A reference to the "Decision of the CPC Central Committee on the Rectification of Party Organizations", which had been adopted the day before. In this decision the Central Committee analysed the serious defects in the Party's ideology, style of work and organization, explained the urgency of rectification and defined its basic tasks as follows: to unify the members' thinking, improve their style of work, tighten discipline and weed out unqualified members. According to the decision, Party organizations at all levels were to spend three years, beginning in the winter of 1983, rectifying every aspect of their style of work and their organization. The decision also set forth the basic principles, policies and measures for the rectification.