The Advisory Committee of the CPC Central Committee, abbreviated as the Central Advisory Commission, was established to resolve the prominent issue of the increasing age of the leading cadres in both local and central departments of the Chinese Communist Party in the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party after Cultural Evolution. The purpose of the paper is to explore Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening up as well as his promotion of the Four Modernizations. In 1982, in view of the serious age problem, the party’s Twelfth National People’s Congress passed the revised party platform to establish the organization of the Central Advisory Commission under the CPC Central Committee and improve the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection so that the older generation leadership of the CPC Central Committee can be replaced by the younger generation leadership, making the CPC Central Committee younger, and that the senior cadres can continue to play their mentoring role and act as political aides and advisors as they relegate to the second line. All of the members of the Central Advisory Commission, elected by the National People’s Congress of the Communist Party of China, have a Party standing for forty years or more. The Central Advisory Commission is a transitional organization dedicated to the abolition of lifelong employment in government, the establishment of the retirement system, making the ranks of cadres younger in average age, and the promotion of the four modernizations and the policies of opening up revolution. It was revoked in 1992 when the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China completed its historical mission. The paper is also an attempt to verify the functions of the Central Advisory Commission that was established by Den Xiaoping and to discuss the vital roles it plays.
