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By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com

While Hu Jintao’s tenure as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) won’t end until the 18th Party Congress in October, he has already delivered a tough farewell speech to the Party faithful.

The occasion was a special study session of Party dogma for top Party, government and military cadres on July 23. On hand all members of the supreme Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) as well as top generals from the CCP Central Military Commission.

In an address that was billed as a preliminary version of the Political Report that Hu will deliver to the 18th Congress, the Party chief tried to lay to rest widespread speculation that the CCP was watering down, if not abandoning, reforms made famous by late patriarch Deng Xiaoping.

“We will unswervingly go down the correct path that the Party and the people have put together through long-standing practice,” he said.

“We will unswervingly push forward the reform and open door [policy.]”

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