Officials to be psychologically assessed

Leaders' mental health as vital as skills in periods of social transition

BEIJING - An official's psychological health will be assessed along with his or her other abilities in selecting senior government officials and leaders for State-owned enterprises, a senior Party organization official said on Sunday.

"The country is undergoing a period of economic and social transformation. Officials face unexpected psychological pressures due to a variety of internal contradictions," Wu Hanfei, chief of the examination and assessment center under the organizationdepartment of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, told China Daily in Beijing.