Reinforce Our Party’s Political Foundations for Unity and Solidarity

Reinforce Our Party’s Political Foundations for Unity and Solidarity*

November 11, 2021

Unity and solidarity are our Party’s lifelines and the keys to our historic achievements over the past century. We have always kept our political foundations strong by guiding Party members to increase their political awareness and hold to the correct political direction and stance. All Party members have closely followed the Party’s political guideline and are unified in thinking as a capable organization with an iron will and coordinated action.

Our Party has grown mature and strong over a long course. In the early days of the revolution it lacked a functional central leadership to unite the Party as one, resulting in repeated frustrations, and at some points even jeopardizing the cause. The Zunyi Meeting in 1935 laid the groundwork for establishing the leading position within the Central Committee of the correct Marxist line chiefly represented by Mao Zedong. The first generation of the Party’s collective central leadership with Mao at the core started to take shape, ensuring success in the Party’s later endeavors. History and our experience have proved that the unity and solidarity of the Party determines the future of the Party and the people and secures the fundamental interests of the country. It is our foundation and must be ensured at all times and under all circumstances.

To govern the world’s biggest political party and most populous country, we must uphold the Party’s centralized, unified leadership and the Central Committee’s authority, and ensure that the Party exercises overall leadership and coordinates work in all areas. Since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, we have addressed problems of weakened, ineffective and marginalized measures in upholding Party leadership that had existed for some time, and called on the whole Party to take responsibility in upholding the Party’s centralized, unified leadership. With constant improvements in the Party’s leadership system, the whole Party has become more unified in thinking, with greater political solidarity and more concerted action. The resolution adopted at this plenary session reiterates the importance of strengthening the centralized, unified leadership of the Central Committee, requiring the whole Party to act consistently with the Central Committee and remain strong as iron on its march forward.

Unity and solidarity require absolute loyalty from all Party members. Loyalty to the Party is the political character essential to China’s Communists. It should be sincere, unconditional and absolute, allowing no room for maneuver. All Party members, especially leading officials, must remain fully aligned with the Central Committee in political stance, orientation, principles and path. They must be loyal to the Party and the people, to the Party’s ideals and convictions, to its original aspiration and founding mission, to its organization, and to its theories, guidelines and policies. They must strictly observe the Party’s political discipline and rules, and uphold the Central Committee’s centralized, unified leadership in thinking, action and political principles.

Loyalty to the Party is not an empty slogan and cannot be perfunctory. It calls for action in executing the Central Committee’s decisions and plans, in performing one’s duties diligently and effectively, and in following discipline and rules in daily life. Party members must respond promptly to the Central Committee’s calls, fully implement its decisions, and put a stop to anything it prohibits. This should be unconditional and no deviation is allowed. All Party members should stay on the right track, and join their forces to forge a strong synergy.

* Part of the speech at the second full assembly of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee.

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