Editing Work unit (section)

== Background ==
The role of the ''danwei'' was modelled in part on the Soviet ''[[kombinat]]''.<ref name=":02">{{Cite book |last=Russo |first=Alessandro |title=Afterlives of Chinese Communism: Political Concepts from Mao to Xi |date=2019 |publisher=[[Australian National University Press]] |isbn=9781760462499 |editor-last=Sorace |editor-first=Christian |location=Acton, Australia |chapter=Class Struggle |editor-last2=Franceschini |editor-first2=Ivan |editor-last3=Loubere |editor-first3=Nicholas}}</ref>{{Rp|page=32}} Some scholars believe that the social, economic, and political functions of the ''danwei'' could be traced back to the pre-communist financial institutions in the 1930s, the labor movement between the 1920s and 1940s, and the rural revolutionary models of organization in the [[Yan'an]] period.<ref name=":0" /> In addition, some scholars propose that Chinese state planners borrowed heavily from the Soviet model of development, or [[state socialism]], in the design of party and state organs as well as the management of state enterprises.<ref>{{Cite book |last=WALDER |first=ANDREW G. |title=China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed |date=2015 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-05815-6 |jstor=j.ctvjf9wzk}}</ref> To accelerate the pace of industrialization and to create a new urban working class, the [[Communist Party of China|Chinese Communist Party]] (CCP) looked up to the Soviet experience and translated thousands of Soviet enterprise management literature.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kaple |first=Deborah A. |title=Dream of a Red Factory: The Legacy of High Stalinism in China |publisher=Oxford University Press}}</ref> The CCP used basic principles of industrial organization and management from Soviet literature to draft its own industrial management system and create a new factory hierarchy of authority and administration. To follow the Soviet socialist economic model, which aimed to achieve full employment, the Chinese work unit system guaranteed permanent employment. This means that a factory could not easily fire its workers and the workers could not switch to another work unit unless they obtained special permissions. The physical design of ''danwei'' was also influenced by [[Soviet architecture (disambiguation)|Soviet architecture]].<ref name=":132" />{{Rp|page=24}}