Communique of the Sixth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee (Chinese and English Text)
Communique of the Sixth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee www.chinaview.cn 2006-10-11 20:51:22 BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Following is the translation of the full text of the Communique of the Sixth Plenum of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which was passed here Wednesday. The Sixth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing from Oct. 8 to 11, 2006. Present at the plenum were 195 members and 152 alternate members of the CPC Central Committee. Members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and leading officials of relevant departments also attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates. The plenum was presided over by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered an important speech at the plenum. The plenum listened to and discussed the working report delivered by Hu Jintao , who was entrusted by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and adopted the "resolutions of the CPC Central Committee on major issues regarding the building of a harmonious socialist society". Wu Bangguo made an explanatory speech on the draft resolutions to the plenum. The plenum fully recognized the work of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee since the Fifth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee. The plenum unanimously agreed that the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has firmly followed the guidance of the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the "Three Represents", thoroughly implemented the guidelines of the 16th CPC National Congress and the Third, Fourth and Fifth plenums of the 16th CPC Central Committee and comprehensively implemented the scientific concept of development. The plenum agreed that the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, uniting and leading the whole Party and Chinese people of all ethnic groups, firmly focused on development, the most important task for the Party to govern and construct the country. The plenum agreed that the Political Bureau exerted efforts to speed up reform and opening up, improve the nation's capability of scientific and technological innovation and push the adjustment of economic structures and the transformation of economic growth mode to push for the relatively rapid and stable economic development. It agreed that new achievements have been made in the socialist economic, political, cultural and social construction, the Party's governance capability and advanced nature have been strengthened, and new progress has been achieved in the socialist cause of Chinese characteristics. The plenum fully analyzed the current situation and tasks and discussed the key issues of building a harmonious socialist society. The plenum unanimously agreed that social harmony is the intrinsic nature of the socialism with Chinese characteristics and an important guarantee of the country's prosperity, the nation's rejuvenation and the people's happiness. The building of a harmonious socialist society is an important strategic task, which was put forward by the CPC under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the "Three Represents" and with full implementation of the scientific concept of development. The task was brought forward on the basis of the overall plan of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics and the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society. To build a harmonious socialist society was the intrinsic demand of constructing a socialist modernized country which is prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious. It also embodied the common aspiration of the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups. The plenum pointed out that social harmony is one of the targets that the CPC will make unremitting efforts to hit. Since the founding of New China, the CPC has made arduous efforts to promote social harmony and has made important achievements with both positive and bitter experiences. Since the Third Plenum of the 11th CPC Central Committee, the CPC has been firmly committed to the reform and opening up drive and socialist construction, actively bolstered the comprehensive progress of economic and social development and made tireless efforts to promote social harmony. Since the 16th CPC National Congress, with deepening understanding of social harmony, the CPC has made clear the status of building a harmonious socialist society in the overall plan of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics and made a series of decisions and deployments to strive for new achievements in the building of a harmonious society. After long-term endeavors, a favorable condition for building a harmonious socialist society has been formed. The plenum said the CPC should take opportunities and face challenges in the new century and lead Chinese people to push forward the great socialist cause with Chinese characteristics. It said the Party must continue to focus on economic development and put the building of the harmonious socialist society to a more prominent place. The plenum believed that currently the Chinese society is harmonious in general. However, there exist many contradictions and problems, which affect social harmony. Human society has been developing and progressing amid movements of all kinds of conflicts. The building of the harmonious socialist society is a consistent process, during which social conflicts are resolved. We must always remain sober minded, be vigilant in peace time, thoroughly understand the feature of the country in the current phase of development, study and analyze the contradictions and problems and their origins in a scientific way, be more active to face up to the conflicts and solve them, and try utmost efforts to increase harmonious factors and reduce disharmonious factors to consistently boost social harmony. The plenum requested all Party members continue to emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, keep pace with the times, be realistic, consciously act according to rules, be based on the current situation while keeping eyes on the future, do what our strength allows and exert every effort to continuously advance the building of the harmonious socialist society. The plenum requested all Party members contribute to the building of the socialist harmonious society, which should be regarded as a long-term historical task that runs through the whole