Social Sciences Weekly: As noted in the 20thCPC National Congress Report,“All of us in the Party must bear in mind that full and rigorous self-governance is an unceasing endeavor and that self-reform is a journey to which there is no end. We must never slacken our efforts and never allow ourselves to become weary or beaten.” What effective measures will the Party take to ensure self-reform is earnestly implemented?
Guo Qingsong: The Party’s self-reform is a journey to which there is no end. This is an essential requirement for the Party to consolidate its long-term governing position as the largest Marxist governing party in the world, to always stay alert and determined when facing the Four Tests and the Four Risks, and to advance the great new project of Party building in the new era and use the self-reform to steer social transformation. On the new journey of the new era, the Party needs to take a three-pronged approach in terms of systems & regulations, organization and action to ensure self-reform is earnestly implemented.
First,improving the systems and regulations for the Party’s self-reform. We will uphold the Party Central Committee’s authority and its centralized and unified leadership, enhance cohesion and forge the Party’s soul with the Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; we will take the Party Constitution as our fundamental guide to improve the framework of Party regulations, increase their authority and fully enforce them, and run the Party with systems and regulations – these are fundamental to earnestly implement the Party’s self-reform. Based on the above, we will improve the total-coverage, authoritative, and highly effective oversight system under the Party’s unified leadership and refine the mechanisms for overseeing power and keeping it in check; we will conduct concrete, targeted and regular political oversight, see that political inspections serve as a powerful tool and work to ensure that political responsibility for full and rigorous Party self-governance is fulfilled – these are essential requirements for the Party’s self-reform.
Second, enhancing the organizational function of the Party’s self-reform. The Party’s advantages and strength lie in its close-knit organizational system which is also the carrier to run the Party’s self-reform. Party organizations at all levels must perform the duties prescribed to them by the Party Constitution, and implement all the measures of the Party’s self-reform. We will see that primary-level Party organizations play a key role in ensuring the exercise of the Party’s leadership and serve as important carriers of self-reform. We will implement the systems for intraparty democracy, earnestly and prudently handle Party members who do not measure up to standards so as to carry out concrete requirements of the Party’s self-reform.
Third, taking strict anti-corruption steps to improve Party conduct and enforce Party discipline. This is the most effect move for the Party’s self-reform, including steadfastly implementing the central Party leadership’s eight-point decision on improving conduct, tackling pointless formalities, bureaucratism, hedonism and extravagance, making consistent and sustained efforts in improving Party conduct, making all-around efforts to tighten Party discipline, putting in place the precise accountability mechanism, working in concert to enhance Party consciousness, improve Party conduct and tighten Party discipline and bolstering their resistance to corruption and moral decline. Taking action is the most effective move in the Party’s self-reform.
Published on November 3, 2022