Premier on Cultural and Ethical ProgressPremier Zhu Rongji has urged to promote socialist cultural and ethical progress and develop socialist democracy and the rule of law in China.This is of great importance for achieving the overall improvement in the quality of Chinese people, increasing the cohesiveness of the nation, and providing the current reform, opening and modernization drive with a powerful spiritual driving force and political and legal guarantee, Zhu said. The premier made the remarks last week at the 5th Plenum of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), while explaining the Proposal of the CPC Central Committee for Formulating the 10th Five-Year Plan (2001-2005) for National Economic and Social Development. Zhu said that it is an important goal for the socialist modernization to develop the socialist democratic politics. The basic political system must be maintained and improved, Zhu said, pledging to push forward political restructuring during the 10th five-year plan period and strengthen democracy and the rule of law, so as to meet the demands of economic restructuring and the modernization drive. Efforts should be made to make decisions more scientific and democratic and to further expand grassroots democracy, so as to ensure that the people exercise their democratic rights directly, the premier noted. |
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