process of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics and a vital realistic task for comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society. The plenum stressed that the harmonious socialist society we are going to build is a harmonious society built and shared by all Chinese people along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics and under the leadership of the CPC. We must adhere to the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", adhere to the Party's basic line, basic program and basic experience, adhere to the guidance of scientific concept of development in overall economic and social development, follow the overall requirement of building a democratic society under the rule of law, a society based on equity and justice, an honest and caring society, a society full of vigor and a stable and orderly society in which humans live in harmony with nature, strive to develop social services, promote social equity and justice, foster a culture of harmony, improve public administration, enhance creativity of the society, pursue the road of common prosperity, and push forward coordinated development of social construction, economic construction, political construction and cultural construction with the emphasis on solving issues people care about most and issues that concern their most immediate and most realistic interests. The plenum puts forward the main objectives and tasks for building a harmonious socialist society by 2020, which are as follows: the socialist democratic and legal system is further improved; the fundamental principle of administering the country according to law is implemented in an all-around way; people's rights and interests enjoy concrete respect and guarantee; widening of gap between urban and rural development and development between different regions is gradually reversed; a reasonable and orderly income distribution pattern takes shape in general; wealth of households increase universally and people lead more affluent lives; employment rate is relatively high and a social security system covering both urban and rural residents is established in general; basic public service system is further improved and the government attains relatively big improvements in administrative and service levels; the ideological and moral qualities, scientific and cultural qualities and health qualities of the whole nation are improved markedly and further progress is made in fostering a sound moral atmosphere and harmonious interpersonal relationship; creativity of the whole society is enhanced markedly and an innovation-based country is established in general; public administration system is further improved and social order is in good condition; efficiency of utilization of resources is enhanced markedly and visible improvement in ecological environment is achieved; the objective of building a moderately prosperous society of a higher level and in an all-around way to benefit the Chinese people of more than 1 billion is realized and striving to attain a situation in which all people do their best according to their abilities, everyone is provided for and people live together in harmony. The plenum stressed that the following principles must be followed in building a harmonious socialist society: adhering to putting people first; adhering to development in a scientific way;adhering to reform and opening up; adhering to democracy and the rule of law; adhering to properly handling the relationships between reform, development and stability; and adhering to participation of the whole society under the leadership of the Party. The plenum pointed out that development is the prerequisite of social harmony. We must adhere to solving problems on the road ahead through promoting development and make great efforts to develop social productive forces and constantly consolidate the material base for social harmony. Meanwhile, we must put more attention to developing social services and push forward economic and social development in a coordinated way. Social equity and justice is a basic condition of social harmony, while a sound system provides the fundamental guarantee to social equity and justice. We must accelerate construction of the system that plays an important role in ensuring social equity and justice to guarantee people's rights and interests in political, economic, cultural and social fields and guide our citizens to exercise their rights and fulfill their obligations according to law. Nurturing a culture of harmony is an important task of building a harmonious socialist society, while socialist core value system is the essential element of the culture of harmony. We must adhere to the guiding role of Marxism in ideological fields, firmly control the development direction of socialist advanced culture, advocate harmony concepts and nurture the spirit of harmony to further foster common ideals and beliefs for the whole society and solidify the ideological and moral base for the whole Party and people of various ethnic groups to work hard in unison. Enhancing public administration and maintaining social stability is a prerequisite of building a harmonious socialist society. We must innovate the public administration system, integrate public administration resources, improve the level of public administration, improve the public administration pattern that is under the leadership of the Party committee, the government taking the responsibility with cooperation from other organizations and with participation of the public. Service should be accompanied with administration and administration should reflect service. Socialist harmonious society is both a society full of vigor and a society of unity and harmony. We must stimulate the energy of society to its full, promote the harmony of relationship between political parties, ethnic groups, religions, stratums and compatriots at home and abroad, consolidate the great unity of people of various ethnic groups and consolidate the great unity of Chinese both at home and abroad. The plenum made the deployment for building a harmonious socialist society for present time and future: Construction of social cause should be strengthened through adhering to coordinated development; new socialist countryside construction should be earnestly pushed forward; the general strategy of regional development should be implemented; active employment policies should be carried out; education should be topped the agenda of development; health care services should be enhanced; development of cultural cause and