Liu Xuexin, secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection: Based on the functions and responsibilities of discipline inspection and supervision, firmly establish and practice the correct concept of political performance

The concept of political achievements directly reflects the value orientation of party members and cadres in politics, and is the ideological basis for party members and cadres to create political achievements. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized the need to establish a correct view of political achievements, and made a series of important expositions around "for whom political achievements are trees, what kind of achievements are trees, and what achievements are relied on". At the sixth plenary session of the 19th Central Discipline Inspection Commission held not long ago, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again reiterated that it is necessary to start from leading cadres, especially the main leading cadres, establish a correct view of political achievements, respect objective reality and the needs of the masses, strengthen systematic thinking and scientific planning, do more practical and good things for the benefit of the people, and put an end to pretending, making flower racks, and blindly paving the way. General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important expositions on the concept of political performance, profound thinking, lofty intentions and rich connotations, have pointed out the correct direction for the majority of party members, cadres and officials to start a business, and provided important guidelines. Striving for a new era and marching toward a new journey, it is extremely important and urgent to establish a correct view of political achievements, and party members and leading cadres at all levels must earnestly establish a correct view of political achievements, resist the wrong view of political achievements, and promote high-quality development with practical actions.

Enhance political standing and political awareness, and profoundly understand the great significance of establishing a correct view of political achievements

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that it is necessary to establish a correct view of political performance, handle the relationship between stability and progress, standing and breaking, virtual and real, standard and fundamental, near and far, adhere to bottom-line thinking, strengthen risk awareness, and consciously run the new development concept through the entire process of economic and social development. As party-member leading cadres, they should further enhance their political standing and political awareness, accurately grasp the scientific connotation of the correct view of political achievements from the high plane of loyally supporting the "two establishments" and resolutely achieving the "two safeguards," and fully understand the extreme importance and necessity of firmly establishing a correct outlook on political achievements.

Establishing a correct outlook on political achievements is an inevitable requirement for ensuring the smooth progress of the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. At present, the mainland has entered a new stage of development and is marching towards the second centenary goal. In the new historical stage, the changes in the main contradictions in domestic society have brought new characteristics and new requirements, and the complicated international environment has brought new contradictions and new challenges. In the face of opportunities and challenges, party members and leading cadres at all levels must anchor the theme of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation without relaxing, strive to carry forward the valuable experience accumulated by the party in the course of a hundred years, enhance the wisdom of change, the way to cope with changes, and the courage to seek change, implement the correct concept of political achievements in the practice of all work, always be ready to cope with major challenges, resist major risks, overcome major obstacles, resolve major contradictions, and make unremitting efforts to comprehensively build a modern socialist country and achieve the goal of the second centenary struggle.

Establishing a correct view of political performance is an inevitable requirement for promoting the better transformation of institutional advantages into national governance efficiency. Adhering to and improving the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity is a major strategic task of the whole party, and improving the governance capacity is also a major task in the construction of the cadre team in the new era. To accomplish this task, we must firmly establish a correct outlook on political achievements, persist in integrating knowledge with action, be down-to-earth, and really do solid work, perform our duties, exercise power, and carry out our work in strict accordance with the provisions of the system; on the basis of respecting objective laws, persist in proceeding from reality in everything we do, and grasp the work well and achieve practical results. Only in this way can we do a good job in all aspects of reform, development, and stability, ensure that the implementation of the various decisions and work arrangements of the Party Central Committee in all regions and departments is not biased, unchanged, and not out of line, and effectively promote the better transformation of the advantages of the mainland system into the efficiency of national governance.

Establishing a correct outlook on political achievements is an inevitable requirement for strengthening the party's leadership and promoting the comprehensive and strict management of the party. Adhering to the party's leadership and promoting the comprehensive and strict management of the party have put forward clear requirements for party-member leading cadres to establish a correct outlook on political achievements. In some corruption cases recently investigated and handled, some have violated the major policy decisions and arrangements of the party Central Committee, colluded with capital, and supported the disorderly expansion of capital; some have violated the new development concept and blindly embarked on projects and paved the way; some have taken advantage of the party's position and prestige to engage in privileges, seek private interests, and tear apart the relationship between the party and the masses, and so on. An important reason for the occurrence of these problems is that the original mission has deviated and the concept of political performance has been seriously distorted. This has also once again alerted us that we must proceed from consolidating the party's ruling position, keep firmly in mind what our party is and what it must do, firmly establish and practice the correct concept of political achievements, give full play to the leading and guaranteeing role of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, and constantly build a solid foundation for the party's long-term ruling power.

