Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress of the Party has been successfully completed, and the list of elected representatives has also been announced in the news media. Recently, the head of the Central Organization Department of was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency reporters on the relevant situation of the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress.
Question: First of all, please introduce the overall situation of the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress.
Answer: In accordance with the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress of the Party has been launched in November 2021 and has been completed in July this year. 38 election units across the country held party congresses or party representative meetings, and elected 2,296 representatives attending the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
The Party Central Committee attaches great importance to the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress. General Secretary Xi Jinping personally planned and deployed, presided over the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee for special research, and reviewed and passed the "Notice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Election of Representatives of the 20th National Congress of the Party", which clarified the overall requirements and policy provisions of representative election work. During the representative election, General Secretary Xi Jinping listened to reports many times and made important instructions, and put forward clear requirements on strengthening the Party’s leadership, strictly controlling political and integrity, further optimizing the representative structure, and strictly enforcing discipline. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions and the deployment requirements of the Party Central Committee have pointed out the direction and provided fundamental guidance for the representative election work.
With the approval of the Party Central Committee, the Central Organization Department held a special meeting to make specific arrangements for the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress. All election units adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, adhere to the fundamental guidelines of the Party, adhere to the nature and purpose of the Party, integrate the strengthening of the Party's leadership into the entire process of representative election work, fully carry forward the Party's democracy, strictly implement the qualification conditions, strictly conduct the process of generating procedures, strictly enforce election discipline, formulate implementation plans in light of actual conditions, and do a solid job in all work; the vast majority of grassroots party organizations and party members pay enthusiastically and actively participate, correctly exercise democratic rights, and fully express their wishes. The elected representative generally meets the conditions stipulated by the Party Central Committee, has high ideological and political qualities, good work style and strong deliberation ability, and has made obvious achievements in their respective positions, and is an outstanding member of the Communist Party members. The election of representatives of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was successfully completed, laying an important foundation for the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Question: What are the main characteristics of the composition and distribution of the top 20 representatives?
Answer: The Party Central Committee has put forward clear requirements for the composition of representatives of the 20th National Congress. During the representative election process, each election unit focuses on achieving the proportion of representative structure, especially ensuring the proportion of party members on the front line of production and work, and takes comprehensive considerations and multiple measures to ensure that the representative structure is reasonable and widely distributed. Judging from the elected representatives, the representative structure and distribution are relatively reasonable, and the proportions of each composition meet the requirements of the Party Central Committee and are widely representative. The main features are:
First, the proportion of party members on the front line of production and work is guaranteed. Among the elected representatives, there are 771 party members on the front line of production and work, accounting for 33.6%. Among them, there were 192 working party members (26 migrant workers), accounting for 8.4%; there were 85 peasant party members, accounting for 3.7%; and there were 266 professional and technical personnel, accounting for 11.6%.
Second, the number of female party members has increased, and the proportion of ethnic minority party members remains stable. Among the elected representatives, there were 619 female party members, an increase of 68 from , 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, accounting for 27.0%, an increase of 2.8 percentage points; there were 264 ethnic minority party members, accounting for 11.5%, covering 40 ethnic minorities. Among the 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, the proportion of female party member representatives is higher than the proportion of female party members in the total number of party members in the region, and there are a certain number of representatives of ethnic minority party members.
third represents a wide distribution. The elected representative comes from all aspects. All areas such as economy, science and technology, national defense, politics and law, education, publicity, culture, health, sports and social management, provinces, cities, counties, townships (streets), villages (communities), and all aspects such as government agencies, enterprises and institutions, and people's organizations.
Fourth represents a reasonable age structure. The average age of elected representatives is 52.2 years old. Among them, 1,371 were under the age of 55, accounting for 59.7%; 434 were under the age of 45, accounting for 18.9%.
5 represents a high level of education. Among the elected representatives, 2,191 students with college degree or above accounted for 95.4%, an increase of 1.2 percentage points from the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Among them, 826 had a university degree, accounting for 36.0%; 1,210 had a postgraduate degree, accounting for 52.7%.
6 is representative of those who join the party at all times. Among the elected representatives, there are those who joined the Party during the New Democratic Revolution, those who joined the Party during the Construction period, those who joined the Party during the New Democratic Revolution, and those who joined the Party since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. Among them, 2,224 people joined the Party after the reform and opening up, accounting for 96.9%, becoming the main body of the representatives of the 20th National Congress.
