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| CPC initiates education campaign against members' wavering convictions |
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The Communist Party of China (CPC) has decided to launch a mass internal educational campaign from January next year to prevent its members from wavering in their convictions.
The decision, aiming to keep the nature of the Party members intact, was made at the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on this Oct. 21, the CPC's top power organ.
"It is the first time that the Party linked the internal education with its ruling principle and governance capability," said Ye Duchu, professor of the Party School of the CPC.
The campaign was initiated after an internal survey involving 300,000 Party members in 2000, which showed some of them had begun to waver in their conviction on the Party's principles and disciplines, according to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
The Party's leaders have realized that under the new conditions, maintaining the advanced nature of the Party affects the Party's governance capability, prosperity of the causes of the Party and the people and the country's lasting peace and stability.
The survey recently held in Southwestern China's Sichuan Province showed that about one-third Party cadres were most focused on the will and interests of their superiors, not their service to the people. About 32 percent of Party's cadres at or above county levels chose "realizing individual's value" and "build well-off families" as their life purposes, not service to the people.
Experts said the wavering convictions of the Party members, a major source of corruption in some regions, had seriously eroded the consolidation of the Party's governing status.
The CPC leaders have pointed out that the advanced nature of the Party must be displayed by the exemplary acts of Party members. They hoped that the campaign will help its members perform better by improving the ability of Party members and strengthening the Party's grassroots units.
In January 2003, the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee approved the pilot blue point and established the ruling group responsible for the campaign.
The pilot has been practiced in 52,000 grassroots Party units of 12 provinces and seven central departments, involving 1.04 million Party members.
"The top leaders have expressed their worries that the campaign will go through the formality. The details of the implementation plan were thought-out results, so it will not be just a skin-deep activity," said an official of the CPC's organization department.
The implementation plan has been finished and Party committees at various levels have been urged to take the campaign as a major event in the political life of the whole Party. Specific groups responsible for the campaign have been set up at Party committees to ensure its success, according to the organization department.
The campaign was not only to resolve the problems of the Party members, but also to address the complaints of common people. A mechanism of including supervision and judge from non-party people will be introduced to guarantee the effectiveness of the campaign and will be maintained after the campaign, the department said.
According to Ye, the educational campaign will be a mild and well-knit movement, not like fierce strives in past times.
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