Top Chinese Leader on Education, Selection of Cadres

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Top Chinese Leader on Education, Selection of Cadres

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Top Chinese leader Jiang Zemin Friday stressed the importance of helping leading cadres all over the country foster a correct notion of power, saying priority should be given to education so as to strengthen the ranks of cadres.

This should be taken as the Party's long-term strategic task that needs unremitting efforts to complete, Jiang said while addressing the 7th Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China (CPC), whichconcluded here Friday.

Jiang, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said theParty's discipline inspection work should play a more positive role in carrying forward the Party's fine tradition and style of building a clean and honest government, improving the leadership and governance of the Party, and strengthening the capability of anti-corruption work and risk control.

Discipline inspection cadres should constantly improve their work skills through research and study, so as to meet the demands of the changed situation and new tasks, the general secretary said.

Jiang stressed the importance of improving the rank of cadres, describing this as essential for the implementation of the Party'sline and policies and for lasting political stability and social and economic development.

Education remains the basic work for improving the rank of cadres, and leading cadres should, through education, foster a Marxist outlooks on the world, life and values, and develop a correct view of power, position and interests, Jiang said.

Jiang also stressed the need to improve the process of selecting and appointing cadres, calling for an institutionalized system to evaluate the performance of cadres.

He said the Party organizations at all levels, especially discipline inspection departments, should improve their supervision of cadres in line with the changed situation, while leading cadres at all levels should improve their sense of self-discipline and conscientiously accept the supervision of the Partyand the general public.

The general secretary spoke highly of the progress made by the Party's discipline inspection organizations in improving the Party's style of work, and building a clean and honest government, and in the struggle against corruption.

Among other senior Party leaders attending the meeting were Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Li Ruihuan, Hu Jintao, Wei Jianxing and Li Lanqing.

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