What is the United Front Work Department

The full name of the United Front Department is the Department of United Front Work. The United Front Department of the Central Committee is the functional department of the Central Committee in charge of the United Front work. At the beginning of the 1950s, the central government defined the basic functions of the United Front Department as "understanding the situation, mastering policies, adjusting relations, and arranging personnel". After entering the new historical period centered on economic construction, the patriotic united front has been further consolidated and developed, and the connotation of the basic functions of the United Front Department has been deepened and enriched. The work of the United Front Department consists of: 1) investigating and studying the theory, guidelines and policies of the United Front, organizing the implementation of the Central Government's guidelines and policies on the United Front, checking the implementation of the United Front policies, and coordinating the relations between the various aspects of the United Front; 2) investigating, studying, coordinating and checking the major guideline and policy issues relating to the work of nationalities and religions; 3) carrying out the work of overseas united front work focusing on the unification of the motherland; 4) being responsible for the political arrangements for people outside the Party; 5, investigating, studying and reflecting the situation of people representing China's non-publicly owned economy, coordinating relations, and putting forward policy recommendations; 6, carrying out propaganda work for the united front at home and abroad; and 7, accomplishing other tasks assigned by the CPC Central Committee.