The experience and enlightenment of the self-revolution of the centennial party

Source: Party Building Network

Original title: The Experience and Enlightenment of the Self-Revolution of the Centennial Party

The courage to carry out self-revolution and to strictly manage the party and administer the party are the most distinctive character of our party and are also the conspicuous signs that distinguish our party from other political parties. Over the past hundred years, the Communist Party of China has promoted the continuous deepening of self-revolution and made historic achievements in managing the party and governing the party. Taking a good new journey, winning new victories, conscientiously summing up, profoundly grasping, and scientifically applying the precious historical experience of self-revolution is particularly important for continuing the great struggle, building great projects, advancing great causes, and realizing great dreams.

Always adhere to the party's political construction as the guide

Marxist political parties have lofty political ideals, lofty political pursuits, pure political qualities, and strict political discipline, and political attributes are the fundamental attributes of Marxist political parties. The party's political building occupies a leading position in party building, is in charge of the general and fundamental, and determines the direction and effect of party building. During the revolutionary period, Comrade Mao Zedong explicitly regarded "no error in political concepts" as an important condition for new Party members to join the Party. After the founding of New China, he stressed that "we rely on politics to lead, and without politics we cannot talk about leadership." At the beginning of reform and opening up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping pointed out that "we must stress politics at all times." Entering a new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "Taking a clear stand on politics and ensuring the unity and centralization of the party is the life of the party, and it is also the key to our party to become a century-old party and create a great cause of the century." Standing at the historical crossroads of the "two hundred years" goal of struggle, deepening party building, strengthening the management of the party and administering the party, taking the "two safeguards" as the primary task of the party's political building, taking the formulation and implementation of the correct political line as the key link in the party's political building, taking strict political discipline and political rules as the basic requirements of the party's political building, respecting the party constitution, solemnizing the political life within the party, and purifying the political ecology within the party as an important starting point for managing the party and administering the party, and improving party members. The political ability of cadres is an important focus of efforts to strengthen the party's political construction, and to ensure that the whole party will, action, and pace forward.

Always adhere to the theory of ideological party building to strengthen the party

Thought is the precursor to action, and theory is the guide to practice. Attaching importance to ideological party building is an important principle of the Marxist theory on party building and is also an important line of thought for our party to carry out self-revolution. During the revolutionary period, Comrade Mao Zedong stressed: "Mastering ideological education is the central link in uniting the whole party in the great political struggle. If this task is not solved, all the political tasks of the Party cannot be accomplished. In the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping creatively put forward "ideological party building and theoretical strengthening of the party", requiring the whole party to continuously improve the ability to use the party's innovative theories to guide practice and promote work, and further deepen the understanding of the law of the Communist Party's governance, the law of socialist construction, and the law of the development of human society in the process of linking theory with practice. Every step forward in theoretical innovation, theoretical armament must follow suit. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the ideological banner of the Communist Party of China in the new era, the fundamental guideline for the country's political and social life, and the Marxism of contemporary China and Marxism of the 21st century. On the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, all party members and cadres must consciously use the party's innovative theory to arm their minds, guide practice, and promote work; they must persist in reading the original works, learning the original texts, and understanding the principles; solidly promote the study and implementation of the party's innovative theory; they must go deep and down-to-earth; they must ensure that the study and application of thinking are integrated with each other, and the knowledge and faith are integrated with deeds; they must earnestly enhance the "four consciousnesses," strengthen the "four self-confidences," constantly consolidate the common ideological foundation for the unity and struggle of the whole party, and condense the mighty strength of the whole party to forge ahead in unity.

Always adhere to the continuous strengthening of the party's organizational system

