Discipline is the lifeline of the party, and strict discipline is the party's glorious tradition and unique advantage, and it is also the reason why our party has the strength to show and has a strong cohesive and combat effectiveness. Carrying out party discipline study and education in the whole party is a major decision made by the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, and is an important measure to strengthen the party's discipline construction and promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the party to develop in depth, which is of great practical significance for maintaining the party's advanced nature and purity, ensuring that the party will never change its quality, color, and taste, and to enhance the party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, and ensure the political unity, ideological unity, and action unity of the whole party.
Strengthening the building of discipline is a fundamental policy for comprehensively and strictly administering the party, and is an important guarantee for the whole party to unify its will, action, and march forward in unison
In order for the party to manage the party and administer the party strictly, it must rely on strict discipline and rules. Our party has more than 98 million party members, and if it is in power in a large developing country with a vast territory and a large population, if there is no 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. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that strengthening the construction of discipline is the fundamental policy of comprehensively and strictly governing the party, and it is necessary to put the construction of discipline in a more prominent position, adhere to the principle of being strict with the law and discipline before the law, and put discipline and rules in the front. The more complex the situation facing the party and the more arduous the tasks it shoulders, the more necessary it is to strengthen the building of discipline, safeguard the unity and unity of the party, and ensure that the whole party has a unified will, unified action, and marches forward in unison.
Strengthening the building of party discipline is the essential attribute and intrinsic requirement of a Marxist political party. Strict discipline is an important principle for the building of a Marxist political party, and it is an inevitable requirement for maintaining the unity and centralization of the party. As early as the founding of the proletarian political party, Marx and Engels attached great importance to the issue of party discipline. Marx and Engels pointed out that "in order to ensure the success of the revolution, there must be a unity of thought and action." In his letter to Engels, Marx stressed that "we must now absolutely maintain the discipline of the party, otherwise nothing will be accomplished". Lenin made great efforts to create a Bolshevized Russian proletarian party and waged a resolute struggle against the unorganized and undisciplined party building of the Mensheviks. He profoundly pointed out that "the proletarian party must practice extremely strict centralization and extremely strict discipline within itself," and that "if our party does not have extremely strict and truly iron discipline...... Then the Bolsheviks could not hold power for two and a half years, even for two and a half months." The proletarian political party, through strict discipline, organizes individual party members, and then forms a unified action, which then becomes the will of the entire class and produces a tremendous material force to transform the world. The victory of the October Revolution in Russia and the successes and tremendous achievements of China's revolution, construction, and reform have profoundly illustrated this truth.
The Communist Party of China is a Marxist political party organized by revolutionary ideals and iron discipline, and strict discipline is our party's glorious tradition and unique advantage. As early as the Yan'an period, Mao Zedong pointed out that "the line is the 'royal road', discipline is the 'domineering'", and "discipline is the guarantee of the implementation of the line", both of which are indispensable. He particularly emphasized that discipline is iron, more powerful and harder than Sun Xingzhi's golden hoop, "As a party member, iron discipline must be implemented." At the beginning of reform and opening up, in the face of the corrosive influence of decadent Western ideology and culture, Deng Xiaoping pointed out: "How can we unite and organize ourselves in such a big country?" On the one hand, we rely on ideals and on discipline on the other," and "we must strictly safeguard the party's discipline and greatly strengthen discipline." In the course of promoting reform and opening up, our party has repeatedly stressed the importance of strengthening the party's discipline building. Jiang Zemin pointed out: "It is necessary to take the rectification and strengthening of party discipline as a major issue in comprehensively strengthening party building." Hu Jintao pointed out that "the more complicated the situation facing the party and the more arduous the tasks it shoulders, the more necessary it is to strengthen the building of party discipline and safeguard the party's centralization and unity."
