News Analysis: China's new leaders to usher in tighter CPC (3)

The Party has also made more efforts to recruit talented young people as part of its efforts to increase its vitality.

The Party has proposed optimizing its membership structure and promised to develop intra-Party democracy.

"We should perfect the mechanism for recruiting and disqualifying Party members so as to improve the composition of Party membership," Hu proposed in his report.

Wang Jingqing, deputy head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, said at a press conference held during the congress that the CPC will form and perfect four mechanisms for the selection, evaluation, supervision and stimulation of Party officials by 2020.

China scholar Robert Lawrence Kuhn said earlier that most of the efforts made by the new CPC leadership will be directed toward recruiting more talented people who have both creativity and firm political convictions, as well as entrusting them with important tasks and positions.

"I believe that the Communist Party of China is well equipped," said Kuhn, author of "How China's Leaders Think: The Inside Story of China's Reform and What This Means for the Future."

"When the CPC was founded 91 years ago in Shanghai, the average age of the 13 delegates who attended the first CPC National Congress was no more than 30," said Ni Xingxiang, curator of a Shanghai museum built at the same site where the original congress was held.

"I have every reason to believe that more young and talented Chinese will join the Party," Ni said.

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