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BEIJING, Sept. 26 -- The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of
China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting here Monday to study a
proposal on the country's cultural reforms, according to an official
press release.
Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided
over the meeting, which is a major gathering of Party leadership
prior to the Sixth Plenary Session of the CPC's Seventeenth Central
Committee scheduled to convene in the nation's capital on Oct. 15 to
18.
At the meeting, participants heard and discussed a report on a
drafted resolution of the CPC Central Committee regarding cultural
reforms. The resolution will be revised on the basis of the results
of this meeting, and is expected to be handed over to the
forthcoming plenary session.
Different Party organizations and departments throughout the country
and representatives of the 17th Party Congress have contributed
their ideas for improving the resolution, so as to make it a
directive document on cultural reforms under the new situation, says
the press release.
Currently, it says, the world is experiencing major developments,
changes and readjustments. Meanwhile, China has entered both a
critical period for building up an overall prosperous society as
well as the final phase for deepening the ongoing Reform and Opening
Up Drive and accelerating the country's economic development shift,
it says.
Culture has increasingly become a major element bringing together
the people and the creative power of the Chinese nationality. It is
a major factor in the nation's comprehensive competitiveness as well
as a backbone of the country's economic and social development, it
stresses, adding, "it has, increasingly, become a cordial aspiration
for our people to enrich their spiritual and cultural lives."
The meeting called for precisely mastering the new demands of the
country's economic and social development, new trends in cultural
development and new expectations for the spiritual and cultural
lives of Chinese people from all ethnic groups in a bid to "work
hard to open up a new situation in the country's socialist cultural
development, along with the process of building up an overall
prosperous society on the road of scientific development."
It reiterated the principles of insisting on sociocultural
development with Chinese characteristics, deepening cultural
restructuring, and promoting the grand development and prosperity of
the cultural sector.
It pledged to implement the essence of the 17th Party Congress,
uphold the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics,
take Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and
the important thought of "Three Represents" as the guiding
ideologies, and further implement the Scientific Concept of
Development.
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