Great Achievements in Comprehensively Deepening Reform in the New Era—CPC Development

In the new era, reform in the area of Party development has been focused on enhancing our capacity to conduct sound, democratic, and law-based governance. We have enhanced the system of democratic centralism, refined leadership systems and governance methods, and maintained our Party's advanced nature and integrity. This has ensured a strong political guarantee for reform, opening up, and socialist modernization. 

Our Party has worked to strengthen its leadership systems. It has put in place sound systems for ensuring its leadership over major endeavors of the state. The functions and roles of the Central Committee's decision-making, deliberative, and coordinating institutions have been boosted, and the mechanisms for ensuring implementation of the Central Committee's major policies have been improved. Our Party has strictly implemented the system for requesting instructions from and submitting reports to the Central Committee and tightened up political oversight and inspection. 

It has formulated and enforced the eight-point rule on improving Party and government conduct and made consistent efforts to tackle pointless formalities, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance. We have made sure that ideological work is aligned with our institution-building efforts and adopted a sound approach to appointing officials, in order to rectify misconduct concerning the selection and appointment of officials. 

The Party has remained committed to the principles that Party discipline should be even more stringent than the law and that discipline and law enforcement efforts should go hand in hand. It has conducted four forms of oversight to ensure discipline compliance, namely: criticism and self-criticism activities and oral and written inquiries, which are to be conducted regularly to ensure that those who have committed minor misconduct are made to "feel embarrassed and uneasy"; light penalties and minor organizational adjustments to official positions, which are to be applied in the majority of cases; heavy penalties and major adjustments to official positions, which are to be applied in a small number of cases; and investigation and prosecution, which are to be undertaken in a very small number of cases involving serious violations of discipline and suspected criminal activity. Through all these efforts, we have developed a sound system of internal Party regulations and ensured strict compliance with all Party institutions. 

Our Party has also taken the lead in improving both Party and state oversight systems. It promoted the establishment of the National Commission of Supervision, developed an oversight network that facilitates coordination between disciplinary inspections at different levels, and instituted coordinating mechanisms for various forms of oversight, with intraparty oversight playing the main role. All this has helped strengthen checks and oversight on the exercise of power. 

Through the comprehensive deepening of reform in the new era, the CPC's leadership systems have been improved, and our capacity to improve, renew, and excel ourselves has risen markedly. We have fundamentally addressed the problem of lax and weak governance over Party organizations, achieved an overwhelming victory in the fight against corruption, and taken steps to consolidate this momentum. We have harnessed the role of full and rigorous Party self-governance in providing political guidance and guarantees and have seen our Party grow stronger through revolutionary tempering.

Editor: Zhang Xian