INTRA-PARTY DEMOCRACY

To ensure the election of more outstanding delegates and each Party member having access to election information, the CPC has taken various measures to give full play to intra-party democracy through the 10-month-long process of the election.

For a poll held at Woniu village, Xuzhou city of east China's Jiangsu Province in January, 70-year-old Feng Changxi came in his wheelchair to choose a delegate to the CPC's 18th National Congress.

"The election is a very important issue," Feng said. "Today, I am bound to come here to vote for the best delegate for the Party."

Liu Xiaonan, a teacher with Peking University, received an E-mail from the university's Party committee which asked her to nominate a delegate candidate when she was studying abroad.

"Although overseas, I felt I was always together with the organization as a Party member," Liu replied.

According to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, up to 98 percent of Party members participated in the election of delegates to the congress.

The CPC, for the first time, carried out a multi-candidate survey on the preliminary candidates of the delegates to the upcoming Party congress.

The loss margins in electing delegates to the congress were raised to 15 percent or above nationwide, according to the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.

Many local Party committees, for the first time, publicized the list of delegates' names via media channels, in a bid to mobilize the participation of, and solicit feedback from, Party members in the election.

Hubei Daily published a list of 72 preliminary candidates of the delegates and their basic information on Feb. 20, an effort by the province's Party committee to win more public supervision for the election.