Providing a strong guarantee for continuously advancing the new great project of Party building in the new era - A review of the achievements of the Party building system reform since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee
Beijing, July 1 (Xinhua) -- To provide strong guarantees for the continuous advancement of the great new project of Party building in the new era -- a review of the achievements of the Party building system reform since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee
Entering the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping has led the entire Party to advance comprehensive and strict governance of the Party with unprecedented determination and strength, and creatively put forward a series of original and landmark new concepts, new ideas and new strategies, forming General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on Party building and General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on the Party’s self-revolution, leading the entire Party to find the "second answer" to break out of the historical cycle of governance, chaos, prosperity and decline, and guiding the century-old Party to open up a new realm of self-revolution.
Improve the party's leadership system, improve the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the party, strengthen constraints and supervision on the exercise of power... Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the reform of the party's construction system has been deepened, the systematic, creative and effective comprehensive and strict governance of the party has been continuously improved, the party's appearance has been completely renewed, and a good political ecology with clear and upright atmosphere has become the norm, providing a strong political guarantee for the party and the country to achieve historic achievements and historic changes.
The Party's leadership system is increasingly improving, ensuring that the Party always takes overall control and coordinates all parties
On June 27, 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee to study the issues of further comprehensively deepening reform and promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Among the principles that should be implemented in further comprehensively deepening reform proposed at the meeting, the first is "upholding the party's overall leadership, firmly safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, giving full play to the party's leading core role in taking overall charge of the situation and coordinating all parties, and integrating the party's leadership throughout all aspects and the entire process of reform to ensure that reform always moves forward in the correct political direction", which fully demonstrates the key role of the party's leadership in comprehensively deepening reform.
On January 4, 2024, at Zhongnanhai in Beijing, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and spent a whole day listening to the work reports of the Party Leadership Groups of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Supreme People's Court, and the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the work report of the Central Secretariat.
In recent years, the CPC Central Committee has listened to the work reports of the "five major teams" and the work report of the Central Secretariat every year. This has become an important institutional arrangement to strengthen and maintain the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee.
In the national system and national governance system, the Party is the key to the operation of the entire system. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly that we must adhere to the leadership of the Party and consciously implement the fundamental requirements of the Party to take overall charge and coordinate all parties in advancing the construction of various systems, promoting the development of various undertakings, and strengthening and improving various aspects of work.
Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core has placed upholding and strengthening the Party's leadership in a prominent position in comprehensively deepening reform, and has made a series of important decisions and arrangements. The construction of the Party's leadership system has continuously made new breakthroughs:
The Party has clearly stated that "the Party leads everything, including the Party, government, military, people, and schools, from east to west, north to south, and from center to center", and has included the leadership of the Communist Party of China, "the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics", in the Party Constitution and the Constitution;
Laying a solid foundation, deepening the reform of the Party and state institutions, focusing on further institutionalizing the Party's position and role as the highest political leadership force, adjusting, reorganizing and optimizing dozens of departments, and achieving a systematic and holistic reconstruction of the Party and state organizational structure and management system;
We will establish the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, the Central National Security Committee, the Central Cybersecurity and Informatization Committee, the Central Finance and Economics Committee, the Central Committee for Comprehensively Promoting the Rule of Law, etc., to strengthen the functions and roles of the Party Central Committee's decision-making, deliberative and coordinating bodies;
Establish rules and regulations, and issue internal party regulations such as "Several Provisions of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Strengthening and Maintaining the Centralized and Unified Leadership of the CPC Central Committee" and "Regulations on Reporting and Requesting Instructions on Major Matters of the Communist Party of China", so that the overall leadership of the Party is more institutionalized and standardized;
Integrate the Party's leadership into the entire process and all aspects of ideological work, state-owned enterprise governance, university leadership system, mass organization construction, etc.
Through the implementation of a series of creative measures, the party's leadership system, which extends horizontally and vertically, has become more mature and established.
On the afternoon of October 31, 2019, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was successfully concluded in the Great Hall of the People.
Anchored on the overall goal of comprehensively deepening reform, the plenary session adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning Upholding and Improving the System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and Modernizing the National Governance System and Governance Capacity", which clearly defined the party's leadership system as the fundamental leadership system of our country, grasping the key and fundamentals of national governance.
In June 2023, the National Organization Work Conference was held in Beijing. The conference clearly put forward General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on party building, and systematically summarized and summarized them with the "Thirteen Persistences".
