Following is the translation of the full text of the Communiqué
of the Sixth Plenum of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist
Party of China (CPC), which was passed in Beijing
Wednesday.
The Sixth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee was held in
Beijing from October 8 to 11, 2006.
Present at the plenum were 195 members and 152 alternate members
of the CPC Central Committee. Members of the Standing Committee of
the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and leading
officials of relevant departments also attended the meeting as
nonvoting delegates.
The plenum was presided over by the Political Bureau of the CPC
Central Committee. Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central
Committee, delivered an important speech at the plenum.
The plenum listened to and discussed the working report
delivered by Hu Jintao, who was entrusted by the Political Bureau
of the CPC Central Committee, and adopted the "Resolutions of the
CPC Central Committee on Major Issues Regarding the Building of a
Harmonious Socialist Society". Wu Bangguo made an explanatory speech on the
draft resolutions to the plenum.
The plenum fully recognized the work of the Political Bureau of
the CPC Central Committee since the Fifth Plenum of the 16th CPC
Central Committee. The plenum unanimously agreed that the Political
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has firmly followed the
guidance of the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of
the "Three Represents", thoroughly implemented the guidelines of
the 16th CPC National Congress and the Third, Fourth and Fifth
plenums of the 16th CPC Central Committee and comprehensively
implemented the scientific concept of development. The plenum
agreed that the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee,
uniting and leading the whole Party and Chinese people of all
ethnic groups, firmly focused on development, the most important
task for the Party to govern and construct the country. The plenum
agreed that the Political Bureau exerted efforts to speed up reform
and opening up, improve the nation's capability of scientific and
technological innovation and push the adjustment of economic
structures and the transformation of economic growth mode to push
for the relatively rapid and stable economic development. It agreed
that new achievements have been made in the socialist economic,
political, cultural and social construction, the Party's governance
capability and advanced nature have been strengthened, and new
progress has been achieved in the socialist cause of Chinese
characteristics.
The plenum fully analyzed the current situation and tasks and
discussed the key issues of building a harmonious socialist
society. The plenum unanimously agreed that social harmony is the
intrinsic nature of the socialism with Chinese characteristics and
an important guarantee of the country's prosperity, the nation's
rejuvenation and the people's happiness. The building of a
harmonious socialist society is an important strategic task, which
was put forward by the CPC under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism,
Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought
of the "Three Represents" and with full implementation of the
scientific concept of development. The task was brought forward on
the basis of the overall plan of the socialist cause with Chinese
characteristics and the comprehensive construction of a moderately
prosperous society. To build a harmonious socialist society was the
intrinsic demand of constructing a socialist modernized country
which is prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious.
It also embodied the common aspiration of the whole Party and
people of all ethnic groups.
The plenum pointed out that social harmony is one of the targets
that the CPC will make unremitting efforts to hit. Since the
founding of New China, the CPC has made arduous efforts to promote
social harmony and has made important achievements with both
positive and bitter experiences. Since the Third Plenum of the 11th
CPC Central Committee, the CPC has been firmly committed to the
reform and opening up drive and socialist construction, actively
bolstered the comprehensive progress of economic and social
development and made tireless efforts to promote social harmony.
Since the 16th CPC National Congress, with deepening understanding
of social harmony, the CPC has made clear the status of building a
harmonious socialist society in the overall plan of the socialist
cause with Chinese characteristics and made a series of decisions
and deployments to strive for new achievements in the building of a
harmonious society. After long-term endeavors, a favorable
condition for building a harmonious socialist society has been
formed.
The plenum said the CPC should take opportunities and face
challenges in the new century and lead Chinese people to push
forward the great socialist cause with Chinese characteristics. It
said the Party must continue to focus on economic development and
put the building of the harmonious socialist society to a more
prominent place.
The plenum believed that currently the Chinese society is
harmonious in general. However, there exist many contradictions and
problems, which affect social harmony. Human society has been
developing and progressing amid movements of all kinds of
conflicts. The building of the harmonious socialist society is a
consistent process, during which social conflicts are resolved. We
must always remain sober minded, be vigilant in peace time,
thoroughly understand the feature of the country in the current
phase of development, study and analyze the contradictions and
problems and their origins in a scientific way, be more active to
face up to the conflicts and solve them, and try utmost efforts to
increase harmonious factors and reduce disharmonious factors to
consistently boost social harmony. The plenum requested all Party
members continue to emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts,
keep pace with the times, be realistic, consciously act according
to rules, be based on the current situation while keeping eyes on
the future, do what our strength allows and exert every effort to
continuously advance the building of the harmonious socialist
society. The plenum requested all Party members contribute to the
building of the socialist harmonious society, which should be
regarded as a long-term historical task that runs through the whole
process of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics and a
vital realistic task for comprehensively building a moderately
prosperous society.
