Discipline is the "precept" for governing the party and governing the party, and it is also the standard and compliance for party members and cadres to restrain their own behavior. In order to thoroughly study and implement the revised "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), with the consent of the Party Central Committee, from April to July 2024, Party discipline study and education will be carried out throughout the Party. This study and education on party discipline is an important measure to strengthen the party's discipline building and promote the comprehensive and strict management of the party to develop in depth. The broad masses of party members and cadres must conscientiously unify their thinking and action with the decisions and arrangements of the party Central Committee, regard the study and education of party discipline as an important political task, correct their thinking and action with party rules and party discipline, and truly make the process of studying party discipline a process of enhancing their sense of discipline and improving their party spirit.
Marx pointed out that "party discipline must be absolutely maintained, otherwise nothing will be accomplished". Our party is a Marxist political party organized with revolutionary ideals and iron discipline, and strict organization and discipline are the party's fine traditions and political advantages, as well as where our strength lies. In the early days of the founding of the Red Army, Comrade Mao Zedong attached great importance to the rectification of military discipline, from the stipulation of "not taking a single sweet potato from the masses" to the "three major disciplines and six points of attention" (which later developed into "three major disciplines and eight points of attention"), which laid a solid foundation for the fine work style of the people's army; during the Liaoshen Campaign, apples were ripe in the countryside of Jinzhou, and although the PLA soldiers passing by on the march were hungry and thirsty, they did not take a single apple, whether it was hung on the tree or harvested in the people's homes. After the liberation of Shanghai, in order not to disturb the citizens, the soldiers strictly enforced the discipline of "not entering people's houses" and slept on the wet streets after the rain with their clothes and guns...... "Strengthen discipline, and the revolution will be invincible." "For more than 100 years, it is precisely because of the iron discipline built on a high degree of political consciousness that our party has always won the love and support of the masses of the people and united and led the people to win one victory after another in revolution, construction, and reform.
"As big as ours, what can we rely on to manage our contingent well? What can we rely on to overcome risks and challenges? In addition to correct theories, lines, principles, and policies, we must rely on strict norms and discipline. This is General Secretary Xi Jinping's profound summary of our party's experience in discipline construction, and it is also a sincere admonition to the whole party. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has taken discipline construction as the fundamental policy of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, incorporated it into the overall layout of Party building in the new era, and unremittingly used strict discipline to manage the whole Party and govern the whole Party, fundamentally reversing the situation of lax and soft governance of the Party and providing a strong disciplinary guarantee for the development of the cause of the Party and the country. At the same time, we must be soberly aware that there are still some problems among party members and cadres who do not pay attention to, understand, and grasp party rules and discipline. It is necessary to put the building of discipline in a more prominent position, so that party organizations, party members, and cadres at all levels can really attach importance to it ideologically and do a good job in implementing it in action.
Comprehensively and strictly administering the party is always on the road, and the party's discipline building cannot be relaxed for a moment. Our Party is the world's largest ruling party with more than 98 million members, and is uniting and leading more than 1.4 billion people to comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. Without iron discipline, there will be no unity and unity of the party, the party's cohesion and combat effectiveness will be greatly weakened, and the party's leadership and ruling ability will be greatly weakened. On the new journey, the more complex the international and domestic situation the Party is facing, and the more arduous the tasks of reform, development and stability shouldered by the Party, the more necessary it is to strengthen the building of discipline, the more necessary it is to maintain the unity and unity of the Party, and ensure that the whole Party has a unified will, unified action, and moves forward in unison. It can be said that it is very important, necessary, and opportune to carry out party discipline study and education and strengthen party discipline building.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has made important speeches and instructions on carrying out party discipline learning and education on many occasions. On January 8, 2024, at the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, it was proposed to "take the opportunity of studying and implementing the newly revised disciplinary regulations to carry out a centralized discipline education in the whole party"; on January 31, when presiding over the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to review the summary report of the theme education and the opinions on consolidating and expanding the achievements of the theme education, it was required to "carry forward the spirit of self-revolution and organize and carry out centralized discipline education in the whole party"; Organize and carry out party discipline study and education, and guide party members and cadres to learn discipline, know discipline, understand discipline, and abide by discipline...... The important instructions of the general secretary's important speech are of a strong political, ideological, pertinent, and guiding nature, and provide a fundamental basis for carrying out party discipline study and education. It is necessary to conscientiously study and comprehend and fully implement it, further deepen the understanding of the importance of strengthening the party's discipline construction and the harmfulness of ignoring party discipline and violating party discipline, promote party organizations and leading groups at all levels to strictly grasp the party's discipline construction, and promote the majority of party members and cadres to strengthen their consciousness of abiding by discipline, and ensure that the whole party consciously maintains a high degree of consistency with the party central committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core with strict discipline.
A large number of cases show that the problems of cadres are all due to breakthroughs in discipline. As the basic backbone of the party's discipline construction, the "Regulations" draw the bottom line of discipline that cannot be touched by party organizations and party members, and are the focus of this party discipline study and education. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has continuously improved the discipline regulations according to the situation and the needs of Party building, and has revised the Regulations three times in 2015, 2018 and 2023. The revised "Regulations" fully implement Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, starting from the general source of the Party Constitution, adhere to the strict tone, adhere to the combination of problem-oriented and goal-oriented, keep pace with the times, improve discipline and norms, further tighten political discipline and political rules, drive all disciplines to be comprehensively strict, and release a strong signal that discipline will be stricter in the future.
Only by knowing discipline can we abide by discipline. It is necessary to grasp the key points of study, focus on solving the problems of some party members and cadres who do not care, understand, and grasp party rules and discipline, and organize party members, especially party member leading cadres, to conscientiously study the "Regulations" and find out what the party's discipline and rules are, and what they can and cannot do. It is necessary to integrate learning into daily life, grasp it regularly, insist on learning chapter by chapter, article by article, and learn in connection with practice, do a good job of promoting learning by case and training to help learning, promote the "Regulations" into the brain and heart, deepen the understanding and application of the "Regulations", educate and guide Party members and cadres to accurately grasp the main meaning and requirements of the "Regulations", further clarify the measurement yardstick of daily words and deeds, engrave compliance with rules and disciplines in their hearts, internalize them into the code of words and deeds, further strengthen the sense of discipline, strengthen self-restraint, improve immunity, and enhance political determination, discipline determination, and moral determination. Resist corruption, and always be loyal, clean and responsible.
(Editor: Kuang Sisi)