Communist elites to echo people's voices at national congress

BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Over 4.5 million netizens had submitted more than 190,000 pieces of proposal via web portals by Tuesday to voice their expectations for a national congress of the ruling Communist Party of China (CPC), an official said Wednesday.

The three web portals namely sina.com, news.cn and cctv.com have been officially entrusted by the CPC Central Committee to solicit public opinions for the 18th CPC National Congress scheduled to open on Thursday, Cai Mingzhao, spokesman for the congress, said at a press conference.

Most of the re-tweets on these web sites pin hopes on the congress, to be attended by more than 2,000 delegates representing the Party's 82 million members, to tackle corruption, wealth gap, price hikes, income distribution, and the improvement of people's livelihood.

These issues shall not be properly handled if reforms stall and institutional and ideological hurdles keep standing in the way, say the netizens, who also call for immediate reforms to ease the industrial dominance by state-owned enterprises, broaden the market access of private and smaller companies, and secure equal rights for all Chinese in education, health care, social security and other public services.

People's Daily, the Party's flagship newspaper, have recently published a series of editorials, expatiating on the necessity to push immediate reforms that require a reshuffle of vested interests and a reform of the government itself.

Echoing the people's wishes to advance reform, Cai said the Party has shown its clear-cut stance in this regard, citing President Hu Jintao's remarks in July which described mind emancipation as the "strong ideological weapon", and reform and opening up as the "strong driving force" to push forward the undertakings of the Party and the people.

The Party shall unswervingly advance reform and opening up, stay away from rigidity and stagnation and never vacillate, the spokesman said

As for the political structural reform in China, he said the CPC has to take into consideration China's national reality and stick to the right path made by the Party and the people amid long-term practise.

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