Study drive to boost leadership skills

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has urged using the Party-wide theoretical study program to improve the Party's governance capacity and leadership skills in order to unite the whole nation to advance the building of a strong country and realize national rejuvenation.

Xi, who is also China's president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks when addressing a meeting in Beijing on the work for an education campaign to study and implement the Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

The CPC Central Committee has decided to launch the thematic education campaign this month to help Party members strive in unity to build a modern socialist country in all respects and advance the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation on all fronts. It urged Party members and leading officials to apply the Party's new theories in implementing the major strategies and decisions set out at the 20th CPC National Congress last year.