Posted on 12/30/2001 9:35:32 PM PST by super175
Vice-President Hu Jintao has called for bold and innovative measures to promote young cadres ahead of the 16th Communist Party congress next year.
Mr Hu urged cadres to make personnel changes ahead of the congress, which will elect the new leadership.
"Party committees at all levels must realise the importance and urgency of promoting young cadres," Mr Hu was quoted as saying by the China News Service.
Mr Hu was speaking over the weekend at a national conference for Organisation Department cadres, who are responsible for appointing party personnel.
Analysts said Mr Hu's presence at the conference indicated that he was in charge of the group overseeing the reshuffle of cadres in the run-up to leadership changes, which will take place at the congress, scheduled to open next autumn.
The Organisation Department is run by President Jiang Zemin's top aide, Zeng Qinghong.
Mr Hu and Mr Zeng are widely seen as the leading contenders for the top party positions.
Already 14 Chinese Communist Party committees at provincial level have been reshuffled through elections since September.
Party committees in 17 other provinces and regions will make changes over the next eight months, Xinhua said.
Meanwhile, top party officials in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, have warned cadres not to "fabricate or spread political rumours".
The disciplinary and inspection committee at Chengdu passed a resolution on Saturday asking cadres not to "make up or spread political rumours" that were detrimental to the party or the country's image, the Sichuan-based Tianfu Zaobao daily reported.
Those found to have defied party instructions will be punished.
The resolution also said it was vital for cadres to improve "behaviour problems".
Positive in that younger people tend not to be so hung up on stuff, to an extent. There is still this underlying problem if a miss-assessment of the overall situation though. Underlying everything China blames America for a lot of its problems.
To them, before the Brits came China was just some happy go lucky, without problems place where people just danced in the streets and had a jolly old time. Then the westerners came and screwed it all up... Part of the problem with their propaganda laden view is that the simple fairy tale-ization of old China.
It might be negative in that possibly younger people are too easy to control by the older people. Young dogs might not be willing to duke it out with the old dogs.
Also some of the younger crowd are not sure of the consequences of war and hence are too bold and assertive sometimes. They can sometimes lack patience in dealing with the pesky westerners.
On the other hand though, like I said above, they are a lot more open to understanding where we come from though.
Overall though I think it might make a better environment, especially in the long term after they settle in a little more.
I am gonna get flamed over it probably, but I kind of think Zhu might be an alright kinda guy, at least on a personal level. If I am not mistaken he talked a bunch of students into going home too and not running around burning down the city. Such actions are appreciated. That is unlike those other guys who try to stir people up to anger on purpose.
People don't realize it but if he goes around "taking America's side" in public it will cause a big uproar. He has to maintain a little face with some of the other cadres...
I actually think Jiang at one point was trying to make friends with America. When he came over that one time and was singing Elvis songs comes to mind... He got frustrated though when Congress snubbed him...
If I was to give him one message about that, it would be 'don't take it personally'. Jiang or Zhu might not condone all that goes on in their party. There are problems though, and since he is the President he got it...
Keep in mind though I will not go so far as to give him too much credit though. Its no love affair at all...
I don't doubt for a minute that Jiang put his stamp on some of the hostile intentions China undertakes.
Things are not always as they seem on the surface. I would venture to say that some of these guys really do want to change things for the better, but only they cannot bellow it at the top of their lungs like in America.
The real devil is all the details.
What he did in Shanghai in 1989 was widely praised in China, from Deng Xiaoping to the general public. He announced on TV that he would never ask the PLA to crush the demonstration. Instaed he asked the workers to come out to restore the order of the city. What moved the students most was what he said in tears: "I, with citizens and students of Shanghai, will defend the city with my blood and life."
>>I actually think Jiang at one point was trying to make friends with America. When he came over that one time and was singing Elvis songs comes to mind... He got frustrated though when Congress snubbed him...
Jiang is a politician with no principles. He cares about power. His trying to make friends with the US is to consolidate his position in the party. However after the embassy bombing his pro-American policy was thought to be a failure by the leadership.
>>I don't doubt for a minute that Jiang put his stamp on some of the hostile intentions China undertakes.
Of course Jiang can go tough with the US. The EP-3 inccident was an example. It wouldn't have been that big deal if Jiang had not felt his position was threatened. It was Jiang who repeatedly asked for the formal apology from the US. The US plays "China card" and the CCP plays "the US card", too. Hu's political career started from the Youth League. He knows the young people and is good at motivating and manipulating the youth. In China a person who has a high position but doesn't talk too much is someone you have to pay more attention to.
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