but even during this transitional stage we must endeavour to reduce the average age of cadres and to create conditions for abolishing life tenure and setting up a retirement system.
但是在这个过渡阶段,必须认真使干部队伍年轻化,为退休制度的建立和领导职务终身制的废除创造条件。
in 1987, before the party's thirteenth national congress was held, to set an example for abolishing the system of life tenure in leading posts, i expressed my wish to retire.