On Sunday morning in Beijing the Sixth Plenary Session of the
16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) got underway.
A major item on the agenda is to study the issue of building a
harmonious socialist society and deliberate on a draft of the
"resolutions of the CPC Central Committee on major issues regarding
the building of a harmonious socialist society."
In general the Party holds that society is currently harmonious
but there still existed a number of contradictions and problems
impairing social harmony.
"Facing up to these contradictions and working to resolve them
with a more positive attitude to increase harmonious factors and
reduce disharmonious issues is an important guarantee of realizing
China's long-term development goals," said a senior party official
at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee
held in July.
This current ongoing session will continue through Wednesday
according to a statement issued on September 25 by a meeting of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, presided over by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the
Committee.
The statement said the draft document should be well composed
and provide guidelines for the Party and the nation on building a
harmonious socialist society. It said comments and suggestions from
Party members and the public should be reflected in the document so
as to combine the wisdom of both.
Political bureau members at the meeting stressed that building a
socialist harmonious society must put people first, base all Party
and state work on the fundamental interests of the population and
meet the growing material and cultural demands of the people.
Serious efforts should be made to promote development, the top
priority of the Party, and to coordinate urban, rural, regional,
economic and social development, harmonious growth alongside
nature, domestic development and opening-up said the statement.
Reform of the socialist market economy must be continued to
promote economic, political, cultural and social innovation with
energetic improvement to ensure more efficient and open systems
were in operation, added the statement.
Efforts had to be made to improve socialist democratic
construction and implement the strategy of the rule of law in the
gradual process of building a fair social security system, it
continued.
The meeting emphasized the need to take into consideration the
momentum of reform, the speed of development, the people's
resilience and to promote and secure harmony with reform,
development and stability.
Stressing that the Party was the key to building a harmonious
socialist society the meeting said it must play a leading role in
accordance with the principle of governing for the people, outlined
the statement.
The construction would be facilitated along with the improvement
of the Party's governance capacity and the campaign to help it stay
advanced thus offering a forceful political guarantee for building
a harmonious society, it said.
All Party committees should put the work at the top of their
agendas and encourage cadres to improve their management of public
affairs, coordinating relations of different interest groups,
properly handling questions among the people to ensure
implementation of Party's policies and principles.
(Xinhua News Agency, CRI October 8, 2006)