Speaking at the 20th national meeting of university party officials held some days ago, Xi Jinping described universities as important centers of educating and training young talents and important bases of arming young people with the socialist hardcore value system.

He called on the party officials to consider it as their major duty to bring up excellent builders of and reliable successors to the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, thereby providing a definite ideological, political and organizational guarantee to building socialist universities, capable of training students with high qualifications.

He urged university party committees to enhance their leading and pivotal role and encourage broad masses of party members to fully discharge their vanguard and exemplary role.