Xie Chuntao: Why has the comprehensive and strict management of the party achieved remarkable results?
Party building and governance
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has made historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the country, and has achieved remarkable results in comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. At the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have explored a successful path to solve our own problems and jump out of the historical cycle under the condition of long-term governance, and built an effective power supervision system and discipline enforcement system." How does the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and achieve outstanding results? The "Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" organized and compiled by the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee provides an in-depth answer to this question, providing us with authoritative guidance for in-depth study and comprehension of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition on comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. On November 15, 2012, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out at the meeting between the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 18th CPC Central Committee and Chinese and foreign journalists: "Under the new situation, our party is facing many severe challenges, and there are many problems that need to be solved urgently. In particular, we must devote great efforts to resolving the problems of corruption, detachment from the masses, formalism, and bureaucracy among some party members and cadres. The whole party must wake up. On October 8, 2014, at the summary meeting of the party's mass line education and practice activities, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Party committees (party groups) at all levels and departments must establish a correct view of political performance, adhere to the overall situation of consolidating the party's ruling position, and take party building as the greatest political achievement." If our party is weak, scattered, and collapsed, what is the point of other political achievements?" General Secretary Xi Jinping further proposed to promote the party's self-revolution. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "The courage to self-revolution and strict management of the party and the party are the most distinctive characteristics of our party, and the comprehensive and strict governance of the party is always on the road." "In the new era, our party must promote the great social revolution led by the party to the people through the party's self-revolution." General Secretary Xi Jinping has incorporated the comprehensive and strict governance of the party into the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, emphasizing: "The core of comprehensive and strict governance of the party is to strengthen the party's leadership, the foundation is comprehensive, the key is strict, and the key is governance." "Comprehensive" means to manage the whole party and govern the whole party, face all party members and party organizations, cover all fields, all aspects and all departments of party building, and focus on grasping the "key minority". "Strict" means really strict, dare to be strict, and be strict for a long time. "Governance" means that from the party Central Committee to the local party committees at all levels, from the central ministries and commissions, the party groups (party committees) of state organs and departments, and the grassroots party branches, they must shoulder the main responsibility, and the secretaries of party committees must regard doing a good job in party building as a matter within their own scope and must shoulder their duties; discipline inspection commissions at all levels must shoulder the responsibility of supervision, dare to stare at the black face, and have the courage to enforce discipline and accountability. Comprehensively and strictly administering the party is a great self-revolution. Constantly carrying out self-revolution while carrying out social revolution is the most conspicuous mark that distinguishes our party from other political parties. Only by administering the party strictly in an all-round way in the spirit of self-revolution, waging a resolute struggle against all problems that affect the party's advanced nature and weakening the party's purity, and realizing self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation, and self-improvement, can we build the party into a stronger and more powerful party. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has promoted the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, starting from the formulation and implementation of the "Eight Regulations on Improving Work Style and Maintaining Close Ties with the Masses" by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. In response to the formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance that exist in some party members and cadres, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "We must grasp it with the vigor of stepping on the stone and grasping the traces of iron, start and finish well, do good work, prevent tigers, let the whole party and all the people supervise, and let the people continue to see tangible results and changes." "Through the implementation of the spirit of the eight provisions of the Central Committee, the party's style and political style have been renewed, and the social atmosphere has also been significantly improved. In recent years, more attention has been paid to rectifying formalism and bureaucracy in the construction of work style. As a result of these efforts, the number of meetings and documents of organs at all levels has been greatly reduced, the items for supervision, inspection, and assessment have been greatly reduced, and the burden on the grassroots units has been markedly reduced. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the party's work style has accumulated many successful experiences. First, focus on key points. The "four winds" are very harmful, and the masses of the people have the strongest reaction, so we must first focus on rectifying the "four winds." Second, leaders take the lead. The CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has set an example and taken the lead in setting an example, emphasizing that the comprehensive and strict governance of the party must start with leading cadres, especially senior cadres, and that what is required of others must first be done by themselves, and those who are asked to do not do it resolutely do not do it. Third, we should use specific regulations to grasp the problem. The content of the eight regulations of the Central Committee is simple and clear, and then the Party Central Committee also issued a series of internal party regulations, which clarify the boundaries of behavior for Party members and cadres, and provide a basis for discipline enforcement for discipline inspection and supervision organs. Fourth, the rules are no exception for anyone. Discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels have investigated and dealt with a number of party members and cadres who have violated the spirit of the eight central regulations, thus demonstrating to the whole party and the whole society the determination and attitude of the party Central Committee in grasping work style, and enabling the broad masses of party members and cadres to receive education. Unswervingly oppose corruption, and the masses of the people hate corruption the most, and corruption is the greatest threat facing our party. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has adhered to the principle of no forbidden areas, full coverage and zero tolerance in the fight against corruption, unswervingly "fighting tigers", "swatting flies" and "fox hunting", and insisting that there are no exceptions in the face of party discipline and state law. During the five years from the 18th to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, more than 440 party members and cadres at or above the provincial military level and other central management cadres were put on file for examination, including 43 members and alternate members of the 18th Central Committee, 9 members of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, more than 8,900 cadres at the department and bureau level, 63,000 cadres at the county and department level, and 278,000 party members and cadres at the grassroots level. Since the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a number of central management cadres have been investigated and punished. The anti-corruption struggle has won an overwhelming victory, winning high praise from the whole party, the people of the whole country, and even the international community. In the course of deepening the anti-corruption struggle, the reform of the discipline inspection and supervision system has also been deepened, supervision commissions at all levels have been established, discipline inspection and supervision groups have been stationed in an all-round way, the methods and results of inspections have been greatly improved, internal reforms have also been carried out within the discipline inspection and supervision organs, and great achievements have been made in the building of the supervision system of the party and the state. Cultivating loyal, clean and responsible high-quality cadres is the key to government, and not to precede employing people. "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of new ideas, new views and new requirements around the training and selection of good cadres needed by the party and the people. For example, "firm faith, service to the people, diligent and pragmatic, dare to take responsibility, honest and honest", "strict self-cultivation, strict use of power, strict self-discipline, practical work, entrepreneurship, and life", "there is the party in the heart, the people in the heart, the responsibility in the heart, and the precaution in the heart", "iron general faith, iron general belief, iron general discipline, iron general responsibility", "loyalty, cleanliness, responsibility", "both ability and political integrity, morality first, meritocracy", and so on. General Secretary Xi Jinping also clearly put forward the party's organizational line in the new era. On the issue of selecting and employing people, General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed to adhere to the correct orientation of employment, deepen the reform of the cadre and personnel system, solve the problem of "four only" (only votes, only points, only GDP, and only age), and strive to rectify the unhealthy trend in the selection and employment of people, and optimize the selection and employment environment. According to the new situation and new problems faced by the construction of the cadre team since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has formulated and promulgated a series of intra-party regulations to strengthen the responsibility of Party organizations at all levels in the selection and appointment of personnel. In order to prevent cadres from being "promoted while sick," the "four musts" are implemented, that is, cadre files "must be examined whenever they are raised," reports on relevant personal matters "must be checked whenever they are raised," opinions of discipline inspection and supervision organs "must be listened to whenever they are raised," and "all petition reports that reflect specific and verifiable clues on violations of rules and discipline must be investigated." The General Office of the CPC Central Committee also issued the "Opinions on Further Encouraging the Majority of Cadres to Take on New Responsibilities and New Actions in the New Era", which put forward a series of requirements from the aspects of strengthening ideological education, establishing a correct employment orientation, giving full play to the role of assessment and evaluation, establishing and improving the fault-tolerant and error-correcting mechanism, improving the ability and quality of cadres, enthusiastically caring for and caring for cadres, and gathering the joint force of innovation and entrepreneurship, so as to encourage cadres to take responsibility, which is of great significance for fully mobilizing and stimulating the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the cadre team. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core summed up the successful experience of the Party's ideological construction and the lessons of some Party members and cadres who violated discipline and law, and regarded strengthening ideals and beliefs and adhering to the spiritual pursuit of Communists as the foundation for Communists to live in peace. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Ideals and beliefs are the spiritual 'calcium' of communists, without ideals and beliefs, ideals and beliefs are not firm, the spirit will be 'calcium deficiency', and there will be 'hypochondriasis'", and it is necessary to "solve the problem of the 'general switch' of world outlook, outlook on life and values". If there is a problem with the main switch, there will be a problem with the shutdown. In recent years, education on ideals and beliefs has been integrated into all aspects of party life to strengthen and standardize within the party, and has been embodied in the study and education activities of party organizations at all levels. Comprehensively and strictly administering the party depends on education and, more importantly, on systems. In response to the problem that discipline and rules in the past were too lenient, too loose, and too soft, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "We should use the system to manage power, manage affairs and people", "put strict discipline and strict rules in an important position, and strive to create an atmosphere of discipline and rules in the whole party". In accordance with this requirement, the Central Committee has formulated and revised a number of intra-party regulations, including the "Guidelines for Integrity and Self-Discipline of the Communist Party of China" and the "Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment of the Communist Party of China." To comprehensively and strictly administer the party, it is necessary to strengthen supervision and restraint over the "key minority." General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Put power in the cage of the system, and form a punishment mechanism that does not dare to be corrupt, a prevention mechanism that cannot be corrupted, and a guarantee mechanism that is not perishable" "It is necessary to strengthen constraints, rationally decompose power, scientifically allocate power, and exercise power of different natures by different departments, units, and individuals, so as to form a scientific power structure and operation mechanism", "Strive to improve the supervision of the exercise of power by leading cadres, especially the number one", "Disclose the process of power operation in accordance with the law, let the cadres and the masses supervise in the open, and ensure the correct exercise of power." ”。 To administer the party strictly in an all-round way, we must do a good job in political construction, which is the fundamental building of the party. The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) included political construction in the overall layout of party building and put it in the first place, proposing to "comprehensively purify the political ecology within the party". The CPC Central Committee also issued the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee on Strengthening the Party's Political Construction", emphasizing that "political strengthening should be used to promote the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to develop in depth." Party organizations at all levels should resolutely implement the spirit of the Party Central Committee, put political construction in the first place, enhance the "four consciousnesses", strengthen the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards", so as to ensure that the whole party has a unified will, unified action, and moves forward in unison. [Xie Chuntao: Speaker of the Chang'an Street Reading Club, Deputy Director of the Central Party School (National Academy of Administration) in charge of daily work]
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