A senior Chinese official has called on colleges to embrace reform in teaching so as to better adjust education to the needs of the society.

Li Yuanchao, head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), made the remarks during a meeting with university presidents in east Jiangxi Province Saturday.

Li, also a member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, also urged intensified efforts to find and cultivate more top-notch talents to serve the country's modernization drive.

He also urged Party secretaries and presidents at universities to set high standards for themselves and win respect from the faculty and students with exalted moral quality, profound knowledge and corruption-free images.

(Xinhua News Agency August 10, 2009)