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At the first Party building forum for financial businesses in Beijng on July 7, Party officials made statements to urge promotion of Party building. “Strengthening Party building and Party organizations that play a political core role in the financial business is an important manifestation of the financial business with Chinese characteristics.” Financial businesses are called to “actively explore how to integrate the Party’s leadership with corporate governance and to adhere to the principle that the Party controls the cadres. …” The China Marxism Research Foundation and Financial Daily sponsored the forum at the Party School in Beijing.

Source: Study Times, July 12, 2010
http://www.studytimes.com.cn:9999/epaper/xxsb/html/2010/07/12/01/01_44.htm

The Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council jointly held a National Education Working Conference on July 13 and 14. Hu Jintao, the nation’s paramount leader, vowed to implement education modernization and a China with super powers in human resources by 2020. 

On July 11, Xinhua published new government regulations. Going forward,  government and state company officials are required to report about their personal matters. Under the new rules, officials from the midlevel and up, including Party and nonparty members, and those working for state-owned companies must report personal information including changes in marital status, personal assets including property and investments, and business activities by spouses and children. They must also report the whereabouts of spouses and children living abroad and whether children are married to foreigners, including people from Hong Kong or Taiwan. Punishment for failing to report ranges from criticism in private and public reprimand to dismissal.

Source: Xinhua, July 11, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-07/11/c_12321707.htm

On July 8, Cai Anji, political commissar at the Ministry of Public Security met with a group of 25 local public security chiefs before their departiure for the United States. They were slated for 21 days of training. Cai claimed that training overseas was for the purpose of implementing the Party’s directive on strengthening training of local public security leaders. He asked the group to “change the training into a process that strengthens political ideals and beliefs, and will instill in them the wish to think outside the box, find solutions, and develop breakthroughs that will result in new developmental stages for public security.”

Source: Ministry of Public Security, July 9, 2010
http://www.mps.gov.cn/n16/n1237/n1342/n803680/2461560.html

The spokesman of the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party recently talked about the eight functions of this Party department: (1) directing the propaganda of Marxism; (2) guiding public opinion; (3) directing the production of culture products; (4) planning overall ideological and political work; (5) managing leadership personnel in the propaganda area; (6) creating propaganda policies and coordinating propaganda organizations; (7) providing public opinion intelligence to Party leadership; (8) leading cultural system reform, including the publication and broadcasting industries.

Source: Xinhua, June 30, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-06/30/c_12283040.htm

On July 8, He Guoqiang, one of the nine-member Standing Committee of the Politburo and head of Central Commission For Discipline Inspection gave a talk to 850 plus cadres who are in charge of disciplining the Chinese Communist Party members in the district, a sub-city administrative level. The talk was about anti-corruption. This is the third time that the CCP has conducted trainings to secretaries of the Commission For Discipline Inspection, following the first time to 2,000 at the county level last year, and 400 at the city level June this year.

Source: Xinhua, July 8, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-07/08/c_12313918.htm

Xinhua recently reported that the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee announced that 31 provincial level Party Committees, as well as half of the city level Committees, established spokesman systems. The primary functions of these system are: (1) increase the transparency of the activity of government personnel; (2) respond to people’s increased demand for knowledge of public issues; (3) actively respond to media inquiries about news events; (4) actively respond to various public opinion channels, especially on corruption issues in personnel related areas of government work.

Source: Xinhua, June 30, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2010-06/30/c_12283229.htm

The International Communication Office of the CCP’s Central Committee shares the same office with the PRC government’s press office or Information Office of the State Council, and its head, Wang Cheng. Quite uncommon in a democratic political system, this is a reality of single-party state.

On June 30, the eve of the 89th anniversary of the CCP, Wang led spokespeople from 11 agencies under the party’s Central Committee into the briefing room packed with domestic and foreign journalists. The agencies represented included: The Commission for Discipline Inspection, the Organization Department, the Propaganda Department, the United Front Work Department, the International Liaison Department, the Taiwan Work Office, the International Communication Office, the Party School, the Party Literature Research Center, the Party History Research Center, and the Archives Bureau. Five out of the 11 took questions from journalists.

Source: Xinhua, June 30, 2010
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2010-06/30/c_12282719.htm