A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has called the training of cadres a "strategic task" as the accomplishment of the goals of the ruling party relies on the training of a large group of top-quality cadres.

He Guoqiang, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and the head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, said this during a recent study visit to the China Pudong Cadres' Institute in Shanghai.

The goal of achieving an overall well-off society and speeding up the socialist modernization drive has meant new, higher demands for the knowledge and capabilities of officials at all levels, he noted.

In the coming five years, all the cadres will be trained, in various forms, with the important thought of "Three Represents", a scientific concept of development, and the Constitution.

The Party is now building three officials' training bases in Pudong, a development zone in Shanghai, Jinggangshan, a mountainous city in Jiangxi Province, and Yan'an, Shaanxi Province. The three places were home to CPC headquarters of different periods before the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

(Xinhua News Agency May 10, 2004)