The book, "Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin On Ideological-Political Work", compiled by the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), has been formally published and distributed.

The publication of this book is of important significance to implementation of the spirit of Comrade Jiang Zemin's important instruction on strengthening and improving the Party's publicity and ideological work under the new situation, carrying out the CPC Central Committee's Some Opinions On Strengthening and Improving Ideological-Political Work so as to make this work better serve the general situation of reform, development and stability, and vigorously pushing forward reform, opening up and the socialist modernization drive.

Paying high attention to the ideological-political work and giving full play to its important role in revolution and construction is our Party's fine tradition and political advantage. In the protracted practice of revolution and construction, our Party has accumulated a rich store of experience in the ideological-political work. The aforementioned book is a concentrated reflection of the basic theory and basic experience of our Party's ideological-political work. The theories of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping concerning the ideological-political work are an important component part of Mao Zedong Thought and Deng Xiaoping Theory. Comrade Jiang Zemin's expositions on the ideological-political work are the inheritance, enrichment and development of the theories of our Party's leading core of the first and second generations, our Party's three-generation leading core's expositions on the ideological-political work are, in a direct line of succession, the crystallization of the wisdom of the whole Party, the valuable ideological wealth, and a strong theoretical weapon and important guiding principle currently for us to strengthen and improve ideological work. Leading cadres at all levels should take the lead to properly study and publicize the Party's three-generation leading core's theories on strengthening and improving the ideological-political work and make earnest effort to firmly and properly grasp this work as important matter of the entire Party.

The key to studying and publicizing the Party's three-generation leading core's theories on the ideological and political work is to further enhance understanding of the importance of the ideological-political work. The Party's three-generation leading core has made very brilliant expositions on the position and role of the ideological-political work. To sum up, it is to grasp ideological education and is the central link in uniting with the whole Party for the great struggle; The ideological-political work is the blood-line of the economic work and all other fields of work. Comrades of the whole Party must soberly see that under the condition of opening to the outside work and developing a market economy, struggle in the ideological and political fields will continue to exist for a long time, and will be very complex and will even be sharp sometimes. If we do not firmly grasp in real earnest this important work that affects the future and destiny of the Party and State, then we will commit unforgivable historical mistakes.

In studying and publicizing the Party's three-generation leading core's expositions on the ideological-political work, we should study new situations, solve new problems and actively explore the law of and method for the ideological-political work under the new situation. From the five aspects of the position and role, guidelines and principles, main content, law and method as well as stronger Party leadership over the ideological-political work, the Party's three-generation leading core's expositions on the ideological-political work clearly point out the fundamental orientation of the ideological-political work, which must be adhered to. At the same time, we should conduct thorough study of the environment, task, content, channel and object of the ideological-political work under the conditions of reform, opening up and the socialist market economy, so that the ideological-political work will advance side by side with the time, and will be enriched through inheritance and developed through persisting in it. Proceeding from the times and tasks facing us, we should emancipate our minds, seek truth from facts, go deep into the grass-roots level and among the masses to get to know the new situation, study new problems, open up new ways, explore new methods and create new experience, so that our ideological-political work is suited to the profound change of social life and can always maintain its vitality and vigor. This is an important idea of the Party's three-generation leading core concerning the ideological-political work, as well as an important and urgent problem confronting the comrades of the whole Party, we must exert great efforts to properly solve this problem.

The study and publicity of the Party's three-generation leading core's expositions on the ideological-political work should be combined with the implementation of the Party Central Committee's Some Opinions On Strengthening and Improving Ideological-Political Work, we should strive to comprehensively fulfill the various tasks set for this year's reform and construction.

We have noticed that inspired by the spirit of Comrade Jiang Zemin's important instruction concerning publicity and ideological work , there has emerged good development momentum in our ideological-political work. The publication of the book, "Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin On the Ideological-Political Work", will inject enormous vigor into the endeavor to strengthen and improve the ideological-political work. We are convinced that so long as the whole Party takes a hand in this work, leaders pay attention to it, wisdom and efforts of everybody is pooled and hard struggle is waged, we will definitely create a new situation in the ideological-political work and do this important task of the whole Party well.