| Editorial:
Congress to herald new chapter in Party history
(08/26/2002)
The People's Daily, a leading newspaper in China, published an
editorial Monday on the upcoming 16th National Congress of the Communist
Party of China (CPC) proposed to be convened from November 8 this
year.
The congress will hold high the banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory
and carry out the important thoughts of "Three Represents,"
which call on the CPC to always represent the development trend
of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's
advancedculture and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming
majorityof the Chinese people.
The upcoming Party congress will surely open a new chapter in
the history of the Party and the country, the editorial says.
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee decided at a
recent plenary meeting to submit the proposal on the congress to
the 7th Plenum of the 15th CPC Central Committee to be held soon.
The 16th CPC National Congress, the first Party congress in thenew
century, is a very important meeting. It will be held at a time
when China has entered a new stage of development which is ushering
in a fairly comfortable lifestyle for its people generally and speeding
up its socialist modernization drive, the editorial notes.
Looking back on the history of the Party, it says, one can see
that it is an important practice for the CPC, through the Party's
congress, to set its guidelines and policies, clarify its positionon
the situations and tasks it faces, and give answers to major theoretical
and practical issues that concern cadres and people.
It serves the purpose of unifying the thinking of CPC members
and invigorating their spirit to develop unity in ideology, politics
and organizations for a better future, the editorial notes.
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