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Decision of the Central Committee on Strengthening and Improving Party Building under the New Situation
(Adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on September 6, 2009)
The Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made a comprehensive analysis of the situation and tasks, and held that, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of New China, it is of great and far-reaching significance to further study and deploy the new great project of promoting Party building with the spirit of reform and innovation, and to comprehensively implement the spirit of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, thoroughly implement Scientific Outlook on Development and promote Party building. Effectively respond to the impact of the international financial crisis, maintain steady and rapid economic development, win new victories in building a well-off society in an all-round way, and create a new situation in Socialism with Chinese characteristics. The plenary session made the following decisions on several major issues concerning strengthening and improving Party building under the new situation.
First, the importance and urgency of strengthening and improving party building under the new situation
China * * Party was founded in 1988 and has been in power for 60 years, leading the reform and opening up for 30 years. Generations of China and party member have always taken the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as their responsibility, persisted in integrating the basic principles of Marxism with the concrete reality of China, United and led the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to make unremitting efforts, overcome all kinds of difficulties and obstacles, and constantly won great victories in revolution, construction and reform. China has successively realized a historic transformation from a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society to a new society with national independence and the people being the masters of the country, from a new-democratic revolution to a socialist revolution and construction, from a highly centralized planned economy system to a vibrant socialist market economy system, and from a closed and semi-closed society to an all-round opening up. The overall national strength has greatly jumped, people's lives have improved significantly, and their international status has improved significantly. The Chinese nation stands proudly among the nations of the world. This is a great pioneering work of China and party member to understand and transform the world, and it is a great change that fundamentally changes the destiny of the Chinese nation and profoundly affects the historical process of mankind. Practice has proved that there would be no new China and no Socialism with Chinese characteristics without the China Party. The key to China's success lies in the Party. Adhere to the Socialism with Chinese characteristics road, promote socialist modernization and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, we must unswervingly adhere to the leadership of the China * * * Production Party.
The world today is in a period of great development, great change and great adjustment. World multipolarization and economic globalization are developing in depth, scientific and technological progress is changing with each passing day, the international financial crisis has a far-reaching impact, the world economic structure has undergone new changes, the international power comparison has shown a new trend, the global ideological and cultural exchanges and exchanges have shown new characteristics, developed countries still have advantages in economy, science and technology, the competition between comprehensive national strength and various forces is more intense, and unstable and uncertain factors have increased, bringing new opportunities and challenges to China's development. China's economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction and ecological civilization construction have been comprehensively promoted, and industrialization, informationization, urbanization, marketization and internationalization have developed in depth. China is in an important period of strategic opportunities for further development and is advancing at a new historical starting point. Generally speaking, China's basic national conditions, which will remain in the primary stage of socialism for a long time, and the contradiction between the people's growing material and cultural needs and backward social production, the main social contradiction, have not changed. At the same time, China's development presents a series of new stage characteristics, and a series of new situations and new problems have emerged. In a large developing country with a population of over one billion, the arduous, complicated and arduous task shouldered by the Party to promote reform, opening up and socialist modernization is rare in the world. The Party must further strengthen and improve its own construction in order to adapt to this new situation, coordinate the overall situation at home and abroad, better lead the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to concentrate on construction and development, and realize the grand blueprint drawn by the 17th Party Congress.
Party building is an important magic weapon for the continuous victory of the great cause led by the party. Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening-up, our party has continuously improved its leadership level and ruling level, and improved its ability to resist corruption, change and risks according to the changes in its historical orientation and central tasks, and has made great achievements. At present, the Party's leadership and ruling level, Party building and the quality of party member's team are generally in line with the historical mission shouldered by the Party. At the same time, there are many problems in the party that do not meet the requirements of the new situation and new tasks and do not conform to the nature and purpose of the party. The main problems are: some party member cadres ignore theoretical study, are divorced from study and application, their ideals and beliefs are shaken, their belief in Marxism is not firm, and they lack confidence in Socialism with Chinese characteristics; Some party organizations do not implement democratic centralism, some do not seriously implement central decision-making, some do not guarantee party member's democratic rights, and some party member cadres have weak awareness of the rule of law and discipline; The overall role of some leading bodies has not been fully exerted, and their ability to promote scientific development and deal with complex problems is insufficient. Some localities and departments have low credibility in selecting and employing people, and problems such as running away from officials and wanting officials, buying officials and selling officials have been repeatedly banned. Some grass-roots party organizations do not play a strong role in fighting bastions, some are weak and lax, some regional party organizations do not cover a wide range, and some party member and party member have weakened their consciousness and their vanguard and exemplary role is not obvious; Some leading cadres have a weak sense of purpose, divorced from the masses and reality, unprincipled, irresponsible, inconsistent in words and deeds, fraudulent, extravagant and wasteful, prominent individualism, and serious formalism and bureaucracy; Corruption cases among some leading cadres, especially senior cadres, have a bad influence, and corruption in some fields is prone to occur frequently. These problems seriously weaken the party's creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness, seriously damage the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the people, seriously affect the consolidation of the party's ruling position and the realization of its ruling mission, and must arouse the vigilance of the whole party and be resolved in time.
