BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhuanet)-- Chinese President Hu Jintao instructed the country's leading officials and Party cadres to place "building a harmonious society" top on their work agenda, when addressing a high-level Party seminar in February this year.

"The Communist Party of China (CPC) and the central government have made it an important task to build a harmonious society, as China is faced with thorny domestic issues, as well as complicatedand volatile international situations," said Hu, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee.

He made the remarks at the opening ceremony of a seven-day training course on raising capabilities of building a socialist harmonious society beginning on Feb. 19, which was sponsored by the Party School of the CPC Central Committee and attended by major provincial- and ministerial-level leaders.

Xinhua released the full text of Hu's speech at the opening ceremony on Sunday.

"A harmonious society should feature democracy, the rule of law,equity, justice, sincerity, amity and vitality," he said.

Such a society will give full scope to people's talent and creativity, enable all the people to share the social wealth brought by reform and development, and forge an ever closer relationship between the people and government. "These things willthus result in lasting stability and unity," Hu said.

Hu told senior officials to meet the goal by adopting a step-by-step approach but he stressed the importance of establishing a fine-tuned management system and the capacity of dealing with serious problems.

It is important to balance the interests between different social groups, to avoid conflicts and to make sure people live a safe and happy life in a politically stable country, he said. Enditem