On June 15, the National Party Building Work Symposium was held in Beijing. The meeting pointed out that Xi Jinping’s Party Building Thought is the fundamental guideline for strengthening party building in the new era. “Persisting in advancing as one, not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, not wanting to be corrupt” is one of the connotations of the “Fourteen Persistences” of Xi Jinping’s Party Building Thought.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has used the courage to scrape bones to cure poison and a strong man to cut off his wrist, and has persisted in correcting conduct and discipline, fighting corruption and punishing evil. The party has become stronger in the revolutionary forging. The century-old party is in its prime and more vigorous.
Someone once lamented: "The current anti-corruption intensity cannot be found in the twenty-four histories." This resoluteness and determination of self-revolution, the thoroughness and majesty of stirring up turmoil and promoting purity, shocked the world. Tracing back to its roots, it is precisely because of the great realm of "I will have no self" that we can achieve the great deeds of "living up to the people".
A story reveals the original intention.
In June 1988, Comrade Xi Jinping went to Ningde for more than a month of continuous investigation and investigation, and he had a clear understanding of the problems and problems in eastern Fujian. During the survey, many people reported the problem of cadres occupying land indiscriminately to build houses. People in Eastern Fujian called it "corruption on the roadside."
Comrade Xi Jinping invited Zhang Jingxi, then deputy secretary of the Ningde District Discipline Inspection Commission, and asked three questions:
"Are the people's opinions big? Are the masses' opinions big?"
Zhang Jingxi answered truthfully: "Big."
“Is this the biggest issue affecting motivation right now?”
"Yes."
"Should nearly three million people be offended, or two or three thousand people?"
"Of course I would rather offend these two or three thousand people."
Comrade Xi Jinping immediately made the decision: "Then let's do it. If we want to do it, we will do it without hesitation. There will be no turning back."
At the working meeting of the Ningde Prefectural Committee in January 1989, Comrade Xi Jinping said clearly: "There is a question of who offended whom. You violated disciplines and illegally occupied land and built a house for your own selfish interests, destroying the authority and image of the party. It was you who offended the party, the people, and the party's discipline and state law. It was not the cadres who investigated and punished you on behalf of the interests of the party and the people who offended you!"
The speech clarified the ideological fog and launched an ideological "general mobilization" for the area's house clearance work. Eventually, these "nail households" were removed.
In 1990, in the article "Building a Clean Government is the Historical Mission of the Communists," Comrade Xi Jinping stated his choice: "Anti-corruption and a clean government - we have no choice." Party building develops with practice and the development of the times, and the "historic mission" of building a clean government has different manifestations at different times and stages.
Back then, Comrade Xi Jinping dealt with "corruption on the roadside" with thunderous force. Entering the new era, General Secretary Xi Jinping used the eight provisions of the Central Committee as the entry point and mobilization order to put an end to "waste on the tip of the tongue", "evil habits in the club" and "extravagant on the wheel". Starting from the outstanding issues that the masses hate, he used great political courage and historical responsibility to correct discipline and fight against corruption.
In January 2015, at the fifth plenary session of the 18th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping made some inspiring words: "Are you afraid of offending hundreds of thousands of corrupt elements, or are you afraid of offending 1.3 billion people? If you don't offend hundreds of thousands of corrupt elements, you will have to offend 1.3 billion people. This is an extremely clear political account and a matter of public support!"
In October 2022, at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping succinctly summarized the extraordinary history of the anti-corruption struggle, "We have launched an unprecedented anti-corruption struggle, and are responsible for eliminating malaise and fighting chaos with the mission of 'offending thousands of people and living up to 1.4 billion people.'"
Traveling through time and space, the inspiring questions still give people profound enlightenment: decisive and fearless choices, precisely because of a political party and a regime, its future and destiny ultimately depend on the support of the people.
From not failing three million to not failing 1.4 billion, this is the original intention of "I will have no self", and this is the value of people's supremacy.
Planning: Zhang Xiaosong
Editor-in-Chief: Zhu Jichai
Main writer: Zhang Yan
Vision: Zhang Aifang, Bao Yuhan
Produced domestically by Xinhua News Agency
Source: Xinhua News Agency
