Original title: the fourth anniversary of being included in the strategic layout
Chen Li, member of the Academic Committee of the Central Academy of Party History and Literature (exclusive interview video screenshot)
Q: The background and development of the proposal of "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party"?
Strict governance of the Party in an all-round way has been the distinctive theme of the CPC Central Committee's efforts to build the Party since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the distinctive feature of the CPC Central Committee's governance of the country. The Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, has firmly grasped the importance of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, put forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new measures, and constantly increased its efforts to govern the Party, so that our Party has undergone revolutionary forging and has shown new strong vitality.
As early as at the First Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, Xi Jinping, who was just elected as General Secretary, clearly pointed out that under the new situation, our party's self construction faces a series of new situations, new problems and new challenges, and the task of implementing the Party's management and strict governance is more onerous and urgent than ever before. We must have greater determination and courage to do a good job in building the Party itself.
Less than a month after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee deliberated and adopted eight provisions on improving the work style and keeping close contact with the masses on December 4, 2012. The General Secretary made it very clear that the eight point rule of the Central Committee is an entry point and mobilization order, and the first step to improve our style of work.
Since the second half of 2013, the Party Central Committee has carried out the Party's mass line education and practice activities in the whole Party. The main task is to focus on style building and focus on solving the "four styles" of formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance. In October 2014, at the party's mass line education practice summary meeting, the general secretary proposed "comprehensively promoting strict governance of the party".
In December of the same year, when investigating in Jiangsu, the General Secretary raised the concept of "comprehensively governing the Party with strict discipline" to a new strategic height, and together with the concept of "comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepening reform, and comprehensively governing the country according to law", formed the "four comprehensive" strategic layout. The General Secretary clearly pointed out that this strategic layout has both strategic objectives and strategic initiatives, and each "comprehensive" is of great strategic significance. Without comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, the Party will not be able to "forge iron with its own hard work", and it will be difficult to play a good role as the core of leadership.
In particular, the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee focused on the issue of "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party", and adopted two important documents, namely, "Some Guidelines for Inner Party Political Life in the New Situation" and "Regulations on Inner Party Supervision of the Communist Party of China", to further make arrangements for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. This is an overall design of the agenda of the plenary session by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China according to the strategic layout of "four comprehensives", following the special research on comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively governing the country by law, and comprehensively building a well-off society at the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Plenary Sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee.
The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, standing at a new historical starting point, fully affirmed the historic achievements and changes in the cause of the Party and the state in the past five years, fully affirmed the remarkable achievements of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, and took "adhering to comprehensively and strictly governing the Party" as an important part of Xi Jinping's thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, As an important part of the general requirements of the Party building in the new era, it emphasizes that the overall strict governance of the Party is always on the way, and advances the Party building and the overall strict governance of the Party to a new stage.
From the above review, it can be clearly seen that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China has focused on comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, which has not only been consistent, but also constantly carried out and deepened around the development of the cause of the Party and the country, providing a strong political guarantee for the historic achievements and changes of the cause of the Party and the country since the 18th National Congress.
Q: It is of far-reaching significance for our Party to incorporate "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party" into its strategic layout. How can we understand and grasp the significance of "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party"?
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, why do General Secretary Xi Jinping and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China put so much emphasis on strengthening Party building and adhering to strict governance in an all-round way? I personally understand that, fundamentally, this is an initiative and positive response to the requirements of the development of the situation and tasks since the 18th CPC National Congress for our party building. As emphasized in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, forging iron must be hard. To unite and lead the people in the great struggle, advance the great cause and realize the great dream, the Party must unswervingly adhere to and improve the Party's leadership, and unswervingly build the Party stronger and stronger. Specifically, it can be understood and grasped from the following four aspects.
First, to realize the great dream, we must build a great project. This is an important point put forward in the report of the 19th National Congress. The report of the 19th National Congress also stressed that the great struggle, great project, great cause and great dream are closely linked, interconnected and interacted, among which the new great project of Party building plays a decisive role. Why do you say that? This is because the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the leadership of the Communist Party of China, and the Party is the highest political leadership. The General Secretary has repeatedly stressed that the key to running China's affairs well lies in the Party, and the key lies in the Party's management and strict governance. Under the new historical conditions, if we want to carry out a great struggle, advance a great cause and realize a great dream, we must deeply promote the new great project of Party building, ensure that the Party is always in the forefront of the times in the historical process of profound changes in the world situation, and always become the backbone of the people of the whole country in the historical process of coping with various risks and tests at home and abroad, It has always been a strong core of leadership in the historical process of adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Second, it is an urgent requirement to comprehensively and strictly govern the Party to solve prominent problems within the Party. For a party like ours, which has more than 89 million members and has been in power for a long time in a country with a population of more than 1.3 billion, we should not relax our management of the party for a moment. Under the new historical conditions, the "four tests" and "four dangers" faced by our Party are long-term, complex and severe. For a period of time, there have been prominent problems in the Party, such as indifference to the Party's concept, lax organization, and loose discipline. The root of these problems lies in the weakening of the Party's leadership, the lack of Party building, and the inability to comprehensively and strictly govern the Party. The General Secretary pointed out that if we do not change this situation, we will weaken the ruling ability of the Party, shake the ruling foundation of the Party, and even ruin the bright future of our Party and people. It can be said that this is the most realistic and direct consideration that we put forward to comprehensively and strictly govern the Party.
