CHINA'S leading official academic institute has completed a major reshuffle, its fourth since its establishment 14 years ago, to take it into the next century, according to a report.
The China News Service quoted an official from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as saying that the latest shake-up, started in June, has been completed recently.
Of the 150 heads of institutes and bureaus, 43 are new faces.
The communist leadership has revamped the powerful academic body since the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations.
Liberal academics involved in the student-led protests and close to the disgraced Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang had been removed, the report said.
The academy's personnel bureau chief, Shan Tianlun said the criteria for the selection of new leading cadres included their ''revolutionary spirit'', age, knowledge and professional expertise.
He indicated the degree of loyalty of cadres towards socialism had been considered.