What does the united front department do and what are its functions?

The United Front Work Department is the functional department of the Party Central Committee in charge of the united front work, and is the staff and assistant of the Party Central Committee in the united front work.

Related functions:

Investigating and researching the theory, guidelines and policies of the United Front, organizing the implementation of the Central Committee's guidelines and policies on the United Front; reflecting the overall situation of the United Front to the Central Committee, and putting forward opinions and suggestions on carrying out the work of the United Front; checking the implementation of the policies of the United Front, and coordinating the relations between the various aspects of the United Front.

Responsible for contacting democratic parties and personages representing no party affiliation, informing them of the situation in a timely manner, and reflecting their opinions and suggestions; studying and implementing the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Party, as well as the policies and guidelines for democratic parties.

Expanded Information

Related Background:

In the early 1950s, the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China (PRC) defined the basic functions of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) as "to understand the situation, grasp the policies, adjust the relationship and arrange the personnel". After entering a new historical period centered on economic construction, the patriotic united front was further consolidated and developed, and the basic functions of the united front departments were deepened and enriched.

From September 24 to 26, 1948, the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China issued a series of telegrams deciding "to rename the Central Urban Work Department as the Central United Front Work Department, to manage the work in the areas ruled by the Kuomintang, the work of the domestic ethnic minorities, the united front work of the regime, the work of the overseas Chinese and the liaison with sister parties in the East," and to take specific charge of Preparations for the convening of the new CPPCC. The head of the Central Committee's United Front Work Department was Li Weihan.

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