Reporters visit education base for CPC cadres

A group of 30 reporters from 19 domestic and overseas media outlets concluded a two-day visit on Friday at a national education base for China's cadres.

At the invitation of the State Council Information Office and the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, reporters visited several on-site education bases of the China Executive Leadership Academy, Jinggangshan (CELAJ), one of the three national CPC education bases, which opened in 2005.

Located in east China's Jiangxi Province, Jinggangshan, where Mao Zedong established a rural base for the Chinese revolution in 1927, is regarded as the cradle of the Chinese Communist revolution.

There are many sites featuring the two years and four month history of the Red Army between October 1927 and February 1930 in Jinggangshan, including founding Party leaders' former residence and a rock which late Chairman Mao used to sit on to read during wartime.

"On-site education has become a major teaching method by using the special historical sites here," said Mei Liming, vice dean of the academy.

Guo Weimin, director general of the Information Bureau of State Council Information Office, said he hoped the media tour could help reporters from both home and abroad to better understand how the CPC trains its cadres and how the CPC develops itself.

"It shows the CPC is becoming more open and transparent," he said.