The whole party must bear in mind that the party's advanced nature and ruling position are not permanent. Being advanced in the past does not mean being advanced now, and being advanced now does not mean being advanced forever. Having the past does not mean having the present, and having the present does not mean having forever. The profound changes in the world, national conditions and party conditions have put forward new requirements for party building. The test of governance, reform and opening up, market economy and external environment faced by the party is long-term, complex and severe. It is more arduous and urgent than ever to implement the task of strictly administering the party. The whole Party must be prepared for danger in times of peace, enhance its sense of hardship, always worry about the Party's heart, enjoy its responsibility, be brave in reform and innovation, never become rigid and never stagnate, continue to push forward the new great project of Party building, and ensure that the Party is always in the forefront of the times in the historical process of profound changes in the world situation, always become the backbone of the people of the whole country in the historical process of coping with various risks and tests at home and abroad, and always become a strong leadership core in the historical process of developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
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Seventh, carry forward the party's fine style of work and maintain the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the people.
The party style of the ruling party is related to the image of the party and the success or failure of the cause of the party and the people. We should vigorously carry forward the style of integrating theory with practice, keeping close contact with the masses, criticizing and self-criticizing in the whole party, always be modest and prudent, work hard, pay attention to ideological education, improve the system, concentrate on rectification, and be serious in discipline, make great efforts to solve outstanding problems, promote political style and bring people's feelings with excellent party style, and form a powerful force to unite the party's hearts and people's hearts.
(A) Daxing wind of close ties with the masses. The whole party should conscientiously implement the party's mass line, unswervingly rely on the masses, adapt to the new characteristics and requirements of mass work, do a good job in organizing publicity and education of the masses, learn from the masses with an open mind, serve the masses enthusiastically, and accept their supervision sincerely. Insist on asking the people about politics, needs and considerations, fully consider the interests and affordability of the people, coordinate the interests of all parties, do a good job in accommodating public opinion, solving people's worries and benefiting people's livelihood, and let the people enjoy the fruits of reform and development. Improve the system of serving the masses, and give full play to the leading, promoting, supervising and guaranteeing roles of the Party organizations and party member in serving the masses. Improve the system of contacting the masses, innovate ways of contacting the masses, shift the focus of government work, and grassroots cadres should stick to the front line. Leading cadres should always go deep into the grassroots, especially in places with backward economy and many problems, understand the sufferings of the masses, listen to their voices and help solve difficulties. Grass-roots leading cadres should arrive without pomp, do not disturb the people, do not accompany them at all levels, and do not organize the masses to see them off. Broaden the channels for reflecting social conditions and public opinion, strengthen and improve the work of letters and visits, improve the system of joint meetings of letters and visits, adhere to regular visits by leading cadres, read letters from the masses in time, and pay attention to online public opinion analysis. We will improve the mechanism for safeguarding the rights and interests of the masses led by the party and the government, and seriously solve outstanding problems in education and medical care, environmental protection, safe production, food and drug safety, enterprise restructuring, land acquisition and demolition, agriculture-related interests, and law-related litigation. We will improve the mechanism for investigating and resolving contradictions and disputes, guide the masses to express their reasonable demands according to law, and earnestly safeguard the rights and interests of the masses.
(2) the wind of seeking truth and being pragmatic in Daxing. We should implement the principle of seeking truth and being pragmatic in all aspects of governing the party and the country, and truly work hard and blaze new trails. Establish and improve the work responsibility system, create a good atmosphere of seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic, so that party member cadres can really focus on their careers, focus on examining the facts, making practical moves and doing practical things, and strive to achieve continuous results in promoting scientific development and promoting social harmony. Starting from the leading organs, we should vigorously rectify the style of writing, advocate short meetings, short speeches and useful words, and refrain from empty talk and rhetoric. Actively use information technology, strictly control the number and scope of documents, and strictly control the number, funds and scale of meetings. Vigorously clean up the inspection and appraisal activities that meet the standards, effectively solve the problem of excessive ribbon-cutting during festivals, and improve the activities of leading cadres at all levels. Resolutely stop the "image project" that wastes people and money and the "performance project" that seeks fame and reputation. Those who are floating in style and perfunctory, causing major events or heavy losses, as well as those who resort to deceit and make false reports and exaggerations, should be seriously investigated for responsibility.
