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Jiang
Zemin's speech on Party's 80th Anniversary (part VI) (07/01/2001)
It is imperative to promote inner-Party democracy and give full
play to the initiative and creativity of the Party members and Party
organizations at all levels. This is an important guarantee for
the success of the Party cause. We should take effective measures
to ensure Party members their democratic rights, broaden channels
for inner-Party democracy and increase their knowledge of and involvement
in Party affairs. All major issues in relation to the Party work
must be addressed through discussions among Party members and after
hearing their views fully.
Effective mechanisms should be set up to make sure that all ideas
and suggestions of Party members at the grass-roots level or in
Party organizations at a lower level can promptly reach those at
a higher level. The Party organizations at a higher level should
listen to and collect views from Party members and Party organizations
at a lower level so as to ensure that their decisions be made through
a more scientific and democratic process. In accordance with the
principles of collective leadership, democratic centralism, case-specific
consultations, and decision through meetings, we should improve
the internal deliberation and decision-making mechanism of the Party
committees, give play to the role of plenary sessions of Party committees,
and improve the decision-making procedures of standing committees
of Party committees.
All the major policy decisions of a Party committee must be made
through discussions by the committee and nobody should be allowed
to have the final say alone. We should improve the system of division
of work and individual responsibility under the collective leadership
by Party committees for greater efficiency. Equal emphasis should
be placed on collective leadership and individual responsibility.
We should foster people's democracy through the development of inner-Party
democracy.
We should strengthen and improve the leadership system of the Party
and come up with better leadership and governance modalities in
accordance with the principles of stressing the overall interests
while coordinating those of all quarters concerned. The purpose
is to ensure the core leadership of Party committees while giving
full scope to the functions of the people's congresses, central
and local governments, the CPPCC, non-governmental organizations
and others. The Party committees should strengthen their leadership
over the people's congresses, governments, the CPPCC and non-governmental
organizations through rational, standardized and institutionalized
mechanisms. Meanwhile, Party organizations and Party members who
assume a leadership role in these institutions and organizations
must implement, without any hesitation, the line, principles and
policies of the Party and the decisions of Party committees while
performing their duties in accordance with law. Leading officials
at all levels must firmly put into practice the guiding principles
and arrangements of the CPC Central Committee.
All Party members should enhance their awareness of the principle
of democratic centralism, implement the principle to the letter
and increase their ability to do so. It is important to learn leadership
skills, ways and means that are called for in fulfilling the new
tasks in the new situation, and combine the adherence to the Party's
leadership with the promotion of people's democracy, performance
of duties strictly in keeping with law and respect for objective
law. Institution of better systems is vital as it bears on the overall
long-term interests and defies constant changes. It is essential
to improve the systems underlying democratic centralism, and ameliorate
the leadership systems and working mechanisms of the Party so as
to provide institutional safeguards for the correct implementation
of the principle of democratic centralism. We must resolutely resist
the impact of Western political models such as the multi-party system
or separation of powers among the executive, legislative and judicial
branches.
We should firmly avoid making arbitrary decisions and taking peremptory
actions in violation of democratic centralism on the one hand, and
weak and incompetent leadership on the other.
With progress in the reform, opening-up and development of a socialist
market economy, the social fabrics, economic composition, forms
of organization, means of employment, interests of different sectors,
and modalities of distribution have increasingly diversified. We
should be sober-minded about this and pay attention to the trend.
Otherwise, our country would be deprived of cohesiveness. Thus it
is of vital importance to upholding the centralized power of the
Party and unity of the state and safeguarding the authority of the
CPC Central Committee. The guiding principles, development goals,
major policies, legal system and important work arrangements, among
others, of the Party and the state must be consistent and centralized.
No localities, departments and institutions should go their own
way. The grass-roots organizations of the Party, which underpin
the work of the Party and its effectiveness, should constantly work
on their self-improvement in response to the new situation and new
tasks.
To meet the requirements of the "Three Represent's", we
should implement, in an all-round manner, the principle of fostering
a contingent of more revolutionary, younger, better educated and
professionally more competent cadres and that of giving equal importance
to both professional competence and political integrity.
