党的事业是否后继有人,党和国家的领导权能否永远牢牢掌握在忠诚于马克思主义者手中,取决于能否培养选拔大批跨世纪能担当重任的年轻领导人才,培养造就新一代政治家。这是党的第三代领导集体想得最多、看得最重、抓得最紧的战略工程。江泽民同志在2000年6月全国党校工作会议上讲话说: Whether or not the party’s cause will be succeeded, and whether the leadership of the party and the state can always be mastered faithfully in the hands of Marxists depends on the ability to cultivate and select a large number of young leaders who can assume the important task across the century and cultivate a new generation of politicians. This is the strategic project that the third generation of the party’s collective leadership thinks most of, most seriously and most tightly. Comrade Jiang Zemin made a speech at the National Party School Working Conference in June 2000: