Xi stresses continued efforts to improve CPC work style

FUZHOU, Nov. 2 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for continued and solid efforts in the Communist Party of China's drive to tighten Party discipline.

Xi made the remarks during an inspection tour at the weekend to southeast China's Fujian Province where he worked from 1985 to 2002 and served as the governor of the province in the late 1990s.

"Party organizations at all levels must fulfill their promises and correct their work style with no discount," said Xi, adding those who are attempting to wait out the discipline drive before relapsing into old behavior must discard such disillusions.

He said the drive to tighten Party discipline is more than just a cleanup of undesirable work styles such as formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance. It should expand to the management and supervision of Party leaders and cadres, he said.

"We must locate problems as soon as possible and resolve them," Xi said.

The Party should also learn to judge the whole situation by analyzing the most frequent problems, he said.

During the inspection tour, Xi visited enterprises, communities and government agencies. The president urged local Party leaders and government officials to upgrade industries and make the best use of technology.

While urging Fujian to accelerate its growth rate, the president also stressed environmental protection and a balanced growth between urban and rural regions, as Fujian is a mountainous region and hosts a lot of old revolutionary base areas.