The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of
China (CPC) Central Committee met on Tuesday to discuss building a
new socialist countryside, improving Party style and fighting
corruption.
Hu Jintao,
general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the
meeting.
They discussed a series of major policies the CPC
Central Committee and the State Council have adopted to promote
rural development which?have resulted in successive,
large-scale increases in grain output in the past two years.
Also discussed were further adjustments in
agricultural structure, growth in farmers' income, major progress
in rural tax reform, and the further development of social
undertakings in the countryside.
While noting that China is facing sound
opportunities in economic and social development in the
countryside, the meeting called for hard, strenuous efforts as the
country's agricultural infrastructure is still vulnerable,
culturally backward, and it is increasingly difficult to increase
the incomes of farmers.
At the meeting, the participants heard a report on
the work of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection,
which analyzed the current situation regarding Party style and
establishing a clean government by eliminating corruption.
The ongoing campaign to maintain the “superior
morality and unrivalled wisdom” of the CPC has scored new
achievements this year, said Xinhua, yet corruption has continued
to exist in some areas and departments, indicating that the task of
fighting corruption and creating a clean government remains
tough.
The Political Bureau called on all CPC members to
remain calm, firmly improve the Party's style of work and clean
government, and further reduce corruption.
It also said that the fundamental source of
corruption has to be addressed.
(Xinhua News Agency December 21, 2005)