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Capitalists' Entry Into China
Communist Party To Get Nod

11-9-2

BEIJING AFP) - China's landmark Communist Party Congress held its first full day of discussions with leading delegates saying plans to throw open its doors to capitalists would be written into party statutes.
 
President Jiang Zemin's controversial personal theory backing the move was certain be enshrined in the charter at the key meeting, they said.
 
This outcome, confidently predicted by cadres attending the 16th Party Congress in central Beijing, would count as a major victory for Jiang in his efforts to secure a lasting legacy after his likely retirement.
 
It would also greatly bolster speculation that Jiang plans to exert considerable influence from behind the scenes over probable successor, Vice President Hu Jintao.
 
"Our party will soon write Three Represents into the party charter," Lu Ruihua, governor of the southern province of Guangdong told a meeting of delegates on Saturday.
 
"(Party) Secretary General Jiang's proposal to write Three Represents into the charter is completely correct," he said.
 
The clumsily-named theory decrees that the party does not only represent workers and peasants, but the masses in general including "advanced production forces," understood to mean capitalist entrepreneurs.
 
Enshrining the theory in the party's core beliefs would elevate Jiang's thought alongside that of his predecessors, whose ideas -- known as Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory -- were not written in until after their deaths.
 
Governor Lu's comments were echoed by other delegates at the meeting.
 
"As long as we follow the Three Represents, we will have the masses' approval, and as long as we don't, then we won't," said Guangdong deputy party secretary Huang Huahua.
 
Officially the decision should be made by the Congress's 2,000-plus delegates, but most observers assume this has already been done by an elite coterie.
 
The Congress is expected to mark the start of a landmark generational change of China's leaders, although nothing has been publicly announced.
 
Jiang, 76, is due to hand over his post as party head to the younger Vice President Hu during the Congress, which lasts until next Thursday, and then also stand down as president in March.
 
Hu himself, a dour 59-year-old career official with a reputation for avoiding controversy at all costs, devoted himself to praising Jiang in his first comments of the Congress.
 
Jiang's opening address to the event on Friday morning was "a good guidance for building a well-off society and boosting socialist modernisation", Hu told delegates from Tibet, state media reported.
 
Elsewhere at the Congress, delegates separated into smaller meetings at the Great Hall of the People on Saturday and devoted virtually all talk to gushing praise for Jiang.
 
"We were all very pleased with the contents of his work report," said a delegate from the southwestern province of Sichuan.
 
Jiang's many references in the speech to the importance of private enterprise and the rights of entrepreneurs also struck a chord with the country's rich set.
 
"(After hearing the speech) we feel as if having taken a 'reassurance pill' and all our remaining worries and fears are completely gone," the Xinhua news agency quoted company director Nan Cunhui as saying in the southeastern city of Wenzhou.
 
However ordinary people in the provinces -- supposedly still the core of the party -- voiced minimal enthusiasm for the proceedings underway in distant Beijing.
 
"Yes, I know the Congress has started," said one pedicab driver in the smog-enveloped city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan.
 
"But I'm just a common person," he said and pedalled off into the traffic-choked street as if no further explanation were needed.





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