"[4] He added that "The subtle name change underlines the central purpose of the party school system, which is as much about enforcing and benchmarking loyalty as imparting modern management skills.

"[5] Architects Anthony Bechu and Tom Sheehan designed the building to resemble a table from the Ming dynasty period.

[5] Richard McGregor, author of The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers, said that the buildings "resemble a red painting table" and that they "consciously [echo] the place where 'the master teaches the student.

"[5] The executive vice president of CELAP, Feng Jun, said that while students at CELAP are instructed "to love Socialism and to strengthen their faith in the paths of Socialism with Chinese characteristics," "[i]t is not brainwashing [we do] here, it is brainstorming – finding the answers and solutions to the problem" and that "we intend for cadres studying here to free and broaden their minds.

"[5] Professor Frank Pieke, the author of The Good Communist: Elite Training and State Building in Today’s China and the head of the Modern China Studies department at Leiden University, said that the school and its other schools were established because the Chinese government had "impatience with the lack of what they call the quality of local cadres and their inability to govern their localities or institutions effectively.