The Literature Research Office (Chinese: 中共中央文献研究室), or the Documentation Research Office of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, was an office of the now-defunct Literature Editorial Committee of the CCP Central Committee, functioning as a working department and a research institute directly under the CCP Central Committee.
[1] In 1950, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party formed the Publication Committee for the Selected Works of Mao Zedong, chaired by Liu Shaoqi.
[2] In March 1977, the CCP Central Committee sanctioned the formation of the Office of the Committee for the Editing and Publication of the Writings of Chairman Mao Zedong (Chinese: 中共中央毛泽东主席著作编辑出版委员会办公室), which was restructured into the Literature Research Office of the Central Committee of the CCP by a Central Committee decision in May 1980.
The CCP Central Committee has overseen the publication of the selected writings of Mao Zedong.
[3][4] In March 2018, the CCP Central Committee announced the Program for Deepening the Reform of Party and State Institutions (Chinese: 深化党和国家机构改革), which indicated that the Documentation Research Office of the CCP Central Committee would be dissolved, with its responsibilities transferred to the Institute of Party History and Literature.