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BEIJING, July 2-- Boasting a membership of over 90 million and governing an economy with a GDP of over 90 trillion yuan (about 13 trillion U.S. dollars), the 98-year-old Communist Party of China (CPC) still harbors its most distinctive character: self-reform. The courage for self-reform has created continual impetus and ensured the correct course in the CPC's 70-year journey as a ruling Party of the world's most populous country. "The CPC is a very dynamic organization," said Martin Jacques, a China expert and senior fellow at Cambridge University. Martin Jacques noted that the CPC has been very successful at reinventing itself to move with the times, which is quite difficult for big parties like the CPC. LONG TRADITION Amid its revolutionary struggle and governance practices, the CPC has produced rich theoretic outcomes in the Party's self-reform, such as firming up ideals and convictions, exercising rigorous governance over the Party and subjecting itself to the supervision of the people. Shen Fei, associate professor with the Shanghai-based China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP), said the CPC has gradually formed a fine tradition of carrying out timely centralized education within the Party since as early as the Rectification Movement in Yan'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, in the 1940s. "The purpose of carrying out centralized education in the Party is to solve prominent problems in the Party and to strengthen its self-construction," Shen said. | 
