In China's civil service system, there are leadership positions and non-leadership positions. For example, the secretary of the county party Committee, the secretary of the municipal party Committee, and the secretary of the provincial party Committee. They are all leading positions in the civil service system, regardless of rank.
There is another situation that we will encounter or hear when watching news and TV, that is, first-class inspectors, second-class inspectors, first-class researchers, second-class researchers, and even third-and fourth-class researchers. Although it is a non-leadership position, it also has an administrative level. So, how old are these officials?
Let's start with inspector. As a non-leadership position in China's civil service system, inspectors initially had inspectors and deputy inspectors. The inspector is equivalent to the current first-class inspector, and the deputy inspector is equivalent to the current second-class inspector.
In our country, the first-class inspector and the second-class inspector are only set up in the state administrative organs above the prefecture, department, division and bureau level. What do you mean? In other words, both the first-level inspector and the second-level inspector belong to the establishment of civil servants who enjoy bureau-level treatment. Among them, the first inspector is equivalent to the bureau level, and the second inspector is equivalent to the deputy bureau level.
The first-level inspector shall hold the post of bureau-level deputy leader or deputy inspector for more than 5 years, and the deputy inspector shall hold the post of county-level chief leader or first-level researcher for more than 5 years.
It can be seen that the first-and second-level inspectors, as the name implies, have the function of inspection and supervision, and their main power is to supervise and inspect the work of relevant government functional departments, report to the competent authorities, and make corresponding treatment. On the other hand, the first-class and second-class inspectors have solved the problem of reducing the number of people holding leadership positions to a certain extent, opening the way for some people who are capable but unable to be promoted to higher-level leadership positions.
Let's talk about researchers. Researcher is similar to inspector, and is also a kind of national civil servant, but it is lower than inspector in level and belongs to county level in administrative level.
Scientific research personnel are divided into grade one, grade two, grade three and grade four. According to the practice of promotion, generally speaking, it takes more than three years to be promoted from a division-level chief or a second-level researcher to a first-level researcher; To be promoted to a second-level researcher, you need to be a third-level researcher for more than 2 years; To be promoted to the third-level researcher, you need to be a deputy or fourth-level researcher at the department level for more than 2 years; To be promoted to the fourth-level researcher, you must serve as the first-level chief clerk for more than 2 years.
I can give you an example. For example, if a county-level chief leader does not have a particularly suitable opportunity to be promoted to a deputy bureau-level leadership position in a short period of time, then the leader can solve the problem of deputy bureau-level treatment by first promoting a researcher and then a second inspector. In other words, the first-level researcher belongs to the "senior director level".
In another case, the county-level full-time leaders are about to reach the age, and there is no particularly suitable post arrangement, so the first-level researcher is also a more suitable arrangement.
The second-level researcher is special, and there is no clear corresponding level. In my personal understanding, it is probably between the strong place class and the quasi-place class. The third-level researcher belongs to the "senior deputy division level". The four-level researcher is probably between the strong official level and the quasi-deputy level.