Xi Jinping on Party's role for ensuring a stable, fast economic growth

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (2nd L), delivers an important speech at a conference which was attended by the directors of provincial-level organizational departments of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, Dec. 27, 2008. (Chinese media Photo)
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BEIJING, Dec. 27 (Chinese media) -- In 2009, the ruling

Communist Party of China (CPC) should strengthen its own organization by

persisting on reform and opening-up, pushing forward scientific development and

promoting social harmony to maintain stable and relative fast economic growth.

CPC organizations at different levels and departments should implement the essence of the Party's 17th Congress, Third Plenary Session of the Seventeenth CPC Central Committee and the recent Central Economic Work Conference.

Photo taken on Dec. 27, 2008 shows the meeting hall of a conference which was attended by the directors of provincial-level organizational departments of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in Beijing. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping attended the conference and delivered an important speech. (Chinese media Photo)
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These were remarks by Xi Jinping, vice state

president and member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee

Political Bureau, at Saturday's conference which was attended by the directors

of provincial-level organizational departments of the CPC.

The conference was presided by Li Yuanchao, member of

the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and director of the Organizational

Department of the CPC Central Committee.

In his speech, Xi called it a major political task to

deeply study and implement the speech made by CPC Central Committee General

Secretary Hu Jintao at the December 18 gathering commemorating the historic

Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh CPC Central Committee in December 1978,

which ushered in China's three-decade old Reform and Opening-up Drive.

He called for firmly upholding the great banner of

socialism with China's own characteristics, implementing the Party's basic

theory, line, guiding principles, and experience, persisting in ideological

emancipation, seeking truth from realities, keeping pace with the times, and

reform and innovation.

Priority should be given to morals in selecting a

Party cadre, while promoting those who are really able and fruitful, Xi said,

regarding the issue of personnel reform. The ethical standards for Party cadres

should include political ethics, professional ethics, family ethics and social

morals, he said.

The morals of Party officials should be examined by

checking their behaviors in dealing with accidents, fighting natural disasters,

as well as facing issues like promotion and demotion along with their deeds in

routine work, Xi said. Officials' morals could also be judged by observing their

behaviors in dealing with trivial things, he added.

Xi urged Party officials to discipline themselves and

keep distance from corruption. He also called for further standardizing the

methods and process in promotion, promoting internal democracy in the Party, and

strengthening and improving the Party's development at the grassroots level in

an overall manner.