A wide range of celebration activities are being held across China to mark the 81st anniversary of the founding of Communist Party (CPC) on Monday.
The People's Daily, the CPC's official newspaper based in the Chinese capital of Beijing, carried a special editorial on Monday hailing the CPC's 81st birth anniversary and calling on 64 million Party members to study assiduously Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin's instructions on Party-building, and to work still harder to carry on the on-going reform and open the country still wider to the outside world.
The editorial is titled "Greeting 16th Party Congress with new achievements in implementing the 'three representatives'," under which, the CPC must always represent the development trend of China's advanced productive forces, the orientation of China's advanced culture, and the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people in the country.
Meanwhile, a memorial hall built at the original site of the Second CPC National Congress in Shanghai, a leading industrial, commercial and banking center in east China, reopened to the public Sunday as a base for receiving visitors and educating people in revolutionary tradition and patriotism. The memorial hall had been restored and refurbished at a cost of one million yuan (US$ 120,000).
In Qingdao, an exotic port city in east China's Shandong province, 370,000 Party members there on Saturday plunged themselves into community matters to the service of local urbanites, including cleaning untidy gardens, moving away trash and garbage, sweeping roads, removing disorderly and illegal advertisements, paying visit to ill and needy elderly and handicapped children and showed them meticulous care, and holding voluntary health checkups for locals.
Moreover, workers from all walks of life from southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region staged a special cultural show in Lhasa, the regional capital, on Friday evening to praise and thank the CPC for the tremendous changes it has helped to bring to the life of local Tibetan people.
(Xinhua News Agency July 2, 2002)
