A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday called for improved training of party officials, which was recently highlighted by CPC General Secretary Hu Jintao.

More efforts should be made to improve the management and teaching methods of training programs in an effort to raise the quality and standard of training, said He Guoqiang, head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, at Monday's inauguration teleconference of spring semester of three schools that train party officials.

The schools should take the remarks of "eight honors and eight disgraces" made by Hu Jintao as an important part in their teaching and research, He noted.

All party officials should realize their responsibilities that are outlined in the "socialist concept of honor and disgrace" and work to become models of learning and fully implementing the concept, He said.

Organization departments at all levels should use the concept in evaluating party officials, He added.

A total of 596 members attended the inauguration ceremony held in Jinggangshan Cadre School on Monday. The other two schools are located in Pudong of Shanghai and Yan'an in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Chinese President Hu Jintao recently called on the Party schools to fully utilize resources to improve the quality of training so as to raise the competence of Party officials at various levels.

(Xinhua News Agency?March 21, 2006)