Deeply understand and grasp the major principles of perseverance in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party

[Study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party]

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China profoundly summarized the great achievements and valuable experience of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party in the new era, and reviewed and adopted the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues on Persistently Promoting Comprehensive and Strict Administration of the Party" (hereinafter referred to as the "Decision"). The "Decision" clearly puts forward seven principles to be followed to continuously promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, namely, persist in serving missions and tasks, persist in taking the party's political construction as the guide, persist in comprehensive strictness, persist in problem orientation, persist in integrity and innovation, persist in leading from above, and persist in governing the party in accordance with regulations.

How to scientifically understand the historical background and far-reaching significance of the 7 principles? How to grasp the profound connotation and inner connection of these principles? How to transform these principle requirements into practical effectiveness in party management under new historical conditions? Focusing on the above topics, we invite experts and scholars to communicate.

Talking person

Li Zhijun, Director and Professor of the CCP History and Party Building Teaching and Research Section, School of Military Management, National Defense University

Li Junwei, deputy dean and professor of the School of Marxism, Central Party School (National School of Administration)

Feng Xinzhou, researcher at the Party Building Teaching and Research Department, China Academy of Discipline Inspection and Supervision

Moderator

Guangming Daily reporters Wang Haokui and Ji Wenya

●A scientific summary of the experience of comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era

Reporter: The Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed seven principles to be followed to consistently promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party. These principles are a scientific summary of the experience of comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era. Please share your understanding of the historical background and significance of its proposal.

Li Zhijun: Any scientific theoretical principle is a profound answer to the issues of the times. Currently, major changes in the world that have not been seen in a century are accelerating. Our country is in a critical period of comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great cause of national rejuvenation through Chinese-style modernization. As the situation of the world, the country, and the party have undergone profound changes, comprehensive and strict governance of the party is also facing many new situations and new problems. It is even more arduous for the Party to unite and lead the people to safeguard national sovereignty, security, and development interests. It is even more arduous for the Party to unite and lead the people to promote reform and development and maintain social harmony and stability. It is even more arduous for the Party to maintain its advanced nature and purity. The more arduous the task, the more we must persist in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party. The formulation of the seven principles is a principled answer to the major contemporary issue of "what kind of Marxist party to build for long-term governance and how to build a Marxist party for long-term governance."

Feng Xinzhou: Paying attention to summarizing experience is a magic weapon for our party to win. The seven principles are a scientific summary of the experience of comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era. From the beginning of the eight-point regulation of the Central Committee, to the inclusion of comprehensive and strict governance of the party into the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout, to the improvement of the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the party, our party's practice of party governance has continued to deepen and its experience has continued to enrich. The great practice and historic achievements of comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era have laid a solid practical foundation for the formulation of the seven principles. The promulgation of the seven principles has elevated practical experience into regular understanding and institutional requirements that must be adhered to for a long time, achieving theoretical sublimation.

Li Junwei: The seven principles reflect our party’s profound grasp of the laws of Marxist political party construction. These principles are directional, such as adhering to the party's political construction as the guide, promoting the party's various constructions to maintain the correct political direction and implement political requirements. These principles are guiding, such as adhering to a problem orientation, which provides important methods for discovering, confronting and solving problems within the party in the new era, and thus continuously improving the level of understanding and practical capabilities. These principles are binding. Party organizations at all levels, party members, and cadres are the main body of comprehensive and strict governance of the party. The basis is intra-party regulations. The proposal of the principle of adhering to the principle of governing the party in accordance with regulations provides institutional norms for the party to manage the party and comprehensively and strictly govern the party in the new era.

●Firmly grasp the core essence and internal connections of major principles

Reporter: The 7 principles to be followed to consistently promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party embody our party’s scientific attitude and pragmatic style in governing the party. What thoughts do you have on understanding and grasping the core essence of these principles?

Li Zhijun: The seven principles are highly condensed and profound. At the top of the list is adhering to the mission of service. Adhering to the service mission and tasks embodies the grasp of the inner connection between managing and governing the party, revitalizing and strengthening the party, building a strong country, and rejuvenating the nation. It means that we must closely follow the development needs of the party and the country and ensure that all aspects of the deployment of comprehensive and strict party governance are closely centered on the center and serve the overall situation. Adhering to the leadership of the Party's political construction means upholding and strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, promoting all aspects of the Party's construction to achieve accurate political direction and implementing political requirements, improving the political capabilities of Party organizations at all levels and party members and cadres, ensuring that the entire Party maintains a high degree of unity with the Party Central Committee, and consolidating the unity and unity of the Party. By adhering to the party's political construction as the guide, we can grasp the soul and grasp the program.

Feng Xinzhou: The key to comprehensively and strictly governing the party lies in strictness. Adhering to comprehensive strictness means that the strict tone, strict measures, and strict atmosphere should be reflected in all aspects of party building and the entire process, so as to be truly strict, dare to be strict, and be strict for a long time. This is the keynote principle for persistently promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party, and sends a strong signal that strictness should be taken first and strict to the end. Adhering to a problem-oriented approach means focusing on solving outstanding problems within the party, not avoiding conflicts, not hiding illnesses and avoiding medical treatment, and improving work standards while correcting deviations and chaos, stirring up turmoil and promoting cleanliness. This is a practical principle for persistently promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party, and clarifies the target of efforts to govern the party. Adhering to integrity and innovation requires that we not only adhere to the party's basic theory, basic line, and basic strategy, follow the Marxist laws of governing party building, and use the historical experience of party building, but also constantly propose new measures and methods based on the development and changes of the situation and tasks, and constantly promote the in-depth development of the new great project of party building in the new era.

