7. Deepen the reform of the cadre and personnel system. Efforts should be made to form a vigorous personnel mechanism under which we can gather large numbers of talented people, put them to the best use and get them prepared for both promotion and demotion, calling them to the service of the Party and state. In reforming and perfecting the cadre and personnel system and improving the system of public servants, we should focus on establishing a sound mechanism of selection, appointment, management and supervision, with a view to making it scientific, democratic and institutionalized. In the matter of cadre selection and appointment, Party members and ordinary people should have more right to know, to participate, to choose and to supervise. With regard to leading cadres of the Party and government, it is necessary to implement the system of fixed tenures, the system of resignation and the system of accountability for neglect of supervisory duty or the use of the wrong person. It is necessary to improve the system of giving cadres both positions and ranks and establish an incentive and guarantee mechanism for them. We should explore and improve the system of classified management of cadres and personnel in Party and government organs, institutions and enterprises. We should reform and improve the system of dual control over cadres. We should break with the notions and practices of overstressing seniority in the matter of selection and appointment, encourage the rational flow of trained people and create a sound environment which makes it possible for outstanding people to come to the fore in all fields.

（七）深化干部人事制度改革。努力形成广纳群贤、人尽其才、能上能下、充满活力的用人机制，把优秀人才集聚到党和国家的各项事业中来。以建立健全选拔任用和管理监督机制为重点，以科学化、民主化和制度化为目标，改革和完善干部人事制度，健全公务员制度。扩大党员和群众对干部选拔任用的知情权、参与权、选择权和监督权。实行党政领导干部职务任期制、辞职制和用人失察失误责任追究制。完善干部职务和职级相结合的制度，建立干部激励和保障机制。探索和完善党政机关、事业单位和企业的干部人事分类管理制度。改革和完善干部双重管理体制。打破选人用人中论资排辈的观念和做法，促进人才合理流动，积极营造各方面优秀人才脱颖而出的良好环境。

8. Tighten the restraint on and supervision over the use of power. We should establish a mechanism for the exercise of power featuring reasonable structure, scientific distribution, rigorous procedures and effective restraint so as to tighten supervision over power in terms of decision-making, execution and other links and ensure that the power entrusted to us by the people is truly exercised for their benefits. We should focus on tightening supervision over leading cadres and especially principal ones, stepping up supervision over the management and use of human, financial and material resources. We should tighten internal supervision of leading groups and improve the procedures for deciding on important matters and the appointment or dismissal of cadres in important positions. We should reform and improve the system of Party discipline inspection and introduce and improve the system of inspection tours. We should give play to the role of judicial, administrative supervision and auditing organs and other functional departments. We should implement the system under which leading cadres report in various ways on their work and their efforts to perform their duties honestly, and improve the systems of reporting on important matters, of making inquiries and of democratic appraisal. We should conscientiously implement the system of making government affairs known to the public. We should tighten organizational and democratic supervision and give play to the supervisory function of the media.

（八）加强对权力的制约和监督。建立结构合理、配置科学、程序严密、制约有效的权力运行机制，从决策和执行等环节加强对权力的监督，保证把人民赋予的权力真正用来为人民谋利益。重点加强对领导干部特别是主要领导干部的监督，加强对人财物管理和使用的监督。强化领导班子内部监督，完善重大事项和重要干部任免的决定程序。改革和完善党的纪律检查体制，建立和完善巡视制度。发挥司法机关和行政监察、审计等职能部门的作用。实行多种形式的领导干部述职述廉制度，健全重大事项报告制度、质询制度和民主评议制度。认真推行政务公开制度。加强组织监督和民主监督，发挥舆论监督的作用。

9. Maintain social stability. To accomplish the heavy tasks of reform and development, we must have a harmonious and stable social climate for a long time to come. Party committees and governments at all levels should enthusiastically help the people solve practical problems they may confront in their work and life. They must carry out in-depth investigations and study, strengthen ideological and political work in light of different cases, and employ economic, administrative and legal means to handle the contradictions among the people properly, those involving their immediate interests in particular, so as to maintain stability and unity. It is essential to improve procuratorial, judicial and public security work, cracking down on criminal activities according to law, guarding against and punishing crimes committed by evil cult gangs and eliminating social evils so as to ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people. We must combine punishment and prevention, with emphasis on the latter, take comprehensive measures to maintain law and order and improve social management so as to keep public order. We must strengthen state security, keeping vigilance against infiltrative, subversive and separatist activities by hostile forces at home and abroad.