The plenum stressed that the harmonious socialist society we are
going to build is a harmonious society built and shared by all
Chinese people along the road of socialism with Chinese
characteristics and under the leadership of the CPC. We must adhere
to the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng
Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents",
adhere to the Party's basic line, basic program and basic
experience, adhere to the guidance of scientific concept of
development in overall economic and social development, follow the
overall requirement of building a democratic society under the rule
of law, a society based on equity and justice, an honest and caring
society, a society full of vigor and a stable and orderly society
in which humans live in harmony with nature, strive to develop
social services, promote social equity and justice, foster a
culture of harmony, improve public administration, enhance
creativity of the society, pursue the road of common prosperity,
and push forward coordinated development of social construction,
economic construction, political construction and cultural
construction with the emphasis on solving issues people care about
most and issues that concern their most immediate and most
realistic interests.
The plenum puts forward the main objectives and tasks for
building a harmonious socialist society by 2020, which are as
follows: the socialist democratic and legal system is further
improved; the fundamental principle of administering the country
according to law is implemented in an all-around way; people's
rights and interests enjoy concrete respect and guarantee; widening
of gap between urban and rural development and development between
different regions is gradually reversed; a reasonable and orderly
income distribution pattern takes shape in general; wealth of
households increase universally and people lead more affluent
lives; employment rate is relatively high and a social security
system covering both urban and rural residents is established in
general; basic public service system is further improved and the
government attains relatively big improvements in administrative
and service levels; the ideological and moral qualities, scientific
and cultural qualities and health qualities of the whole nation are
improved markedly and further progress is made in fostering a sound
moral atmosphere and harmonious interpersonal relationship;
creativity of the whole society is enhanced markedly and an
innovation-based country is established in general; public
administration system is further improved and social order is in
good condition; efficiency of utilization of resources is enhanced
markedly and visible improvement in ecological environment is
achieved; the objective of building a moderately prosperous society
of a higher level and in an all-around way to benefit the Chinese
people of more than 1 billion is realized and striving to attain a
situation in which all people do their best according to their
abilities, everyone is provided for and people live together in
harmony.
The plenum stressed that the following principles must be
followed in building a harmonious socialist society: adhering to
putting people first; adhering to development in a scientific way;
adhering to reform and opening up; adhering to democracy and the
rule of law; adhering to properly handling the relationships
between reform, development and stability; and adhering to
participation of the whole society under the leadership of the
Party.
The plenum pointed out that development is the prerequisite of
social harmony. We must adhere to solving problems on the road
ahead through promoting development and make great efforts to
develop social productive forces and constantly consolidate the
material base for social harmony. Meanwhile, we must put more
attention to developing social services and push forward economic
and social development in a coordinated way. Social equity and
justice is a basic condition of social harmony, while a sound
system provides the fundamental guarantee to social equity and
justice. We must accelerate construction of the system that plays
an important role in ensuring social equity and justice to
guarantee people's rights and interests in political, economic,
cultural and social fields and guide our citizens to exercise their
rights and fulfill their obligations according to law. Nurturing a
culture of harmony is an important task of building a harmonious
socialist society, while socialist core value system is the
essential element of the culture of harmony. We must adhere to the
guiding role of Marxism in ideological fields, firmly control the
development direction of socialist advanced culture, advocate
harmony concepts and nurture the spirit of harmony to further
foster common ideals and beliefs for the whole society and solidify
the ideological and moral base for the whole Party and people of
various ethnic groups to work hard in unison. Enhancing public
administration and maintaining social stability is a prerequisite
of building a harmonious socialist society. We must innovate the
public administration system, integrate public administration
resources, improve the level of public administration, improve the
public administration pattern that is under the leadership of the
Party committee, the government taking the responsibility with
cooperation from other organizations and with participation of the
public. Service should be accompanied with administration and
administration should reflect service. Socialist harmonious society
is both a society full of vigor and a society of unity and harmony.
