The Third Plenary Session of the 13th Central Committee of the CPC was held September 26-30, 1988 (TANG MENGZONG)

The communique added that close attention should be paid to enterprise reform next year, in order to:

Separate government administration from enterprise management so that enterprises which meet certain conditions may operate on their own, and;

Further improve the contract responsibility system, make experiments in implementing the shareholding system with public ownership remaining predominant, and develop new enterprise groups on a trial basis.

"Economic efficiency will be raised by a mechanism set up to ensure that under macro-control by the state, the enterprises operate on their own, hold themselves responsible for their own profits and losses and constrain themselves," the communique said.

The plenary session said that the Party leadership should be strengthened to guarantee that economic reforms are implemented.

The session also called for strengthening democratic supervision and using law, administrative discipline and education to overcome corruption in the Party and government departments.

The communique affirmed that the past decade has witnessed achievements in reform, which have promoted economic and social progress. It added that now is the time to sum up experiences, to overcome difficulties and to continue the progress.

The plenary session called on the Party to unite and work together toward economization and achieving the objectives set forth by the session. This will result in greater reformations, a society more open to the world and in socialist modernization, according to the document.

The session approved in principle the "Preliminary Programme for Price and Wage Reforms" and proposed that the State Council organize efforts in the next five years or more to implement the programme.