Among the “thirteen insistences”, the first one is “upholding and strengthening the party’s overall leadership”, which fully demonstrates the key role and important significance of the party’s leadership.
By giving full play to the core leadership role of taking overall charge of the situation and coordinating all parties, a stronger and more powerful Party is leading the Chinese "Rejuvenation" ship to cut through the waves and move forward courageously.
The system of comprehensive and strict party governance has been continuously improved, and the party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement have been comprehensively promoted.
In January 2024, the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was held at the Beijing West Hotel in Beijing. The plenary session profoundly expounded General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on the party’s self-revolution.
At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly put forward the practical requirements of "nine withs" for deepening the party's self-revolution, one of which is "to improve the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the party as an effective way."
Improving the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is a major measure proposed in the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to strengthen the great project of Party building in the new era.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, we have taken comprehensive and strict governance of the Party as the distinctive theme of Party building in the new era, put forward a series of innovative concepts, implemented a series of reform practices, and improved a series of institutional norms, promoting the continuous deepening and development of this great project of Party building and initially building a system of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party.
Institutional construction is particularly important to improve the comprehensive and strict party governance system. The party discipline study and education currently being carried out throughout the party focuses on the newly revised "Regulations on Disciplinary Actions of the Communist Party of China".
Strictly enforce political discipline and rules, continuously exert efforts on full chain, full cycle and full coverage, encourage and guide Party members and cadres to take responsibility and act, and promote the integration of discipline enforcement and law enforcement... As the basic Party regulations to regulate the behavior of Party organizations and Party members, the revision of the Party Disciplinary Punishment Regulations further tightens the "fence" of the system and sends a strong signal that discipline will be enforced more strictly in the future.
Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is always on the road, and the reform of the Party building system is ongoing.
From the Regulations on Disciplinary Punishments and Accountability, to the Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party under the New Situation, the Regulations on Intra-Party Supervision, and then to the first "Regulations on the Work of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of China", a series of basic and key intra-party regulations have been formulated and revised to form a relatively complete system of intra-party regulations. The prevention mechanism and preventive effect of "incorruptibility" have been fully demonstrated, and institutional governance of the Party in the new era has entered the "fast lane".
The strength of the Party comes from its organization. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out profoundly that the Party’s overall leadership and all its work must be achieved through the Party’s strong organizational system.
We will continue to improve the organizational system, ensure that the Party organizations at all levels are connected and effective, and ensure that the Party’s leadership is “like the body using the arm, like the arm using the finger”;
Always adhere to the clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, effectively achieve full coverage of party organizations and work, and enable grassroots party organizations to better play a leading role in implementing the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee;
We will strive to build a high-quality cadre team that is loyal, clean and responsible, put political standards first, keep a close eye on the "critical few", and ensure that the cadres we select are politically stable, reliable and trustworthy;
Adhere to the combination of strict management and kindness, and pay equal attention to incentives and constraints, create a positive and healthy political ecology and a good environment for doing things and starting businesses, and better stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative and creativity of the majority of party members and cadres;
The Party's mass line education and practice activities, the "Three Stricts and Three Realities" special education, the "Two Studies and One Action" learning education, the "Don't Forget the Original Heart, Keep the Mission in Mind" theme education, the party history learning education, the learning and implementation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era theme education, the party discipline learning education... The continued concentrated education and regular education within the party have strengthened the majority of party members and cadres;
Build a strong institutional "dike", strengthen organizational guarantees, build a solid ideological foundation... The party's self-revolution is linked together and progresses step by step under the impetus of comprehensively deepening reform, constantly realizing the party's self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation, and self-improvement in the process of reforming the old and establishing the new, and adhering to the right path and making innovations.
The system of constraints and supervision on the exercise of power has been continuously strengthened, and the supervision system with unified leadership of the Party, comprehensive coverage, authority and efficiency has been increasingly improved.
On November 30, 2023, the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission released a message: As of mid-November, the first-time determination of the grades of municipal and county-level supervisors in 31 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps has been completed.
The completion of this work marks the successful completion of the first determination of national supervisory officer grades, which has been underway since 2022, and marks an important step in the reform of the national supervisory system.