cultural industries should be speed up; environmental protection and pollution control should be strengthened; institutional construction should be enhanced and social equality and justice should be safeguarded. The system of safeguarding democratic rights, the legal system and judicial system and mechanism, as well as systems of public finance, income distribution and social security should be improved. Harmonious culture should be built. Ethnic foundation for social harmony should be consolidated. Socialist core value system should be upheld. Socialist concept of honor and disgrace should be established. Civilized public morality should be fostered. Active and healthy ideological atmosphere should be built. A movement of creating harmonious society should be widely launched. Social administration should be improved and good public order should be maintained. Service-oriented government should be established, community construction should be pushed forward and social organizations should be healthily developed. Interests of various sides should be coordinated in an overall manner. Emergency response system and overall management of public order should be improved. National security and national defense work must be strengthened. Social vigor should be stimulated and social unity and harmony be enhanced. People's creative spirit should be brought into play and the broadest patriotic united front be consolidated. The long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao should be maintained, the great cause of national reunification should be pushed forward and the peaceful development road be adhered to. The plenum stressed that to build a harmonious socialist society, the CPC's role as the core leadership must be brought into full play. The principles -- the Party is built for the public and exercises the power for the people -- must be adhered to. CPC's efforts in improving governance capacity and maintaining advanced nature are the political guarantee for the construction of a harmonious socialist society. Leadership and cadres at various levels should improve their capability of leading people to construct a harmonious socialist society. Party committees at various levels should put the construction of a harmonious socialist society at a prominent position and make efforts in judging direction, stipulating policies, pooling strengths and power, fostering favorable environment and shouldering the leadership accountability for the construction of a harmonious socialist society. Democratic centralism should be adhered to and improved. Efforts should be made in improving inner-Party democracy, increasing transparency of Party affairs, strictly regulating the inner-Party life, strictly enforcing the Party's discipline, promoting the party's unity. Inner-Party harmony will promote social harmony. Party committees at various levels should build the scientific leadership and work system of high-efficiency, clearly classify responsibilities, provide coordinated instruction, sharpen political sensitivity, strengthen investigation and research into major issues of social construction for the effectiveness of their policies and properly handling prominent contradictions and issues that affect social harmony in their localities. The work should be intensified in the grass-roots, the characteristics of the Party's work concerning the masses should be earnestly studied, and great effort should be made on the work concerning the masses. Party committees at various levels should always maintain flesh-and-blood relations with the masses and train a large number of professionals who are good at dealing with social issues. Party committees at various levels should toughen the internal discipline and strengthen studying of the Party Constitution, laws and disciplines. Party members and cadres should strengthen ideological and moral cultivation. The anti-corruption mechanism should be improved and the supervision over the leading cadres and organizations should be intensified. The fight against corruption and the construction of a clean and honest Party should be fortified. Sound ethos within the Party should be introduced to foster healthy ethos among the general public and government officials, so as to create harmonious relations between the Party and the masses. The plenum reviewed and passed a resolution on the convening of the 17th National Congress of the CPC, which is to be held in second half of 2007. The national congress, to be held at a crucial period of China's economic and social development, will be of vital importance for the Party to unite and lead all the Chinese people in building a moderately prosperous society and accelerating the nation's socialist modernization drive. The plenum called on the whole Party to rally closely around the CPC Central Committee with comrade Hu Jintao as the General Secretary; to hold high the banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Important Thought of "Three Represents" and further implement the scientific concept of development; to blaze new trails, unite and lead all Chinese people to build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious socialist modern nation. Enditem Editor: Ling Zhu
The following translation was retrieved from the Xinhua Web site on October 11, 2006. The Chinese text was retrieved from the Xinhua Web site on December 2, 2006.
Communique of the Sixth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee
BEIJING, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) -- Following is the translation of the full text of the Communique of the Sixth Plenum of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which was passed here Wednesday.
The Sixth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee was held in Beijing from Oct. 8 to 11, 2006.
Present at the plenum were 195 members and 152 alternate members of the CPC Central Committee. Members of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and leading officials of relevant departments also attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates.
The plenum was presided over by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, delivered an important speech at the plenum.
The plenum listened to and discussed the working report delivered by Hu Jintao , who was entrusted by the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, and adopted the "resolutions of the CPC Central Committee on major issues regarding the building of a harmonious socialist society". Wu Bangguo made an explanatory speech on the draft resolutions to the plenum.