Third, it is an inevitable choice for our Party to incorporate "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party" into the strategic layout and the general requirements of Party building in the new era in response to changes in the world and national conditions. At present, China has entered the decisive stage of building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, and the Chinese nation has entered a critical period of great rejuvenation. Domestically, the comprehensive deepening of reform has been pushed forward with unprecedented strength. China's economy has shifted from a stage of rapid growth to a stage of high-quality development. The problem of unbalanced and inadequate development is intertwined with various cyclical, structural and institutional factors; Internationally, profound and complex changes are taking place in the international situation, unstable and uncertain factors are increasing, and the international environment facing China's development is more complex and severe; From the perspective of Party building, after several years of efforts, we have achieved important phased results in comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, but we still have a long way to go. The outstanding problems existing in the Party, such as ideological impurity, political impurity, organizational impurity, and style impurity, have not yet been fundamentally solved. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that in such a domestic and international situation, if we want to win advantages, win initiatives and win the future, we must build the Party stronger and stronger, so that our Party can unite and lead the people to effectively respond to major challenges, resist major risks, overcome major obstacles and resolve major contradictions.
Fourth, it is the objective need of our Party to promote the great social revolution with self revolution to govern the Party strictly in an all-round way. It is the most distinctive character of our party and the greatest advantage of our party to have the courage to self revolution and strictly control the party. In the new era, our Party has led the people to carry out a great social revolution, which covers a wide range of fields, touches the depth of interest pattern adjustment, involves the sharp nature of contradictions and problems, breaks through the obstacles of systems and mechanisms, and carries out a great struggle with complexity that is unprecedented. To carry out the great social revolution of adhering to and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era well, our Party must have the courage to carry out self revolution and build the Party stronger and stronger.
Q: How can we deeply understand and grasp the rich connotation of "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party"?
The connotation of "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party" is very rich. To carefully study and understand a series of important statements of General Secretary Xi Jinping on comprehensively and strictly governing the Party, we can understand and grasp from the following aspects.
First, we should strengthen our ideals and beliefs, and make up for our spirit. The revolutionary ideal is higher than the sky. The lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics are the spiritual pillar and political soul of the Chinese Communists, as well as the ideological basis for maintaining the unity and unity of the Party. Figuratively speaking, ideal and belief are the "calcium" in the spirit of the Communists. Without ideal and belief, if the ideal and belief are not firm, there will be "calcium deficiency" in the spirit and "rickets". In real life, some Party members and cadres have problems of one kind or another. In the final analysis, they are lost in faith and spirit. We should take firming our ideals and beliefs as the primary task of the Party's ideological construction, educate and guide the whole Party to remember the Party's purpose, stand up the spiritual backbone of Communists, and solve the "master switch" problem of world outlook, outlook on life, and values.
Second, firmly establish the "Four Consciousness", firmly maintain the core position of General Secretary Xi Jinping, and firmly safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee. It is the fundamental requirement of our party as a Marxist party to take a clear stand in politics. The Party's political construction is the fundamental construction of the Party, which determines the direction and effect of the Party's construction. We should adhere to the leadership of the Party's political construction, firmly establish the "Four Consciousness", firmly uphold the core position of General Secretary Xi Jinping, firmly uphold the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in political stance, political direction, political principles, and political path, so as to achieve a firm response to the call of the Party Central Committee, and a firm compliance with the decisions of the Party Central Committee The prohibition of the Party Central Committee shall be resolutely eliminated.
Third, we should stick to the principle of discipline in the first place and strictly observe political discipline and rules. The Party should manage the Party and govern it strictly in an all-round way? We must rely on strict discipline. Strengthening discipline construction is the fundamental policy for comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. The Party's discipline is multifaceted, but political discipline is the most important, fundamental and crucial discipline. The core of abiding by the Party's political discipline is to uphold and strengthen the Party's leadership, maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee, and consciously safeguard the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. We should take political life within the Party seriously, and strive to promote the whole Party to keep in mind the "five necessities" and remain vigilant against the "seven necessities", so as to ensure that the whole Party is united and in step.
Fourth, we should be strict with officials and focus on training high-quality cadres who are loyal, clean and responsible. Party cadres are the backbone of the cause of the Party and the country. The Party should manage the Party, first of all, manage cadres well; The key to strict governance of the Party is strict governance of officials. We should adhere to the principle of the Party in charge of cadres, adhere to the principle of having both ability and integrity, putting morality first, adhere to the principle of appointing people on their merits, adhere to the principle of putting career first, being fair and upright, and implement the standard of good cadres. To manage cadres strictly, the general goal is to strengthen ideals and beliefs, strengthen moral cultivation, standardize the exercise of power, cultivate a good style of work, enable cadres at all levels to consciously perform the duties entrusted by the Party Constitution, and act in strict accordance with the principles and rules of the Party.