Throughout the party's history, using iron discipline to educate, standardize, and restrain party members and cadres is a red line that runs through the party's history. During the period of founding the Red Army, our party promulgated the discipline regulations of "three major disciplines and six points of attention," thus turning the army under the leadership of the party into a new type of people's army. In order to sum up the profound lessons of Zhang Guotao's separatist activities during the Long March, the party formulated the discipline regulations of "four obediences", which became the discipline requirements that the whole party must abide by. During the War of Liberation, the Party established a system of requesting instructions and reporting, emphasizing that "the revolution will be invincible if discipline is strengthened", thus providing a strong political guarantee for the victory of the War of Liberation. After the founding of New China, our party unswervingly strengthened the building of discipline, seriously investigated and dealt with the corruption cases of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, and educated and rescued a large number of party members and cadres who violated discipline and law. After the reform and opening up, our party carried out a comprehensive rectification of the party, carried out many centralized education activities, purified the party's organization, rectified the party's discipline, formulated and issued a series of intra-party laws and regulations, and promoted the party's discipline construction to be scientific and standardized. Over the past 100 years and more, an important factor and key reason why our party has been able to withstand all kinds of risks and tests and overcome various difficulties and challenges is that it has always attached great importance to the building of discipline, ensured the party's unity and unity with strict discipline, and maintained the party's high degree of cohesion and strong combat effectiveness.
Strengthening the building of party discipline is an effective method and successful experience in the new great project of party building in the new era. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has incorporated discipline construction into the overall layout of Party building in the new era, placed it in a prominent position in the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, continuously tightened political discipline and political rules, driven all disciplines to be comprehensively strict, and promoted the Party to be stronger and more powerful in the revolutionary forging. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "the party must manage the party and govern the party strictly, and what management and governance should rely on?" In the face of the problems of weak management of the party and lax governance of the party, in the face of many problems in the party that have weakened, blurred, diluted, and marginalized the implementation of the party's leadership, and in the face of the prevalence and spread of formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance in a period of time, the party Central Committee has adhered to a multi-pronged approach and taken multiple measures at the same time, and has made concerted efforts from the four aspects of improving the system, carrying out discipline education, vigorously grasping discipline supervision, and cultivating discipline consciousness, and earnestly upheld and established discipline and rules. Be strict and promote the real implementation of the task of comprehensively and strictly governing the party. The Party Central Committee has successively deployed and carried out six centralized inner-party educations, each of which included the content of Party discipline. The practical experience of comprehensively and strictly administering the party in the new era has fully demonstrated that managing the party and governing the party with strict discipline is a clear sign that our party maintains its advanced nature and purity, and is the fundamental guarantee for the party to remain in power for a long time and forever. It is very important and necessary to strengthen the building of party discipline, and we must always make unremitting efforts to achieve success over a long period of time.
Strengthening the party's discipline building is an urgent need and an important task to cope with future risks and challenges. The key to running China's affairs well lies in the party. On the new journey of comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization, our party is faced with the complexity and severity of the situation and the heaviness and arduousness of the tasks it shoulders. In the coming period, we will face more headwinds and headwinds in the external environment, and risks and challenges will be huge and frequent. If the whole party does not have a unified ideology, a unified will, and a unified action, it will certainly achieve nothing, and even fail completely. The unified thinking, will, and action of the whole party should be forged, maintained, and consolidated by what we rely on, not by sticks, not by swords and guns, but by discipline, and by the consciousness of action to abide by discipline. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has unswervingly promoted the comprehensive and strict governance of the party, and the party's discipline construction has achieved remarkable results. However, due to various reasons, there are still some problems that cannot be ignored. Some party organizations and leading bodies do not attach importance to the building of party discipline, with the result that discipline in their localities and units is lax and problems occur frequently; some party members and cadres have a weak sense of discipline and do not study discipline, do not know discipline, do not know discipline, and do not abide by discipline; some do not know where they are wrong or which discipline they have violated when they are dealt with; some even put strict supervision and discipline enforcement in opposition to responsibility, and excuse themselves from not taking responsibility and not doing things by restricting them too much and being too strict. The existence of these problems has seriously damaged the party's image, affected the relationship between the party and the masses and between cadres and the masses, affected the credibility of the party and the government, and hindered the healthy development of the cause of the party and the people. On the new journey, only by adhering to the problem-oriented, promoting party organizations and party members and cadres at all levels to take discipline as a compulsory and regular course, to see the truth and practical results in learning, mastering, maintaining and implementing the party's discipline, and truly internalizing the party's discipline in our hearts and externalizing it in our actions, can we form a strong joint force, so as to unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups across the country, unite the sons and daughters of China at home and abroad, and gather the majestic force of comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Taking the opportunity of carrying out party discipline study and education, we should put the building of discipline in a more prominent position, so that the whole party can consciously use party rules and party discipline to correct their thinking and actions
Strengthening the study and education of party discipline is a necessary condition for party members and cadres to strictly abide by party discipline, and is an important measure to strengthen the party's discipline construction and promote the comprehensive and strict management of the party to develop in depth. The Party Central Committee decided that the main content of this Party discipline study and education is the newly revised "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which aims to start from the study of discipline, promote the Party organizations and leading groups at all levels to strictly grasp the construction of Party discipline, promote the majority of Party members and cadres to strengthen the consciousness of abiding by discipline, and ensure that the whole Party firmly and consciously maintains a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core with strict discipline. Orders and prohibitions have formed a powerful driving force and synergy to promote Chinese-style modernization.