We must stimulate the energy of society to its full, promote the
harmony of relationship between political parties, ethnic groups,
religions, stratums and compatriots at home and abroad, consolidate
the great unity of people of various ethnic groups and consolidate
the great unity of Chinese both at home and abroad.
The plenum made the deployment for building a harmonious socialist
society for present time and future: Construction of social cause
should be strengthened through adhering to coordinated development;
new socialist countryside construction should be earnestly pushed
forward; the general strategy of regional development should be
implemented; active employment policies should be carried out;
education should be topped the agenda of development; health care
services should be enhanced; development of cultural cause and
cultural industries should be speed up; environmental protection
and pollution control should be strengthened; institutional
construction should be enhanced and social equality and justice
should be safeguarded. The system of safeguarding democratic
rights, the legal system and judicial system and mechanism, as well
as systems of public finance, income distribution and social
security should be improved. Harmonious culture should be built.
Ethnic foundation for social harmony should be consolidated.
Socialist core value system should be upheld. Socialist concept of
honor and disgrace should be established. Civilized public morality
should be fostered. Active and healthy ideological atmosphere
should be built. A movement of creating harmonious society should
be widely launched.
Social administration should be improved and good public order
should be maintained. Service-oriented government should be
established, community construction should be pushed forward and
social organizations should be healthily developed. Interests of
various sides should be coordinated in an overall manner. Emergency
response system and overall management of public order should be
improved. National security and national defense work must be
strengthened.
Social vigor should be stimulated and social unity and harmony
be enhanced. People's creative spirit should be brought into play
and the broadest patriotic united front be consolidated. The
long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao should be
maintained, the great cause of national reunification should be
pushed forward and the peaceful development road be adhered to.
The plenum stressed that to build a harmonious socialist
society, the CPC's role as the core leadership must be brought into
full play. The principles -- the Party is built for the public and
exercises the power for the people -- must be adhered to. CPC's
efforts in improving governance capacity and maintaining advanced
nature are the political guarantee for the construction of a
harmonious socialist society. Leadership and cadres at various
levels should improve their capability of leading people to
construct a harmonious socialist society. Party committees at
various levels should put the construction of a harmonious
socialist society at a prominent position and make efforts in
judging direction, stipulating policies, pooling strengths and
power, fostering favorable environment and shouldering the
leadership accountability for the construction of a harmonious
socialist society. Democratic centralism should be adhered to and
improved. Efforts should be made in improving inner-Party
democracy, increasing transparency of Party affairs, strictly
regulating the inner-Party life, strictly enforcing the Party's
discipline, promoting the party's unity. Inner-Party harmony will
promote social harmony. Party committees at various levels should
build the scientific leadership and work system of high-efficiency,
clearly classify responsibilities, provide coordinated instruction,
sharpen political sensitivity, strengthen investigation and
research into major issues of social construction for the
effectiveness of their policies and properly handling prominent
contradictions and issues that affect social harmony in their
localities. The work should be intensified in the grass-roots, the
characteristics of the Party's work concerning the masses should be
earnestly studied, and great effort should be made on the work
concerning the masses. Party committees at various levels should
always maintain flesh-and-blood relations with the masses and train
a large number of professionals who are good at dealing with social
issues.
Party committees at various levels should toughen the internal
discipline and strengthen studying of the Party Constitution, laws
and disciplines. Party members and cadres should strengthen
ideological and moral cultivation. The anti-corruption mechanism
should be improved and the supervision over the leading cadres and
organizations should be intensified. The fight against corruption
and the construction of a clean and honest Party should be
fortified. Sound ethos within the Party should be introduced to
foster healthy ethos among the general public and government
officials, so as to create harmonious relations between the Party
and the masses.
The plenum reviewed and passed a resolution on the convening of
the 17th National Congress of the CPC, which is to be held in
second half of 2007. The national congress, to be held at a crucial
period of China's economic and social development, will be of vital
importance for the Party to unite and lead all the Chinese people
in building a moderately prosperous society and accelerating the
nation's socialist modernization drive.
The plenum called on the whole Party to rally closely around the
CPC Central Committee with comrade Hu Jintao as the General
Secretary; to hold high the banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the
Important Thought of "Three Represents" and further implement the
scientific concept of development; to blaze new trails, unite and
lead all Chinese people to build a prosperous, strong, democratic,
civilized and harmonious socialist modern nation.
(Xinhua News Agency October 12, 2006)