（九）维护社会稳定。完成改革和发展的繁重任务，必须保持长期和谐稳定的社会环境。各级党委和政府要满腔热情地解决人民群众工作和生活中的实际问题。要深入调查研究，区别不同情况，加强思想政治工作，正确运用经济、行政和法律等手段，妥善处理人民内部矛盾特别是涉及群众切身利益的矛盾，保持安定团结的局面。加强政法工作，依法严厉打击各种犯罪活动，防范和惩治邪教组织的犯罪活动，坚决扫除社会丑恶现象，切实保障人民群众生命财产安全。坚持打防结合、预防为主，落实社会治安综合治理的各项措施，改进社会管理，保持良好的社会秩序。加强国家安全工作，警惕国际国内敌对势力的渗透、颠覆和分裂活动。

Socialist democracy enjoys strong vitality and superiority. The CPC and the Chinese people have full confidence in the road to political development they have chosen and will press ahead with political development under socialism with Chinese characteristics.

社会主义民主政治具有强大的生命力和优越性。中国共产党和中国人民对自己选择的政治发展道路充满信心，将坚定不移地把中国特色社会主义政治建设推向前进。

VI. Cultural Development and Restructuring

六、文化建设和文化体制改革

To build a well-off society in an all-round way calls for major efforts to develop socialist culture and spiritual civilization. In the present-day world, culture is interactive with economic and political activities, and its status and functions are becoming more and more outstanding in the competition in overall national strength. The power of culture is deeply rooted in the vitality, creativity and cohesion of a nation. All Party members must fully understand the strategic significance of cultural development and make socialist culture develop and flourish.

全面建设小康社会，必须大力发展社会主义文化，建设社会主义精神文明。当今世界，文化与经济和政治相互交融，在综合国力竞争中的地位和作用越来越突出。文化的力量，深深熔铸在民族的生命力、创造力和凝聚力之中。全党同志要深刻认识文化建设的战略意义，推动社会主义文化的发展繁荣。

1. Keep the orientation of advanced culture firmly in hand. In contemporary China, to develop advanced culture means to develop national, scientific and popular socialist culture geared to the needs of modernization, of the world and of the future so as to enrich people's mental world and reinforce their mental strength. We must uphold Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory as our guidelines in the realm of ideology and have the important thought of Three Represents in command of the development of socialist culture. We must keep to the orientation of serving the people and socialism and the principle of letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend and highlight the themes of the times while encouraging diversity. We should continue to arm people with scientific theory, provide them with correct media guidance, imbue them with lofty ideals, and inspire them with excellent works of literature and art. We must exert ourselves to develop advanced culture and support healthy and useful culture, changing what is backward and resisting what is decadent. Literary and art workers should go deep among the masses and into the thick of life so as to contribute to the people more works worthy of the times. The press, publishing, radio, film and television must give correct guidance to the public, and Internet web sites should serve as important fronts for spreading advanced culture. Basing ourselves on the practice of reform, opening up and modernization and keeping abreast of the latest developments in world culture, we must carry forward the fine tradition of our national culture, draw on the strong points of other nations and make innovations in content and form so as to enhance the attraction and appeal of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics.

（一）牢牢把握先进文化的前进方向。在当代中国，发展先进文化，就是发展面向现代化、面向世界、面向未来的，民族的科学的大众的社会主义文化，以不断丰富人们的精神世界，增强人们的精神力量。必须坚持马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想和邓小平理论在意识形态领域的指导地位，用“三个代表”重要思想统领社会主义文化建设。坚持为人民服务、为社会主义服务的方向和百花齐放、百家争鸣的方针，弘扬主旋律，提倡多样化。坚持以科学的理论武装人，以正确的舆论引导人，以高尚的精神塑造人，以优秀的作品鼓舞人。大力发展先进文化，支持健康有益文化，努力改造落后文化，坚决抵制腐朽文化。文艺工作者要深入群众、深入生活，为人民奉献更多无愧于时代的作品。新闻出版和广播影视必须坚持正确导向，互联网站要成为传播先进文化的重要阵地。立足于改革开放和现代化建设的实践，着眼于世界文化发展的前沿，发扬民族文化的优秀传统，汲取世界各民族的长处，在内容和形式上积极创新，不断增强中国特色社会主义文化的吸引力和感召力。

2. Continue to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit. National spirit is the moral kingpin on which a nation relies for survival and development. Without an inspiring spirit and lofty character, it is impossible for a nation to stand proudly in the family of nations. For more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has evolved a great national spirit centering on patriotism and featuring unity and solidarity, love of peace, industry, courage and ceaseless self-improvement. This national spirit has been enriched in light of the requirements of the times and social development by the people under the leadership of our Party over along period of practice. Confronted with interaction of different thoughts and cultures in the world, we must take it as a crucial task in our cultural development to carry forward and cultivate the national spirit and incorporate it into our national education and the entire process of building spiritual civilization so that the entire people are always filled with an enterprising spirit.

