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Central Committee meeting

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee vowed Friday to "expand intra-Party democracy to develop people's democracy" and resolutely fight corruption.

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th CPC Central Committee endorsed the decision of the CPC Central Committee on major issues on strengthening and improving Party building under the new circumstances...

The communique said with deep changes in the world, the country and the Party had raised new requirements for Party building and all Party members should be aware of and vigilant about the problems and solve them as quickly as possible...

The communique said the Party's internal democracy was "the lifeblood of the Party."

It said the CPC would firmly push forward the intra-Party democracy by sticking to "democratic centralism," with democracy as a base and centralism as a guide...

The communique said the Party would uphold and improve its leadership system.
It would also improve the systems of Party congress, Party officials' elections and democratic decision-making mechanism within the CPC.
It said the Party must stick to a democratic, open, competitive, credible, merit-based and vigorous mechanism of selecting Party officials in order to foster more excellent cadres...

The CPC central committee also vowed to resolutely fight corruption and "fully explore the arduous and complicated nature of the combat against corruption."...

The leadership said maintaining sound and fast economic growth was still its primary task in economic work...

In the communique, the Party pledged to "effectively prevent and resolutely crack down on ethnicity-related separatist activities."...

Labels: China, leadership, politics

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