The ongoing campaign to maintain the advanced nature of the Communist Party of China (CPC) members should become a long-term mechanism in the Party's work, a senior CPC official said Monday.

At a national meeting of the ongoing campaign to maintain the advanced nature of CPC, He Guoqiang, head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said building and improving the long-term mechanism of keeping CPC members advanced nature is a crucial criterion for evaluating the campaign's achievements.

He, member of the CPC Central Committee's Political Bureau and Secretariat, said the work focus of the third phase of concentrated education to keep the party members' advanced nature should fall on the establishment of the long-term mechanism of keeping advanced nature.

Education and training of CPC members, promoting democracy within the Party, discipline and supervision of the organization of the party are the major contents of keeping the advanced nature of CPC members, He said.

He also called for innovation of setting up party systems, which will be more practical and more concrete. He said Party members should take an active participation in the mechanism-building.

(Xinhua News Agency April 25, 2006)