The above characteristics fully demonstrate that our party has a solid class foundation and a broad mass foundation, and has the vigorous vitality and vitality that is passed down from generation to generation.
Question: The Communist Party of China has more than 96 million party members. How were the representatives of the 20th National Congress elected from so many party members?
Answer: The representatives of the 20th National Congress were elected strictly in accordance with the procedures and steps stipulated by the Party Central Committee. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the "Notice" to clarify the main links in the emergence of representatives. The Central Organization Department compiled the "Flowchart for the Election of Representatives of the 20th National Congress of the Party". All election units adhered to the unity of the Party's leadership and the promotion of democracy, and adopted the bottom-up, combined upper-down, repeated deliberations, and selection step by step to produce representatives of the 20th National Congress. Specifically, there are mainly the following aspects:
First, carefully organize recommendation and nominations. The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China allocated the quota of representatives to each election unit. Each election unit combined the requirements of the Party Central Committee with the actual situation of local units and adopted appropriate methods to recommend and nominate. Some recommended and nominated according to the proportion of allocated quotas and allocated quotas step by step, some recommended and nominated according to the allocated quotas, and some combined the two methods to recommend and nominated. Party organizations at all levels adhere to the mass line, conduct in-depth publicity and extensive mobilization, and organize grassroots party organizations and party members to actively participate in recommendation and nomination.
The second is to strictly organize the inspection. Each election unit shall conduct comprehensive and in-depth investigations in accordance with the conditions that the representatives should meet, understand the situation through multiple channels, levels and aspects, carefully analyze and judge, and make the candidates' admission examination realistic. Each election unit forms an inspection team, goes deep into rural areas, communities, enterprises, organs and other units, and fully listens to the opinions of the majority of party members, the masses and representatives of the Party Congress, especially the opinions of insiders such as the departments in charge, contact service objects, and people around them.
The third is to select the best one step at a time. Starting from grassroots party organizations, to recommended unit party organizations, and then to electing unit party organizations, the representative candidates are selected at each level. Based on the opinions of most party branches and party members, the grassroots party committees collectively study and select candidates for recommendation. The recommendation unit convenes a plenary meeting of the Party Committee to discuss and decide on the recommended candidates. The election unit convenes a meeting of the Party Committee Standing Committee (working committee meeting, party group meeting) and a plenary meeting of the Party Committee, and collectively study and determines the preliminary and preliminary candidates for representative candidates. Some election units determine the recommended candidates, preliminary candidates, and reserve candidates to achieve the best selection.
Fourth, organize meetings and elections carefully. Carefully prepare for the party congress or party congress and formulate scientific and reasonable election methods. Before the election, we should carefully explain the list of candidates, explain clearly the spirit of the Party Central Committee, representative conditions, structural requirements and the process of candidate generation, improve the way of introducing candidates, organize good discussions, guide representatives to exercise their democratic rights correctly, and achieve the organic unity of promoting democracy and implementing organizational intentions, ensuring the standardized, orderly and successful elections.
It should be noted that the elected representatives announced this time will be subject to qualification review by the Qualification Review Committee of the Twenty Congress before the 20th Congress is held. Representatives who confirm valid qualifications will attend the 20th Congress. According to convention, the Party Central Committee also determined that some old party members who have withdrawn from their leadership positions will attend the conference as special representatives.
Question: The representatives of the 20th National Congress should be outstanding members of the Communist Party. How do we ensure quality in the representative election?
Answer: In order to ensure the quality of representatives, select representatives of the 20th National Congress who meet the requirements of the Party Central Committee, all election units will give full play to the leadership and control role of the Party organization, insist on putting political standards first, keeping the bottom line of integrity firm, review and strictly identify them at all levels, and truly select outstanding party members with firm beliefs, strong politics, excellent work style, and honesty as representatives of the 20th National Congress.
First, strict qualification conditions. Highlight the requirements of advanced nature, strictly recommend and nominate six aspects, including ideology, politics, ability, style, performance, and performance of duties stipulated by the Party Central Committee, and guide grassroots party organizations and party members to adhere to standards and select the best from the best. Some election units have further refined the representative conditions in light of poverty alleviation, epidemic prevention and control, scientific and technological innovation, and implemented them in the nomination of representative recommendations.
