An anthology of the speeches and comments of former Chinese leader Hu Yaobang while he was working at the Party School of Communist Part of China (CPC) Central Committee will be published later this year to commemorate his 100th birth anniversary on November 20.
Shen Baoxiang, 83, a retired professor from the Party School who used to work under Hu, serves as the book's chief editor. The book is reportedly 350,000 words long.
The announcement was made during a Hu Yaobang memorial seminar on Thursday, The Beijing News reported.
Hu, who was elected as general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in February 1980, died on April 15, 1989 and was credited with pushing for reform.
Hu helped re-establish the Party School after it was suspended during Cultural Revolution (1966-76).
Wang Zhanyang, a political science professor at the Central Institute of Socialism who also attended the Thursday seminar, said that it has been a Party tradition to honor its late leaders as part of efforts to "show the Party's continuity."
In 2005, a symposium was held in the Great Hall of the People to commemorate Hu's 90th birth anniversary, attended by key members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee.
