(Source: "Qiushi" 2024-03-28)
To govern the country, we must first govern the party. Only when the party thrives can the country be strong. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China issued a great call for unity and struggle to comprehensively build a modern socialist country and comprehensively promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The social revolution led by the party has embarked on a new journey. The party's self-revolution must show a new atmosphere, and comprehensive and strict governance of the party must have new understandings and new actions.
In the past 10 years, in the face of a series of prominent contradictions and problems within the party, the Party Central Committee has incorporated comprehensive and strict governance of the party into the "four comprehensives" strategic layout. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China profoundly summarized the historic achievements of ten years of comprehensive and strict governance of the party, and further required the entire party to remain clear-headed and determined to solve the unique problems unique to major parties. This is a new major proposition that our party has put forward based on its historical position, missions and tasks, and the complex environment it faces, deeply grasping the fundamental nature of the party and the development and changes of the party's conditions, and comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era and new journey.
Our party is the world’s largest political party established under the guidance of Marxist party-building theory and in accordance with the principle of democratic centralism. It has been in power for a long time in the world’s most populous country. It has a long history, a large number of people, and a large scale. It not only has huge advantages in doing great things and building great achievements, but also faces special difficulties in governing the party and the country. In my opinion, there are at least the following major problems that need further research and resolution.
On January 9, 2023, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivered an important speech at the second plenary session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China. Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Xueren/photo
——How to never forget your original intention and keep your mission in mind. The party's cause is great and arduous, with a long way to go. Some people forget why they set out as they go, forget the lofty ideals of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, forget who I am, who I am for, who I rely on, and thus lose the true nature of a communist. We must stick to our original aspirations when we laid the foundation and start our business, adhere to the Party’s ideals, beliefs and purposes, always seek happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, always maintain the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the people, and always maintain the Party’s advanced nature and purity.
——How to always unify thoughts, will and actions. As the party grows larger, it is easy for some people to form small groups, cliques, and gangs, and to go their own way, which undermines the party's unity and unity and affects the party's cohesion and combat effectiveness. With the gradual deepening of reform and opening up, the diversification of social interests and diversification of ideas have also profoundly affected the concepts and behaviors of party members and cadres. We must always think in one place and work hard in the face of major issues and severe situations, be united and united, and ensure that the entire party is closely united around the Party Central Committee and moves forward in unison.
——How to always have strong governing ability and leadership level. A century-old party has been in power for a long time, and ideological inertia and behavioral inertia exist objectively. Some old ideas, old routines, and old methods are easy to be adopted and become habits. The continuous development and growth of the team has also brought about the coexistence of good and bad cadres and uneven distribution. We must keep pace with the times and improve the level of scientific governance, democratic governance, and governance in accordance with the law, overcome the lack of ability and fear of incompetence among the cadres, ensure that we can adapt to the requirements of the new era, have the ability to lead modernization, and be politically strong and capable to shoulder the important task of national rejuvenation.
From February 1 to 2, 2024, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, came to Tianjin to visit and express condolences to grassroots cadres and the masses. This was the afternoon of the 1st when Xi Jinping was inspecting Tianjin Ancient Culture Street and interacting with store employees and people on site. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Huanchi/photo
——How to always maintain an entrepreneurial spirit. After decades of long-lasting peace in power, many party members and cadres have not experienced the test of life and death, and lack the tempering of severe struggles and difficult environments. They are prone to pursue comfort and enjoyment and become depressed and unwilling to make progress. They are easily confused and confused in the face of the great struggle with many new historical characteristics. We must always maintain the spirit of hard work and hard work, be brave enough to fight, be good at fighting, and be brave enough to take on our responsibilities. We must make every effort to overcome various difficulties and challenges on the way forward, and rely on tenacious struggle to continuously open up new horizons for career development.
——How to always discover and solve your own problems in time. A fortress is most easily breached from within, and the only one who can defeat us is ourselves. As a party as big as ours, with a glorious history and great achievements, it is easy for some people to ignore their own shortcomings and problems under the aura of their governance achievements, and fall into a situation where "it is easy to revolutionize other people's lives, but it is difficult to revolutionize one's own life." We must adhere to the truth, correct mistakes, always follow the trend and conform to the people's will, carry forward experience and draw lessons, and always be at the forefront of the times and move in the right direction in the historical process of profound changes in the world situation.
——How to always maintain a clean and upright political ecology. For a long time, there have been various factors that weaken the Party's advanced nature and damage the Party's purity. Various viruses that erode the Party's physical health are everywhere. If we do not take strict precautions and frequently clean up the political dust, it will be difficult to recover over time. We must always have a sense of worry and bottom-line thinking, and always maintain a firm consciousness of turning the blade inward. We must replenish calcium and strengthen bones, detoxify and sterilize, remove diseases and injuries, remove putrefaction and regenerate muscle, cultivate a positive and healthy intra-party political culture, continue to purify the intra-party political ecology, and gather strong positive energy to stir up turbidity and lift cleanliness, so that the party will never deteriorate, change color, or taste.
Solving the above problems well is a hurdle that must be overcome to realize the mission and tasks of the party in the new era and new journey. It is also a hard nut that must be overcome to comprehensively and strictly govern the party to adapt to the new situation and new requirements. Faced with the lofty mission of comprehensively building a modern and powerful socialist country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, faced with the major challenges of turbulent and even stormy seas on the road ahead, and faced with the long-standing "four major tests" and "four dangers", solving the unique problems of the big party must be a long and arduous process. This determines that comprehensive and strict governance of the party is always on the road, and the party's self-revolution is always on the road. We must stand at the height of the long-term governance of the Party, the long-term stability of the country, and the happiness and well-being of the people, and regard the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party as the Party's long-term strategy and eternal task. We must avoid erroneous expectations of changing the direction of the wind and lowering the tone, always adhere to the problem orientation, maintain strategic focus, carry forward the thorough self-revolutionary spirit, always blow the charge, adhere to the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere for a long time, and carry out the party's great self-revolution to the end.
On the new journey, to comprehensively and strictly govern the party must better play the role of political guidance and political guarantee, and better promote the development of the party and the country. We must promote the whole party to keep in mind the "three musts" and practice the party's purpose as the fundamental direction, and strictly integrate strict management and supervision with encouragement and responsibility, so as to forge stronger leadership and gather a wider range of struggle forces. The purpose of comprehensively and strictly administering the Party is not to control people to death, make them hesitant and timid, and turn them into a stagnant pool of life and inaction. Rather, it is to create a positive, healthy political ecology and good environment for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship through clear direction, establishment of rules, positive atmosphere, and strong immunity. It is necessary to constantly explore and improve effective measures to comprehensively and strictly govern the party, adhere to the "three distinctions", adhere to the combination of strict management and loving-kindness, and equal emphasis on incentives and constraints, so as to better stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the majority of party members and cadres, and create a strong atmosphere and vivid situation of forging ahead on a new journey and making achievements in a new era.
※This is part of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s speech at the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on January 9, 2023.
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