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An Interview with Wang Jiarui, Minister of the
International Department
of the CPC Central Committee
Beijing, May 21 (Xinhuanet.com, Shen Lutao reporting) ¨C In his
recent interview with a Xinhua News Agency reporter, Wang Jiarui,
Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central
Committee, stated that the Members of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee have set a good
example in participating in the activities of the education campaign
carried out in primary level organizations to preserve the advanced
nature of Party members. They made investigations in these
organizations and gave guidance to their work. All this fully
demonstrates the good care and attention shown by the Central
Committee for the campaign and the realistic and pragmatic work
style of the central collective leadership with Comrade Hu Jintao as
General Secretary. The International Department is conscientiously
studying and implementing the important directives given by the
Members of the Standing Committee. In order to improve the Party¡¯s
governance capacity, preserve its members¡¯ advanced nature, and
connect Party members¡¯ actual way of thinking with the education
campaign being carried out in the department to preserve their
advanced nature, the department constantly encourages its Party
members and cadres to further fortify their ideals and convictions,
uphold the Party¡¯s purposes, strengthen their commitment to the
Party, improve their theoretical understanding and professional
competence, and demonstrate their advanced nature as workers in the
field of Party diplomacy.
Wang also said that a series of important directives from the Members of
the Standing Committee have provided important guidance for the
International Department¡¯s intensive education campaign to preserve
the advanced nature of its Party members by setting forth both
general requirements for the education campaign and explicit
guidelines for specific work. Through study, Party members in the
department have deepened their understanding of the great importance
of the education campaign, become more enthusiastic about it and
begun to take part in it more consciously. All Party members in the
department are participating in the education campaign actively.
They are vigorously adopting the ¡°four perseveres¡± in carrying out
the campaign to ensure they achieve practical results. The four
perseveres are as follows.
First, persevering in following the guidance of the important thought of
Three Represents over the Party¡¯s external work. This is an
important guarantee that the International Department does its work
well in the new period. This means the Party members should be
realistic and innovative, constantly break new ground, and continue
to adapt the Party¡¯s external work to international and domestic
changes. In this way, the Party¡¯s external work will more closely
follow the direction in which the Party and the state are developing
their undertakings and reflect the characteristics of the times. It
also means further defining the position of the Party¡¯s external
work in the Party¡¯s general undertakings and in the state¡¯s overall
diplomacy, focusing on the country¡¯s central task, serving its
overall interests, and effectively integrating efforts to study and
implement the important thought of Three Represents with efforts to
constantly achieve better results in the Party¡¯s external work.
Second, persevering in carrying out the education campaign with the help
of the people and fully arousing their enthusiasm for it. At the
stage of study and training, we achieved consensus by relying on the
people. After four rounds of discussions, all Party members and
cadres in the department reached consensus on what needs to be done
for preserving the advanced nature of Party members and on the main
problems that need to be solved during the campaign, thus clarifying
the direction we should take. At the stage of analysis and
evaluation, we relied on the people in correctly identifying the
main problems, conscientiously correlated the functionaries¡¯
positions and work duties, and made it possible for Party members
and cadres at different levels to seek the opinions of as many
non-Party people as possible. At the stage of rectification and
improvement, we relied on the people in solving problems. We carried
out the campaign ¡°My Suggestions for Rectification and Improvement
in the International Department¡± to solicit opinions extensively in
the department and accepted all the rational suggestions that were
made.
Third, persevering in pursuing positive education and self-education and
further stimulating Party members¡¯ self-motivation. During the
education campaign, the International Department held an exhibition
on its own history. Its Party members visited it and received
education from the department¡¯s history, the mode of conduct and the
fine traditions. Lectures based on the results of the department¡¯s
research on the deep-rooted causes of the drastic changes taking
place in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe helped our Party
members fortify their communist ideals and convictions and enhanced
their confidence in taking the road of socialism with Chinese
characteristics. On the basis of the education campaign, we
identified excellent Party members and organizations and publicized
and learned from these nearby models of progressiveness. At the
stage of analysis and evaluation, we gave play to the initiative of
all Party members and strengthened guidance over their activities
with notable results. In the process, Party members spoke their
minds freely to each other, though they had worried about the
consequences of doing so at the beginning. Instead of waiting to be
asked by their leaders about their opinion, Party members competed
with each other to air their opinions concerning their leaders. Some
of them shifted from regarding criticism and self-criticism as a
burden to considering them as an effective ¡°weapon¡± for
strengthening solidarity.
Fourth, persevering in rectifying problems in the process of study and
discussion while focusing on solving significant problems. The
International Department proposed incorporating rectification in its
work, following the examples of advanced individuals and
collectives, searching out inadequacies, formulating rectification
measures, and ensuring that problems that can be rectified are
rectified immediately. For example, in order to take more initiative
in our Party¡¯s contacts with its international counterparts and make
the contacts more meaningful and timely, the department has begun to
categorize the foreign delegations it receives and the delegations
it sends abroad, control the total number, and concentrate on
improving the quality and results of visits by important
delegations. The department has further strengthened coordination
and management of its research work by holding training courses and
giving a series of lectures on research work. At the stage of
rectification and improvement, the department implemented a system
of supervision to ensure that the rectification tasks are fulfilled.
Last but not least, Wang stated that the International Department will
follow the example of the Members of the Standing Committee by
having its Party leaders at all levels to set an example in the
education campaign and through their own deeds to encourage other
Party members to plunge into the campaign so as to ensure that the
campaign achieves practical results and becomes a project that the
people are satisfied with.
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