The plenum fully recognized the work of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee since the Fifth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee. The plenum unanimously agreed that the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has firmly followed the guidance of the Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the "Three Represents", thoroughly implemented the guidelines of the 16th CPC National Congress and the Third, Fourth and Fifth plenums of the 16th CPC Central Committee and comprehensively implemented the scientific concept of development. The plenum agreed that the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, uniting and leading the whole Party and Chinese people of all ethnic groups, firmly focused on development, the most important task for the Party to govern and construct the country. The plenum agreed that the Political Bureau exerted efforts to speed up reform and opening up, improve the nation's capability of scientific and technological innovation and push the adjustment of economic structures and the transformation of economic growth mode to push for the relatively rapid and stable economic development. It agreed that new achievements have been made in the socialist economic, political, cultural and social construction, the Party's governance capability and advanced nature have been strengthened, and new progress has been achieved in the socialist cause of Chinese characteristics.
The plenum fully analyzed the current situation and tasks and discussed the key issues of building a harmonious socialist society. The plenum unanimously agreed that social harmony is the intrinsic nature of the socialism with Chinese characteristics and an important guarantee of the country's prosperity, the nation's rejuvenation and the people's happiness. The building of a harmonious socialist society is an important strategic task, which was put forward by the CPC under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of the "Three Represents" and with full implementation of the scientific concept of development. The task was brought forward on the basis of the overall plan of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics and the comprehensive construction of a moderately prosperous society. To build a harmonious socialist society was the intrinsic demand of constructing a socialist modernized country which is prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious. It also embodied the common aspiration of the whole Party and people of all ethnic groups.
The plenum pointed out that social harmony is one of the targets that the CPC will make unremitting efforts to hit. Since the founding of New China, the CPC has made arduous efforts to promote social harmony and has made important achievements with both positive and bitter experiences. Since the Third Plenum of the 11th CPC Central Committee, the CPC has been firmly committed to the reform and opening up drive and socialist construction, actively bolstered the comprehensive progress of economic and social development and made tireless efforts to promote social harmony. Since the 16th CPC National Congress, with deepening understanding of social harmony, the CPC has made clear the status of building a harmonious socialist society in the overall plan of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics and made a series of decisions and deployments to strive for new achievements in the building of a harmonious society. After long-term endeavors, a favorable condition for building a harmonious socialist society has been formed.
The plenum said the CPC should take opportunities and face challenges in the new century and lead Chinese people to push forward the great socialist cause with Chinese characteristics. It said the Party must continue to focus on economic development and put the building of the harmonious socialist society to a more prominent place.
The plenum believed that currently the Chinese society is harmonious in general. However, there exist many contradictions and problems, which affect social harmony. Human society has been developing and progressing amid movements of all kinds of conflicts. The building of the harmonious socialist society is a consistent process, during which social conflicts are resolved. We must always remain sober minded, be vigilant in peace time, thoroughly understand the feature of the country in the current phase of development, study and analyze the contradictions and problems and their origins in a scientific way, be more active to face up to the conflicts and solve them, and try utmost efforts to increase harmonious factors and reduce disharmonious factors to consistently boost social harmony. The plenum requested all Party members continue to emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, keep pace with the times, be realistic, consciously act according to rules, be based on the current situation while keeping eyes on the future, do what our strength allows and exert every effort to continuously advance the building of the harmonious socialist society. The plenum requested all Party members contribute to the building of the socialist harmonious society, which should be regarded as a long-term historical task that runs through the whole process of the socialist cause with Chinese characteristics and a vital realistic task for comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society.
The plenum stressed that the harmonious socialist society we are going to build is a harmonious society built and shared by all Chinese people along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics and under the leadership of the CPC. We must adhere to the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory and the important thought of "Three Represents", adhere to the Party's basic line, basic program and basic experience, adhere to the guidance of scientific concept of development in overall economic and social development, follow the overall requirement of building a democratic society under the rule of law, a society based on equity and justice, an honest and caring society, a society full of vigor and a stable and orderly society in which humans live in harmony with nature, strive to develop social services, promote social equity and justice, foster a culture of harmony, improve public administration, enhance creativity of the society, pursue the road of common prosperity, and push forward coordinated development of social construction, economic construction, political construction and cultural construction with the emphasis on solving issues people care about most and issues that concern their most immediate and most realistic interests.
