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Hu urges cadre to fight graft

Rally marks 85th anniversary of the CPC

BEIJING: Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on Friday called for intensified anti-corruption efforts at a grand rally in Beijing to mark the 85th founding anniversary of the CPC.

Mr. Hu, also Chinese President and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, urged CPC members to always keep and develop the vanguard character of the CPC to ``consolidate its governing status, improve its governing capability and carry out missions of its governance``.

All the nine members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee attended the rally.

The CPC was founded on July 1, 1921. Since then, it has grown from a small party of 50-plus members to a party with more than 70million members.

Mr. Hu called on the nation's over 70 million Party members to fully realise the strategic importance of anti-corruption efforts to maintain the vanguard character of CPC members, and never slacken the fight against corruption even for a second.

Mr. Hu noted that there still exist some prominent problems that do not conform with the vanguard character of the CPC, as some

Corruption is still rampant in some fields, as cases of cadres abusing power for personal gains are frequently reported, Mr. Hu said.Mr. Hu stressed the Party members should take effective measures and make painstaking efforts to combat corruption. — Xinhua

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