Reforming and improving the Party's style of leadership and governance is "a matter of overall significance to improving socialist democracy," he said in a report to the 16th National Congress of the CPC.

According to Jiang, acting on the principle that the Party commands the overall situation and coordinates the efforts of all quarters, the Party will standardize Party committee's relations with people's congresses, governments, people's political consultative conference committees and mass organizations:

-- supporting people's congresses in performing their functions as organs of state power according to law, in ensuring that the Party's views become the will of the state and that candidates recommended by Party organizations become leading cadres of the organs of state power through legal procedures, and in exercising supervision over them.

-- supporting the government in fulfilling its legal functions and performing its official duties according to law.

-- supporting people's political consultative conference committees in performing their functions by centering on the two major subjects of unity and democracy.

-- strengthening the Party's leadership over trade unions, the Communist Youth League organizations, women's federations and other mass organizations and supporting them in working according to law and their own constitutions and acting as a bridge between the Party and the people.

(Xinhua News Agency November 8, 2002)