The plenum puts forward the main objectives and tasks for building a harmonious socialist society by 2020, which are as follows: the socialist democratic and legal system is further improved; the fundamental principle of administering the country according to law is implemented in an all-around way; people's rights and interests enjoy concrete respect and guarantee; widening of gap between urban and rural development and development between different regions is gradually reversed; a reasonable and orderly income distribution pattern takes shape in general; wealth of households increase universally and people lead more affluent lives; employment rate is relatively high and a social security system covering both urban and rural residents is established in general; basic public service system is further improved and the government attains relatively big improvements in administrative and service levels; the ideological and moral qualities, scientific and cultural qualities and health qualities of the whole nation are improved markedly and further progress is made in fostering a sound moral atmosphere and harmonious interpersonal relationship; creativity of the whole society is enhanced markedly and an innovation-based country is established in general; public administration system is further improved and social order is in good condition; efficiency of utilization of resources is enhanced markedly and visible improvement in ecological environment is achieved; the objective of building a moderately prosperous society of a higher level and in an all-around way to benefit the Chinese people of more than 1 billion is realized and striving to attain a situation in which all people do their best according to their abilities, everyone is provided for and people live together in harmony.
The plenum stressed that the following principles must be followed in building a harmonious socialist society: adhering to putting people first; adhering to development in a scientific way;adhering to reform and opening up; adhering to democracy and the rule of law; adhering to properly handling the relationships between reform, development and stability; and adhering to participation of the whole society under the leadership of the Party.
The plenum pointed out that development is the prerequisite of social harmony. We must adhere to solving problems on the road ahead through promoting development and make great efforts to develop social productive forces and constantly consolidate the material base for social harmony. Meanwhile, we must put more attention to developing social services and push forward economic and social development in a coordinated way. Social equity and justice is a basic condition of social harmony, while a sound system provides the fundamental guarantee to social equity and justice. We must accelerate construction of the system that plays an important role in ensuring social equity and justice to guarantee people's rights and interests in political, economic, cultural and social fields and guide our citizens to exercise their rights and fulfill their obligations according to law. Nurturing a culture of harmony is an important task of building a harmonious socialist society, while socialist core value system is the essential element of the culture of harmony. We must adhere to the guiding role of Marxism in ideological fields, firmly control the development direction of socialist advanced culture, advocate harmony concepts and nurture the spirit of harmony to further foster common ideals and beliefs for the whole society and solidify the ideological and moral base for the whole Party and people of various ethnic groups to work hard in unison. Enhancing public administration and maintaining social stability is a prerequisite of building a harmonious socialist society. We must innovate the public administration system, integrate public administration resources, improve the level of public administration, improve the public administration pattern that is under the leadership of the Party committee, the government taking the responsibility with cooperation from other organizations and with participation of the public. Service should be accompanied with administration and administration should reflect service. Socialist harmonious society is both a society full of vigor and a society of unity and harmony. We must stimulate the energy of society to its full, promote the harmony of relationship between political parties, ethnic groups, religions, stratums and compatriots at home and abroad, consolidate the great unity of people of various ethnic groups and consolidate the great unity of Chinese both at home and abroad.
The plenum made the deployment for building a harmonious socialist society for present time and future: Construction of social cause should be strengthened through adhering to coordinated development; new socialist countryside construction should be earnestly pushed forward; the general strategy of regional development should be implemented; active employment policies should be carried out; education should be topped the agenda of development; health care services should be enhanced; development of cultural cause and cultural industries should be speed up; environmental protection and pollution control should be strengthened; institutional construction should be enhanced and social equality and justice should be safeguarded. The system of safeguarding democratic rights, the legal system and judicial system and mechanism, as well as systems of public finance, income distribution and social security should be improved. Harmonious culture should be built. Ethnic foundation for social harmony should be consolidated. Socialist core value system should be upheld. Socialist concept of honor and disgrace should be established. Civilized public morality should be fostered. Active and healthy ideological atmosphere should be built. A movement of creating harmonious society should be widely launched.
Social administration should be improved and good public order should be maintained. Service-oriented government should be established, community construction should be pushed forward and social organizations should be healthily developed. Interests of various sides should be coordinated in an overall manner. Emergency response system and overall management of public order should be improved. National security and national defense work must be strengthened.
Social vigor should be stimulated and social unity and harmony be enhanced. People's creative spirit should be brought into play and the broadest patriotic united front be consolidated. The long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao should be maintained, the great cause of national reunification should be pushed forward and the peaceful development road be adhered to.
