General Office of the Central Military Commission


The General Office of the Central Military Commission is an administrative agency of the Central Military Commission at the theater deputy-grade, which assists the leaders with the day to day administrative operations of the CMC. Like all other CMC departments, it is a one institution with two names with both a state and Communist party name.

History

On November 11, 1949, the General Office of the People's Revolutionary Military Commission of the Central People's Government was established in the Jurentang of Zhongnanhai in Beijing as the administrative agency of the Central People's Revolutionary Military Commission. On 28 September 1954, the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party decided to re-establish the Central Military Commission of the CCP, with Mao Zedong as chairman, with 12 members, and no vice chairman or standing committee members. Peng Dehuai presided over the work of the CMC, and Huang Kecheng was selected as the Secretary-General. The General Office also served as the General Office of the Ministry of National Defense, and also had jurisdiction over the General Staff Headquarters office and management section. On 27 November 1954, the office was renamed "General Office of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China", serving concurrently as the General Office of the Ministry of National Defense. The daily work of the CMC General Office was presided over by the Secretary-General and Deputy Secretary-General. At the end of 1955, the CMC General Office moved out of Zhongnanhai.
In November 1965, in the run-in to the Cultural Revolution, Xiao Xiangrong, who had long served as the director of the CMC General Office, was criticized and dismissed for opposing "giving prominence to politics". The General Staff sent a working group to the General Office to carry out the "four clean-ups" in the agency. At the same time, the CCP Central Committee approved the creation of a General Office of the General Staff Department that would also serve as the General Office of the CMC. Yang Chengwu was appointed as the director of the General Office of the General Staff. The CMC General Office became a second-level department of the General Staff. After November 1969, all GO assets, as well as the Foreign Affairs Bureau, were transferred to the General Staff Administration Department. At the end of 1970, the seal of the "General Office of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army" started to be officially used.
In April 1979, the General Office was separated from the General Staff and subordinated directly to the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China, but it still served as the General Office of the Ministry of National Defense. After June 1983, it also served as the General Office of the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China.
Before the 2016 reforms, the General Office had the following structure:
  • Office of the CMC Chairman
  • Political Work Department
  • Secretariat Bureau
  • Comprehensive Research Bureau
  • Secrecy Bureau
  • Management Bureau
;Directly subordinate units
In November 2015, as part of military reforms, the department was reorganized into the General Office of the Central Military Commission.

Organization

After the 2016 reforms, the organization of the CMC General Office is as follows:

Internal Offices

  • General Office Secretariat
  • Guard Bureau
  • Political Work Bureau
  • Comprehensive Support Bureau
  • Classified Information Bureau
  • Secrecy and Archives Bureau
  • Complaints and Proposals Bureau
  • Legislative Bureau
  • Office of the CMC Chairman
  • Beidaihe Office

Directly subordinate units

Leadership

Director of the General Office of the Central People's Government People's Revolutionary Military Commission

  1. Luo Guibo
  2. Zhang Jingwu
  3. Zhu Zaoguan
  4. Maj Gen Xiao Xiangrong

Director of the General Office of the CCP Central Military Commission

Also the director the General Office of the PRC Central Military Commission from June 1983
  1. Lt Gen Xiao Xiangrong
  2. Yang Chengwu
  3. Lu Yang
  4. Xiao Jianfei
  5. Vacant
  6. Hu Wei
  7. Xiao Hongda
  8. Lt Gen Liu Kai
  9. Lt Gen Li Jijun
  10. Lt Gen Cheng Jianning
  11. Lt Gen Dong Liangju
  12. Lt Gen Tan Yuexin
  13. Lt Gen Jia Ting'an
  14. Lt Gen Wang Guanzhong
  15. Rear Adm Qin Shengxiang

Director of the General Office of the Central Military Commission

  1. Rear Adm Qin Shengxiang
  2. Lt Gen Zhong Shaojun
  3. Lt Gen Fang Yongxiang