Modernization Political Work

Party Committee of a Brigade Under the Information Support Force Relays Efforts to Resolve Longstanding Historical Legacy Problems

信息支援部队某旅党委接力解决历史遗留问题

PLA Daily (解放军报) 20 June 2026

Summary

A brigade under the Information Support Force completed more than ten legacy administrative tasks — including clearing illegal barracks occupancy, resolving a backlog of cable compensation claims across multiple provinces, and disposing of long-accumulated assets — after a party committee leadership transition that threatened to stall work the previous committee had already advanced to the execution stage. The article documents a specific institutional friction point: leadership transitions at the brigade level routinely create discontinuity in administrative and compliance work, and unresolved legacy problems accumulate as a direct byproduct. The brigade's 'unified appraisal, unified assessment, unified disposal' mechanism and its explicit framing of inherited problems as current-cadre responsibility fit a broader PLA effort to impose continuity norms on party committee transitions, particularly in newly restructured units like the Information Support Force where organizational inheritance is still being sorted out.

Translation

Party Committee of a Brigade Under the Information Support Force Relays Efforts to Resolve Longstanding Historical Legacy Problems——

"Carry Out the Work Along the Path Set by the Previous Party Committee"

■ Ma Jiong, Information Support News Reporter Jing Mengxing

Recently, a key project of a certain brigade under the Information Support Force was completed on schedule, and Staff Officer Guo of the Operations and Training Section, who was responsible for this work, could not help but breathe a sigh of relief.

To complete this project, the brigade's previous party committee standing committee had conducted extensive research and feasibility studies. However, six months ago, just as the plan had cleared all approval procedures and was only one final step away from execution, the brigade's party committee underwent a leadership transition.

They say "a new official lights three fires upon taking office" — would the new party committee standing committee have new ideas and directions? Would they start from scratch and tear everything down to rebuild? Could this project still be smoothly completed? For a time, Staff Officer Guo was filled with worry.

Like Staff Officer Guo, the various sections of the brigade headquarters shared similar concerns: the Transportation and Barracks Section held a list of personnel illegally occupying housing; the Network Operations and Maintenance Section had a backlog of unresolved cable compensation claims on its desks; the Equipment Maintenance Section's ledgers recorded assets pending disposal that had accumulated over many years. The previous party committee had, with great effort, established a plan for advancing all of this work — would the new party committee "take the baton" and carry it forward?

These worries soon completely dissipated. After the new party committee standing committee took office, it did not recklessly light "three fires." Instead, it conducted investigations to understand the current state of work and used standing committee meetings to gain a comprehensive grasp of various historical legacy problems, as well as the previous committee's planning proposals and implementation progress.

"The previous party committee's plan is scientifically sound and feasible, and it conforms to the actual conditions of the brigade's development — carry out the work along this path!" The new party committee's clear statement at the meeting gave Staff Officer Guo a "reassurance pill" (定心丸).

Subsequently, under the new party committee's deployment, the brigade made resolving historical legacy problems a key task for the year. Combining the requirements of the brigade's transformation, they further refined the planning proposals on the basis of existing measures, clarified the roadmap and timetable, broke down the previously outlined concepts into concrete and actionable implementation measures, and persisted in tackling issues one by one through to completion.

In resolving the barracks occupation problem, they strictly enforced regulations while conducting their work with compassion, coordinating with relevant local departments on behalf of residents with genuine practical difficulties to ensure follow-on support arrangements were made. In closing the backlog of cable compensation cases, they drew on core professional personnel who traveled across multiple provinces and cities to review archives and collect evidence, using multiple methods to defend rights through legal means and effectively recover economic losses. In handling assets pending disposal, they established a mechanism of "unified appraisal, unified assessment, unified disposal" (统一鉴定、统一评估、统一处置), which not only activated existing stock resources but also freed grassroots officers and soldiers from burdensome administrative work, allowing them to devote more energy to their primary responsibility of training for war and combat readiness...

"We have currently completed more than ten key breakthrough tasks." A leader of the brigade told the reporter that, in his view, "settling old accounts" (理旧账) is about laying a solid foundation for "opening a new chapter" (开新局). Regardless of who created the "old accounts," as long as they remain unresolved, they are "new tasks" within the scope of responsibility of the current cadres. "Only by clearing away problems left over from the past and doing the work of continuity and sustainability can we accelerate the pace of strengthening the military (跑出强军加速度)."

Original Chinese

信息支援部队某旅党委接力解决历史遗留问题—— “按上届党委确定的路子干” ■马駉信息支援报记者靳梦醒近日，信息支援部队某旅某重点工程如期落地，负责此项工作的作训科郭参谋不由松了口气。为了完成这项工程，该旅上届党委班子多方调研论证。然而，半年前，就在方案已完成所有审批流程、只差最后一道程序就能够执行的关口，该旅党委班子进行了调整。都说“新官上任三把火”，新一届党委班子会不会有新的想法思路？是不是要另起炉灶推倒重来？这项工程还能否顺利落地……一时间，郭参谋满心担忧。和郭参谋一样，该旅机关各科室也有相似的顾虑：运输营房科手里攥着违规占房名单、网络运维科桌案上积压着未结的线路索赔案件、装备维修科台账中记录着累积多年的待报废资产……前一届党委好不容易定下了这些工作的推进思路，新一届党委会“接棒”干下去吗？这些担忧很快悉数消散——新一届党委班子上任后，没有乱烧“三把火”，而是通过调研了解当下工作情况，并利用常委会掌握各类历史遗留问题，以及前一届班子的规划方案与实施进度。 “上届党委的方案科学可行，符合旅队建设实际，就按这个路子干！”会上，新一届党委的明确表态，给郭参谋吃下了“定心丸”。随后，在新一届党委的部署下，该旅把解决历史遗留问题作为年度重要工作。他们结合旅队转型要求，在原有举措的基础上，进一步完善规划方案，明确路线图、时间表，将此前的纲要构想细化为切实可行的落实举措，坚持逐个突破、一抓到底。解决营房占用问题，他们在严格执行规定的同时，带着感情开展工作，为确有实际困难的住户，协调地方相关部门，统筹做好后续保障工作；办结线路索赔积案，他们抽调业务骨干辗转多个省市查阅档案、搜集证据，通过多种方式依法维权，切实挽回经济损失；处置待报废资产，他们建立“统一鉴定、统一评估、统一处置”机制，不仅盘活存量资源，还让基层官兵从繁杂的事务性工作中解脱出来，把更多精力投向练兵备战主责主业…… “我们目前已完成10余项攻坚任务。”该旅一名领导告诉记者，在他看来，“理旧账”是为“开新局”打牢基础，无论是由谁造成的“旧账”，只要未解决，就是现任干部职责范围内的“新任务”，“扫清过去遗留的问题，做好衔接性、持续性的工作，才能跑出强军加速度”。