Fifth, the construction of work style is always on the way, and we should adhere to the principle of regular work, fine work and long work. There is no end to the construction of the style of work, and the correction of the "four styles" cannot stop. To strengthen the work style construction, we must closely adhere to the key of maintaining the flesh and blood ties between the Party and the people, enhance the concept and feelings of the masses, and constantly deepen the mass foundation of the Party's governance. All problems strongly reflected by the masses must be taken seriously, and all acts that harm the interests of the masses must be resolutely corrected. Adhere to the above and lower rates, consolidate, expand and implement the spiritual achievements of the eight central provisions, continue to rectify the "four conducts" problem, resolutely oppose the idea and phenomenon of privileges, and oppose formalism and bureaucracy.
Sixth, we should punish corruption with zero tolerance and continue to deepen the treatment of both symptoms and root causes. The people hate corruption, which is the biggest threat to our Party. At present, the fight against corruption is still grim and complex. From the perspective of the life and death of the Party and the country, we must promote the construction of a clean and honest government and the fight against corruption with a strong sense of historical responsibility, a deep sense of mission, and a strong will. We must adhere to the principle of no restricted areas, full coverage, zero tolerance, "tigers" and "flies" fighting together, and seriously investigate and deal with corrupt elements. We will strengthen the deterrence against corruption, secure the cage that cannot be corrupted, strengthen the consciousness of not wanting to corrupt, and make unremitting efforts to gain a clear sea and a clear river.
Q: On January 12, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the sixth plenary session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, pointing out that "comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is always on the way. Party organizations at all levels should shoulder the main responsibility for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. The core of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is to strengthen the leadership of the Party. The foundation is comprehensive, the key is strict, and the key is governance." In "comprehensive and strict governance of the Party" On the occasion of the fourth anniversary, how should we further implement the main responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party?
To comprehensively and strictly govern the Party, we must implement responsibilities, especially the main responsibilities. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has firmly grasped the "bull nose" of the main responsibility of managing the Party and governing the Party, and promoted the deepening of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party.
First, enhance the awareness of and clarify the responsibility for managing the Party. The Party should be in charge of the Party, first of all, the Party Committee and the Secretary of the Party Committee should be in charge, and the Secretary of the Party Committee is the first responsible person. Whether the Party committee can implement its main responsibility is directly related to the effectiveness of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that it is impossible to comprehensively and strictly govern the Party without clarifying responsibilities, implementing responsibilities and investigating responsibilities. In the eyes of some leading cadres, focusing on Party building is less than focusing on development. This kind of understanding is wrong. Party committees (leading Party groups) at all levels and in all departments must establish a correct view of political achievements and stick to the overall situation of consolidating the Party's ruling position. Adhere to the principle of planning, deploying and assessing together the work of Party building and the central work, and resolutely prevent "one hand hard, one hand soft".
Second, we must insist on accountability and strict accountability. There should be equal rights and responsibilities. The General Secretary stressed that it is necessary to integrate the accountability system, improve the accountability mechanism, and adhere to the principle of accountability and strict accountability. Accountability should be based on both events and people, and specific people. We should grasp the typical cases and seriously investigate the responsibility, not only the subject responsibility and supervision responsibility, but also the leadership responsibility and the party organization responsibility.
Third, to implement the main responsibility, the key is to implement the leadership of the Party. The leadership of the Party must be reflected in the daily management and supervision, in all aspects of the work, and practically implemented. Party committees (leading Party groups) at all levels should dare to grasp and manage, strictly enforce discipline, and shoulder the political responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. Discipline should be put in front of us. If we find problems, we should bite our ears and pull our sleeves. If we have serious problems, we should call the alarm bell. It is necessary to effectively grasp the early stage and the small stage, prevent small things from creeping in, strengthen daily management and supervision, and make it normal to govern the Party strictly in an all-round way.
Q: What do you expect from the next step of "comprehensively and strictly governing the Party"?
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has comprehensively strengthened Party leadership and Party building, resolutely changed the leniency and laxity of Party governance, and achieved remarkable results in comprehensively and strictly governing the Party.
However, we should also be soberly aware that it is far from the time when the Party is fully and strictly governed. We must persevere and never waver in comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. Guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, we should fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the general requirements for Party building for a new era, reorganize our packing and set out again, guide comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to a deeper level with permanent dedication on the road, consistently promote the new great project of Party building, and make Party building always at the forefront of the times, with the people's heartfelt support The energetic Marxist ruling party, which is brave in self revolution, can withstand all kinds of storms and trials, provides a strong guarantee for the decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects, winning the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era, and realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
(Source: Website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission)