The plenum stressed that to build a harmonious socialist society, the CPC's role as the core leadership must be brought into full play. The principles -- the Party is built for the public and exercises the power for the people -- must be adhered to. CPC's efforts in improving governance capacity and maintaining advanced nature are the political guarantee for the construction of a harmonious socialist society. Leadership and cadres at various levels should improve their capability of leading people to construct a harmonious socialist society. Party committees at various levels should put the construction of a harmonious socialist society at a prominent position and make efforts in judging direction, stipulating policies, pooling strengths and power, fostering favorable environment and shouldering the leadership accountability for the construction of a harmonious socialist society. Democratic centralism should be adhered to and improved. Efforts should be made in improving inner-Party democracy, increasing transparency of Party affairs, strictly regulating the inner-Party life, strictly enforcing the Party's discipline, promoting the party's unity. Inner-Party harmony will promote social harmony. Party committees at various levels should build the scientific leadership and work system of high-efficiency, clearly classify responsibilities, provide coordinated instruction, sharpen political sensitivity, strengthen investigation and research into major issues of social construction for the effectiveness of their policies and properly handling prominent contradictions and issues that affect social harmony in their localities. The work should be intensified in the grass-roots, the characteristics of the Party's work concerning the masses should be earnestly studied, and great effort should be made on the work concerning the masses. Party committees at various levels should always maintain flesh-and-blood relations with the masses and train a large number of professionals who are good at dealing with social issues.
Party committees at various levels should toughen the internal discipline and strengthen studying of the Party Constitution, laws and disciplines. Party members and cadres should strengthen ideological and moral cultivation. The anti-corruption mechanism should be improved and the supervision over the leading cadres and organizations should be intensified. The fight against corruption and the construction of a clean and honest Party should be fortified. Sound ethos within the Party should be introduced to foster healthy ethos among the general public and government officials, so as to create harmonious relations between the Party and the masses.
