HUMAN RESOURCE SYSTEM OF ANCIENT CHINA (CHRONOLOGICAL ASPECT)

Abstract

In ancient China, there were many ways to select officials: inheritance of ranks, purchase of a rank, receiving a rank for military merit, nomination by recommendation, selection for court service, conferring a title for merit of ancestors, and a system of state examinations. The system of selecting and managing officials in ancient China resolved the issue of human resources for the bureaucracy, and management included the appointment of officials to the position, checking their work, awards and penalties, assignment of ranks, payment of salaries, leave, leaving the service and other official procedures. The main source for this article was the materials of the 中国 大 百科 书 全书 Encyclopedia.