At around 6 pm today (November 2), Xinhua News Agency was authorized to broadcast Xi Jinping’s explanations on "Several Guidelines on Political Life in the Party under the New Situation" and "Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China." Zheng knows (WeChat ID: bqzhengzhiju) roughly counted, the full text is about 8,000 words. Now the excerpt is as follows for readers to study.
In February of this year, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee decided that the Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Party will study the issue of comprehensive and strict governance of the party, formulate several guidelines for political life within the party under the new situation, and amend the "Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China (Trial)" "Established a document drafting team, with me as the team leader, and comrades Liu Yunshan and Wang Qishan as the deputy team leaders. Relevant departments and local responsible comrades participated in the work under the leadership of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee.
1. Some considerations on drafting the document
In carrying out the party’s mass line education practice activities and the "Three Strict and Three Reality" special education, many comrades suggested that in light of the new situation, formulate a strategy to strengthen and standardize political life within the party document.
On January 12, 2014, in my instructions to Comrades Liu Yunshan and Wang Qishan, I pointed out that:
"The Guidelines on Political Life within the Party" formulated in 1980 were important for the restoration and improvement of inner-party democracy and the maintenance of party concentration. Unification and strictness of party discipline, promotion of party unity, realization of political, ideological, organizational, and work style corrections, and the transfer of the center of the party’s work have played an important historical role. At present, the "Guidelines" are serious to us. Regulating the political life within the party and promoting the fine traditions and style of the party still have important practical guiding significance."
"Over the past 30 years, the situation, tasks and conditions within the party have undergone great changes, and party building has accumulated a lot of new achievements and experience. We are faced with many new situations and new problems. Please consider whether it is an appropriate time for the central government to make a decision on strengthening and standardizing political life within the party under the new situation and put forward new requirements." For some time, we have been focusing on formulating guidelines and revising regulations. A lot of work has been done by relevant parties. In 2014, a working group involving comrades from relevant parties conducted investigations and studies on strengthening political life within the party, and formed preliminary results. In accordance with the requirements of the 5th and 6th Plenary Sessions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on improving the inner-party supervision system, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection held 7 special meetings to study the revision of the inner-party supervision regulations.
These preliminary studies have produced some important results. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee made a comprehensive analysis and decided to use a central plenary session to study this issue. There are mainly the following considerations.
First, this is the need to improve the "four comprehensive" strategic layout.
Second, this is the need to deepen the comprehensive and strict governance of the party.
Third, this is the need to resolve prominent contradictions and problems within the party.
In long-term practice, the political life in the party is generally good. However, some outstanding contradictions and problems that need to be resolved have also emerged over the years, mainly:
Among some party members, cadres, including senior cadres, ideals and beliefs are not Resoluteness, disloyalty to the party, loose discipline, separation from the masses, arbitrariness, deception, laziness, individualism, decentralism, liberalism, philanthropism, sectarianism, hilltopism, money worship in varying degrees, formalism, bureaucracy The problems of hedonism and extravagance are prominent. The phenomenon of cronyism, running officials, buying and selling officials, and canvassing elections has been repeatedly banned. The abuse of power, corruption, corruption, corruption, and violation of law and discipline have spread. In particular, a very small number of high-ranking cadres have expanded political ambitions and desires for power to engage in political conspiracy activities such as violations of positivity, party formation, gangs, formation of cliques, and gaining power. These problems have seriously eroded the party’s ideological and moral foundation, severely undermined the party’s unity and centralization, severely damaged the political ecology and the party’s image within the party, and seriously affected the development of the party and the people.
The serious violations of discipline and law by Zhou Yongkang, Bo Xilai, Guo Boxiong, Xu Caihou, Ling Jihua, etc. not only revealed that they had serious economic problems, but also revealed that they also had serious political problems, and the lessons were very profound. This makes us realize that in order to solve some prominent contradictions and problems in the party, we must put the party's ideological and political construction in the first place and create a clean and upright political ecology.
