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‘Painful lessons’: call for China’s Communist Party to avoid ‘strategic mistakes’
- Former top ideologist He Yiting says consequences of such mistakes would be dire – pointing to the Cultural Revolution
- He made the remarks in an article, the latest in a propaganda push in the lead-up to next month’s five-yearly party congress
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The Communist Party cannot afford to make “strategic mistakes” as it did during the Cultural Revolution, the former executive vice-president of the Central Party School has said.
He Yiting made the remark in an article published in Study Times, the school’s official publication, on Monday.
He also said the party needed a “grand strategy” to lead the nation through the current turbulent and challenging times.
“The pace of change in world patterns, global governance and international order has accelerated, and together with the Covid-19 pandemic and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, [we face] many new variables and uncertainties,” He wrote.
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“This has also made international strategic competition much more breathtaking and frightening.”
He was a top ideologist before he retired in 2018. He is now chairman of the Social Development Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress, which oversees the drafting of regulations and laws related to labour, social protections and other civil affairs.
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His was the latest in a string of recent articles and speeches by President Xi Jinping and other officials about the importance of having a grand vision and a paramount leader to take the country forward. They are part of a propaganda push in the lead-up to next month’s five-yearly party congress, when Xi is expected to secure an unprecedented third term as party chief.
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