Party school renovation boosts spirit

The top Party school, a key training center for senior officials, has carried out a campus renovation plan that has erected new statues of renowned communist figures Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping to boost Party spirit and inspire officials, according to the school authority.

It has also relocated a big stone sign written by former president Jiang Zemin from the school entrance to the front of the campus' main building because of traffic safety reasons, a senior school professor said on Monday.

The statues have been aligned along the campus' axis. Another statue of Jiao Yulu, a leading example of an honest Party cadre, stands in the east part of the campus, according to a statement from the Communist Party of China Central Committee's Party School.