The "Regulations" are our party's basic laws and regulations on party discipline and disciplinary punishment, and they have comprehensively and systematically regulated the specific behaviors that violate party discipline and the corresponding punishments. This not only draws the bottom line of behavior and lists the "negative list" for party organizations and party members, but also provides a basic basis for party organizations to carry out disciplinary supervision and implement disciplinary punishments, embodies the seriousness and rigidity of party rules and party discipline, and plays an important role in maintaining the party constitution and other intra-party regulations, strictly enforcing party discipline, purifying party organizations, protecting the democratic rights of party members, educating party members to abide by discipline and law, maintaining the unity and unity of the party, and ensuring the implementation of the party's theory, line, principles, policies, resolutions and national laws and regulations.
The Regulations were implemented on a trial basis in February 1997 and were formally promulgated and implemented after being revised in December 2003. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the "Regulations" have been continuously improved and revised three times in 2015, 2018 and 2023. Among them, the 2015 revision has the largest revision. The current revision integrates the discipline requirements of the Party Constitution, the Party Central Committee, and the discipline provisions of other intra-Party laws and regulations into six disciplines, namely, political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, mass discipline, work discipline, and life discipline. The two revisions in 2018 and 2023 will keep pace with the times and improve some key issues in a timely manner on the basis of maintaining overall stability. In the 2018 revision, important contents such as "guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" and "two safeguards" were added, and the "four forms" of supervision and discipline enforcement commonly used in practice were reflected, and the provisions on the convergence of discipline and law were further improved. Compared with the 2018 Regulations, the revised Regulations in 2023 have 16 new articles and 76 revised articles.
The current Regulations consist of 3 parts, 11 chapters and 158 articles. The first part of the General Provisions, consisting of 5 chapters and 48 articles, mainly stipulates the guiding ideology, overall requirements, basic principles, scope of application, and application rules of disciplinary sanctions, which is the basic part of the "Regulations" and has a overarching nature. Part II, consisting of 6 chapters and 106 articles, provides for the punishment of six disciplinary violations. Part III of the Supplementary Provisions, consisting of 4 articles, mainly includes the authority to formulate supplementary provisions, the organ for interpreting the regulations, the implementation time of the regulations, and the retroactive effect.
The six disciplines are the backbone of the Regulations and the specific contents that can be operated.
At the top of the list of the six disciplines is political discipline. Political discipline is the rule that Party organizations at all levels and all Party members must abide by in terms of political orientation, political stance, political speech, and political behavior, and is the fundamental guarantee for maintaining the unity and unity of the Party. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that "political discipline and political rules are the most fundamental and important discipline of the Party, and observance of political discipline and political rules is the basis for abiding by all discipline of the Party". To abide by political discipline, we must profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments," resolutely achieve the "two safeguards," and be politically sensible.
Organizational discipline is a code of conduct that regulates and handles the relations between Party organizations at all levels, between Party organizations and Party members, and between Party members and Party members, and is an important condition for maintaining the Party's centralization and unity and maintaining the Party's combat effectiveness. To abide by organizational discipline, we must adhere to the principle of democratic centralism, implement the party's organizational line in the new era, consciously implement organizational decisions, obey organizational arrangements, and oppose the doctrine of good people.
Integrity discipline is the rule of conduct for the honest use of power that Party organizations at all levels and all Party members should abide by when engaging in official or other activities in order to ensure honesty and integrity. To abide by the discipline of honesty, it is necessary to make a clear distinction between public and private affairs, use power impartially, oppose the idea of privilege and the phenomenon of privilege, oppose any abuse of power and seek personal gain, and maintain honesty and integrity.
Mass discipline is a code of conduct that must be observed by Party organizations at all levels and all Party members when adhering to the people-centered development ideology and handling the relationship between the Party and the masses. To abide by the discipline of the masses, we must consciously practice the fundamental purpose of the party, follow the party's mass line in the new era, close the relationship between the party and the masses and between the cadres and the masses, safeguard the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people, and conscientiously solve outstanding problems that harm the interests of the masses.
