Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission

Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
中国共产党中央委员会政法委员会

Abbreviation	Chinese: 中央政法委; pinyin: Zhōngyāng Zhèngfǎwěi; lit. 'Central Poli-Legal Commission')
Predecessor	Central Leading Group for Political and Legal Affairs
Formation	March 6, 1990
Type	Commission directly reporting to the Central Committee Ministerial level agency
Legal status	Active
Headquarters	14 Beichizi Street (北池子大街), Dongcheng District, Beijing
Region	Mainland China
Secretary	Chen Wenqing
Deputy Secretary	Wang Xiaohong
(Other) Members	8
Secretary-General	Yin Bai
Parent organization	Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
Website	www.chinapeace.gov.cn

Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the Chinese Communist Party

Simplified Chinese

中共中央政法委员会

Traditional Chinese

中共中央政法委員會

Literal meaning

Chinese-Communist Central Politics-Law Commission

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōnggòng Zhōngyāng Zhèngfǎ Wěiyuánhuì

Abbreviation

Chinese

中央政法委

Literal meaning

Central Poli-Legal Commission

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Zhōngyāng Zhèngfǎwěi

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The Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (CPLC) (Chinese: 中共中央政法委员会), commonly referred to as Zhongyang Zhengfawei (中央政法委, literally "Central Poli-Legal Commission") in Chinese, is the organization under the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) responsible for "political and legal affairs". Based on the principles of Leninism and democratic centralism, the organization acts as the overseer and coordinator of all legal enforcement authorities, including the Ministries of State Security, Public Security and Justice, as well as the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate.^[1] All provincial, municipal, county and autonomous region CCP committees have their own political and legal affairs commissions.

The CPLC functions as "the general chief of staff of the party committees, and represents the party in overseeing the country’s intelligence, law enforcement, judicial, and to a lesser extent, lawmaking systems".^[1] The CPLC maintains effective control over the court system and its personnel.^[2] The CPLC ensures that courts implement CCP policies and vets law enforcement officers for political reliability.^[3]^[4] It is the "organizational linchpin of the Chinese surveillance state," according to Minxin Pei.^[5]^: 94 Its control of China's justice system has been especially useful and important for the CCP since the beginning of Chinese economic reform, because the CPLC has acted, through judges and prosecutors, to seize the assets and imprison those businesspeople who were becoming economically powerful enough to acquire a base independent from that of the party.^[1]

The commission is headed by a secretary who is usually a CCP Politburo member.

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^ Stone Sweet, Alec; Bu, Chong; Zhuo, Ding (25 May 2023). "Breaching the Taboo? Constitutional Dimensions of the New Chinese Civil Code". Asian Journal of Comparative Law. 18 (3): 319–344. doi:10.1017/asjcl.2023.18. ISSN 2194-6078.
^ "How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own". The Economist. February 15, 2024. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2024-02-15.
^ Pei, Minxin (2023-12-31). The Sentinel State: Surveillance and the Survival of Dictatorship in China. Harvard University Press. doi:10.4159/9780674296459. ISBN 978-0-674-29645-9. JSTOR jj.10860939. OCLC 1419055794.