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[[学习策略]] China's Hu in Reformist Pitch Praises Democracy

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发表于 2006-7-4 07:55:18 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party boss Hu Jintao has called for the party to pursue deeper democracy, state media reported, adding to his recent efforts to foster an image as a corruption-fighting reformer.

``Governing democratically is an elementary demand of a ruling Marxist party,'' Hu told a study session for top officials, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday.

``Democratic governance means adhering to rule for the people and relying on the people to govern,'' he said, adding that China must ``ensure the people are their own masters through democratic institutions, democratic forms and democratic methods.''

Hu made the remarks at a meeting of the elite 24-member Politburo on Thursday, but they were made public only on Monday, when they dominated the main evening television news.

They come days after Hu, who has gained a reputation among Chinese observers as a wary conservative, blasted corrupt officials and warned that public graft was eating away at the Communist Party's standing.

``Hu Jintao is tactically using two hands as in martial arts,'' said Hu Xingdou, a professor at the Beijing Institute of Technology who often comments on politics.

``He uses old-style ideology and slogans to tack to the left, and he uses appeals to modern institutions and solutions to tack to the mainstream.''

Hu Xingdou said Hu Jintao was eager to polish his credentials as a reformer after tight media controls and a campaign to instill ``advanced'' discipline in officials marked him as an unbending conservative ahead of a major party congress next year.

Chinese citizens cannot elect ruling officials and vote directly only for grassroots administrators and members of largely ritual local assemblies, which critics say are powerless to rein in official misdeeds and corruption.

When Hu replaced Jiang Zemin as Communist Party General Secretary in late 2002, he fanned expectations he might pursue swifter political reform by quickly organizing a Politburo study session on respecting the state constitution, which even in one-party China promises some freedom of expression and assembly.

Hu's latest comments carried echoes of that reformist theme.

``We must further improve the democratic system and ensure people exercise democratic elections, decision-making, administration and scrutiny,'' he said.
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