Work discipline is the code of conduct that all Party organizations at all levels and all Party members must abide by in all aspects of the Party's work, and is an important guarantee for the normal development of the Party's work. To abide by work discipline, we must oppose formalism and bureaucracy, seek truth and be pragmatic, do solid work, take responsibility, and perform our duties and responsibilities well for the party and the people.
Life discipline is the code of conduct that Party members should abide by in their daily life and social interactions, involving Party members' personal morality, family virtues, social morality, etc., and is related to the Party's image. To abide by the discipline of life, we must consciously practice the core values of socialism, be enlightened, abide by public morality, strict private morality, and pay attention to family education and family style.
The "Regulations" have six distinctive features. The first is political, to study and implement the "Regulations", we must deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments" and resolutely achieve the "two safeguards"; the second is ideological, to study and implement the "Regulations", we must adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; the third is the people's nature, to study and implement the "Regulations", to adhere to the people-centered development thinking; the fourth is seriousness, to study and implement the "Regulations", to insist that the party should manage the party and govern the party strictly in an all-round way Sixth, it is necessary to be practical, and to study and implement the "Regulations," we must proceed from reality in everything.
Earnestly promote the study and education of party discipline to achieve tangible results, and guide party members and cadres to truly transform discipline and rules into political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness
The party Central Committee has made clear stipulations and put forward clear requirements for the objectives, requirements, work arrangements, and organization and leadership of this party discipline study and education. General Secretary Xi Jinping has made many important speeches and important instructions on the party's discipline issues, providing important guidelines for the whole party to carry out party discipline study and education. We must conscientiously study, comprehend, and comprehensively implement it.
Serious discipline. Discipline is the foundation. Only by conscientiously studying discipline can we better know, understand, and abide by discipline. Learn from the original. Combine individual self-study with centralized learning, and study the "Regulations" chapter by chapter through the collective study of the theoretical study center group of the Party committee (Party group), the holding of reading classes, the "three meetings and one lesson" of the Party branch, and the theme party day. Sink down, read sentence by sentence, learn one by one, understand little by little, and promote the "Regulations" into the brain and heart. The above rate is out of school. Practicing is the most effective demonstration, and the above rate is the most powerful guidance. Party leadership organs, leading cadres with Party membership, secretaries and members of the Party's basic-level organizations, secretaries of discipline inspection commissions, and discipline inspection committee members shall take the lead in studying, learning one step first, learning a little more, and learning one level deeper, and setting an example. Connecting with practical learning. Party members and cadres studying the "Regulations" should closely integrate with reality, put themselves, their responsibilities, and their work into it, consciously check the provisions of the "Regulations", conduct in-depth self-analysis, and conscientiously carry out criticism and self-criticism. Warning Ming Discipline. Through the convening of warning education meetings, typical cases are used as "living teaching materials" to explain morality, discipline, law, and responsibility through cases, to educate and guide Party members and cadres to be vigilant, clear about the bottom line, and know and respect; Training and class learning. Do a good job in interpretation and training to help party members and cadres deeply understand and accurately grasp the spiritual essence of the "Regulations". Categorical training should be carried out at different levels and in different fields, highlighting discipline training for key targets such as newly promoted cadres, young cadres, and cadres in key positions.
Accurate knowledge of discipline. Knowing the discipline is the premise. Only by conscientiously studying discipline and accurately knowing discipline can we better understand discipline and abide by discipline. Know what the party's discipline rules are. It is clear that the party constitution is the most fundamental intra-party regulation and is the general rule for governing the party; it is clear that party discipline is the code of conduct that all party organizations at all levels and all party members must abide by; and it is clear what is stipulated in every chapter and article of the "Regulations" and what is the basic spirit. Know what not to do. The "Regulations" have made clear the negative list of "can't" for party members and cadres, and we must keep every provision in mind, and resolutely do not say what should not be said, do not do what should not be done, do not go where we should not go, make friends that should not be made, do not eat food that should not be eaten, and do not take things that should not be taken, etc. In the process of controlling their own words and deeds, and every move, they constantly strengthen the awareness of party members and the concept of discipline. Know what you can do, what you are allowed to do, and how you should do it. Party members and cadres must not only abide by discipline, but also dare to take responsibility. The "Regulations" make it clear that the various situations of "can't do" are not to tie the hands and feet of party members, cadres and officials to start a business, but to be more energetic and promising on the premise of knowing the boundaries and knowing the bottom line. It is absolutely not permissible for the broad masses of party members and cadres to ignore the requirements of party rules and party discipline, to be indifferent to them, and to act blindly and recklessly when thinking about problems, making decisions, and handling affairs; it is absolutely not permissible for the broad masses of party members and cadres to ignore the requirements of party rules and discipline when thinking about problems, making decisions, and doing things; they are also unwilling to take responsibility and dare not struggle, and they are also absolutely not allowed to retreat and pass the buck in the face of contradictions, conflicts, crises, and difficulties, and they are also not in line with the party's discipline regulations.
