The re-election of the term change of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Committees in the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities around the country was conducted from the early second half of 2006 to the end of June this year and, from the start of 2006 to late April this year, the CPC committees in 408 cities (or prefectures), 2,763 counties (or cities at the county level) and 34,976 towns and townships all re-elected. Thus, the re-election of the CPC committees at all the four levels nationwide has been fulfilled in strict compliance with the Party Constitution and the unified arrangements of the CPC Central Committee.
The Party Central Committee has attached great importance to the re-election of the term change of the CPC committee at various levels. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and its Standing Committee called a number of meetings to do special researches on varied topics, and Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made vital, important instructions with respect to the work of re-election.
In April 2006, the CPC Central Committee issued a circular on the re-election of the term-change of Party Committees in the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in two years of 2006 and 2007 and sponsored relevant meetings or discussions to make all-round arrangements regarding the re-election. Then, the CPC Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee jointly dispatched five batches of supervisors to 25 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities around China to inspect the work of re-election following their joint issue of a "circular on the strict, further enforcement of the organizational and personal disciplines on the re-election of local party committees". Meanwhile, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, with the helf of leading news media organizations, did a good job to publicize the guiding ideology, objectives and tasks of the re-election and the related policies measures.
Moreover, the work of all sorts with respect to Party congresses was performed carefully and meticulously in all localities. A special hotline "No. 12380" was set to report any tip-off about misconduct involved during the re-election. The organization departments of Party committees at various levels set up multi-channel supervision networks, apart from efforts to cope with problems raised by people in person or in their letters of complaint. The Party Central authority and local party committees penalized 260 people for their violation of Party disciplines and cited for the criticism of 31 typical cases nationwide, so as to create a fair, clean environment for the term-change re-election.
In the course of inspecting candidates who stood for the re-election, all localities experimented with new trial methods of appraisal and, in line with detailed rules and regulations for implementation, they improved democratic discussions and appraisals of the past and introduced a new-type additional recommendation through a second meeting, and held opinion polls and direct, face-to-face talks with candidates. And those Party officials, whose duration of office is less than two years, are required to undergo extended inspections.
From the very height of enhancing or improving the Party's governing capacity, all localities have gone all out to spur an essential, necessary reform with leading bodies, and scored substantial progress in this regard:
-- The posts of deputy Party secretaries have been trimed by a big margin. Except for a few individual regions, most Party Committees at the provincial, autonomous regional and municipal level usually set two deputy secretaries, 91 people less than during the previous term change re-election. And 79.4 percent of the cities and 84.4 percent of the counties now only have two deputy secretaries on their local CPC committees.
-- The number of posts for leading CPC bodies has lessened. The posts for CPC Committees at the provincial level were 21 fewer than for the preceding term-change re-election. The number of people of the leading Party organs at the three levels of the city, county and township are 149, 859 and 34,368 fewer respectively than at the time of re-election five years ago.
-- The number of cross posts of the Party and government institutions has on rise, so as to facilitate reducing the overlapping division of work among the members of the Party and government line-ups.
After the re-election, the average age of the members of Party Committees at the provincial, autonomous regional and municipal level was 52.9 years-old, half a year younger than at the time of the previous term-change reelection. the ratio of younger officials has also risen in the Party committees at the city and country levels with a relatively rational echelon age structure. Furthermore, the CPC committees at the provincial level have 369 people with higher education, making up 91.6 percent, or 14 percentage points higher that the re-election of the Party committees in 2002.
At the same time, inner-Party democracy was carried forward in the entire course of the re-election, from such procedures as recommendation, nomination and examination of candidates to the election of Party committees themselves. For recommending candidates to Party Committees in the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, an average of more than 570 people partook in the recommendation process in each province, each autonomous region or each municipality, or some 120 people more than in the previous re-election; the differentiate rate for the inspection of candidates to Party Committees at the provincial level has extended to 1:2.4 and the ratio for the selection of the Party Committee membership at the provincial, autonomous regional and municipal level has generally increased to over 11 percent.
The new line-ups of the CPC committees at all levels nationwide, which have been turned far more vigorous, diligent, trustworthy and seething with enthusiasm, are sure to rally around the CPC Central Committee with Hu Jintao as the general secretary to lead the people country-wide for new and greater contributions along a new journey of building up a relatively affluent society.
By People's Daily Online |
