Start a new journey·One of the in-depth interpretation series of the Twenty Major Reports
On October 22, 2022, after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China successfully concluded in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, representatives walked out of Great Hall of the People . Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Jinhai
In the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that through unremitting efforts, the Party has found the second answer to the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise and fall, to ensure that the Party will never deteriorate, change color, or taste.
This is a solemn declaration by the Communist Party of China at a new historical starting point, a mobilization and spur to more than 96 million party members, a solemn commitment to hundreds of millions of people, and a new realm for the century-old party to persist in self-revolution.
The leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and the most fundamental political guarantee for leading the Chinese people to realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. History and reality have proved that without the Communist Party of China, there would be no New China and no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
fully set sail for the new journey of the second centenary goal and promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese modernization. In particular, we need to conscientiously implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, comprehensively strengthen the Party’s leadership, comprehensively strengthen Party building, hold high the great banner of self-revolution, and persevere in promoting the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in to ensure that the century-old party does not deteriorate, change color, or taste.
Information map of the History Exhibition Hall of the Communist Party of China. Photo/Xinhua News Agency
Only by self-revolution can we maintain the advanced nature of the Party forever
Deeply understand and master the scientific connotation of self-revolution. It is the primary issue of persevering in advancing the Party’s self-revolution and ensuring that a century-old party does not deteriorate, change color, or taste.
The Party’s courage to revolutionize itself mainly includes four basic contents. First, we rely on the development of people's democracy outside and accept people's supervision; second, we rely on comprehensive and strict governance of the party inside and promote self-revolution; third, we have the courage to uphold the truth and correct mistakes; fourth, we have the courage to turn the blade inward and scrape the bone to cure the poison. In actual use, these four aspects need to play a comprehensive role.
At the same time, we must deeply understand why we must persist in advancing the Party’s self-revolution on the new journey of the second centenary goal. This is because the Party’s century-long development practice has proved that self-revolution is the correct answer to our Party’s historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise and fall, and is a sharp weapon for our Party to always maintain its advanced nature and purity.
"The corrosiveness of power" and "the corrosiveness of money" are two basic problems that rulers in any country in the world must face and solve. As long as we are in power, the two major corrosivenesses coexist with the operation of power. There are always ruling officials who cannot withstand the "two major corruptions" and have style and corruption problems.
Therefore, style construction is always on the road, comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is always on the road, anti-corruption is always on the road, and anti-corruption is also the most thorough self-revolution. To set sail for the new journey of the second centenary goal, maintain the vitality of the Party and take a new road to taking the exam, we must persist in advancing the Party’s self-revolution.
To promote the self-revolution of the Party, we must first strengthen the Party’s political construction and ensure that the whole Party, especially the Party’s leading cadres at all levels, maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in terms of political stance, political direction, political principles, political paths, and political rules, and ensure the unity and unity of the Party.
must also always bear in mind the "fundamental political issue" of "what the Communist Party of China is and what it is to do", be brave to uphold the truth and correct mistakes, and constantly resolve deviations in adhering to the political leadership of the Party, implementing the Party's political line, adhering to the Party's political principles and protecting the Party's political ecology on the way forward.
resolutely correct the political deviations in implementing the decisions and deployments established by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, do not conceal the shortcomings, do not avoid problems, do not politely embellish the wrongs, overcome the shortcomings, solve problems if there are problems, admit and correct mistakes if there are mistakes, and always maintain the political character of a Marxist party.
In this way, we will not make subversive mistakes on "fundamental issues", and always strive to achieve the goals set by the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China with the persistence of sticking to the green mountains and not relaxingly, and unremittingly promote the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with a clear and clear mind.
On June 7, 2021, many countries’ envoys to China visited , the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, . Photo/Xinhua News Agency
Be brave to temper, style construction is the basic tool
To ensure that the party does not deteriorate, change color, or taste, we must take the party's ideological construction as the basis and constantly temper the sharp ideological weapon of self-revolution.
In accordance with the requirements of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, on the one hand, it will unremittingly use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unite the heart and forge the soul, comprehensively strengthen the ideological construction of the Party, strengthen education on ideals and beliefs, guide the whole Party to keep in mind the Party’s purpose, and consciously be firm believers and loyal practitioners of the lofty ideals of communism and the common ideals of socialism with Chinese characteristics.
On the other hand, we will continue to strengthen party spirit education and party spirit cultivation, and constantly correct various wrong ideas that arise within the party. Continuously innovating party spirit education and strengthening party spirit cultivation, constantly correcting various wrong ideas that arise within the party on the new journey, and always pursuing ideological joining the party is the key to the party's self-revolution.
Only by constantly improving ideological awareness and political awareness of self-revolution can we identify flowers and poisonous weeds, identify correctness and errors, and constantly innovate methods and ways to solve problems, so as to achieve self-education, self-correction, self-transformation, and self-improvement, and ensure that Communist Party members always pursue ideological joining the party.
In this process, style construction is the basic tool. In fact, style construction is always on the road. A ruling party with more than 96 million party members and more than 30 million party members and cadres has good work styles and unhealthy styles, and every day, every year, every month, and every day. We must give full play to the joint role of intra-party supervision, the people's supervision and public opinion supervision, keep a close eye on behaviors that harm the interests of the masses in governing activities, keep a close eye on the ideological style, work style and life style of some party members and cadres, vigorously promote good work styles, and resolutely rectify bad work styles.
