BEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on Monday urged Party cadres to regard the well-being of the people always as a top priority in order to best achieve the governing purpose of the Party.

Xi, also member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and president of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee, made the remarks at the school's opening ceremony for spring semester.

Xi said the Party officials should remember that serving the peole is a basic requirement for the CPC which seeks to apply fundamental Marxist theories to China's socialist cause and modernization drive.

Xi called on Party officials to apply Marxist theories to analyzing and solving matters that arise during China's modernization drive in their study of the theoretical system of the socialism with Chinese characteristics.

About 1,800 people, including Party officials attending the school's spring sememster and lecturers of the school, attended Monday's ceremony.