CPC to expand intra-party democracy

September 18, 2009 09:37 pm | Updated 09:37 pm IST - BEIJING

A communiqué issued on Friday upon the closing of a four-day plenary session of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee said the party’s internal democracy was “the lifeblood of the party” and the CPC would “expand intra-party democracy to develop people’s democracy”. The fourth plenary session of the 17th CPC Central Committee endorsed the decision of the CPC Central Committee on major issues on strengthening and improving party building under the new circumstances.

The communiqué said the party would firmly push forward intra-party democracy by sticking to “democratic centralism”, with democracy as a base and centralism as a guide.

The party must “ensure the democratic rights of its members” and strengthen the intra-party democracy at the grassroots level”. It would “extensively absorb the will and views of all party members and bring their initiative and creativity to a full play,” said the document.

The communiqué also said the party would uphold and improve its leadership system. It would also improve the systems of party congress, party officials’ elections and democratic decision-making mechanism within the CPC.

It said the party must stick to a democratic, open, competitive, credible and vigorous mechanism of selecting party officials to foster more excellent cadres. Party officials must be “revolutionary, young, knowledge-based and professional” and the CPC must explore extensively to select cadres to ensure the party boasts excellent members, it said.

Moral integrity should be highlighted when selecting officials and their ability of “promoting scientific development and social harmony” should be improved, it added.

The communiqué said the party’s grassroots organisations were the foundation of the entire party work and its combat power, and were “fighting bastions” in implementing the CPC policies. Efforts should be made to boost the vitality of grassroots party committees and members, it said.

Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a work report at the session, which was held here from September 15 to 18.

The Central Committee also vowed to continue to maintain sound and fast economic growth as its primary task in economic work in a communiqué.

China’s economy is recovering from the global downturn.But the foundation of economic recovery was not stable, solid or balanced and there were still many uncertain factors in China and internationally. Hence, the country was in a crucial period in maintaining economic growth, said the communiqué.

The country would continue with its proactive fiscal policy and moderately easy monetary policy. Macroeconomic policies would remain stable and mechanisms would be upgraded to cope with the global financial crisis.

More effort will be put into restructuring, innovation, reducing energy consumption, and environmental protection.

More efforts will be made to plan as a whole rural-urban development, balance development of different regions, deepen reforms and opening-up and improve the people’s livelihood, said the communiqué.

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