The Selected Works of Jiang Zemin distributed to bookstores. The three volumes comprise 203 of Jiang's reports, speeches, articles, letters, inscriptions and decrees from August 1980 to September 2004. (File Photo)

    BEIJING, Aug 19 (Xinhua) -- China's non-communist parties have vowed to improve their competence in political participation and raise theoretical level by strenuously studying the Selected Works of Jiang Zemin, former chief of the Communist Party of China (CPC).

    The country's non-communist parties have organized group studies, symposiums and lectures on Jiang's Selected Works since it was published last week.

    They also studied the speech made by Hu Jintao, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, at a meeting on the study of Jiang's works.

    Leaders of the Association for Promoting Democracy, the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party and other non-communist parties said the parties, as CPC's close friends, will organize further studies of Jiang's works among their party members.

    They said the publication of Jiang's Selected Works, which have summarized the valuable experience of the CPC in pushing forward socialism with Chinese characteristics, marked a major event in the political life of the CPC and the state.

    They noted the works have combined the basic principles of Marxism with the actual conditions in China's contemporary socialistic construction.

    The three volumes of Jiang's works comprise 203 of Jiang's reports, speeches, articles, letters and inscriptions from August 1980 to September 2004.

    Jiang, born on Aug. 17, 1926, was former general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission. Enditem