The Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th Central 
Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) is to open in Beijing Sunday, 
October 8. 
The decision was made in Beijing on Sept. 25 at a meeting of the Political 
Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, presided over by Hu Jintao, General 
Secretary of the CPC Central Committee. 
The document of the "Resolutions of the CPC Central Committee on major issues 
regarding the building of a harmonious socialist society" will be deliberated 
during the session that will last through Wednesday. 
A statement issued by the Sept. 25 meeting said the document should be well 
written and provide guidelines for the Party and the nation on building a 
harmonious socialist society. 
It said comments and suggestions from Party members and the public should be 
reflected in the document, so as to pool the wisdom of the Party and the public. 
Political bureau members at the meeting stressed that building a socialist 
harmonious society must put people first, base all Party and state work on the 
fundamental interests of the general public and meet the growing material and 
cultural demands of the people. 
Earnest efforts must be made to push development, the top priority of the 
Party, to coordinate urban and rural development, regional development, economic 
and social development, harmonious development with nature, domestic development 
and opening-up, they said, according to the statement. 
Reform of the socialist market economy must be continued to push forward 
economic, political, cultural and social mechanism innovation, set up and 
improve energetic, efficient and more open systems, it said. 
Efforts must be made to improve socialist democratic construction, and 
implement the strategy of rule of law in the gradual process of building a fair 
social security system, said the statement. 
The meeting emphasized the need to take into consideration the momentum of 
reform, the speed of development and the people's resilience, and to promote and 
secure harmony with reform, development and stability, it said. 
Stressing that the Party was the key to building a harmonious socialist 
society, the meeting said the Party must play a core leading role in accordance 
with the principle of governing for the people, the statement said. 
The construction would be facilitated along with the improvement of the 
Party's governance capacity and the campaign to help it stay advanced, thus 
offering a forceful political guarantee for building a harmonious society, it 
said. 
All party committees should put the work at the top of their agendas and 
encourage cadres to improve their management of public affairs, coordinating 
relations of different interest groups, properly handling contradictions among 
the people to ensure implementation of Party's policies and 
principles.