2. Regarding the drafting process of the document
On March 1 this year, the Party Central Committee issued the "The Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of ChinaTo study strengthening and standardizing the issues of political life within the party, and to revise the "Regulations on the Inner-Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China (Trial)" Notice for Soliciting Opinions. The document drafting group held its first plenary meeting, and the document drafting work was officially launched.
This time to solicit opinions. From the feedback, all regions and departments believe that the Party Central Committee decided to study the issue of strict governance of the Party in an all-round way and formulate and revise relevant documents, which fully reflects the Party Central Committee Unswervingly promote the strong determination and historical responsibility of administering the party strictly in an all-round way, which reflects the common aspirations of the whole party, and is very important for solving outstanding contradictions and problems in the party and ensuring that the party will always become the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Significance.
Everyone put forward many good opinions and suggestions on strengthening and regulating the political life within the party and strengthening supervision within the party under the new situation. During the drafting process, the document drafting team fully considered and conscientiously absorbed everyone's opinions and suggestions.
In 8 months, the document drafting team carried out special investigations, solicited opinions and suggestions extensively, and discussed and revised repeatedly. During the period, the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held 3 meetings and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee held 2 meetings to review the draft documents. At the beginning of August, the draft of the document was issued to a certain range of opinions within the party, including the opinions of some old comrades in the party, and also specially listened to the opinions of the central committee of the democratic parties, the heads of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and people without party affiliation.
During this consultation process, various regions and departments put forward many good opinions and suggestions in the face of the two draft documents. According to statistics, a total of 1,955 amendments were put forward. After deducting repeated opinions, the number is 1,582, which are principled. There were 354 opinions and 1,228 specific opinions. The Party Central Committee instructed the document drafting team to carefully sort out and study these opinions and suggestions. The document drafting team made important revisions to the two document drafts.
3. About the principles and basic framework of document drafting
In the process of document drafting, the document drafting team focused on the following principles.
One is to inherit and carry forward the party’s fine traditions and valuable experience, and strive to implement the new ideas, new ideas, and strategies put forward by the Party Central Committee since the 18th National Congress of the Party, reflecting the new experience and new measures of the Party Central Committee to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, and combine New practice puts forward new viewpoints and new measures, reflecting the characteristics of the times and innovation.
The second is to adhere to the party constitution as the fundamental basis, highlight the respect for the party constitution, implement the party constitution, and maintain the party constitution, and strive to specify the party constitution's requirements for inner-party political life and inner-party supervision. Systematization of relevant regulations and requirements on inner-party political life and inner-party supervision in documents and inner-party laws and regulations to promote the institutionalization, standardization and proceduralization of inner-party political life and inner-party supervision.
The third is to adhere to the problem orientation, focus on the weak links in the party’s political life and party supervision, focus on building a system around theory, ideology, and systems, and design systems around power, responsibility, and responsibility, and promote the resolution of vulgarization and randomness in party political life Problems such as incompleteness, insufficiency of internal party supervision system, inadequate coverage, unclear responsibilities, and ineffective implementation.
Fourth is to adhere to overall coordination, strengthen top-level design and system planning, and focus on handling the relationship between new standards, new regulations and old standards, old regulations and other party regulations, so as to be consistent and keep pace with the times. Adhere to the unity of necessity and feasibility, not only make political requirements for strengthening and standardizing inner-party political life and strengthening inner-party supervision, but also put forward practical and feasible measures and methods in response to problems, and do not cover everything. The
regulations do not authorize the central ministries and local party committees to formulate implementation rules, reflecting that the whole party must implement them as a whole to prevent flexibility and discounts.
Four. Two issues that need to be highlighted
First, the relationship between the draft of the new standard and the 1980 standard. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, our party summed up the positive and negative experiences of inner-party political life, especially the painful lessons of the "Cultural Revolution", and formulated "Several Guidelines on Inner-Party Political Life" in 1980.
