Campaign to Maintain the Advanced Nature of Communist Party Members
Encyclopedia
The Campaign to Maintain the Advanced Nature of Communist Party Members is a political rectification campaign launched under the leadership of Hu Jintao
. The campaign aims to educate Chinese Communist Party
(CCP) members on Marxist ideological orthodoxy, improve "inner-party democracy," and combat corruption and other "social contradictions" that threaten the viability of continued CCP rule. In the years following the launch of the campaign, millions of CCP members have been made to attend compulsory political education and self-criticism sessions.
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Hu Jintao
Hu Jintao is the current Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China. He has held the titles of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China since 2002, President of the People's Republic of China since 2003, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission since 2004, succeeding Jiang...
. The campaign aims to educate Chinese Communist Party
Communist Party of China
The Communist Party of China , also known as the Chinese Communist Party , is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China...
(CCP) members on Marxist ideological orthodoxy, improve "inner-party democracy," and combat corruption and other "social contradictions" that threaten the viability of continued CCP rule. In the years following the launch of the campaign, millions of CCP members have been made to attend compulsory political education and self-criticism sessions.
Development
The Campaign to Maintain the Advanced Nature of Communist Party Members had been alluded to during the Fourth Plenum of the Communist Party leadership in September 2004, but was formally launched in January 2005 with the publication of editorials in the People's DailyPeople's Daily
The People's Daily is a daily newspaper in the People's Republic of China. The paper is an organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China , published worldwide with a circulation of 3 to 4 million. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, it has editions in English,...
and Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency
The Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC. It is the largest news agency in the PRC, ahead of the China News Service...
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Categorization
The campaign has been classified as a "rectification campaign" by observers, which would make it the third such campaign since the death of Mao Zedong (the previous two being launched in 1983 and 1998). In a 2005 press conferenced, however, the Communist Party's Organization Department asserted that the campaign was not a "rectification campaign," but rather an education campaign.See also
- Scientific DevelopmentScientific Development ConceptThe scientific development concept, sometimes translated as the scientific development perspective, is the current official guiding socio-economic ideology of the Communist Party of China incorporating sustainable development, social welfare, a humanistic society, increased democracy, and,...
- List of campaigns of the Communist Party of China