1996 The Sixth Plenary Session of the 14th CPC Central Committee made a decision to educate leading cadres at or above the county level on party spirit and style, with the emphasis on learning, politics and righteousness as the main contents. This three-year educational activity has carried forward the spirit of Yan 'an rectification movement, adopted a top-down approach, carried out by stages, and combined inner-party criticism with self-criticism, so that all party comrades, especially leading cadres, have received profound party spirit and party style education and achieved the expected results. This activity undoubtedly played a great role in promoting the cause of reform, opening up and socialist modernization.