The strength of the party comes from the organization. The party's overall leadership and all the party's work must be realized by relying on the party's strong organizational system. The centenary history of the Party is a history of constantly strengthening the party's organizational building and constantly strengthening the party's organizational body. Our party has always regarded the organizational issue as "one of the most important issues in survival and development," attached importance to grasping the grass-roots units, laying the foundation, and strengthening the foundation, and established a strict organizational system, including the party's central organizations, local organizations, and grass-roots organizations, which is consistent from top to bottom and effectively implemented; and has established an organizational principle and institutional system with democratic centralism as the foundation. Only when the party's organizations at all levels are in their proper positions, perform their respective duties, and display their strengths can the party's organizational advantages be brought into full play; only when the party's organizations at all levels are connected from top to bottom, interlocked with each other, and implemented effectively, can the party's leadership "be like an arm, like an arm." Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has creatively put forward the Party's organizational line for the new era, deepening our understanding of the law of Marxist ruling party building. In the new era, with the construction of the organizational system as the focus, we should persist in advancing as a whole, make overall plans to do a good job in the building of party organizations at all levels and in all fields, continuously improve the political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organizational strength, and social appeal of party organizations at all levels, pay attention to giving play to the role of grass-roots party organizations as fighting bastions and the vanguard and exemplary role of party members, and promote the realization of "consolidating the party like iron," thus providing a strong organizational guarantee for promoting the historical achievements and historic changes in the development of the cause of the party and the country. To deepen the management of the party and administer the party, the central and state organs should persist in setting an example by setting an example in stressing politics, observing discipline, being responsible, and increasing efficiency, and take the lead in implementing the party's unified arrangements; local party committees should further give play to their role in taking the direction, managing the overall situation, making policy decisions, and grasping implementation, resolutely obey the command of the party Central Committee, and comprehensively ensure strict management, effective supervision, unity of leading bodies, and a pure work style; grass-roots party organizations should persist in actively centering on promoting development, serving the masses, rallying people's hearts, and promoting harmony. Unite and lead party members and cadres and the masses to implement the party's theory, line, principles, and policies, seek truth from facts, and play the role of a fighting fortress according to local conditions.

Always adhere to the cultivation of high-quality backbone team

In the final analysis, the key lies in cultivating a contingent of backbone ruling cadres who are politically firm, capable, have a fine work style, and are energetic and promising, and to cultivate and bring up generations of reliable socialist successors. History and reality show that whether or not a political party and a country can continuously cultivate and select outstanding ruling backbones determines to a large extent the rise and fall of this political party and this country. A very important reason why our party has been able to constantly rise up through setbacks, harden into steel through hardships, always maintain strong creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, become the mainstay of promoting the forward development of China's revolution, construction, and reform, and unite and lead the people to constantly advance from victory to new victory is that our party has always attached great importance to cultivating a contingent of backbone cadres who can shoulder heavy responsibilities, has always attached great importance to selecting and appointing talents, and has persistently grasped the selection and employment of people as a key fundamental issue. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has put forward the standard of good cadres in the new era, regarded the improvement of political ability as a major task in the construction of the cadre team in the new era, paid attention to strengthening ideological tempering, political experience, practical training, and professional training, paid attention to strengthening political guidance and political absorption, and continuously deepened the reform of the talent development system and mechanism, which pointed out the direction for building a high-quality cadre team that is loyal and clean. Facing the future, party organizations at all levels must think in one place and work hard in the work of selecting and appointing people, unanimously give prominence to "putting the cause first and selecting people by doing things," adhere to the value orientation of being loyal and honest, being just and upright, seeking truth from facts, and being honest and honest, strictly enforce the criteria of "moral integrity" and "talent," curb unhealthy tendencies in the selection and employment of personnel, ensure that "both ability and political integrity," "regard morality as the first," and "appoint people on the basis of merit," so as to achieve "rewarding those who are good, those who are too good, those who are saved when they are afflicted, and those who are in trouble are reformed," and boldly select and promote those cadres who are brave enough to take responsibility and are good at doing good deeds. We should vigorously appoint those cadres who have outstanding performance in "professional ability, professional accomplishment, and professional spirit," earnestly free the vast number of cadres from some unnecessary affairs, strive to build an internationally competitive talent system, and provide strong and powerful talent support for the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.

Always uphold the correct style of conduct, discipline and severely punish corruption