We must organically combine intra-party supervision with people's supervision, adhere to a strict tone to strengthen the rectification of work style and discipline, persevere in implementing the spirit of the Central Eight Regulations, continue to deepen the rectification of the " Four Winds ", focus on correcting formalism and bureaucracy, resolutely break the idea of privilege and privileged behavior, and use strict discipline to rectify various style issues on the new journey, and constantly "enrich the effective ways of self-revolution."
, in particular, we should address the variation and invisible development of formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance, and the common unhealthy trends such as eating, being domineering, tyrannical, shirking, inaction, and arbitrary actions, and even unhealthy trends, and some serious style issues that seriously infringe on the fundamental interests and specific interests of the people, seriously undermine the relationship between the Party and the masses, and damage the Party’s mass base and ruling foundation. We should focus on solving the most prominent problems as the main focus, and concentrate our efforts on carrying out party spirit and party discipline education.
integrates strengthening party spirit education, serious political life within the party and solving problems. Party organizations at all levels should take Party discipline education as the basic work to grasp the Party’s style, regularly carry out education on the Party Constitution and Party rules, strengthen education on the political discipline of the Party, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, mass discipline, work discipline and life discipline, carry out in-depth warning education, use cases to clarify discipline and explain the law.
Every time, party spirit and style education should be innovative, and we should pursue innovation from content form to methods and methods to solve problems. We must organically combine party spirit education with mass supervision, and integrate seriousness and conscientiousness throughout the whole process, so as to ensure that every party spirit education will gain rewards in theoretical study, improve party spirit cultivation, solve problems and achieve practical results, and have new realization of the interests of the masses, and have significantly improved work style problems. Through every innovation, we will continue to strengthen the historical confidence of the whole party in rectifying the work style and enforcing discipline and self-revolution, and continuously enrich effective ways of self-revolution.
At the same time, we must constantly improve the party’s self-revolutionary system, adhere to the system and govern the party according to regulations, improve the party’s unified leadership, comprehensive coverage, authoritative and efficient supervision system, give full play to the role of the sword of political inspection, implement the political responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the party, and make good use of the accountability tool.
On September 6, 2022, at the Lanjin Community Party and Mass Service Center, Jinnan Street, Lin'an District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, party member volunteers communicated with the elderly in the community. Photo/Xinhua News Agency
Forging a team. The strength of the party comes from the organization
It is also crucial to forge a cadre team that dares to fight, is good at fighting, and is brave in self-revolution. It is also crucial to continuously enhance the political and organizational functions of the party organization. The power of the Party comes from the organization. It relies on the organization to promote the Party’s self-revolution and shoulder the mission of comprehensively building a modern socialist country.
On the new journey, we must conscientiously implement the Party’s organizational line in the new era, strive to build an organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and has strong execution, continuously enhance the political and organizational functions of the Party’s organizations, and continuously enhance the Party’s political leadership, ideological leadership, mass organization and social appeal. The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to build a team of high-quality cadres who are capable of serving as the important task of national rejuvenation, adhere to the principle of both moral integrity and ability, put morality first, all over the world, and appoint people based on merit, establish the correct orientation of selecting and employing people, select high-quality and professional cadres who are loyal, clean and responsible, select and strengthen leadership teams at all levels, and forge leadership teams at all levels into a strong leadership collective that faithfully implements Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and firmly implements the decisions and deployments of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Strengthening the spirit of struggle and the ability to fight and inspiring cadres to dare to take responsibility and act positively is the guarantee for deepening the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
From the great trend of human development, the overall pattern of world changes, and the great history of China's development, we have forged the political awareness of the Party's cadres to dare to fight and be good at fighting, and the courage to revolutionize themselves and take responsibility.
On the new journey, in the world's major changes unseen in a century, in the new practice of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, in the work of realizing the reunification of the motherland and maintaining social security and stability, in the fight against corruption, cracking down on organized crime and eliminating evil, Party cadres must grasp the characteristics of the times in which development and struggle are intertwined, seize and make good use of new historical development opportunities, make good use of the great struggle experience accumulated by our Party, strengthen ideological tempering, struggle training, practical tempering, character cultivation, and party spirit training, and integrate theoretical arming, ideals, beliefs and purpose education, self-revolutionary literacy, knowledge structure improvement, and ability improvement into the Party.
Corruption is the biggest cancer that endangers the vitality and combat effectiveness of the Party, and anti-corruption is the most thorough self-revolution. To this end, our party must continue to be brave enough to turn the blade inward and scrape the bone to cure the poison, always fight corruption and punish evil with thunder, and resolutely win the long-term battle against corruption on the new journey.
The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that as long as there is soil and conditions for the occurrence of corruption problems, the fight against corruption cannot stop for a moment, and we must always blow the charge . This also requires that on the new journey, we will insist on promoting the integration of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and fight corruption with a zero-tolerance attitude and never tolerate it.
Resolutely prevent the "party deterioration" from seeking interests for certain interest groups, powerful groups, and privileged classes; resolutely prevent the party's body from emitting a "rotten smell" due to corruption; resolutely prevent the party from "changing color" due to squandering and wasting and certain cadres becoming "protective umbrellas" of evil forces. All of them need to persist in advancing the party's self-revolution.
Ensure that the Party’s advanced nature and purity, the essential attribute of the Marxist party, “undeteriorates”, ensure that the Party always serves the people wholeheartedly “unchanged”, and ensures that the Party always practices the Party’s original mission “unchanged color”, not only can our Party break out of the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise and fall, but will also write a brilliant chapter in the comprehensive construction of a modern socialist country.
Written by / Zhang Xixian [Professor and doctoral supervisor of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration)]
Editing / He Rui
Proofreading / Zhang Yanjun
