CPC to intensify efforts to combat corruption
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will intensify its efforts to combat corruption, which is crucial in gaining popular support for the Party and ensuring its very survival, President Hu Jintao said Friday.
The Party is soberly aware of the gravity and danger of corruption, Hu said.
Alienation from people greatest risk for CPC
Alienation from the people poses the greatest risk to the Communist Party of China (CPC) after it has gained political power, Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said Friday.
"Therefore, we must always place the people's interests before everything else," Hu said.
All Party members should protect the people's economic, political, cultural and social rights and interests in accordance with the law, he said.
Party and government offices at all levels and their officials should stay close with the people and address their concerns, Hu said.
CPC must adhere to, improve socialism with Chinese characteristics
"The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only way for China to achieve socialist modernization and create decent lives for its people," President Hu Jintao said at?the grand gathering marking the 90th founding anniversary of the CPC.
The CPC must hold high the banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, keep to and expand the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics, uphold and enrich the system of theories of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and adhere to and improve the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, he said.
CPC accomplishes three major events in 90 years: Hu Jintao
The Communist Party of China (CPC), chosen by history and the people, has accomplished three major events since its formation 90 years ago, President Hu Jintao said Friday.
The first is that the CPC, relying on the people, completed the new-democratic revolution, winning national independence and liberation of the people, Hu said at a grand gathering marking the 90th founding anniversary of the CPC.
The second is that the CPC completed the socialist revolution and established the basic socialist system, he said.
The third is that the Party carried out a great new revolution of reform and opening up, creating, upholding, and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, he said.
"These three major events reshaped the future and destiny of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation," Hu said.
Grand gathering marking 90th anniversary of CPC opens
A grand gathering marking the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) opened at the Great Hall of the People in downtown Bejing Friday morning.
Wu Bangguo, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, declared the opening of the rally, followed by a 6,000-people choir of China's national anthem.