On July 20, 1984 (June 22 of the Lunar calendar), the Central Committee decided to reform the management system.

On July 20, 1984, the People's Daily that the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) recently decided to reform the cadres management system, appropriately put down cadres management powers. Taking grading management, layers of responsibility measures, narrow the scope of cadres managed by the central government. In principle, the central government is only responsible for the main leadership cadres of the next level. On July 28, Zhou Shui put forward five requirements on how the central government should do its duty after layers of personnel management, (a) selection and use of cadres must seriously implement the party's new period cadres "four" principle (ii) to strengthen the construction of large enterprises, universities and scientific research institutions leadership groups (iii) to boldly walk the mass line, play the role of collective leadership