6.Systematic measures should be adopted to institute a retirement system for cadres and abolish what is virtually a system of lifetenure for leading cadres.
7.As early as 1980 I proposed that the leadership system of the Party and the government be reformed and that the system of lifetenure in leading posts be abolished.
8.But even during this transitional stage we must endeavour to reduce the average age of cadres and to create conditions for abolishing lifetenure and setting up a retirement system.
9.The lifetenure that by common law is held by a man over the property of his deceased wife if children with rights of inheritance were born during the marriage.
10.Shortly after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, we began to stress the need to abolish the actual system of lifetenure in leading Party and government posts.