（二）坚持弘扬和培育民族精神。民族精神是一个民族赖以生存和发展的精神支撑。一个民族，没有振奋的精神和高尚的品格，不可能自立于世界民族之林。在五千多年的发展中，中华民族形成了以爱国主义为核心的团结统一、爱好和平、勤劳勇敢、自强不息的伟大民族精神。我们党领导人民在长期实践中不断结合时代和社会的发展要求，丰富着这个民族精神。面对世界范围各种思想文化的相互激荡，必须把弘扬和培育民族精神作为文化建设极为重要的任务，纳入国民教育全过程，纳入精神文明建设全过程，使全体人民始终保持昂扬向上的精神状态。

3. Promote ideological and ethical progress. Ruling the country by law and ruling the country by virtue complement each other. It is necessary to establish a socialist ideological and ethical system compatible with the socialist market economy and the socialist legal standard and consistent with the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation. We must carry out intensive publicity and education in the Party's basic theory, line and program and in the important thought of Three Represents, and guide people in fostering a common ideal for socialism with Chinese characteristics, correct world outlook, views on life and values. We must carry out the Program for Improving Civic Morality, promote patriotism and, with serving the people at the core, collectivism as the principle and honesty as a priority, intensify education in social and professional ethics and family virtues and especially intensify the ideological and ethical improvement among youth so as to guide people in their pursuit of higher ideological and ethical standards on the basis of observing the basic code of conduct. We must strengthen and improve ideological and political work and encourage popular participation in building spiritual civilization.

（三）切实加强思想道德建设。依法治国和以德治国相辅相成。要建立与社会主义市场经济相适应、与社会主义法律规范相协调、与中华民族传统美德相承接的社会主义思想道德体系。深入进行党的基本理论、基本路线、基本纲领和“三个代表”重要思想的宣传教育，引导人们树立中国特色社会主义共同理想，树立正确的世界观、人生观和价值观。认真贯彻公民道德建设实施纲要，弘扬爱国主义精神，以为人民服务为核心、以集体主义为原则、以诚实守信为重点，加强社会公德、职业道德和家庭美德教育，特别要加强青少年的思想道德建设，引导人们在遵守基本行为准则的基础上，追求更高的思想道德目标。加强和改进思想政治工作，广泛开展群众性精神文明创建活动。

4. Develop education and science. Education is the foundation for scientific and technological advancement and personnel training. Playing a vanguard role and having an overall bearing on the modernization drive, education must be placed on our development agenda as a strategic priority. We must carry out the Party's education policy that education should serve socialist modernization and the people and integrate itself with productive labor and social practice so as to train socialist builders and successors featuring an all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and art. We should encourage innovation in education, deepen its reform, optimize its structure, allocate its resources rationally, raise its quality and management levels and promote quality-oriented education to cultivate hundreds of millions of high-quality workers, tens of millions of specialized personnel and a great number of top-notch innovative personnel. We should build up the ranks of teachers and raise their professional ethics and competence. We should continue to make nine-year compulsory education universal across the country, intensify vocational education and training, develop continued education and set up a system of life-long education. We should increase input in education, give more support to rural education, and encourage nongovernmental sectors to run schools. We should improve the state policy and system for aiding students in straitened circumstances. We should formulate a long-term program for scientific and technological development. We should step up the development of infrastructure for research. We should disseminate science and promote the scientific spirit. We must lay equal stress on social sciences and natural sciences and give full play to the important role of philosophy and other social sciences in economic and social development. It is essential to create an atmosphere in society at large favorable for respecting and promoting science, encouraging innovation and opposing superstition and pseudo-science.

