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Instead, the Party should "adopt more comprehensive criteria for assessing the performance of its officials", he said.

"We should never judge a cadre simply by the growth of gross domestic product," he said, adding that the organization departments, which are responsible for personnel management for the Party, should consider integrity the priority and capability as secondary.

Xi said the Party needs an "efficient and reasonable" system to select and promote good officials that should not be decided by a simple headcount of votes.

Mao Shoulong, a professor on public governance at Renmin University of China, said although China now has inter-Party documents to regulate the selection and promotion of officials, efforts are still needed to improve the transparency of the process and to work out detailed regulations to break down existing stipulations in the Party documents.

"Traditional measurement has put heavy emphasis on economic development, but the public can hardly get a direct benefit from the growth of GDP. The new way should focus more on the public satisfaction of improving livelihood, protecting the environment and maintaining social justice."

The Communist Party of China published a document on the evaluation of local officials, along with several other documents about official's selection, in 2009. The documents stipulate key points in evaluating an official, and say "democratic talks" should be held before a promotion.

"The documents have set up a simple structure for the selection of officials, but real work needs practical and feasible stipulations," Mao said.

Lin Zhe, a professor at the Party School of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that although it may be difficult to quickly work out a perfect selection procedure, it is possible to list the behaviors that won't be tolerated.

"While making clear what kinds of qualities are needed in an official, it is equally important for the government to inform officials under what conditions they will be removed once and for all."

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