国内英语新闻:CPC stresses "history wealth," calls for more education of Party history

Xie Chuntao, vice director of the Party history department at the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, said the CPC boasts a tradition of summing up the experience of the Party's development. It summarizes the history every five years when the CPC plenary meeting is held.

Xie said how the history is understood has a bearing on the way of perceiving the future.

Efforts should be made to "deepen the understanding of the laws for the development of the ruling party, socialist progress and the course of human society," and elevate these experience to a theoretical level, he said.

"There are both experiences and lessons to learn," Xie said.

RELAXED ENVIRONMENT OF HISTORY study

Researchers say the environment of studying Party history has become more relaxed.

Xie said more confidential documents that had passed time limits for secrecy, began to become available to the public. They often contained valuable material for historical studies.

For past state leaders who committed mistakes, their contributions and positive sides have been exposed more in official documents, or even in films and TV plays.

"Officials are often told in Party schools' classes the lessons learned in history so that they will not replicate these faults," he said.

For the large volume of information about the anecdotes of CPC history on-line or in other social media, Li Zhongjie, deputy director of the CPC Central Committee's Party History Research Office (PHRO), said, "Some are true, some are not, and there are even some intentional slanders aimed at smearing the Party and subverting the country and its socialist system."

Li said efforts should be made to clarify falsehoods, dispel rumors and misrepresentations, and show respect to the history.

He said, "There are many figures and events in the Party's history. Different people will recollect and interpret them from various angles, and they are also easily affected by various factors."

"Every one has bias when they recall the past, so recollections are different. We must stop fabricated stories from entering the written history of the Party, some of which are made up for the purpose of misleading people," he said.