China’s Central Military Industrial Enterprises Such as China Aviation Industry Group Start Headquarters Restructuring: Against Bureaucratization and Establishing Substance at Headquarters
Recently, several central state-owned enterprises, including China North Industries Group Corporation Limited and China Aviation Industry Group Corporation Limited, have announced the advancement of their headquarters institutional reforms.
According to the official website of China North Industries Group Corporation Limited on January 6, the group corporation held a meeting to promote the reform of its headquarters on January 3. Cheng Fubo, the secretary of the Party Leadership Group and chairman of the board, attended the meeting and spoke. Jiang Liangping, the deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group and member of the board, presided over the meeting and announced the notice on adjusting and optimizing the group corporation’s headquarters organization.
Cheng Fubo pointed out that the headquarters is the “brain” and “hub” of the group corporation, playing a special and crucial role in implementing the decisions and policies of the Party Central Committee, guiding and promoting deepening reforms and innovation development in various units. In the new era and new journey, the headquarters must undertake the responsibility of being a “first echelon” and fulfill its mission. All departments and employees of the headquarters need to strengthen their overall situation awareness, deeply understand the importance and necessity of the current reform of the headquarters institution, and with solid and effective reform achievements, better ensure the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions and directions as well as the decisions and policies of the Party Central Committee. They should also strengthen headquarters capacity building with advanced concepts, methods, and standards, and better meet the higher expectations of grassroots units for the headquarters.
Cheng Fubo emphasized that the current headquarters institutional reform focuses on strategic guidance, customer orientation, problem orientation, and efficiency. It adheres to the principle of seeking progress while being stable, comprehensively deepens reforms around function transformation, organization adjustment, mechanism optimization, and team building, accelerates the transformation of the headquarters from function management to process management, and builds a headquarters management system that includes strategic guidance, value creation, resource allocation, risk control, and collaborative services. It aims to create a new and strong headquarters that is systematic, scientifically standardized, and operates efficiently.
Earlier, on December 31st, 2024, China Aviation Industry Group Corporation Limited held a collective talk and announcement meeting on headquarters institutional reform, announcing the adjustment of headquarters organization and personnel arrangements. Zhou Xinmin, the secretary of the Party Leadership Group and chairman of the board, emphasized that the reform of AVIC headquarters is a systematic self-revolution. The core is to solidify the headquarters, promote “de-官僚化”, strengthen the awareness of serving grassroots units, and focus on value creation. By clarifying responsibility interfaces, constructing a scientific responsibility system; following process methods to optimize internal departments; targeting functional positioning to reasonably match departmental staffing; emphasizing role play and scientific job setting based on principles such as “people following affairs” and “suitability between people and positions,” personnel allocation is supported to further deepen the reform within the group company.
Zhou Xinmin also mentioned the need to internalize the requirements of party and state management for enterprise governance into the governance requirements of the group company, improve the management system, enhance management capabilities, and continuously iterate and improve to achieve optimal headquarter function configuration, resource allocation, and operational efficiency.
In addition, according to the WeChat official account “Dongfeng Toutiao”, Dongfeng Automobile held a start-up meeting for headquarter functional department adjustments on December 31st, 2024, announcing the adjustment plan for headquarter functional departments. It strives to transform the company’s headquarters from strategic control to an “operation + coordination” model.
Dongfeng Automobile’s deputy secretary Liu Yanhong announced the company’s Party committee’s decisions on cadre appointments: Yang Yanding concurrently serves as the deputy chief engineer of Dongfeng Automobile Group Co., Ltd., general manager of Dongfeng Automobile Group’s strategic planning department (brand management department), general manager of Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd.’s strategic planning department (brand management department); Zhang Jun concurrently serves as general manager of Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd.’s marketing management department; Zhang Yanjun serves as deputy general manager of Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd.’s product planning and project management department; Xu Bin serves as deputy general manager of Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd.’s procurement management department (bidding supervision office); Mao Zhijun serves as deputy general manager of Dongfeng Automobile Group’s manufacturing management department (safety and environmental protection department), general manager of Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd.’s manufacturing management department (safety and environmental protection department); Cui Zhifeng also serves in a similar role.
Company Chairman and Party Committee Secretary Yang Qing stated that this organizational adjustment is a necessary requirement for the company to adapt to competition in the new energy era and win the battle against new energy transformation and upgrading. Since establishing a three-level management system consisting of group companies, business sectors, and professional sub-companies in 1999, there have been minimal changes in