Things must first rot, and then worms will grow. Corruption will destroy the political ecology, corrupt the party's work style and government style, and corrode the party's ruling foundation, which will eventually lead to "the program and discipline are not upheld, the party will not be the party, and the country will not be the country." Our party is a Marxist ruling party, and the longer it has been in power, the more it cannot lose its true color as a Marxist political party and the more it cannot lose its advanced nature and purity. One of the very important reasons why our party has been able to stand tall among the world's political parties after enduring vicissitudes and storms, and has always walked in the forefront of the times and become the backbone of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation is that our party has always had the courage to uphold the truth and correct mistakes, has persisted in its determination to use strong medicine to eliminate the scabs and severely punish chaos, and with the courage to scrape bones to cure poison and break the wrists of brave men, it has ceaselessly carried out in depth the building of a sound party style and a clean and honest administration and the anti-corruption struggle. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has persisted in opening up the stubborn and chronic diseases within the party, taking a clear-cut stand against the "four winds" and fighting corruption with thunder and thunder, eliminating serious political hidden dangers within the party, and maintaining the party's advanced nature and purity. History shows that our party "must always stand in an invincible position, it is necessary to continuously promote self-revolution, educate and guide party members and cadres, especially leading cadres, to ideologically get to the bottom of the source, consolidate the foundation, build a solid ideological and moral defense line, enhance the ability to resist corruption and degeneration and resist risks, and always maintain the political nature of communists." In the building of work style, it is necessary to persistently grasp the regular, meticulous, and strong points, regard maintaining the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the masses of the people as the core issue, regard not forgetting the original intention and keeping firmly in mind the mission as an eternal task, resolutely oppose formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance, and earnestly solve the conspicuous problems that infringe on the interests of the masses of the people; in discipline building, it is necessary to persist in putting discipline and rules in the forefront, maintain the unity and unity of the party with iron discipline, strictly prevent the "broken window effect," break the "unspoken rules," and persist in fighting "tigers" and "flies" together. Adhere to no forbidden areas, full coverage, and zero tolerance, promote as a whole the system and mechanism that dare not be corrupt, cannot be corrupt, and do not want to be corrupt, create a good political ecology with a clean and healthy atmosphere, promote the comprehensive development from strict party management to in-depth development, and constantly consolidate and develop the overwhelming victory in the anti-corruption struggle.

Always adhere to the system of governing the party and governing the party according to rules

Persisting in administering the party by system and according to rules is a long-term and fundamental policy for comprehensively and strictly administering the party. Institutional issues are fundamental, overall, stable and long-term. Revising and improving the "Party Constitution" with the times and formulating and improving the discipline and system for managing the Party and administering the Party in accordance with the "Party Constitution" have become valuable experiences of our party in managing the party and administering the party. Comrade Mao Zedong put forward the concept of "inner-party regulations", and he stressed that "in order to put intra-Party relations on the right track ... It is also necessary to formulate a more detailed inner-Party statute to unify the actions of the leading organs at all levels". Comrade Deng Xiaoping also stressed that "the country must have the state law, and the party must have the party rules and the party law" and "without the party rules and the party law, the state law will be difficult to guarantee." Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has made a series of important expositions on governing the party according to the system and the party according to the rules, clearly put forward the concept and thinking of "governing the party by system", and enriched and developed the Marxist theory of party building. With the deepening of the self-revolution, our party has formed a system of inner-party laws and regulations with the party constitution as the foundation, democratic centralism as the core, norms, regulations, and other inner-party regulations as the backbone, and inner-party laws and regulations in all fields and at all levels, so that the institutional cage of comprehensively and strictly administering the party has become tighter and tighter, and the vitality of the system has been fully released. The vitality of the system lies in its implementation. Once the system is formed, it is necessary to strictly abide by it, vigorously grasp its implementation, and resolutely safeguard the seriousness and authority of the system. Efforts should be made to improve the enforcement of the system, adhere to the equality of everyone in front of the system, and there are no exceptions to the implementation of the system, resolutely correct the behavior of orders that do not work and prohibitions, and let the iron rules exert force and the system become powerful. It is necessary to make good use of the "four forms," strengthen the ideological defense line and the bottom line of behavior of party members and cadres, and comprehensively give play to the role of punishment deterrence, punishment and rescue, and education and vigilance. It is necessary to improve the power supervision system and the discipline enforcement system, improve the supervision and accountability mechanism for the implementation of the major decisions and deployments of the party Central Committee, make good use of the two "sharp weapons" of inspection and accountability, run supervision through the entire process and all aspects of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, accelerate the formation of a normal and long-term supervision force, and promote the formation of a successful road of effectively solving its own problems and jumping out of the historical cycle rate under the condition of long-term ruling power.

History is the best textbook. The experience of self-revolution accumulated in the history of struggle over the past hundred years covers all aspects and the whole process of party building, reveals the internal laws and basic ideas of the century-old party in managing the party and administering the party and promoting the great self-revolution, reflects the scientific connotation, core essence, and practical requirements of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, and provides an important guide for us to focus on improving the party's ability to purify, improve, renovate, and improve itself under the new situation, always maintain the party's advanced nature and purity, and promote the development of the great social revolution.

(Li Yi, Ma Junfei, Author Affilications: School of Marxism, Fudan University)

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