The second is to strictly control political control. Strict organization and inspection of candidates are generally carried out, highlighting political quality inspections, focusing on understanding candidates' political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, deeply understanding the decisive significance of " two establishing ", enhancing the performance of " four consciousnesses ", firming up " four self-confidence ", and achieving " two maintaining ", and some election units have refined the specific requirements for candidate political standards. Anyone who fails to abide by the political discipline and rules of the Party, and who has problems such as "seven people" and "two-faced people" will be firmly blocked.
The third is to strictly control integrity. We will earnestly implement the "four musts" verification requirements and the "double signature" regulations on anti-corruption opinions, comprehensively use the results of inspections, petitions, audits, special inspections, etc., make good use of the results of standardizing the business and business behavior of leading cadres, such as leading cadres' spouses, children and their spouses, sort out the situation of party discipline and administrative sanctions and opinions put forward by democratic life meetings and organizational life meetings, comprehensively analyze and strictly verify, conduct a "comprehensive physical examination" of candidates, and adjust those who are not suitable for representatives. For candidates in finance, enterprises, etc., we will listen to the opinions of administrative law enforcement and industry regulatory departments respectively. Anyone who has problems with integrity or problems that have not been identified or suspicious points have not been ruled out shall not be used as representative candidates, and "nominated with illness" and "elected with illness".
Fourth, strictly control identity. Further define the scope of party member leading cadres, party members on the front line of production and work, as well as party members of workers, farmers, and professional and technical personnel, and strictly review the candidate identities to prevent identity distortion and "hats". For candidates with multiple identities, some election units have formulated identity identification forms, conducted field research, checked labor contracts, , employment documents, household registration certificates, etc., and determined according to the nature of the work and the representativeness, and strictly controlled the identity of good candidates. In the actual work of
, all election units should pay attention to recommending outstanding Communist Party members who have performed outstandingly in the implementation of major national development strategies, fighting the three major battles of , prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, disaster prevention and relief and other urgent, difficult and dangerous tasks and difficult environments. According to statistics, among the representatives of the front-line party members of the production and work, 710 have won honorary titles at the provincial military level or above, accounting for 92.1% of the total number of representatives of the front-line party members of the production and work.
Question: How is the participation of grassroots party organizations and the majority of party members during the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress?
Answer: The Party Central Committee requires that the nomination of representatives of the 20th National Congress starts from the grassroots level, and all grassroots party organizations and party members participate. Judging from the election of representatives in various places and departments, grassroots party organizations and the majority of party members have shown great political enthusiasm for the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress and are very enthusiastic about participating. All election units have taken various measures to organize and mobilize, guiding grassroots party organizations and the majority of party members to actively participate.Adhere to the mass line, combine the study and education of party history and the study and implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, coordinate the election of representatives and the prevention and control requirements of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, adopt various methods such as convening party members' meetings, giving party classes, and learning central group , and use distance education, party building network and other means to carry out publicity and mobilization in depth, solid, safe and stable. In view of the actual situation of mobile party members , retired party members, elderly and frail party members, new business forms, and new employment groups, etc., we will use telephone, letters, door-to-door visits to inform and listen to opinions. Some election units combine them with thematic party days and "go to the grassroots level and send warmth" activities, while others adopt the establishment of mobile ticket boxes and dispatching horseback propaganda teams to organize the majority of party members to participate in recommendation and nomination. The participation of grassroots party organizations in various election units has achieved full coverage, and the average participation rate of party members has reached 99.5%. The majority of party members reported that participating in the nomination of nominations for the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has enhanced the sense of honor and mission, received an education on ideals and beliefs, and an education on party spirit, party style, discipline and party history, and improved their ideological understanding. They all expressed that they should do a solid job in all current work and welcome the successful convening of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with practical actions.
Question: What measures have been taken by this representative election in improving the quality and effectiveness of intra-party democracy? How to fully reflect the wishes of the majority of party members?
Answer: The Party Central Committee emphasized that the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress should fully carry forward intra-party democracy and focus on improving the quality and effectiveness of democracy. All election units conscientiously implement the requirements of the Party Central Committee, respect and safeguard the democratic rights of party members and representatives, and actively create conditions to guide party members to participate in an orderly manner, so that representative elections become a successful practice of fully carrying forward intra-party democracy and following the mass line, which has produced good results. It is mainly reflected in the following aspects:
First, fully solicit opinions. Adopt the "three ups and three downs" method to carry out nomination for nominations for representative candidates, and fully solicit opinions from grassroots party organizations and the majority of party members. The party branch proposes recommended candidates based on the opinions of most party members. When the recommended unit studies and selects recommended candidates and the election unit determines the list of preliminary candidates for inspection, it is determined based on the opinions of the majority of party organizations or the majority of party members to ensure that the representative candidates can reflect the will of the majority of party members.
