国内英语新闻:Senior official stresses Party building at colleges

BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- Senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official Wang Huning on Tuesday called for the full implementation of the Party's education policy to advance Party building and ideological and political work at colleges.

Wang, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks at a meeting on Party building at colleges across the country.

Enhancing the Party's political building should be taken as the overarching principle to push forward the colleges' Party building work with stronger guidance in both politics and value, Wang said.

He also called for the innovative development of the ideological and political work of colleges and more efforts to strengthen the professional ethics and competence of teachers.

The meeting was presided over by Vice Premier Sun Chunlan, who is a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.