Consciously Mingji. Ming Ji is the key. Party discipline is compulsory, and at the same time, it must be based on the consciousness of party members and cadres. Party members and cadres can only be able to stabilize their minds, control their behavior, and keep their innocence when they truly understand discipline and always have a clear "warning line" between public and private, the "high-voltage line" between right and wrong, and the "dividing line" between love and discipline. Understand that party discipline is a "mantra of tightening". It is deeply aware that all are equal before discipline, that there is no privilege in observing discipline, and that there are no exceptions in enforcing discipline. Consciously use party discipline to correct their thoughts and actions, often look at whether the ring ruler in their hands is tightened, constantly establish the concept of party discipline, resolutely guard the red line, guard the bottom line, do not cross the high-voltage line, comprehensively standardize their own behavior, make iron discipline become a daily habit and consciously follow, and constantly strengthen the sense of discipline, strengthen self-restraint, and improve immunity. Understanding party discipline is also a "talisman". Deeply aware that strictness is love, leniency is harm, and strict management is love, and is accustomed to working and living in a supervised and constrained environment. Countless cases have proved that the "illegality" of party members begins with "breaking discipline". To prevent the occurrence of a situation in which all of them are "good comrades" who fail to investigate and become "prisoners under the ranks" after one investigation, it is necessary to put discipline and rules in the forefront, grasp the small ones as soon as possible, and prevent them from getting worse. Respect discipline and discipline from the heart, internalize compliance with rules and disciplines into a daily and unconscious code of words and deeds, and constantly enhance political determination, discipline determination, moral determination, and resistance to corruption, and always be loyal, clean and responsible.
Strict discipline. Discipline is the goal. The ultimate goal of learning discipline, knowing discipline, and understanding discipline is to standardize and restrain party members and cadres to be strict and strict and abide by their duties. All party members, regardless of their positions or occupations, must unconditionally abide by discipline, do not make changes, do not discount, leave no room for tricks, and resolutely safeguard the seriousness and authority of the party's discipline with practical actions, thus embodying the advanced nature and purity of party members. The stand is clear, and discipline is essential. The first thing to abide by discipline is to abide by political discipline, and the first thing to abide by rules is to abide by political rules. We should always tighten our stand and take a clear-cut stand on politics, be particularly clear-headed and firm in the face of major issues of right and wrong and on issues of political principles, never be two-faced or two-faced, never trade the party's principles, and never engage in the "seven haves." Abide by the rules in terms of political direction, political position, political speech, and political behavior, consciously adhere to the party's leadership, consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, and consciously safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the party Central Committee. Be cautious and cautious in the subtleties. Understand the truth that there is politics, direction, image, and personality in small things, strengthen restraint and regulate oneself from small things, and constantly purify one's social circle, life circle, and circle of friends, so as to prevent being "hunted" by people with ulterior motives, and do not step on "landmines" and fall into traps. Enhance self-control, be cautious and cautious in private, when no one is around, and in subtleties, and not mess up your mind in the self-deception of "the moon is dark and the wind is high and no one can see it", you can't get lost in the rhetoric of "you know that I know the heavens and the earth know", we can't take risks in the luck psychology of "seeking wealth and danger", and we can't act arbitrarily and recklessly in the erroneous understanding that "the law does not blame the public". Leading cadres must establish a correct outlook on power, use power fairly, according to law, for the people, and honestly. Keep in mind that the comprehensive and strict governance of the party is always on the road, and the party's self-revolution is always on the road. Dust off the "dust of thoughts", think more about "greed and desire", often break the "thief in the heart", often dust off the soul, always clear the garbage of thoughts, and often dig out the soul. Be innocent as an official, do things cleanly, be an honest person, be loyal to the party for a lifetime, and abide by rules and disciplines for a lifetime.