Senior Party official calls on maintaining social stability

A senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) urged local governments to properly solve the outstanding problems appeared in the process of maintaining social stability, during his study tour of south China 's Guangdong Province between April 8 and 9.

Luo Gan, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, said maintaining social harmony and stability during the course of economic reform, was a great test to the CPC's ruling capacity.

Luo, who is also the secretary of the Committee of Political Science and Law under the CPC Central Committee, paid visits to local courts, political bureaus and private enterprises in the cities of Foshan, Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Shenzhen of Guangdong Province for conducting in-depth study on maintaining social harmony and stability.

Luo urged local court judges and policemen to strictly follow the "scientific conception of development", accurately handle the relationship between reform and stability and try their best to resolve the social destabilizing factors.

He also asked them to improve law enforcement capability and maintain judicial justice.

Meanwhile, Liu Yunshan, head of the Department of Publicity of the CPC Central Committee, visited central China's Hubei Province from April 6 to 9 and urged local officials to provide cultural products and services as more as possible to citizens who suffered economic difficulties.