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| Although there appears to be a high level of democratic participation at the village and regional levels, and some degree of leeway -- limited, to be sure, by the exigencies of war -- for independent planning at these levels, still major planning is highly centralized in the hands of the state authorities. As Hoang Tung explained, the Central Committee of the Lao Dong Party sets the general lines of plicy. These plans are implemented by governmental bodies selected by the National Assembly, which also drafts specific plans. The ministries are reponsible to the Aseembly, which is chosen by direct election from local districts that exetnd over the entire country, including the mountain tribesman, who are well represented. The managers of local enterprises are selected by the govenmental ministries in charge of various branches of the economy. Each factory has a congress once a year of all workers, to which the manager reports. A party cell in the factory, containing 10 to 20 percent of the work force, gives advice to the manager. There is also a trade-union organization, which seems to concern itself largely with education and welfare programs. There are also, in each workshop, production teams of skilled and unskilled workers, and apparently there are plans, the detials of which I had no time to investigate, to rearrange the internal organization of enterprises. This account is based on information provided in conversations with officals at various levels of administration and other knowledgeable people whom I met. Evidently, I am in no position to flesh out the account with detailed impressions of the results of personal investigation. |
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