X. Strengthen and Improve Party Building 　　



　　In a large multi-ethnic developing country like ours, we must spare no efforts
to strengthen and improve the Party's leadership and fully advance the great new
taking" title="n.任务；事业；计划">undertaking of Party building if we are to rally the entire people to work heart
and soul in building a well-off society in an all-round way and speed up the
socialist modernization drive.



　　To strengthen and improve Party building, we must hold high the great banner
of Deng Xiaoping Theory, implement the important thought of Three Represents in
a comprehensive way and ensure that the Party's line, principles and policies
fully reflect the fundamental interests of the people and the requirements of
development of our times. We must adhere to the principle that the Party
exercises self-discipline and is strict with its members, and further address
the two major historical" title="a.历史(上)的">historical subjects of how to enhance the Party's art of
leadership and governance and how to raise the Party's capacity to resist
corruption, prevent degeneration and withstand risks. We must acquire an
accurate understanding of social progress in contemporary China, and reform and
improve the Party's way of leadership and governance and its leadership and
working systems so that the Party will be full of vigor and vitality in its
work. We must proceed with Party building ideologically, organizationally and in
work style in parallel with institutional improvement, not only ensuring a good
performance of our day-to-day work, but also tackling prominent issues in good
time. Unyielding efforts will be made to ensure that our Party is forever the
vanguard both of the Chinese working class and of the Chinese people and the
Chinese nation as well as the core of leadership in building socialism with
Chinese characteristics and that it always represents the development trend of
China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture
and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the Chinese
people.



　　1. Study and implement the important thought of Three Represents intensively
and raise all Party members' level of the Marxist theory. The rise in the
Party's ideological and theoretical level is an ideological guarantee for
continued progress of the cause of our Party and state. We must highlight the
Party's ideological and theoretical building. We must continue to arm all Party
members with Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thoughtand Deng Xiaoping Theory and
usher in a new upsurge in the study and implementation of the important thought
of Three Represents. Party members and cadres, particularly senior and
middle-rank cadres, should take the lead in studying and acting on the important
thought of Three Represents. They should play an exemplary role in studying
diligently, using their brains, emancipating their minds, keeping pace with the
times and boldly engaging in practice and innovation. We will carry out an
intensive education among all Party members in the history of development of
Marxism and promote the truth-seeking and pioneering spirit. We will deepen our
understanding of the laws on governance by the Communist Party, on building
socialism and on development of human society and constantly enrich and develop
Marxism.



　　2. Build up the Party's governing capacity and improve its art of leadership
and governance. Faced with profound changes in the conditions of governance and
social environment, Party committees and leading cadres at all levels must, in
response to the requirements of the new situation and new tasks, acquire new
knowledge, accumulate new experience and develop new abilities in practice, thus
living up to the mission assigned to them and the full trust placed on them.
They must view the world with broad vision, acquire a correct understanding of
the requirements of the times and be good at thinking on a theoretical plane and
in a strategic perspective so as to improve their ability of sizing up the
situation in a scientific way. They must act in compliance with objective and
scientific laws, address promptly the new situation and problems in reform and
development, know how to seize opportunities to accelerate development and
enhance their abilities of keeping the market economy well in hand. They must
correctly understand and handle various social contradictions, know how to
balance the relations among different interests, overcome difficulties and go on
improving their ability of coping with complicated situations. They must enhance
their awareness of law and know how to integrate the adherence to Party
leadership and the people being the masters of the country with ruling the
country by law and improve their abilities of exercising state power according
to law. They must base themselves on the overall interests of the work of the
entire Party and the whole country, firmly implement the Party's line,
principles and policies, work creatively in light of realities and keep
enhancing their ability of commanding the whole situation.



　　3. Adhere to and improve democratic centralism and enhance the Party's
vitality, solidarity and unity. Democratic centralism is a system that
integrates centralism on the basis of democracy with democracy under centralized
guidance. Inner-Party democracy is the life of the Party and plays an important
exemplary and leading role in people's democracy. We should establish and
improve an inner-Party democratic system that fully reflects the will of Party
members and organizations, starting with the reform of the relevant systems and
mechanisms on the basis of guaranteeing the democratic rights of Party members
and giving priority to improving the systems of Party congresses and of Party
committees. The system of Party congresses with regular annual conferences
should be tried out in more cities and counties. We should explore ways to give
play to the role of delegates when Party congresses are not in session. In
accordance with the principle of collectiveleadership, democratic centralism,
individual consultations and decision by meetings, we should improve the rules
of procedure and decision-making mechanism within Party committees in order to
give fuller play to the role of plenary sessions of Party committees. We need to
reform and improve the inner-Party electoral system. We should establish and
improve inner-Party information sharing and reporting systems and the system of
soliciting opinions concerning major policy decisions. The centralization and
unity of the Party and state are where the fundamental interests of the people
of all ethnic groups lie. The whole Party and the entire nation must maintain a
high degree of unity with regard to the guiding ideology, line, principles and
policies and major questions of principle. All Party members must consciously
abide by the principle that individual Party members are subordinate to the
organization, that the minority is subordinate to the majority, that lower Party
organizations are subordinate to the higher ones and that all the constituent
organizations and members of the Party are subordinate to its National Congress
and Central Committee. They must safeguard the authority of the Central
Committee and ensure that its decisions are carried out without fail. Party
organizations at all levels and all Party members, leading cadres in particular,
must strictly abide by Party discipline. Under no circumstances should they be
allowed to go their own ways in disregard of orders and prohibitions.