The plenum reviewed and passed a resolution on the convening of the 17th National Congress of the CPC, which is to be held in second half of 2007. The national congress, to be held at a crucial period of China's economic and social development, will be of vital importance for the Party to unite and lead all the Chinese people in building a moderately prosperous society and accelerating the nation's socialist modernization drive.
The plenum called on the whole Party to rally closely around the CPC Central Committee with comrade Hu Jintao as the General Secretary; to hold high the banner of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the Important Thought of "Three Represents" and further implement the scientific concept of development; to blaze new trails, unite and lead all Chinese people to build a prosperous, strong, democratic, civilized and harmonious socialist modern nation.
中国共产党第十六届中央委员会第六次全体会议公报
（2006年10月11日中国共产党第十六届中央委员会第六次全体会议通过）
中国共产党第十六届中央委员会第六次全体会议，于2006年10月8日至11日在北京举行。
出席这次全会的有，中央委员195人，候补中央委员152人。中央纪律检查委员会常务委员会委员和有关方面负责同志列席了会议。
全会由中央政治局主持。中央委员会总书记胡锦涛作了重要讲话。
全会听取和讨论了胡锦涛受中央政治局委托作的工作报告，审议通过了《中共中央关于构建社会主义和谐社会若干重大问题的决定》。吴邦国就《决定（讨论稿）》向全会作了说明。
全会充分肯定党的十六届五中全会以来中央政治局的工作。一致认为，中央政治局坚持以邓小平理论和“三个代表”重要思想为指导，深入贯彻党的十六大和十六届 三中、四中、五中全会精神，全面贯彻落实科学发展观，团结带领全党全国各族人民紧紧抓住发展这个党执政兴国的第一要务，着力加快改革开放，着力增强自主创 新能力，着力推进经济结构调整和经济增长方式转变，推动经济平稳较快发展，社会主义经济建设、政治建设、文化建设、社会建设取得新的成就，党的执政能力建 设和先进性建设取得新的进步，中国特色社会主义事业取得新的进展。
全会全面分析了当前的形势和任务，研究了构建社会主义和谐社会的若干重大问题。一致认为，社会和谐是中国特色社会主义的本质属性，是国家富强、民族振兴、 人民幸福的重要保证。构建社会主义和谐社会，是我们党以马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论和“三个代表”重要思想为指导，全面贯彻落实科学发展观， 从中国特色社会主义事业总体布局和全面建设小康社会全局出发提出的重大战略任务，反映了建设富强民主文明和谐的社会主义现代化国家的内在要求，体现了全党 全国各族人民的共同愿望。
全会指出，社会和谐是我们党不懈奋斗的目标。新中国成立后，我们党为促进社会和谐进行了艰辛探索，积累了正反两方面经验，取得了重要进展。党的十一届三中 全会以后，我们党坚定不移地推进改革开放和现代化建设，积极推动经济发展和社会全面进步，为促进社会和谐进行了不懈努力。党的十六大以来，我们党对社会和 谐的认识不断深化，明确了构建社会主义和谐社会在中国特色社会主义事业总体布局中的地位，作出一系列决策部署，推动和谐社会建设取得新的成效。经过长期努 力，我们拥有了构建社会主义和谐社会的各种有利条件。
全会提出，新世纪新阶段，我们党要带领人民抓住机遇、应对挑战，把中国特色社会主义伟大事业推向前进，必须坚持以经济建设为中心，把构建社会主义和谐社会摆在更加突出的地位。
全会认为，目前，我国社会总体上是和谐的。但是，也存在不少影响社会和谐的矛盾和问题。人类社会总是在矛盾运动中发展进步的。构建社会主义和谐社会是一个 不断化解社会矛盾的持续过程。我们要始终保持清醒头脑，居安思危，深刻认识我国发展的阶段性特征，科学分析影响社会和谐的矛盾和问题及其产生的原因，更加 积极主动地正视矛盾、化解矛盾，最大限度地增加和谐因素，最大限度地减少不和谐因素，不断促进社会和谐。全党同志要坚持解放思想、实事求是、与时俱进，一 切从实际出发，自觉按规律办事，立足当前、着眼长远，量力而行、尽力而为，有重点分步骤地持续推进，切实把构建社会主义和谐社会作为贯穿中国特色社会主义 事业全过程的长期历史任务和全面建设小康社会的重大现实课题抓紧抓好。
