cyu
12th December 2009, 02:38
May we live in interesting times? There's one especially groan inducing sentence in there - can you spot it?
Excerpts from http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/66102/6285744.html
Longxing is among the 200 townships in Chongqing, Sichuan and Hubei where direct elections for communist party chiefs are experimentally organized.
Multiple candidates and contested campaigns in direct elections have already been tried for over 90 percent of village committees across the country.
Hu Jintao vowed in his first political report to "deepen political restructuring".
China would not embrace Western-style democracy although it is open to any tested experience buttressing democracy.
Yu Keping, deputy chief of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, praised democracy as "the least defective" among all political institutions created and adopted by human beings.
"Comparatively, democracy is the best one in the human history, Yu said in an article queerly titled "Democracy Is A Lovely Thing", which was published early this year in the Study Times, a newspaper sponsored by the CPC Central Committee's Party School.
The discussions in the Party School and other think tanks on how the CPC can expand democracy are backed by central authorities.
the CPC also tries to develop itself to a cover-all political organization, by diversifying the Party membership.
The Party amended its Constitution in 2002, opening its door to private businessmen
Improving "intra-Party democracy" is the ultimate approach to developing people's democracy and promoting social harmony, said Tian Peiyan, a senior theorist at the CPC Central Committee Policy Research Office.
"Intra-Party democracy" is largely realized by expansion of Party members' rights, more open election and a fair cadre nomination mechanism.
Hu also vowed the Party will intensify its efforts to "prevent arbitrary decision-making by an individual or a minority of people."
In order to ensure that officials would heed people's concerns, democracy should be incrementally introduced, Lai said.
Rapid growth is unnecessarily a cure-all, Hu warns the Party of yawning wealth gaps, resources-squandering way of development, injustice and corruption. In addressing those challenges, the 70 million-member political organization needs to recruit outside brains and unite as many forces as possible.
the CPC's political reform is to "enliven the Chinese Communist Party from the bottom up, giving fuller scope to cadres to exchange views and provide input to policy deliberations rather than just implementing and rubber-stamping decisions made at high levels."
"The goal is to create a dynamic party apparatus, rather than an ossified and inflexible one," Shambaugh said.
Excerpts from http://english.cpc.people.com.cn/66102/6285744.html
Longxing is among the 200 townships in Chongqing, Sichuan and Hubei where direct elections for communist party chiefs are experimentally organized.
Multiple candidates and contested campaigns in direct elections have already been tried for over 90 percent of village committees across the country.
Hu Jintao vowed in his first political report to "deepen political restructuring".
China would not embrace Western-style democracy although it is open to any tested experience buttressing democracy.
Yu Keping, deputy chief of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau, praised democracy as "the least defective" among all political institutions created and adopted by human beings.
"Comparatively, democracy is the best one in the human history, Yu said in an article queerly titled "Democracy Is A Lovely Thing", which was published early this year in the Study Times, a newspaper sponsored by the CPC Central Committee's Party School.
The discussions in the Party School and other think tanks on how the CPC can expand democracy are backed by central authorities.
the CPC also tries to develop itself to a cover-all political organization, by diversifying the Party membership.
The Party amended its Constitution in 2002, opening its door to private businessmen
Improving "intra-Party democracy" is the ultimate approach to developing people's democracy and promoting social harmony, said Tian Peiyan, a senior theorist at the CPC Central Committee Policy Research Office.
"Intra-Party democracy" is largely realized by expansion of Party members' rights, more open election and a fair cadre nomination mechanism.
Hu also vowed the Party will intensify its efforts to "prevent arbitrary decision-making by an individual or a minority of people."
In order to ensure that officials would heed people's concerns, democracy should be incrementally introduced, Lai said.
Rapid growth is unnecessarily a cure-all, Hu warns the Party of yawning wealth gaps, resources-squandering way of development, injustice and corruption. In addressing those challenges, the 70 million-member political organization needs to recruit outside brains and unite as many forces as possible.
the CPC's political reform is to "enliven the Chinese Communist Party from the bottom up, giving fuller scope to cadres to exchange views and provide input to policy deliberations rather than just implementing and rubber-stamping decisions made at high levels."
"The goal is to create a dynamic party apparatus, rather than an ossified and inflexible one," Shambaugh said.