The 1980 guidelines not only put forward solutions to the prominent contradictions and problems existing in the party at that time, but also summarized the party’s valuable experience gained in long-term practice. It is a rich development of Marxist party building theory and is of groundbreaking significance. , Its main principles and regulations still apply today. For example, regarding the goals and basic principles of political life within the party, regarding adhering to the party’s political and ideological line, regarding adhering to collective leadership and opposing individual arbitrariness, and regarding maintaining the party’s unity and strictnessAbiding by the party’s discipline, about adhering to party spirit, about speaking the truth and consistent words and deeds, about promoting inner-party democracy and treating different opinions correctly, about protecting party members’ rights from being violated, about accepting supervision by the party and the masses, and not allowing privileges, and many more. These must continue to persist. Why does
develop a new standard?
The Party Central Committee’s consideration is that although the 1980 guidelines still have important guiding significance, because the guidelines are aimed at historical conditions and major contradictions at that time, some prominent contradictions and problems that have emerged in the party have not yet been encountered at that time. Some of the more prominent contradictions and problems are now gone. The Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the revised party constitution, as well as the Third, Fourth and Fifth Plenary Sessions of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Party, have made clear provisions on serious issues related to political life within the party under the new situation, but they are more principled and need to be specific. Since the reform and opening up, especially in recent years, a series of internal party regulations and normative documents have been formulated, many of which involve the regulation of internal party political life, but they are relatively scattered and need to be systematic.
We formulate and promulgate new guidelines, not to replace the 1980 guidelines, but to make new regulations in response to new situations and new issues on the basis of adhering to its main principles and regulations. In this spirit, during the drafting of the document, we reiterated the main principles and provisions of the 1980 Guidelines. The old and new norms are interrelated and come down in one continuous line, which must be followed in the political life of the party at present and in the future.
Second, it is about focusing on senior cadres. Both the draft guidelines and the draft regulations emphasize the focus on senior cadres. The main consideration is that to strengthen party building, we must grasp leading cadres, especially senior cadres, and grasp the members of the Central Committee, the Central Political Bureau, and the Standing Committee of the Central Political Bureau. . If this group of people is well grasped and can set an example in the whole party, many things will be easier to handle. Therefore, to strengthen and standardize the political life within the party and strengthen the supervision within the party, we must first start with these people. Based on this consideration, we focused on highlighting senior cadres in the process of drafting the two documents. The draft regulations of
also put forward special requirements on the central level. For example, there is a separate chapter dedicated to the supervision of the party’s central organization, emphasizing that members of the Central Committee must strictly abide by the party’s political discipline and rules. It should be found that other members violate the party constitution, undermine the party’s discipline, and endanger the party’s unity and unity. Resolutely resist and report to the Party Central Committee in time; the Politburo of the Central Committee holds an annual democratic life meeting to conduct comparative inspections and party spirit analysis to study measures to strengthen self-construction; members of the Politburo of the Central Committee should strictly implement the eight central regulations and consciously participate in a dual organization life meeting , Truthfully report important personal matters to the Party Central Committee, take the lead in establishing a good family tradition, and strengthen the education and restraint of relatives and staff around; for the opinions of the members of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, the real names should be submitted to the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee in writing or other forms Committee or the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, etc. The draft of the
guidelines finally proposes to formulate the implementation opinions of senior cadres to implement the guidelines, and guide and supervise senior cadres to set an example for the whole party in observing and implementing the rules of political life within the party. This work is ongoing.
During the process of soliciting opinions, some localities and units suggested that the draft guidelines should be made into a way like regulations. We consider that the standards are relatively high in the party’s legal system, second only to the party constitution. The guidelines formulated this time are an ideological, political, and comprehensive document. It is necessary to summarize the valuable experience and basic norms that our party has formed in carrying out inner-party political life for a long time, and clarify the party’s policy of carrying out serious inner-party political life. There are many issues in the principles and positions of political life that need to be reasonable. To do this, it is difficult to accommodate the regulations. As for some specific regulations involved, some relevant regulations within the party have been clarified, and some need to be further implemented in the formulation of other relevant regulations in the future. The current draft guidelines are consistent with the style of the 1980 guidelines.
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