全会强调，我们要构建的社会主义和谐社会，是在中国特色社会主义道路上，中国共产党领导全体人民共同建设、共同享有的和谐社会。必须坚持以马克思列宁主 义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论和“三个代表”重要思想为指导，坚持党的基本路线、基本纲领、基本经验，坚持以科学发展观统领经济社会发展全局，按照民主法 治、公平正义、诚信友爱、充满活力、安定有序、人与自然和谐相处的总要求，以解决人民群众最关心、最直接、最现实的利益问题为重点，着力发展社会事业、促 进社会公平正义、建设和谐文化、完善社会管理、增强社会创造活力，走共同富裕道路，推动社会建设与经济建设、政治建设、文化建设协调发展。
全会提出，到二0二0年，构建社会主义和谐社会的目标和主要任务是：社会主义民主法制更加完善，依法治国基本方略得到全面落实，人民的权益得到切实尊重和 保障；城乡、区域发展差距扩大的趋势逐步扭转，合理有序的收入分配格局基本形成，家庭财产普遍增加，人民过上更加富足的生活；社会就业比较充分，覆盖城乡 居民的社会保障体系基本建立；基本公共服务体系更加完备，政府管理和服务水平有较大提高；全民族的思想道德素质、科学文化素质和健康素质明显提高，良好道 德风尚、和谐人际关系进一步形成；全社会创造活力显著增强，创新型国家基本建成；社会管理体系更加完善，社会秩序良好；资源利用效率显著提高，生态环境明 显好转；实现全面建设惠及十几亿人口的更高水平的小康社会的目标，努力形成全体人民各尽其能、各得其所而又和谐相处的局面。
全会强调，构建社会主义和谐社会，要遵循以下原则：必须坚持以人为本，必须坚持科学发展，必须坚持改革开放，必须坚持民主法治，必须坚持正确处理改革发展稳定的关系，必须坚持在党的领导下全社会共同建设。
全会指出，社会要和谐，首先要发展，必须坚持用发展的办法解决前进中的问题，大力发展社会生产力，不断为社会和谐创造雄厚的物质基础，同时更加注重发展社 会事业，推动经济社会协调发展。社会公平正义是社会和谐的基本条件，制度是社会公平正义的根本保证，必须加紧建设对保障社会公平正义具有重大作用的制度， 保障人民在政治、经济、文化、社会等方面的权利和利益，引导公民依法行使权利、履行义务。建设和谐文化是构建社会主义和谐社会的重要任务，社会主义核心价 值体系是建设和谐文化的根本，必须坚持马克思主义在意识形态领域的指导地位，牢牢把握社会主义先进文化的前进方向，倡导和谐理念，培育和谐精神，进一步形 成全社会共同的理想信念和道德规范，打牢全党全国各族人民团结奋斗的思想道德基础。加强社会管理，维护社会稳定，是构建社会主义和谐社会的必然要求，必须 创新社会管理体制，整合社会管理资源，提高社会管理水平，健全党委领导、政府负责、社会协同、公众参与的社会管理格局，在服务中实施管理，在管理中体现服 务。社会主义和谐社会既是充满活力的社会，也是团结和睦的社会，必须最大限度地激发社会活力，促进政党关系、民族关系、宗教关系、阶层关系、海内外同胞关 系的和谐，巩固全国各族人民的大团结，巩固海内外中华儿女的大团结。
全会对当前和今后一个时期构建社会主义和谐社会作出了部署。要坚持协调发展、加强社会事业建设，扎实推进社会主义新农村建设，落实区域发展总体战略，实施 积极的就业政策，坚持教育优先发展，加强医疗卫生服务，加快发展文化事业和文化产业，加强环境治理保护。要加强制度建设、保障社会公平正义，完善民主权利 保障制度、法律制度、司法体制机制、公共财政制度、收入分配制度、社会保障制度。要建设和谐文化、巩固社会和谐的思想道德基础，建设社会主义核心价值体 系，树立社会主义荣辱观，培育文明道德风尚，营造积极健康的思想舆论氛围，广泛开展和谐创建活动。要完善社会管理、保持社会安定有序，建设服务型政府，推 进社区建设，健全社会组织，统筹协调各方面利益关系，完善应急管理体制机制，加强安全生产，加强社会治安综合治理，加强国家安全工作和国防建设。要激发社 会活力、增进社会团结和睦，发挥人民群众的首创精神，巩固和壮大最广泛的爱国统一战线，维护香港、澳门长期繁荣稳定，推进祖国统一大业，坚持走和平发展道 路。
全会强调，构建社会主义和谐社会，关键在党。必须充分发挥党的领导核心作用，坚持立党为公、执政为民，以党的执政能力建设和先进性建设推动社会主义和谐社 会建设，为构建社会主义和谐社会提供坚强有力的政治保证。要提高各级领导班子和领导干部领导社会主义和谐社会建设的本领，各级党委要把和谐社会建设放在全 局工作的突出位置，把握方向，制定政策，整合力量，营造环境，切实担负起领导责任。要坚持和完善民主集中制，扩大党内民主，推进党务公开，严格党内生活， 严肃党的纪律，增进党的团结统一，以党内和谐促进社会和谐。要建立科学高效的领导机制和工作机制，明确工作分工，搞好协调指导，增强政治敏锐性，加强对社 会建设重大问题的调查研究，提高政策措施的针对性和有效性，解决好本地区本部门影响社会和谐的突出矛盾和问题。要加强基层基础工作，认真研究和把握新形势 下党的群众工作的特点和规律，千方百计把群众工作做深做细做实，始终保持党同人民群众的血肉联系。要建设宏大的社会工作人才队伍。要坚持党要管党、从严治 党，加强党章和法纪学习教育，加强党员干部党性锻炼和思想道德修养，健全防范腐败的体制机制，加强对领导机关和领导干部的监督，深入开展党风廉政建设和反 腐败斗争，以优良的党风促政风带民风，营造和谐的党群干群关系。
全会审议并通过了《关于召开党的第十七次全国代表大会的决议》，决定党的十七大于2007年下半年在北京召开。这次大会，是在我国经济社会发展进入关键阶 段召开的一次重要会议，对我们党团结带领全国各族人民全面建设小康社会、加快推进社会主义现代化具有十分重要的意义。
全会号召，全党同志要紧密团结在以胡锦涛同志为总书记的党中央周围，高举邓小平理论和“三个代表”重要思想伟大旗帜，全面贯彻落实科学发展观，带领全国各族人民万众一心、锐意进取，为把我国建设成为富强民主文明和谐的社会主义现代化国家而奋斗！