Senior Party Official Urges Better Ideological and Political WorkDing Guangen, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said Thursday that the party should improve the ideological and political education so as to rally the people for advancing the socialist modernization drive in China.Jiang Zemin, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, analyzed the complicated global and domestic circumstances and stressed the importance of strengthening the ideological and political work, Ding, also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of its Publicity Department, said at the ideological and political work conference of the CPC Central Committee, which ended this afternoon. Jiang's remarks are strategies for the 21st Century meant to blaze a new trail of ideological and political education for the country, Ding said. In his speech, Jiang expounded on many basic theories and practical issues of modern times, he said. During the two-day conference, participants discussed Jiang's remarks and exchanged good experience in various localities for improving the ideological and political education. The participants noted that the remarks constituted a combination of Marxist-Leninist fundamental tenets and the practice of China's modernization drive. Since the 14th CPC National Congress in 1992, the CPC Central Committee with Jiang Zemin at the core has adopted a series of measures to enhance the ideological and political work. Jiang has said that the party's ideological and political work is the lifeblood of the economy and all other undertakings, the key to achieving the tasks of the party and the state, and the major political advantage of the party and the socialist country. In order to perfect the ideological and political work in the country, the participants said, the party must carry forward its outstanding traditions, adhere to Marxism, and fine-tune the system for carrying out the work. Meanwhile, the party members and leading officials should study the laws governing the ideological and political work and its characteristics in the new situation, the participants said. The party ought to focus on solving hot issues and difficult problems for the people and effectively raise the quality of the education work. Party organizations at various levels must do their utmost to promote moral and political education, while all of society should participate in the socialist education campaign, including party organs, governments, trade unions and other public groups, the participants said. They said that all party members must fully understand the role and importance of the ideological and political work in a strategic and comprehensive way. The participants also suggested that in implementing the work earnest efforts should be made to study the actual conditions in the country, identify the hot issues, make short-term as well as long-term arrangements for the education, and adopt practical measures while making overall planning. Furthermore, Ding underscored that the enhancement of ideological and political work is necessary for the drive of deepening reform and open-up and developing the socialist market economy. The party must shoulder the heavy responsibility of cultivating ideological and political understanding among the Chinese people and mobilize them to devote themselves to the socialist modernization drive, he said. |
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