, via political education, to cultivate compliance with and commitment to the policies of the Chinese Communist Party. In the political lexicon of the 1980’s, these aims are set within the Party’s preoccupation with establishing the material and spiritual civilisation upon which Chinese socialism should rest. There is no single integrated or nationally comprehensive administrative system for employee education. Administrative control is exercised by an almost baffling and constantly shifting array of governmental and non-governmental agencies, most of which have considerable autonomy over education programmes conducted under their auspices. The central and local branches of several non-governmental mass organisations are concerned with the administration of employee education. Some act as providing agencies in their own right; others support programmes conducted by ministries and other mass organisations.