Based on the positioning of duties, we should earnestly implement the correct concept of political performance in the whole process and all aspects of discipline inspection and supervision work

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that leading cadres at all levels should establish a correct view of power, political achievements, and careers, not seek vanity, do not do vain deeds, do not seek false fame, and effectively serve as an official and benefit one party. Shanghai is the birthplace of the party, the place where its original intention was founded, and the forefront of reform and opening up; as the main force in the building of a sound party style and a clean administration and in the anti-corruption struggle, and as an important force in promoting the comprehensive and strict management of the party, discipline inspection and supervision organs must put themselves in their place, put their responsibilities in it, and put their work into it, and implement the correct outlook on political achievements in all work.

Always take a clear stand on politics. To implement the correct view of political achievements, the most important thing is to safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee, implement the line and principles of the Party Central Committee, and implement the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee in practice. As the party's political organs, discipline inspection and supervision organs must always bear in mind the "great power of the country," faithfully perform their duties in safeguarding the party's centralized and unified leadership, supervising and implementing the party's theory, line, principles, and policies, and safeguarding the party's advanced nature and purity, do a good job in all aspects of the work of rectifying the work style, eliminating discipline, and opposing corruption with high quality, give play to the role of supervising and guaranteeing the implementation and promoting the improvement of development, so as to safeguard the "two establishments" and achieve the practical actions of "two safeguards," and effectively serve and guarantee the overall situation of modernization.

Adhere to the people-centered development concept. The mass line is the lifeline and fundamental work line of our party, and to establish a correct outlook on political achievements, we must regard satisfying the people's growing needs for a better life as the starting point and end point of all our work. Discipline inspection and supervision organs should conscientiously practice the important concept of "building people's cities for the people, and people's cities for the people," consciously stand on the stand of the masses and think about problems and make decisions and do things, better integrate the value concept and organizational innovation of comprehensively and strictly administering the party into the innovation of urban governance, build more platforms for the participation of the masses, continuously expand the depth and breadth of mass participation, solve problems in the frontline and in the bud, let the masses of the people feel fairness and justice in the comprehensive and strict management of the party, and make urban governance more effective.

Start a business with the spirit of nails. To temper and accomplish achievements, it is not necessary to have my historical responsibility in my spiritual realm and achievements, maintain historical patience and strategic determination, correctly handle the relationship between the big self and the small self, the relationship between long-term interests, fundamental interests, personal ambitions, and personal interests, do more to lay the foundation and benefit the long term, and truly be responsible for history, practice, and the people. Discipline inspection and supervision organs should profoundly comprehend and grasp a series of strategic and innovative major measures put forward by the party Central Committee, properly perform their assistance duties and special supervision duties in light of reality, carry out a blueprint to the end, single-mindedly and without distraction, properly resolve the conspicuous problems existing in managing the party and administering the party and the key and difficult problems reflected by the masses, and ensure that the major policy decisions and arrangements of the party Central Committee take root and form vivid practice.

Establish the right direction. It is necessary to take a clear-cut stand to encourage people to work hard, support their responsibilities, hold accountable for dereliction of duty, punish corrupt behavior, create a clean and healthy political ecology and a good environment for officials to start a business, and better promote the overall work. In recent years, Shanghai has deeply implemented the requirements of the "three distinctions", adhered to the combination of strict management and love, and attached equal importance to incentives and constraints, formulated and issued the "Opinions on Standardizing the Behavior of Government-Business Exchanges to Further Promote the Construction of Pro-Qing Government-Business Relations", "Several Opinions on Implementing the Important Requirements of the "Three Distinctions" to Create a Clean And Healthy Political Ecology and a Good Environment for Officials to Start a Business, Improve work mechanisms such as handling clues to problems, accurate accountability, clarification and protection, and return visit education, clarify the boundaries between acting and acting chaotically, and draw a clear red line for the bottom line. We have also set up more road signs and signs, strive to take responsibility for those who are responsible, responsible for those who are responsible, and support those who are in charge, and promote party members and leading cadres to be passionate, creative, courageous, and dare to be pioneers.

