There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding in this thread that there can be chinese companies that are somehow separate from the government. All chinese companies are defacto part of the government. The CEO of all chinese enterprises is Xi Jinping.
No idea why you’re being downvoted. This is 100% correct, China requires party members to be on the boards of companies and Xi is the head of the party.
Only some companies… logically assess what you are saying: for all business, government has board representation!? How would that scale? Where would the government get that kind is workforce?
I am not suggesting but saying that the CCP has a pool of members to tap into and is able to force companies to make them members of their board. Junior members will grow older, can be board member of small companies in the countryside in the beginning, then evolve as they grow. Older members can be board members of 10+ Big companies.
There are 26 million (official) companies in china. Just to orchestrate such a thing would require an entire department/ministry... could you point out which part of the chinese government apparatus that is?
This is just the normal Chinese gov control everything narrative that people who've basically not spent a lot of time in china tell themselves for whatever reasons.
CCP preserves CCPs power. That's its main focus, it controls what it needs to, to do that. Which it achieves by controlling just the top tier business like 10-20 of them. The other 25,999,980 businesses would likely never hear anything from the CCP in any meaningful way.
This is not dissimilar to how government has fairly significant influence over Amazon/Apple/Facebook etc in the US.
Note: I'm not defending CCP here, they do stupid/bad stuff but controlling every single business is not one of them.
How is that remotely relevant. At any time a senior figure in the CCP can wipe out the company, hire or fire anyone, put anyone in jail, get anyone out of jail, changes it's managerial direction with a memo, outlaw it's entire industry, make legal it's formerly illegal business, etc, etc. There is not even the concept of private property under the hilarious pretext of chinese "law". Everything is "leased" from the government to be taken back for any reason or no reason at all at any time. There are probably a lot of companies the CCP does really give a shit about but that doesn't mean they aren't the ultimate bosses of them.
There are a lot of broken things in the US but it does have some modicum of separation between business entities and the government as well as a sort of psuedo attempt at rule of law.
"The party’s efforts to place itself inside private companies have been, according to its own figures, very successful. One recent survey by the Central Organisation Department, the party’s personnel body, found that 68% of China’s private companies had party bodies by 2016, and 70% of foreign enterprises. Although these figures sound high, they don’t match the targets the party has set for itself. In Xi’s old stamping ground of Zhejiang, for example, officials set a target in August 2018 to have cells inside 95% of private businesses. There was a need, the survey said, to retain the revolutionary spirit inside the companies as their ownership was handed on to the next generation."[0]
“For us small businesses, we have no choice but to follow the party,” says Li Jun, a 50-year-old owner of a fish-farming business in the eastern Jiangsu province. “Even so, we’re not benefiting at all from government policies.” [0]
You are now referring to regulation. Not direct party influence of companies. This is the same as Californian companies complaining they have to follow strict environmental regulations: we have no choice.
Not saying its true but this is the reason a lot of people suspect the same thing is happening in the US under the guise of diversity organizations that suddenly started popping up in most major corporations over the last few years.
But they aren’t. Most companies have no direct influence from the government (outside of regulation). Just the big ones… which is pretty similar to the US.
