Government and Policy

Chinese leader calls for more education of Party history

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-07-21 20:02

BEIJING - Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Wednesday called for more research work and education of the history of the Communist Party of China (CPC), especially among young people.

Xi, a Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks in a keynote speech delivered in Beijing at a conference on the work related to Party history.

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Xi said the history of the 89-year-old Party is a "lively and vivid textbook," which should be well studied and research results should be used to "educate Party members, officials and the masses, especially the youth."

He said Party history should be included in schools' curriculum and publicized via Internet.

Researchers should study the Party's history "in a practical and realistic manner," Xi said, adding that the Party's glory, experiences, traditions and fine work style should be publicized.

He said the CPC strongly opposes any tendency that "distorts or smears the Party's history."

Hosted by the CPC Central Committee, it was the first such meeting concerning Party history.

The Party will mark its 90th anniversary of foundation in July 2011.

Xi said the Party, having experienced the tests of revolution, development and reform, successfully united and led the Chinese people to achieve miracles under an extremely complicated circumstance.

"Over the past 89 years, the CPC contributed greatly to the nation's independence, unification and the people's well-being," he said.

President Hu Jintao, also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, met with the delegates, mainly Party historians, ahead of the conference.