CPC seeks to enhance competence of grassroots members(2)

Qiu Xiaoyou, 56-year-old secretary of the CPC's Hutian Village branch committee said, "The public polls picked out young villagers who have a desire for improvement and good virtues. The new mechanism won wide applause from residents. It will enhance the qualities of Party members."

Sun Tianbo, a senior official of the Xiachen neighborhood, said the new way of recruiting Party members would expand the coverage of recruitment and enhance the credibility and competence of village-level Party branch committees.

Under the new mechanism, Party members with disqualifications will be ordered to improve themselves or be expelled.

In Jiaojiang District of Taizhou, 89 Party members who have various problems have been urged to self-improve. Two of them who ignored the requirements were expelled.

In Gaojian Town, Taizhou, three Party members were expelled for violations of family planning policy, three for improper conduct and three others for their lax performance last year.

"The new mechanism contributed a lot to solving the problems of the narrow coverage of recruitment and weak performance from some Party members," said Mo Feng, head of the organization department of the CPC's Jiaojiang District committee.

By the end of 2011, the CPC had 82.6 million members, including 24.8 million farmers, herdsmen or fishermen. A total of 591,000 villages had Party branch committees, according to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

"To maintain the Party's advanced nature and purity requires each member to meet the standard. Those who violate the Party's basic tenets or behave against the general social norms are unsuitable to remain members of an advanced ruling party," said Liu Suhua, an associate professor of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee.