On January 1, 2011, Qiushi, a magazine of the CCP Central Committee, published an editorial about recognizing the 90th anniversary of the establishment of the CCP, which will be on July 1, 2011. The editorial says that the Party’s leadership is the fundamental guarantee for achieving the goals laid out in the economic and social development plan for the next five years.

The Committee directed the nation to: “Use the 90th anniversary of the CCP’s birthday as an opportunity to enthusiastically eulogize the Chinese Communist Party’s glorious history and great achievements, and to vigorously propagandize the important significance and newest accomplishments of modernized and popularized Marxism in China.”

Source: Qiushi, January 1, 2011
http://www.qsjournal.com.cn/zxdk/2011/201101/201012/t20101229_60854.htm

According to People’s Daily on January 7, 2011, the chief of China’s police, Meng Jianzhu, urged the country’s armed police to “unswervingly uphold the Party’s absolute leadership and ensure that most police officials and policemen will, at critical moments, resolutely follow the commands of the CCP Central Committee, the State Council, the CCP Central Military Commission, and Chairman Hu Jintao.”

Meng Jianzhu, China’s Minister of Public Security and the highest level political commissar in China’s Armed Police Force, made the remark on January 7, 2011, at a plenary meeting of the CCP Committee of the Armed Police Forces. He called on the armed police to “greet the 90th anniversary of the CCP’s birthday with excellent performances in dealing with emergent security incidents. …”

Source: People’s Daily, January 7, 2011
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1027/13680011.html

Qiushi Journal, a publication of the Chinese Communist Party, published an article by Zhang Xiping, Director of the Overseas Chinese Center of Beijing Foreign Language University. Zhang discussed how to have academic studies of China’s humanities and social sciences "go global." Zhang said, “Today the world’s media are still controlled by Westerners. If we do not actively spread our culture, we will never have an opportunity to demonstrate our development, culture, and ideology.” Zhang explained that “language education is the foundation, cultural exchange is the avenue, media communication is the means, and philosophy and social science are the nucleus. This is how the world’s dominant countries have spread their culture and ideology. … Once the results of China’s research in humanities and the social sciences start to influence the world, the level of China’s soft power will elevate, … and it will help China’s strategic development.”

The article also mentions The Dynamic Database for Overseas Dissemination of Chinese Culture, granted by the National Philosophy and Social Science Planning Leading Group and established as a special project of the National Social Science Foundation. It has four components: the study of the strategy of "going global," China’s national image in international media, overseas China studies, and “China as a part of the world’s ideology and culture.”

Source: Qiushi Journal, January 6, 2011
http://www.qsjournal.com.cn/wz/jiangt/201101/t20110106_61366.htm

Shortly after a national conference of the Party’s propaganda chiefs adjourned, a guideline for news reporting in 2011 was passed down through the chain of command. According to the guideline, news reporting should lead public opinion; among other things, it should “eliminate doubt and confusion, and resolve conflicts.” Only central government level media are allowed to report on major disasters and incidents. Reporters outside the region of the disaster or incident may not file reports. The media cannot challenge the relocation of residents. Nor can the media report on suicides, self-mutilation, or massive social unrest in connection with the relocations. “We must strengthen the control of metropolitan media and make sure that the reports do not direct public attention toward Party committees or the government.”

Source: Baidu, January 12, 2011
http://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=975372820

Zhang Chunxian, Party Secretary for the Xinjiang Military District, stated that military forces stationed in Xinjiang must resolutely suppress terrorist activities. Zhang made the remark at the end of a two-day conference of the Xinjiang Party Committee. “All Party members and military servicemen must fully understand the complexity of the Xinjiang stability issue and must act in concert with the directives and decisions of the Party. … They must be in total control of safeguarding stability. They must improve emergency response systems. … They must resolutely suppress terrorist activities.”

Source: People’s Daily, January 12, 2011
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/14562/13714082.html

Communist Party Secretary General Hu Jintao spoke about priorities at a conference of the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. The priorities include strengthening the monitoring and inspection of how the Party’s major decisions are implemented. “We must strictly enforce the Party’s political discipline, resolutely safeguard the Party’s focus on unity, and unswervingly walk the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” He also called for re-enforcing mechanisms to penalize and prevent corruption.

Source: Xinhua, January 10, 2011
http://news.xinhuanet.com/2011-01/10/c_12965490.htm