The second is to determine the representative candidates in collective research. We will earnestly implement democratic centralism, and fully carry forward intra-party democracy, and play the leading and gatekeeper role of the Party organization. Selecting and reporting candidates for recommendation, determining preliminary candidates and preparing candidates for representative candidates, etc., will hold collective research on the Standing Committee of the Party Committee (Working Committee Meeting, Party Group Meeting) or the Plenary Meeting of the Party Committee (Working Committee Meeting, Party Group Meeting) and make collective decisions in accordance with the rules of procedure of the Party Committee (Party Group) and do not have the final say. All major problems encountered in the election work have been decided through collective research.
The third is to insist on difference investigation and difference election. During organizational inspections, differences inspections and inspection forecasts are generally implemented, differences are selected step by step, and the best are selected in a comprehensive manner, and preliminary candidates are publicized to ensure that the candidates are safe in the organization, trusted by party members, and recognized by the masses. During the meeting election, improve the candidate introduction method, enrich the introduction content, and enhance the elector's understanding of the candidates. The difference election is implemented, and the difference ratio of is higher than 15%.
Question: Everyone is very concerned about the atmosphere of the election work of the 20th National Congress. Please introduce the situation of strictly enforcing election discipline and ensuring a clean and upright atmosphere.
Answer: The Party Central Committee clearly requires that the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress must strictly enforce political discipline, organizational discipline and election discipline to ensure a clean and upright atmosphere. In accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee, all election units always put discipline and rules first, strictly enforce discipline and strictly supervise, and rectify the work style and discipline with a resolute attitude and decisive measures.
First, strengthen education and guidance.We must adhere to education first, warning first, and prevention first, organize party members and cadres to seriously study the various regulations of the Party Central Committee on strict discipline, especially the "Ten Strict Prohibitions" discipline requirements, educate and guide party members and cadres to strengthen discipline awareness and strictly abide by discipline rules; organize the viewing of warning education films such as "The Alarm Bell Ring", and make full use of typical cases of canvassing votes and bribery in Hengyang, Sichuan, Liaoning and other places to carry out warning education, learn from the lessons, learn from one example and learn from it.
The second is to strictly implement responsibilities. Clarify work responsibilities at each level, strengthen supervision, guidance, discipline enforcement and accountability, transmit pressure at all levels, and implement various discipline requirements. In all aspects such as recommendation and nomination, organization of inspections, and meeting elections, strict discipline is repeatedly emphasized, and leading cadres are required to take the lead in implementing and set a good example. Some election units have established a list of discipline supervision responsibilities for delegation leaders and liaison officers, signed commitment letters, and implemented a system of reporting on the follow-up supervision and meeting style and day-to-day reporting to ensure that responsibilities, personnel and work are in place.
The third is to strengthen full-process supervision. In response to the prone links and key targets of problem-prone, establish and improve reminder and supervision mechanisms, and urge party members and cadres to strictly abide by discipline and regulations. Some provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities rely on the "12380" "four-in-one" reporting platform for telephone, petition, Internet and text messages to strictly prevent violations of regulations and discipline; some election units have set up supervision groups and strengthen the full supervision of representative elections through circuit inspections, individual interviews, open and secret inspections. Through a series of excellent measures, the occurrence of violations of discipline has been effectively prevented and the atmosphere is clean and upright.
Overall, the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress has achieved a complete success. All election units combine the election of representatives of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with the study and implementation of the spirit of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the promotion of the normalization and long-term effectiveness of party history learning and education. They organize the majority of party members to study Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era in depth, study the Party Constitution and Party rules in depth, publicize models, promote righteousness, guide party organizations at all levels and the vast number of party members to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments", consciously enhance the "four consciousnesses", firm up the "four self-confidences", and achieve the "two safeguards", and always maintain a high degree of unity with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core in terms of ideology, politics and actions. The process of electing representatives of the 20th National Congress has truly become a process of thoroughly studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, a process of implementing the general requirements for Party building in the new era, and a process of education on ideals and beliefs, education on party spirit, party style, discipline and party history, and a process of vivid practice of political life within the party and democratic centralism education.
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