BEIJING — President Xi Jinping said training and selecting outstanding young officials is vital to the fate of the Party, State and Chinese nation, and to the people’s wellbeing, calling it an important task for generations to come.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the statement on March 1 during the opening ceremony of a training program of young and middle-aged officials at the Party School of CPC Central Committee (National Academy of Governance).

Xi told the officials to stay loyal to the Party, remain grateful to the people, be motivated at work, and hold law and Party discipline in high regard.

Party officials should be faithful, loyal, competent and disciplined, he said.