Li Junwei: A distinctive feature of comprehensive and strict governance of the party is that it not only puts forward universal requirements for the majority of party members, but also sets higher and stricter standards for the "key minority", especially senior cadres. Adhering to the principle of leading from above means starting from the Party Central Committee, starting from the leading organs and leading cadres, and doing it from one level to the next, and from one level to the next. This embodies the clear direction of using the "key minority" to demonstrate the "majority". Adhering to governing the party in accordance with regulations means integrating system construction into the practice of comprehensively and strictly governing the party, focusing on using systems to manage power, affairs and people, strictly implementing the party constitution, party rules and party disciplines, and enhancing work efficiency with a system of complete, scientific and standardized, and effectively operating intra-party laws and regulations. This is a guarantee principle for persistently promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party.

Reporter: The seven principles to be followed to consistently promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party have their own emphasis, but are closely related to form an organic whole. Could you please talk about how to understand the inner connection between these principles?

Li Junwei: The layout of principles is highly consistent with the overall idea of ​​comprehensively and strictly governing the party. The principle of "adhering to service missions and tasks" realizes the organic integration of comprehensive and strict governance of the party and the national cause, and anchors the goal direction for comprehensive and strict governance of the party. "Adhering to the party's political construction as the guide" can grasp the soul and the program, and consolidate the political foundation for comprehensive and strict governance of the party. "Adhere to comprehensive strictness", "adhere to problem orientation" and "adhere to integrity and innovation" clarify the scientific method of comprehensively and strictly governing the party. "Adhere to the above and lead the people below" has consolidated the chain of responsibility for comprehensively and strictly administering the party. "Adhere to governing the party in accordance with regulations" strengthens the institutional guarantee for party management and governance. The seven principles embody the organic connection and interpenetration between goal orientation and political leadership, methodological guidance and responsibility implementation, practical requirements and institutional guarantees, forming a logically logical and complete system of principles for comprehensively and strictly governing the party.

Li Zhijun: On the whole, the seven principles are interconnected and organically unified, forming a complete chain from goals to guarantees, which is both epistemology and methodology. The seven principles are divided into three levels: the level of fundamental direction, including "persisting in serving missions and tasks" and "adhering to the party's political construction as the leader"; the level of practical methods, including "adhering to comprehensive strictness", "adhering to problem orientation" and "adhering to integrity and innovation"; the level of main guarantees and institutional norms, including "adhering to the leadership from above" and "adhering to governing the party in accordance with regulations." The three levels draw and support each other, so that the seven principles show the distinctive characteristics of the unity of goal orientation and problem orientation, the integration of ideological party building and institutional party governance, and the coordination of overall advancement and key breakthroughs.

Feng Xinzhou: The seven principles are an indivisible whole, interconnected and organically unified, covering the basic aspects of managing and governing the party. For example, the realization of service missions is inseparable from the strong support of comprehensive strictness, problem-orientation to find the right landing point, and uprightness and innovation to maintain adaptability. To be truly effective, methods such as comprehensive strictness, problem-orientation, and uprightness and innovation cannot be separated from the leadership of the party's political construction, so that all methods always serve the correct goals. The direction and methods ultimately depend on the chain of responsibilities established by the above-mentioned leaders and the institutional guarantee of party governance. The seven principles are not a simple superposition, but a clear division of labor, close cooperation, and organic unity. They must be deeply understood and implemented in an integrated manner.

●Adhere to and make good use of the major principles of “Seven Persistences”

Reporter: The major principles of the "Seven Persistences" are interconnected and organically unified. They are both epistemology and methodology. What thoughts do you have on adhering to the good application of these principles in the practice of managing and governing the party?

Li Junwei: The seven principles are a scientific summary of the experience of comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era. These principles are integrated into specific strategic measures to consistently promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, and provide basic norms and evaluation standards for specific party building work. Grasping the seven principles must be implemented into the specific practice of managing and governing the party. On the new journey, we must adhere to and apply the valuable experience of comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era with higher standards and more practical measures, integrate these principles into the daily performance of duties and responsibilities, run through the entire process of officials and entrepreneurship, and give full play to their powerful power to guide practice and promote work.

Feng Xinzhou: The seven principles must be implemented integrally with system deployment. The "Decision" deploys strategic tasks and major measures to continuously promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party, including strengthening the party spirit of Communists, strictly implementing democratic centralism, forging a team of high-quality cadres worthy of the important task of national rejuvenation, building up-to-down coordination and effective execution We must establish a strict organizational system with strong force, unswervingly improve the work style and strengthen discipline, unswervingly advance in an integrated manner, dare not be corrupt, cannot be corrupt, and do not want to be corrupt, adhere to the governance of the party by system, govern the party in accordance with regulations, etc., and make arrangements for improving the party and state supervision system and implementing the political responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the party. The key to transforming principle requirements into actual results is not to let the principles remain at the level of document expression, but to integrate them into the planning, execution and evaluation of each deployment, and transform them into practical actions for managing and governing the party.

Li Zhijun: The "Decision" emphasizes that it is the common political responsibility of the whole party to persist in promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the party. The consistent application of the seven principles must be incorporated into the responsibility system for party management. We will tighten and consolidate the main responsibilities of the Party Committee (Party Group), the supervisory responsibilities of the Discipline Inspection Commission, the first-person responsibility of the Party Committee (Party Group) Secretary, the "one post, dual responsibilities" of other members of the leadership team, and the specific responsibilities of Party members and cadres, and improve the responsibility system in which each person takes his own responsibility and is unified and coordinated. By optimizing the evaluation mechanism for the implementation of responsibilities, closely following the chain of responsibilities, transmitting pressure at all levels, strictly pursuing accountability, and promoting the implementation of all responsible entities according to the specific actual conditions of fields, industries, localities, and units, we will continue to create a new situation of managing the party in the new era, revitalizing the party, and strengthening the party.