If we want to know how difficult it is to be promoted to the main section level in the county seat, we must first understand what leading cadres are at the regular section level in the county seat.
1. Classification of cadres at the county level
Township-level cadres, commonly known as "township-level" and "department-level", are grass-roots cadres in the civil service system of the People's Republic of China. Since the implementation of the parallel ranks on June 1, 2019, the main section level includes the leadership positions of the main section level, as well as the first-level principal staff member (or the first-level host) and the second-level principal staff member (or the second-level host).
Let's take a look at how many regular departments there are in a county.
(1) Section-level leadership positions
1. Prefectural department directors (about 30 people)
Usually the level of the county is the department level, and the departments of the county are the department level, that is, the county's finance bureau, transportation bureau, education bureau, taxation bureau, urban construction bureau, human resources and social security bureau and other departments.
2. Township street leaders (about 20-30 people)
Townships and towns are all double chief officials, one secretary and one town mayor, and they are all cadres at the department level. Townships and towns generally have people's congresses, and their directors are also at the department level. Usually there is no CPPCC chairman in the township.
3. Heads of internal institutions in higher-level departments (about 10 people)
The deputy positions of the county discipline inspection commission, the court, the procuratorate, and the public security bureau are generally at the department level. For example, the deputy ministers of the Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, and the United Front Work Department are also leaders at the department level. Some counties will also have development zones with higher specifications, and the main leaders of the development zones are at the deputy department level, and the deputy positions in the development zones are generally at the department level.
4. County Party Committee, County Government, People's Congress, CPPCC and other internal departments (about 40 people)
The people's congress and the CPPCC are at the same level as the county party committee and county government, and they are all at the department level, and they generally have no subordinate units, and they are all internal organs that operate and operate, so the leaders of the internal organs of the county party committee, county government, people's congress, and CPPCC are also at the department level.
5. Enterprises and institutions directly under the county party committee and county government (within 10 people)
The county party committee and county government usually have directly subordinate public institutions or county-affiliated state-owned enterprises, such as hospitals, key schools, construction and investment companies, etc., and their leaders are also regarded as leading cadres at the department level in the strict sense.
(2) First-level chief staff and second-level chief staff (the number is uncertain, not exceeding 30% of the number of positions in the comprehensive management category of the organ)
Theoretically, the promotion of the first-level chief staff shall be the township section level principal or the second-level chief staff member for more than 2 years.
Those who are promoted to second-level chief staff shall serve as third-level chief staff members for more than 2 years.
However, in actual work, due to the limitation of the number of cadres at the same level, it is still relatively difficult to promote ranks. In county seats, generally only those who have held the leadership position at the deputy section level for a long time or those who have given up the leadership position at the deputy section level can be promoted to the second-level chief staff member.
It can be seen from this that in the county town, the main section level includes those who hold the leading positions at the main section level and those who have held the leading positions at the deputy section level for a long time or who voluntarily give up the leadership positions at the deputy section level and are promoted to the second-level chief staff members.
Second, the difficulty of promotion to the main level
The above analysis of the leadership category of a county is about 120 people at the department level.
The number of civil servants in a medium-sized county is about 2,000, and if you calculate this, that is, in the county, 6% of the people can be promoted to substantive leadership positions at the department level. The competition is still very fierce and quite difficult.
It is easier to be promoted to the first-level chief staff member and the second-level chief staff member. In a medium-sized county, there are about 400 people in the deputy section-level leadership positions, among them, the deputy section-level substantive leaders with deep qualifications can be promoted to the second-level chief staff members, even if all the deputy section-level substantive leaders are all promoted to the second-level chief staff members, then a medium-sized county, the number of people at the main section level is about 520 people, accounting for about 26% of the total number of civil servants, that is to say, in a county, only a quarter of the people can be promoted to the substantive leaders or cadres at the department level. The overall competitive pressure is still very high.
In the mainland's institutional setup, the higher the level of the organization, the more leadership posts, the higher the leadership level, and the easier it is to promote both substantive leaders and cadres at the same level. So, the workplace is important. For example, it is very easy to work in a provincial and ministerial-level organization to reach the department level, and it is also quite easy to work in a department at the municipal and departmental level.
However, in provincial and ministerial organs, department-level cadres are nothing, but in counties, not to mention department-level cadres, department-level leaders are already very big officials.
Therefore, in the county seat, being able to be promoted to the substantive leader of the main section level already belongs to the important ministers of the county town, but in the provinces and cities, the main section level is only an ordinary civil servant with a higher level.
The above is only a personal opinion.