Resolutely rectify the erroneous view of political achievements and seriously rectify the problems of formalism and bureaucracy

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the essence of formalism is subjectivism and utilitarianism, the root cause is the misplaced view of political performance and the lack of responsibility; the essence of bureaucracy is the remnants of feudal thought, and the root cause is the serious official-based ideology and the distortion of the concept of power. Formalism and bureaucracy are incompatible with the nature, purpose, and fine work style of our party, and discipline inspection and supervision organs should regard them as the great enemies of our party and the people and take effective measures to rectify them.

Strengthen the implementation of responsibilities, and form a joint force of formalism and bureaucracy to rectify. An important reason why it is difficult to eradicate the foci of formalism and bureaucracy is that the responsibility of managing the party and governing the party has not been tightened and compacted, and the transmission of responsibility pressure has not been in place. Keeping in mind the entrustment of General Secretary Xi Jinping, Shanghai has closely combined with reality, deepened and refined the "four responsibilities coordination" mechanism for comprehensively and strictly administering the party, and realized the unified linkage and joint operation of the main responsibility of the party committee, the supervision responsibility of the discipline inspection commission, the responsibility of the first responsible person of the party secretary, and the "one post and two responsibilities" of the team members, so as to perform their duties and fulfill their responsibilities, "do not throw their hands" and "do not get rid of their hands". It is necessary to firmly grasp the "bull's nose" of the main responsibility, urge party committees (leading party groups) at all levels to regard rectifying formalism and bureaucracy as a major political task at present, place it in a prominent position, and adopt practical and effective measures to grasp it well. Party organizations at all levels should consciously assume the responsibility of the first responsible person, carry forward the spirit of seeking truth and being pragmatic and really grasping practical work, take the lead in changing work styles, and create a new style, so as to form a "head goose effect."

Strengthen supervision and discipline enforcement, dig deep and carefully investigate formalism and bureaucracy. With regard to the problems of formalism and bureaucracy, we must persist in looking at and grasping them politically, and continue to exert efforts and firmly grasp them. Discipline inspection and supervision organs should give full play to the role of supervising and guaranteeing the implementation of safeguards and promoting the improvement of development, resolutely rectify formalistic and bureaucratic problems that affect the implementation of the party Central Committee's decision-making arrangements and the work requirements of the municipal party committee, disregard the infringement of the interests of the masses, and increase the burden on the grass-roots units, and seriously investigate and deal with the problems of disorderly behavior that does not respect the law, the objective reality, and the needs of the masses, as well as the problems of prevarication, dereliction of duty, and inaction that does not think of making progress, so as to prevent putting on a show and putting up a flowery frame for personal political achievements. In view of the difficulties of formalism and bureaucracy in discovering, characterizing, and eradicating difficulties, we should make full use of informationization and big data means, explore and increase the use of "one network communication office" and "one network unified management", pull out a list of problems that the masses have strongly complained about but have not been solved for a long time, and accurately identify and target treatment.

Persist in consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan, and gradually eradicate the soil that breeds the erroneous concept of political achievements. It is necessary to regard the establishment of a correct outlook on political achievements as an important part of the ideological and political construction of leading cadres and the education on honest administration, always make unremitting efforts, make meritorious contributions for a long time, and guide party members and leading cadres to keep firmly in mind their original mission and practice the purpose of serving the people. On the one hand, we should pay attention to making good use of Shanghai's advantages as the birthplace of the party and the place where the original intention originated, fully explore the experience and practices in the practical activities of "I do practical things for the masses" in the study and education of party history, and educate and guide party members and cadres to vigorously guard against formalism and bureaucracy and do more practical and good things for the benefit of the people. On the other hand, we should do a good job in the "second half of the article", carry out warning education through hierarchical classification, conduct in-depth analysis of typical problems of formalism and bureaucracy, and warn and educate people around us with the things around us. At the same time, we should actively assist party committees in strictly controlling the selection and employment of personnel, select and promote cadres who are politically competent, have outstanding achievements, and are recognized by the masses to important posts, eliminate those "speculative" cadres who make deals with principles, "advertising" cadres who pay lip service but do not do real things, and "vase" cadres who only become officials and do not do things, and promote the establishment of a orientation for employing people who emphasize hard work and actual achievements.

(This article was published in China Discipline Inspection and Supervision Magazine, No. 4, 2022, by Liu Xuexin, member of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, secretary of the Municipal Discipline Inspection Commission, and director of the Municipal Supervision Commission)