(3) the wind of hard struggle in Daxing. The whole Party should always share weal and woe with the people, make unremitting efforts for the people's interests, and always maintain the political nature of party member. Party and government organs take the lead in practicing economy, further control office expenses, and spend more limited funds and resources on developing the economy and improving people's livelihood. Strictly implement the financial system and economic work discipline, strictly control the construction of buildings, halls and museums, strictly prohibit the decoration of office buildings over budget and standards, strictly prohibit the purchase, construction and equipping of vehicles for leading cadres in violation of regulations, and strictly control the number and scale of delegations going abroad. Extravagance, extravagance, and squandering of public funds must be dealt with seriously. We should promptly remind, criticize and stop unhealthy tendencies in party member cadres' socialization, recreation and life style.
The trend of criticism and self-criticism. Strengthen the principle and effectiveness of inner-party life, resolutely oppose mutual praise between superiors and subordinates and between cadres, and resolutely vulgarize inner-party life. The leading group should carry out serious criticism and self-criticism, so as to know everything, say everything, say everything, and say everything. Correct if there is one, and encourage if there is no one. We will improve the system of dual-organization life meetings for leading cadres, improve the quality of democratic life meetings, and give play to the important role of democratic life meetings in exchanging ideas, improving party spirit and strengthening team unity. Establish and improve the system of soliciting public criticism through opinion polls, consciously accept criticism and actively carry out rectification. Leading cadres, especially leading cadres, should adhere to principles, dare to grasp management, dare to expose and correct shortcomings and mistakes, put forward requirements and suggestions for improving their work in time, and oppose and overcome humanism. Protect party member, who adheres to the principle of party spirit, and forbid to suppress criticism and take revenge.
(5) Ensure the construction of the Party's work style with strong party spirit. Taking strengthening the cultivation of party spirit as an important foundation and motivation to form a good style of work, we should educate and guide all party member to strengthen their study practice and inner-party life exercise, consciously learn from party constitution, abide by party constitution, implement party constitution, safeguard party constitution, enhance party member's consciousness and party spirit cultivation, and inherit and carry forward the party's fine tradition and style of work. Establish a regular analysis system of party spirit, take party spirit analysis as the main content of democratic life meeting, and take work style as the key content of party spirit analysis. Intensify the rectification of outstanding problems in the work style of party and government organs and leading cadres. Incorporate style construction into the assessment scope of the responsibility system for party style and clean government construction, and take the assessment results as an important basis for selecting and appointing cadres. We will carry out in-depth activities that emphasize party spirit, value conduct and set an example, widely publicize and seriously study advanced models, so that the vast number of party member will remain youthful and energetic, high-spirited and honest.
8. Accelerate the construction of a system for punishing and preventing corruption and carry out the anti-corruption struggle in depth.
Resolutely opposing corruption is a major political task that the party must always grasp. We should fully understand the protracted nature, complexity and arduousness of the anti-corruption struggle, put anti-corruption construction in a more prominent position, adhere to the policy of treating both the symptoms and root causes, comprehensively managing, punishing and preventing simultaneously, and paying attention to prevention, strictly implement the responsibility system for building a clean and honest party style, resolutely punish corruption, and at the same time intensify education, supervision, reform and system innovation to prevent corruption more effectively and continuously achieve new results in the anti-corruption struggle.
(1) Strengthen the education of honesty in politics and the education of honesty and self-discipline of leading cadres. Carry out the requirements of being pragmatic and honest for the people, carry out party spirit, party style and party discipline education in depth throughout the party, incorporate clean government education into the cadre education and training plan, carry out targeted demonstration education, warning education and post clean government education, improve educational methods and improve educational effectiveness. Strengthen the construction of a clean government culture. Leading cadres should strictly abide by the rules of honesty and self-discipline, and be strict with themselves, their spouses, children and staff around them. Investigate and deal with leading cadres who use their positions to seek illegitimate interests for themselves or specific related parties according to discipline and law. Improve the system of reporting personal matters by leading cadres in party member, and include housing, investment, spouse and children's employment, etc. into the scope of reporting. In the report. Strengthen the management of public officials whose spouses and children have emigrated abroad. Further standardize the behavior of retired leading cadres in enterprises and various societies, associations and foundations. In accordance with the principles of thrift, efficiency and honesty, we will continue to promote the reform of official consumption and official reception system.
