The forthcoming sixth plenum of the party Central Committee will recommend that social control mechanisms be boosted to ensure political stability.
Party sources said yesterday that while personnel issues would not be on the agenda, the plenum would consolidate the position of President Jiang Zemin as a theoretician on the same level as Mao Zedong or Deng Xiaoping .
Sources said political control would be an integral part of the party's drive to boost 'spiritual civilisation', the official theme of the conclave.
'The party will spell out ways to boost law and order enforcement and social control in general,' a source said.
He added that apart from approving the indefinite continuation of the 'Strike Hard' campaign against crime, the plenum would consider policies to control the influx of migrant labourers into cities and the nation's nascent wild-cat trade union movement.
'Ways and means will be found to minimise social contradictions,' the source added.