From the adoption of the constitutional amendment at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress, which established the constitutional status of the Supervisory Commission, to the adoption and implementation of the basic law in my country's anti-corruption field, the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China", to the establishment of the National Supervisory Commission of the People's Republic of China, the establishment of the four-level supervisory commissions at the national, provincial, municipal and county levels, to the formulation and promulgation of laws and regulations such as the Supervisory Law and the Regulations for the Implementation of the Supervision Law...
Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the reform of the national supervisory system has been deepened, the full coverage and effectiveness of supervision over public power and public officials have been significantly enhanced, and the institutional advantages formed by the reform are gradually being transformed into governance effectiveness.
Supervision plays an important role in managing the Party and the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the biggest challenge facing our Party in its comprehensive leadership and long-term governance is supervision over power.
The reform of the disciplinary inspection system is used to break the deadlock and provide overall guidance; the reform of the national supervision system is used to create breakthroughs and improve efficiency; the reform of the disciplinary inspection and supervision institutions is used to provide supporting guarantees and promote them in a coordinated manner... Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the "three reforms" of discipline inspection and supervision have been organically integrated and promoted as a whole, the Party's centralized and unified leadership over anti-corruption work has been comprehensively strengthened, and the "four pillars and eight columns" of the system and mechanism have been basically established, providing strong support for strengthening supervision and restriction of power.
On August 30, 2017, the 18th Central Inspection Team came to a successful conclusion, marking the first time in the Party’s history that full coverage of central inspections was achieved within one term of office.
Full coverage reflects a tough attitude and the wisdom of institutional governance of the Party. At the end of each round of inspections, General Secretary Xi Jinping reviews the inspection reports in detail, makes judgments on the problems found during the inspections, and promotes the continuous deepening of the inspection work.
From the 18th Central Inspection Team exploring special inspections and piloting "mobile" inspections; to the 19th Central Inspection Team keeping a close eye on the "top leaders" and the key few, and on prominent issues that the people have strongly reflected; to the 20th Central Inspection Team setting out again, the first round of inspections coordinated the arrangements for regular inspections, mobile inspections and "looking back" to work in the same direction, "three arrows fired at the same time", and the deterrent and penetration power of the inspection work has been continuously enhanced.
At the same time, we will continue to strengthen the rectification and application of inspection results, improve the rectification work mechanism, promote the Party Committee to fulfill its main responsibility for rectification, combine the rectification of inspections with the implementation of the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Party and the promotion of reform and development, and enhance the effectiveness of promoting reform, construction and governance through inspections...
Data shows that in 2023, a total of 231,000 party organizations were inspected at the provincial, municipal and county levels, and 182 central units conducted internal inspections of 27,000 party organizations, and the coordination between inspections and inspections at all levels was further deepened.
From strengthening the coordination of disciplinary supervision, supervisory supervision, dispatched supervision, and inspection supervision, to implementing specialized supervision and integrating various types of supervision under the leadership of intra-party supervision;
From promoting the concretization, proceduralization and institutionalization of the dual leadership system of discipline inspection and supervision work, strengthening the leadership of the higher-level discipline inspection and supervision commissions over the lower-level ones, to continuously deepening the reform of the dispatched agencies, and strengthening the direct leadership and unified management of the dispatched agencies over the dispatched agencies;
From improving the coordinated supervision of "groups" and "office-group" joint supervision, and the joint case-handling mechanism of "office-group-local" to perfecting the system integration, coordinated and efficient working mechanism, we will build a system of laws and regulations for discipline inspection and supervision;
Since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the reform of the supervision system has continued to deepen, the seriousness and authority of the system have been significantly enhanced, a long-term mechanism for relying on the system to manage power, affairs and people has been further formed, and various supervisions have become more standardized, more powerful and more effective.
"Persist in governing the Party with the spirit of reform"——
The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting recently and put forward new requirements for strengthening party building on the new journey.
Whether it is political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, style construction, system construction, discipline construction, or continuing to advance the anti-corruption struggle, we must clearly run the spirit of reform throughout, and constantly improve the level of institutionalization, standardization, and scientificization, so that all aspects of comprehensive and strict party governance can better reflect the times, grasp the laws, and be creative, and promote the party's institutional advantages to be better transformed into actual effectiveness in governing the country.
Create a new situation in the great social revolution and strengthen the physique through the great self-revolution.
Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, the reform of the party building system has been active, steady, solid and in-depth, constantly enhancing the party's creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness, and providing a strong political guarantee for comprehensively deepening reform and advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
