The Central Committee General Office released the document, “The 2009-2013 education training initiative for CCP party members.” The initiative covers five years of training for the grass roots party members.

The primary training topics include, “constantly placing education about the theory of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics as the top priority;” party guidelines, basic principals, history, policy, and tasks; rules and laws; party regulations and styles; and business knowledge and technical training skills. It will focus on a few programs that target the countryside Party secretaries, new party members, college graduates taking countryside leadership positions, and party members who are facing employment challenges.

Source: China News, July 26, 2009
http://www.chinanews.com.cn/gn/news/2009/07-26/1790992.shtml

According to a survey released by Xinhua, half of the presidents of the provincial supreme people’s courts lack training in the law. Many of them are leaders of local governments, the Party or the People’s Congress. This happens because the Communist Party controls the entire judicial system. Appointing Party officials to the position of president of the provincial supreme courts is a demonstration of the party’s leadership over the administration of justice. Wang Shengjun, President of the National Supreme Court, is also the Party secretary of the National Supreme Court. In that capacity, he doubles as the Chief Justice. Wang recently stated in his article in the Party’s Qiu Shi journal that Chinese courts must uphold the supremacy of the cause of the Party, the people’s interests and the Constitution.

Source: Voice of America, July 21, 2009
http://www.voanews.com/chinese/2009-07-21-voa42.cfm

Xinhua reported that Xi Jinping, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and Vice President of China, implicitly criticized Xinjiang Party officials as being responsible for the unrest, especially the events of July 5. Xinhua linked the two studies that Xi Jinping conducted recently, one in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region from June 17 to 21, and the other in Liaoning Province from July 6 to 8.

The article states, “Xi Jinping repeatedly stated ‘The key to resolve the Xinjiang issue is the Communist Party’ (in Xinjiang). In fewer than 20 days he has repeatedly urged strengthening the Party (and stated) ‘the cadre team is the most important’ (in Liaoning this time). Especially since Xi conducted research in Liaoning after the Urumqi, Xinjiang riot on July 5, we can see the high expectations the Party’s Central Committee has for cadre teams to have a strong ideological grounding, good moral standards, good administrative ability and a solid work style.”

Source: Xinhua, July 9, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/politics/2009-07/09/content_11680693.htm