(2) Intensify the investigation and punishment of cases of violation of discipline and law. We will maintain the high-pressure situation of punishing corruption, resolutely curb the tendency of corruption in some fields, and never let any corrupt elements escape the punishment of party discipline and state law. Seriously investigate and deal with cases of abuse of power, corruption and bribery, corruption, dereliction of duty and dereliction of duty of leading organs and leading cadres, seriously investigate and deal with cases of commercial bribery and serious infringement of the interests of the masses, and seriously investigate and deal with corruption cases behind mass incidents and major accidents. Strengthen special governance in the fields of engineering construction, real estate development, land management and mineral resources development, state-owned assets management, finance and justice. Improve the anti-corruption coordination mechanism, strengthen the organization and coordination of investigating and handling major cases, and form an overall synergy. Improve the anti-corruption network report acceptance mechanism and network information collection and disposal mechanism. Insist on handling cases according to discipline and law, improve the protection system for informants and witnesses, protect the legitimate rights and interests of informants, and investigate and deal with false accusations and frame-ups according to law. Improve the analysis system and notification system of major cases, and give full play to the disciplinary function and radical function of investigating cases.
(3) Improve the restriction and supervision mechanism of power operation. Focusing on strengthening the supervision of leading cadres, especially leading cadres, we will establish and improve the power structure and operation mechanism in which decision-making, execution and supervision are mutually restricted and coordinated, and promote the procedural, open and transparent operation of power. All major decisions involving the vital interests of the masses should be made public and accepted by the masses. Strictly implement and constantly improve the system of leading cadres' debriefing, admonishing conversation, letter inquiry, inquiry, recall or replacement, and the standing committees of local party committees should regard honesty and diligence, selection and employment as an important content of their reports to the whole Committee. Carry out the accountability system for party and government leading cadres, the commitment system for clean government and the responsibility system for administrative law enforcement. Strengthen and improve the inspection work, improve the leadership mechanism of inspection work, select and strengthen inspection cadres, improve inspection procedures and methods, and improve inspection results. Improve the unified management of the stationed institutions by the discipline inspection and supervision organs, and improve the supervision system for the leading bodies and their members of the stationed departments. We will improve the economic responsibility audit of leading cadres of the party and government and leaders of state-owned enterprises, and strengthen the audit of financial funds and major investment projects. Adhere to the combination of inner-party supervision and non-party supervision, supervision by specialized agencies and supervision by the masses, give full play to the role of public opinion supervision, and enhance the joint efforts of supervision.
(4) Promoting the innovation of anti-corruption system. Adhere to the system of managing power and people, deepen the reform of important areas and key links, minimize institutional obstacles and loopholes, improve the system and mechanism for preventing corruption, and improve the level of anti-corruption institutionalization and rule of law. Deepen the reform of administrative management system, speed up the separation of government and enterprise, government capital, government and market intermediary organizations, and further reduce and standardize administrative examination and approval. We will deepen the reform of the judicial system and working mechanism, strengthen supervision over judicial activities, improve the accountability system for law enforcement faults and violations of discipline and law, and ensure fair justice. Deepen the reform of the budget management system, improve and standardize the financial transfer payment system, strengthen the management of financial funds and social public funds, and thoroughly clean up the "small treasury". Improve the financial market mechanism, strengthen the construction of financial supervision and internal control mechanism, improve the real-name registration system of financial accounts, and effectively prevent and severely punish corruption activities with the help of the securities market and capital operation. Improve the publicity system and accountability system for major government investment projects. In accordance with the requirements of accelerating the formation of a unified, open, competitive and orderly modern market system, we will promote relevant reforms, establish and improve the system of preventing conflicts of interest, and improve the market operation mechanism in the fields of public resource allocation, public asset trading, and public product production. Improve the power balance mechanism and salary incentive and restraint mechanism of state-owned enterprises. Strengthen the supervision and inspection of the implementation of the anti-corruption system, improve the implementation of the system, and safeguard the authority of the system.
Strengthening and improving Party building under the new situation is a major political responsibility of the whole Party. Party organizations at all levels should conscientiously implement the spirit of this decision, insist that the party should govern the party, fully implement the responsibility system for party building work, establish and improve a long-term mechanism for party building work, and ensure that all arrangements for party building are implemented. We will improve the party building work pattern of unified leadership by the Party Committee, unified work by all departments, joint management by all departments and implementation at different levels, and give full play to the role of the leading group for party building work. Party organization secretaries at all levels should earnestly perform their duties of grasping the first responsible person of party building. Improve the comprehensive evaluation system of party building work, strengthen classified guidance, overall coordination, supervision and inspection, and build a high-quality party work team. Strengthen the investigation and study of party building work, study new situations, solve new problems, sum up new experiences, fully understand and consciously apply the laws of Marxist ruling party construction, promote theoretical innovation of party building, and provide scientific guidance for strengthening and improving party building under the new situation.
Party building in the China People's Liberation Army and the Chinese People's Armed Police Force shall be deployed by the Central Military Commission in accordance with the spirit of this decision.
The whole Party should closely unite around the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Hu Jintao as the general secretary, hold high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, fully implement the spirit of the 17th Party Congress, comprehensively push forward the new great project of Party building with the spirit of reform and innovation, unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups throughout the country to vigorously advance the cause of the Party and the country, and live up to the great trust of the people!