（四）大力发展教育和科学事业。教育是发展科学技术和培养人才的基础，在现代化建设中具有先导性全局性作用，必须摆在优先发展的战略地位。全面贯彻党的教育方针，坚持教育为社会主义现代化建设服务，为人民服务，与生产劳动和社会实践相结合，培养德智体美全面发展的社会主义建设者和接班人。坚持教育创新，深化教育改革，优化教育结构，合理配置教育资源，提高教育质量和管理水平，全面推进素质教育，造就数以亿计的高素质劳动者、数以千万计的专门人才和一大批拔尖创新人才。加强教师队伍建设，提高教师的师德和业务水平。继续普及九年义务教育。加强职业教育和培训，发展继续教育，构建终身教育体系。加大对教育的投入和对农村教育的支持，鼓励社会力量办学。完善国家资助贫困学生的政策和制度。制定科学和技术长远发展规划。加强科学基础设施建设。普及科学知识，弘扬科学精神。坚持社会科学和自然科学并重，充分发挥哲学社会科学在经济和社会发展中的重要作用。在全社会形成崇尚科学、鼓励创新、反对迷信和伪科学的良好氛围。

5. Develop cultural undertakings and industry. In developing cultural undertakings and industry, it is imperative to meet the requirements of developing advanced culture and always place social effects in the first place. The state supports and protects public cultural undertakings and encourages them to enhance their vigor for self-development. We must continue to improve the policies and measures for the development of public cultural undertakings. We must give our support to the major news media and research institutions of social sciences of the Party and state, to the major cultural projects and art schools and troupes that are up to national standards and embody national characteristics, to the protection of major cultural heritage and outstanding folk arts, and to the cultural development in the old revolutionary base areas, areas inhabited by ethnic minorities, remote areas, impoverished areas and the central and western regions of the country. We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture. We should promote the reform and development of health and sports undertakings and carry on the nationwide fitness campaign to improve the physique of the entire people. We should make the 2008 Olympics a success. Developing the cultural industry is an important avenue to enriching socialist culture in the market economy and to meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of the people. It is essential to improve policies toward the cultural industry, support its development and enhance its overall strength and competitiveness.

（五）积极发展文化事业和文化产业。发展各类文化事业和文化产业都要贯彻发展先进文化的要求，始终把社会效益放在首位。国家支持和保障文化公益事业，并鼓励它们增强自身发展活力。坚持和完善支持文化公益事业发展的政策措施，扶持党和国家重要的新闻媒体和社会科学研究机构，扶持体现民族特色和国家水准的重大文化项目和艺术院团，扶持对重要文化遗产和优秀民间艺术的保护工作，扶持老少边穷地区和中西部地区的文化发展。加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。积极推进卫生体育事业的改革和发展，开展全民健身运动，提高全民健康水平。努力办好二００八年奥运会。发展文化产业是市场经济条件下繁荣社会主义文化、满足人民群众精神文化需求的重要途径。完善文化产业政策，支持文化产业发展，增强我国文化产业的整体实力和竞争力。

6. Continue to deepen cultural restructuring. It is necessary to push forward cultural restructuring in light of the characteristics of the development of socialist spiritual civilization and laws governing it and in response to the needs of the growing socialist market economy. We must lose no time in working out overall planning for cultural restructuring. We must integrate the deepening of reform with structural adjustment and promotion of development and straighten out the relationship between the government and cultural enterprises and institutions. We must build up a legal system concerning culture and intensify macro-control. We should deepen the internal reform of cultural enterprises and institutions and gradually establish a management system and operational mechanism favorable to arousing the initiative of cultural workers, encouraging innovation and bringing forth more top-notch works and more outstanding personnel. In compliance with the principle of both enriching culture and intensifying management, we should improve the system of markets for cultural products and their management mechanism to create a social climate favorable for a flourishing socialist culture.

六）继续深化文化体制改革。根据社会主义精神文明建设的特点和规律，适应社会主义市场经济发展的要求，推进文化体制改革。抓紧制定文化体制改革的总体方案。把深化改革同调整结构和促进发展结合起来，理顺政府和文化企事业单位的关系，加强文化法制建设，加强宏观管理，深化文化企事业单位内部改革，逐步建立有利于调动文化工作者积极性，推动文化创新，多出精品、多出人才的文化管理体制和运行机制。按照一手抓繁荣、一手抓管理的方针，健全文化市场体系，完善文化市场管理机制，为繁荣社会主义文化创造良好的社会环境。

The Chinese civilization, extensive and profound, and with a long history behind it, has contributed tremendously to the progress of human civilization. We will surely have a new upsurge in building socialist culture and create an even more splendid advanced culture in the great struggle of the Chinese people in the contemporary era.

中华文明博大精深、源远流长，为人类文明进步作出了巨大贡献。在当代中国人民的伟大奋斗中，必将迎来社会主义文化建设的新高潮，创造出更加灿烂的先进文化。