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China's communist party marks 90th anniversary with a sense of boasts and self-reflections
By Kim Young-gyo
HONG KONG (Yonhap) - Marking the 90th anniversary of the founding of China's ruling communist party, Chinese President Hu Jintao boasted of big achievements made in building a "new China" but admitted that the country is facing corruption and other formidable challenges.
The Communist Party of China (CPC), founded on July 1, 1921, practically exists as the only party in China with unchallenged power that enables it to control the state, military and media.
In a televised anniversary speech in Beijing, Hu, who doubles as the general secretary of the CPC's Central Committee, stressed the theme of a traditional communist propaganda song called, "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China."
He said, however, that China has many new problems and challenges" in its hands to tackle, including corruption.
"In those dark years, in order to change the destiny of the Chinese nation, the Chinese people, led by many leading figures with lofty ideals, waged unyielding struggles to explore a new future against great odds???. (But) all these struggles ended in failure," said Hu.
"The birth of the CPC put the Chinese revolution on the right course, gave the Chinese people a powerful motivation and created bright prospects for China's future development???. The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only way for China to achieve socialist modernization and create decent lives for its people."
He said China's communist party is facing arduous tasks of promoting reform and development and maintaining stability in the country as the world keeps changing drastically.
"The entire party must be keenly aware that at a time of profound changes in global, national and intra-Party conditions, we are now faced with many new developments, problems, and challenges in our effort to enhance the party's leadership and governance," he said.
"And the whole party is confronted with growing danger of lacking in drive, incompetence, divorce from the people, lacking in initiative, and corruption. It has thus become even more important and urgent than ever before for the party to police itself and impose strict discipline on its members."
As the world's No. 2 economy goes through rapid socioeconomic changes, a growing number of Chinese people started to express dissent on such issues as ethnic conflicts, unemployment, high inflation and corruption.
Mass protests have recently become more frequent in China, where a demonstration of any kind had been rare, as the government exerts tight control over political expression.
Meanwhile, outspoken critics, such as Zhao Shilin, openly criticized the party for "deifying" itself and ignoring its own mistakes.
"Don't deify and glorify the communist party in the propaganda campaign to mark the party's 90th anniversary," the scholar at Beijing's Minzu University of China said in an open letter posted online, according to the Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post.
The letter was removed from the Internet by Chinese censors before the anniversary event.
HONG KONG (Yonhap) - Marking the 90th anniversary of the founding of China's ruling communist party, Chinese President Hu Jintao boasted of big achievements made in building a "new China" but admitted that the country is facing corruption and other formidable challenges.
The Communist Party of China (CPC), founded on July 1, 1921, practically exists as the only party in China with unchallenged power that enables it to control the state, military and media.
In a televised anniversary speech in Beijing, Hu, who doubles as the general secretary of the CPC's Central Committee, stressed the theme of a traditional communist propaganda song called, "Without the Communist Party, There Would Be No New China."
He said, however, that China has many new problems and challenges" in its hands to tackle, including corruption.
"In those dark years, in order to change the destiny of the Chinese nation, the Chinese people, led by many leading figures with lofty ideals, waged unyielding struggles to explore a new future against great odds???. (But) all these struggles ended in failure," said Hu.
"The birth of the CPC put the Chinese revolution on the right course, gave the Chinese people a powerful motivation and created bright prospects for China's future development???. The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the only way for China to achieve socialist modernization and create decent lives for its people."
He said China's communist party is facing arduous tasks of promoting reform and development and maintaining stability in the country as the world keeps changing drastically.
"The entire party must be keenly aware that at a time of profound changes in global, national and intra-Party conditions, we are now faced with many new developments, problems, and challenges in our effort to enhance the party's leadership and governance," he said.
"And the whole party is confronted with growing danger of lacking in drive, incompetence, divorce from the people, lacking in initiative, and corruption. It has thus become even more important and urgent than ever before for the party to police itself and impose strict discipline on its members."
As the world's No. 2 economy goes through rapid socioeconomic changes, a growing number of Chinese people started to express dissent on such issues as ethnic conflicts, unemployment, high inflation and corruption.
Mass protests have recently become more frequent in China, where a demonstration of any kind had been rare, as the government exerts tight control over political expression.
Meanwhile, outspoken critics, such as Zhao Shilin, openly criticized the party for "deifying" itself and ignoring its own mistakes.
"Don't deify and glorify the communist party in the propaganda campaign to mark the party's 90th anniversary," the scholar at Beijing's Minzu University of China said in an open letter posted online, according to the Hong Kong-based newspaper South China Morning Post.
The letter was removed from the Internet by Chinese censors before the anniversary event.
