The strength of the Communist Party of China's (CPC) leadership depends on efforts to maintain its advanced nature, said CPC top leader Hu Jintao in Beijing Friday.

Hu, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks in his report on delivered at a meeting on maintaining the advanced nature of the Party, convened by the CPC Central Committee.

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

Hu said maintaining the advanced nature of the Party concerns the elevation of the Party's governance capability, consolidation of its governing status, prosperity of its causes and completion of its missions.

"Keeping the Party's advanced nature is the basis of Party building," he said.

The course of maintaining the Party's advanced nature is an arduous task. It requires the Party and all its members to work in accordance with the trend of the times and in the interests of the people to play a leading role in pushing social development, he said.

He called on Party members, leading officials in particular, to actively take part in a Party's educational campaign launched this month to turn the requirements into concrete actions.

(Xinhua News Agency January 15, 2005)