BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- A
senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) asked Chinese theory
researchers to be more innovative and study ways to adapt the Party's
theories and work to the times.
Li Changchun, a
member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC
Central Committee, made the remarks in a symposium on the life and
thoughts of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, that ended here
Tuesday.
"Deng Xiaoping Theory has inherited
Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought and developed on that basis," said
Li. "He summed up new experience, put forward new thoughts and created new
theories according to China's reality and the latest development of the
world."
He asked researchers of Deng Xiaoping
Theory to learn from Deng Xiaoping's correct attitude towards Marxism and
his boldness to open up new theoretical areas and study ways to adapt the
Party's theories and work to the times.
He asked theory researchers to
"liberate themselves from untimely concepts, practices and systems" and
better answer new problems confronting China's social and economic
development.
Li said Deng Xiaoping Theory, which
guided the formulation of the Party's basic line in the primary stage of
socialism, and the important thought of "Three Represents" formulated by
Jiang Zemin and other contemporary CPC members both correctly take into
account of the development of the times. Both are guiding ideologies that
the Party shall adhere to for a long time.
Addressing the opening ceremony of
the symposium Saturday, Li also put forward other guidelines for the
research of Deng Xiaoping Theory.
These include:
-- deepen understanding of socialism
with Chinese characteristics and study ways of improving socialist
construction and Party building.
-- deepen understanding of the
scientific concept of development and study ways of pushing forward
healthy economic growth and all-round social
development.
-- deepen understanding of the
requirement that "the Party is built for the public and it exercises state
power for the people".
-- deepen understanding of the needs
and ways to strengthen the Party's governing
ability.
-- deepen understanding of
"consolidating the guiding role of Marxism in the ideological sphere and
consolidating the common ideological ground for the unity of the whole
Party and the whole people".
Li said research of Marxism, of which
research of Deng Xiaoping Theory is an important part, is a major
strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee. It constitutes the
foremost task of the efforts to invigorate and develop China's philosophy
and social sciences and the core of the Party's ideological building.
