Wang Jiarui delivers the keynote speech at the opening ceremony of "The Party and the World Dialogue 2015" in Beijing on Tuesday. (Photo/idcpc.gov.cn)
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is willing to take instructive criticism from the outside world on how to discipline the Party, said a top Party official at "The Party and the World Dialogue 2015" event which kicked off in Beijing on Tuesday.
"Our Party wants you to give your advice on what we should do," said Wang Jiarui, Vice-Chairman of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Minister of International Department of CPC Central Committee, in an address to more than 80 scholars, experts and political figures from all over the world at the conference.
"The Party encourages criticism if it's instructive. For a very long time, the Party has been taking advice from different sources", he said.
The Dialogue, whose theme is "To discipline the Party: responsibility of the Party", is the second time that the CPC is having direct exchanges and face-to-face dialogue with the outside world following the first conference in 2014.
CPC has ruled China for more than 60 years and faces challenges of bureaucracy. If without a supervision mechanism, some Party members would use their power for private gain, said Wang.
"It will trigger political crisis if corruption takes hold among officials. That's what our Party is concerned about," he said."The Party has to resolve these problems with self-introspection, self-improvement, self-reformation and self-discipline to gain people's trust."
The Dialogue, expected to be an annually held conference, builds a regular platform for foreign scholars and experts to know about and understand the CPC with the first-hand information from the Party's prominent leaders and authoritative departments.
It is sponsored by China Center for Contemporary World Studies and International Cooperation Bureau, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection(CCDI).
Thabo Mbeki, the former President of South Africa; Kevin Rudd, the former Prime Minister of Australia; Massimo D'Alema, the former Prime Minister of Italy; and Huang Shuxian, Deputy Secretary of the CCDI and Minister of Supervision; also attended and delivered speeches at the opening ceremony.
