China on Wednesday published the Resolution on Major Issues
Regarding the Building of a Harmonious Socialist Society, which was
adopted at the conclusion of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th
Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on October
11.
The resolution highlights the importance, guidelines, goals and
principles of building a socialist harmonious society; coordinated
development; social equity and justice; cultural harmony and the
ideological and ethical foundations of social harmony; and the need
to improve public administration to build a vigorous and orderly
society.
It says social harmony is the intrinsic element of socialism
with Chinese characteristics and an important guarantee of the
country's prosperity, the nation's rejuvenation and the people's
happiness.
The resolution stresses the harmonious socialist society is to
be built and shared by all Chinese along the road of socialism with
Chinese characteristics and under the leadership of the CPC.
"We must always remain sober minded, vigilant, thoroughly
understand the situation of the country in the current phase of
development, study and analyze the contradictions and problems and
their origins in a scientific way, be more active in facing up to
the conflicts and solving them, and try our utmost to increase
harmonious factors and reduce disharmonious factors to consistently
boost social harmony," it says.
The resolution also puts forward the principles to be followed,
the main objectives and tasks for building a harmonious socialist
society by 2020.
Goals for 2020 include "further improvement of the socialist
democratic and legal system; implementation of the fundamental
principle of administering the country according to law;
guaranteeing respect for people's rights and interests; narrowing
the gap between urban and rural development and between different
regions; favoring the emergence of a reasonable and orderly income
distribution pattern; increase of household wealth and enabling
people to lead more affluent lives".
Further 2020 goals include "a relatively high employment rate
and the establishment of a social security system covering both
urban and rural residents; further improvements to the basic public
service system and significant improvements to government
administrative and service levels; enhanced ideological and moral
qualities, scientific and cultural qualities and health status of
the whole nation; further progress in fostering a sound moral
atmosphere and harmonious interpersonal relationships; enhanced
creativity of society as a whole and the development of an
innovation-based nation," it said.
"The public administration system needs further improvement and
social order needs to be maintained; resources need to be used more
efficiently and the ecological environment visibly improved;
progress must be made in building a moderately prosperous society
to benefit the Chinese people of more than one billion; people must
be encouraged to do their best according to their abilities,
everyone should be provided for and people should live together in
harmony," the resolution reads.
It stresses that the CPC's role as the core leadership is
critical for building a harmonious socialist society. The principle
that the Party is organized for the people and exercises power on
behalf of the people must be adhered to.
"The CPC's efforts in improving governance and promoting
progress are the political guarantee for the construction of a
harmonious socialist society."
(Xinhua News Agency October 19, 2006)