We should deepen the reform of personnel system so as to produce
a contingent of high-caliber officials who are capable of assuming
important responsibilities and withstanding the test of trials and
tribulations.
Cadres are decisive factors, once a political line is decided upon.
It is all the more important to have, through training, leading
officials who are more politically-minded and good at leading the
Party and ruling the country and who pay attention to overall interests.
A large number of high-caliber leading officials hold the key to
the consolidation and development of China's socialism and its continued
prosperity amidst the fierce international competition.
We should adhere to the principle under which the Party should supervise
its cadres, improve personnel management, step up the reform of
personnel system and manage our human resources in a more scientific,
democratic and systematic manner. We should make our human resources
management more transparent and ensure people their access to information
about recruitment and promotion, and their right to participate
in and monitor the process. In this regard, the principle of recruitment
and promotion through open and fair competition on the basis of
merits should be upheld, and measures to this effect should be adopted
so as to encourage officials to work harder and get them prepared
for both promotion and demotion. We should improve the supervision
of promotion and recruitment of officials and the system and methods
for assessing their performance. Resolute measures should be taken
to prevent and redress malpractice in the recruitment and promotion
work.
The training of young cadres is a strategic task that will ensure
the long-term stability of the Party and the state. In order to
assume leadership responsibilities, young officials must increase
their understanding of Marxism, enhance their political integrity,
improve their capacity for serving the people, their judgment of
the situation, their understanding of the overall interests, and
their ability to handle complicated circumstances.
Party committees at all levels should help and encourage young leaders
to temper themselves in harsh conditions or in the forefront of
important tasks, and make arrangements for this accordingly.
The advance of our times and development of our undertakings determine
that the Party and the state need more and more talented people
of various kinds. We must lose no time in training professionals
of all kinds, providing them with incentives and giving full play
to their capabilities. Further efforts should be made to create
in the whole Party and society a favorable atmosphere where there
is respect for knowledge and talent and outstanding people can easily
come to the fore. Leading officials should have the insight to identify
the talents, the resolve to use them, the passion to love them and
the ways to get them together and should know how to judge and use
people and pool the talents together. They should, with lofty ideals
and spirit, guide and inspire various talented people to render
meritorious service to the state and the people. At the same time,
the leading officials should care for and trust them and do their
best to create good working conditions for them. It is necessary
to expedite the establishment of an income distribution mechanism
which is designed to keep the talented and bring out the best in
them so as to put in place a system which guarantees that their
rewards are commensurate with their endeavors and contributions.
We should, through our work on all fronts, create a climate in which
people of talent will come forward in large numbers.
In response to the requirements of the "Three Represent's",
we must adhere to the principle that the Party must handle Party
affairs and the policy of being strict in Party discipline. Party
organizations at all levels must be strict with the Party members
in respect of requirement, education, administration and supervision
and be firm in rooting out the negative phenomena and corruption
existing within the Party.
That the Party must handle Party affairs and be strict in Party
discipline is an important guarantee for the maintenance of the
Party's progressiveness and purity and for the consolidation of
its status as the ruling party. State affairs cannot be well managed
without good Party building. So we must be strict in Party discipline.
We should have a deeper understanding of the loss of political power
by some Communist parties in the world that had long been ruling
parties and learn a lesson from them. The longer the Party is in
power, the more necessary it is for the Party to strengthen self-improvement,
and the stricter it should be with its members and cadres.
Strictness in Party discipline must be implemented in Party building
in ideological, political and organizational fields as well as work
style and must be truly reflected in all the aspects of education,
management and supervision of Party organizations at all levels,
all the Party members and cadres. All the Party organizations and
members should act in strict compliance with the Party Constitution
and other regulations of the Party and observe Party discipline
to the letter. Leading cadres at all levels should, while behaving
with dignity and making self-examination, self-warning and self-encouragement,
always stress study, political awareness and integrity. They should
often use criticism and self-criticism as a weapon in waging active
ideological struggles and adhere to truth while rectifying mistakes.
Party organizations at all levels should strengthen their capability
of dissolving their own contradictions, face squarely at and settle
existing problems and never avoid or whitewash them.
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