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BEIJING, Dec. 25-- The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee made public a regulation to promote transparency in Party affairs Monday,the first CPC regulation on disclosure of Party affairs. Transparency in Party affairs is "a great measure" in implementing the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the CPC, firmly upholding full and strict governance over the Party and improving the Party's ability to govern and lead, said the CPC Central Committee in a statement. Party organizations are required to disclose affairs concerning the Party leadership and Party building among the CPC members or outside the Party in accordance with rules, according to the regulation. Party organizations' implementation of the Party's basic theory, line, and policy, their leadership over economic and social development, and efforts to strictly govern the Party and strengthen Party building shall be generally made public, along with information about the organizations' function and structure, it said. However, promoting transparency in Party affairs should not pose a threat to political, economic, military, cultural, social, homeland security and the safety of the people, the regulation warned. The regulation specifies which content should be released by Party organizations at different levels. Central Party organizations should make public Party theories, lines, principles and policies, decisions and plans of Party and state governance, speeches and instructions by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, and important meetings, activities and appointment and removal of officials by the CPC Central Committee, among others. | 