　　4. Build a contingent of high-caliber leading cadres and form an energetic and
promising leadership. It is a matter of vital importance for maintaining
prolonged stability of the Party and state to build a contingent of high-caliber
leading cadres capable of assuming heavy responsibilities and withstanding the
test of trials and tribulations, and especially to train a large number of
outstanding leading cadres for the mission of running the Party, state and army
in accordance with the principle of bringing up more revolutionary, younger,
better educated and more professionally competent cadres. We should
conscientiously implement the regulations on the selection and appointment of
leading cadres and make a point of testing and identifying cadres in the
practice of reform and development so as to promote to leading positions in good
time those who are accredited with ability, integrity and outstanding
performance and enjoy popular support. We should make greater efforts to train
and select outstanding young cadres, helping them cultivate their Party spirit,
pursue theoretical study and gain practical experience so that they will improve
in all respects. We should do a better job of training and selecting women
cadres, cadres from among ethnic minorities and non-Party cadres. We should
continue to do well the work related to retired cadres. We should turn the
leading bodies of the Party at all levels into staunch collectives that firmly
implement the important thought of Three Represents mainly by improving their
qualities, optimizing their composition, refining their work style and enhancing
solidarity. We should train more and more successors to the cause of socialism
with Chinese characteristics so that the cause of the Party and people will be
carried forward.



　　5. Build the Party well at the primary level, reinforce its class foundation
and expand its mass base. The primary organizations of the Party constitute its
foundation for doing all its work and building up its combat effectiveness. They
should organize, motivate and practice the implementation of the important
thought of Three Represents. We should, by focusing on the central task and
serving the overall interests, broaden the fields of our endeavor, intensify our
functions and expand the coverage of the Party's work so as to increase the
rallying power and combat effectiveness of primary organizations. We should
strengthen the building of village-level supporting organizations which rally
around village Party organizations, and explore effective ways that will enable
cadres to receive education regularly and farmers to get long-term tangible
benefits. In order that state-owned and collective enterprises operate well, we
must persistently rely on the working class wholeheartedly, and Party
organizations in those enterprises should take an active part in the
decision-making on major issues and give full play to their role as the
political core. We should strengthen Party building in enterprises of the
non-public sectors. Party organizations in enterprises must carry out the
Party's principles and policies, and provide guidance to and supervise the
enterprises in observing the laws and regulations of the state. They should
exercise leadership over trade unions, the Communist Youth League and other mass
organizations, rally the workers around them, safeguard the legitimate rights
and interests of all quarters and stimulate the healthy development of the
enterprises. We should attach great importance to Party building in communities,
striving to bring about a new pattern in Party building in urban communities,
with the focus on serving the people. We should intensify our efforts to
establish Party organizations in mass organizations and intermediaries. We
should fully carry out Party building in Party and government organs as well as
schools, research institutions, cultural groups and other institutions.



　　Party members must play their vanguard and exemplary role, foster the lofty
ideal of communism, fortify their conviction in socialism with Chinese
characteristics and work hard to realize the Party's basic program for the
current stage. We need to carry out Party-wide education to maintain the
progressiveness of Party members mainly by putting the important thought of
Three Represents into practice. We should recruit Party members mainly from
among workers, farmers, intellectuals, servicemen and cadres, thus expanding the
basic components and backbone of the Party. We should make a point of recruiting
Party members from among those in the forefront of work and production and from
among the prominent intellectuals and young people. We should admit into the
Party advanced elements of other social strata who accept the Party's program
and Constitution, work for the realization of the Party's line and program
consciously and meet the qualifications of Party membership following a long
period of test, in order to increase the influence and rallying force of the
Party in society at large. We must, in light of the new situation, seek new
mechanisms and methods for the management of Party membership.



　　6. Strengthen and improve the Party's style of work and intensify the struggle
against corruption. The key to improving the Party's style of work lies in
keeping the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the people. The biggest
political advantage of our Party lies in its close ties with the masses while
the biggest potential danger for it as a ruling party comes from its divorce
from them. We must at all times and under all circumstances adhere to the
Party's mass line, and to the purpose of serving the people heart and soul and
regard the people's interests as the starting point and goal of all our work. We
must carry forward the fine tradition and style of our Party, bearing in mind
the fundamental principle that the Party is built for the public and that it
exercises state power for the people. We must make effective efforts to resolve