The Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China is the highest military leadership under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Its main function is to directly lead the national armed forces. Its members are determined by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China is composed of Chairman, vice-Chairman and commission members, and it enforces the Chairman responsibility system. The party organization of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army works under the guidance of the Central Commission. The political work organ of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China is the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, and it takes in charge of the work of the Party and political works in the army. In the army, the Central Military Commission has the power to determine the organization structure and the organs of the Party.
Since January 1, 2018, according to the Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China regarding adjustment on the leadership and command system of the Chinese people’s Armed Police Force, the unified leadership of the People’s Armed Police should be the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission, and the leadership and command system shall be armed force led by People’s Armed Police, and People’s Armed Police led by the Central Military Commission. Such Decision also specifies that the People’s Armed Police shall be governed and belong to the organizational system of the Central Military Commission, rather than the State Council. The development of the People’s Armed Police shall be organized and guided in accordance with the organization relationship provided by the Central Military Commission. The Central and National relevant departments, Party commission at local levels and government and armed police at different levels shall establish appropriate task requirements and work coordination mechanism. Such Decision further requires that different departments at local levels, the people’s liberation army and the armed police must resolutely implement the decision making arrangements of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, strengthen “four consciousness” which requires to view, analyse, and deal with problems politically; consciously look at the problem from the overall situation, put the work into the overall situation to think, position, manipulate, achieve a correct understanding of the overall situation, consciously obey the overall situation, resolutely safeguard the overall situation; identify with the core ideologically, revolve around the core politically, serve from the core in the organization, maintain the core in the action; and act in line with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in line with the Party’s theory, plan, principles and policies, and in line with the Central Committee’s decision-making arrangements, firmly response to the advocation of Central Committee, firmly implement Central Committee’s decision and firmly refuse to act in violation of Central Committee’s provisions.