The leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) should be improved as part of the efforts to improve China's socialist market economic system.

According to a decision of the CPC Central Committee on issues regarding the improvement of the socialist market economic system, which was adopted at the Third Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee held from Oct. 11-14 and released Tuesday, the leadership of the CPC is the basic guarantee for pushing forward the reform smoothly.

The building of a perfect socialist market economic system is a decision of great importance for the present situation and of far- reaching historical significance made by the CPC for the new period in the new century and will be a new major challenge for the whole CPC.

All CPC members should fully know the historical responsibility bestowed on them, keep studying new knowledge, new situations, and solving new problems, and continue to explore ways that efficiently accommodate socialism and the market economy, said the decision.

It is necessary to reform and improve the means of leadership of and ways of ruling of the CPC in accordance with new situation arising in the socialist market economic development.

It is also imperative to persist in training and preparing a large number of talents suitable for needs of modernization, the decision said.

It is necessary to have in mind the general situation of China, adhere to being realistic in doing all things and suiting measures to local conditions, unify the intensity of the reform, the speed of the development and the society's endurable capability and solve various contradictions to ensure a social stability and an orderly work.

Various reforms should be pushed forward in a unified way and efforts should be made to bring a harmony between macro and micro economic reforms, between reform in economic sectors and in social life, between urban and rural reforms, and between economic and political restructuring.

The decision also noted that the work style of the CPC should be improved and construction of a clean and honest government should be enhanced.

Improved construction of the Party work style and a clean government, fighting against and preventing corruption is an important guarantee for the establishment and improvement of socialist market economic system, and should be carried on through the entire process of reform, opening-up and modernization.

It is necessary to do a good job of educating workers with Party and government departments, especially leading officials to be clean and honest and self-restrained, be firm in dealing with different kinds of rule-breaking or law-violating cases, and rectify in a down-to-earth manner practices against the interests of the masses.

It is imperative to persist in tackling both the roots and symptoms of problems, and deal with problems in comprehensive ways, to pay great attention to ideological and ethical education, step up building of a clean and honest government and legal construction, improve supervisory mechanism, establish and improve a punitive and corruption-alert system that pays equal emphasis to education, system and supervision commensurate with socialist market economic system.

It is also imperative to continue to keep the work style of being modest, prudent, guarding against arrogance and rashness, and to keep the style of hard struggle, be firm against erosion of various unhealthy practices, so as to create a fine social environment for the improvement of a socialist market economic system.

A harmonious development of socialist material, political and spiritual civilizations should be adhered to, said the CPC document.

Socialism with Chinese characteristics is a great cause that features a harmonious development of socialist market economy, democratic politics and advanced culture. It is necessary to push forward political system reform in a safe way, expand socialist democracy, improve the socialist legal system, solidify and enlarge a united patriotic front, enhance ideological and political work to offer a strong political guarantee for the development of a socialist market economy.

Great efforts should be made to step up socialist cultural construction, with the emphasis placed on establishment of a socialist ideological and ethical system commensurate with socialist market economy, socialist laws, fine traditions of the Chinese nation, and to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit, and keep improving the ideological and ethical quality, scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation in a bid to provide reform and development with a strong spiritual impetus and intellectual support.

The CPC document also called on all CPC members and all people of different nationalities of China to unite around the CPC Central Committee and work hard to meet the targets of an improved socialist market economy system and building China into a comparatively affluent society.

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