Spy Under Sky Chapter 25

Gavin Lin walked down the stairs to the ground floor, where a plainclothes man was standing. He was Henry Du's confidant, Chen Haitao, the secretary of Hangzhou Station.

Of course, Chen Haitao's position as secretary of Hangzhou Station is completely different from our current secretary position.

In the official system of the Republic of China, "Secretary" and "Chief Secretary" are permanent positions, and basically all larger departments, institutions or units have them. However, the "Secretary" and "Chief Secretary" of the Republic of China are not equivalent to the senior party officials or branch secretaries of the Kuomintang. In fact, the chief officer of the Kuomintang's party affairs system at that time was not called a secretary, but a "Party Director", and the position of "Party Director" was only set up in local areas. The position of Party Director generally did not appear in the military, political and police intelligence system.

So, what exactly is the position of "secretary" or "chief secretary" in the official system of the Republic of China? In fact, in the military, political, and police intelligence systems of the Republic of China, there were not as many leadership positions as we have now. Generally, there was one principal position and at most one or two deputy positions. For units like the Intelligence Department, there were only two leadership positions, one principal and one deputy.

Setting up positions in this way does help to streamline the workforce and improve work efficiency, but it also often brings about a problem. That is, when the chief and deputy chief are not around, someone has to come out and handle some of their daily affairs.