The re-election of the term change of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Committees in the 31 provinces, autonomous regions
and municipalities around the country was conducted from the early second half of 2006 to the end of June this year and, from the start of 2006 to late April this year, the CPC
committees in 408 cities (or prefectures), 2,763 counties (or cities at the county level) and 34,976 towns and townships all re-elected. Thus, the re-election of the CPC committees at all the four levels nationwide has been fulfilled in strict compliance with the Party Constitution and the unified arrangements of the CPC Central
committee.
The Party Central Committee has attached great importance to the re-election of the term change of the CPC committee at various levels. The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and its Standing Committee called a number of meetings to do special researches on varied topics, and Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made vital, important instructions with respect to the work of re-election.
In April 2006, the CPC Central Committee issued a circular on the re-election of the term-change of Party Committees in the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in two years of 2006 and 2007 and sponsored relevant meetings or discussions to make all-round arrangements regarding the re-election. Then, the CPC Central Discipline Inspection Commission and the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee jointly dispatched five batches of supervisors to 25 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities around China to inspect the work of re-election following their joint issue of a "circular on the strict, further enforcement of the organizational and personal disciplines on the re-election of local party committees". Meanwhile, the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, with the helf of leading news media organizations, did a good job to publicize the guiding ideology, objectives and tasks of the re-election and the related policies measures.
Moreover, the work of all sorts with respect to Party congresses was performed carefully and meticulously in all localities. A special hotline "No. 12380" was set to report any tip-off about misconduct involved during the re-election. The organization departments of Party committees at various levels set up multi-channel supervision networks, apart from efforts to cope with problems raised by people in person or in their letters of complaint. The Party Central authority and local party committees penalized 260 people for their violation of Party disciplines and cited for the criticism of 31 typical cases nationwide, so as to create a fair, clean environment for the term-change re-election.
In the course of inspecting candidates who stood for the re-election, all localities experimented with new trial methods of appraisal and, in line with detailed rules and regulations for implementation, they improved democratic discussions and appraisals of the past and introduced a new-type additional recommendation through a second meeting, and held opinion polls and direct, face-to-face talks with candidates. And those Party officials, whose duration of office is less than two years, are required to undergo extended inspections.