Xi Jinping emphasized the need to promote strict party governance; system construction is the key to long-term anti-corruption

Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, speaks at the second plenary session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, China’s capital, January 9, 2023. Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xue Xiang and Li Xi attended the meeting.Image source: Xinhua News Agency

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, emphasized on Monday that we must unremittingly promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party to ensure that the decisions and arrangements of the party’s 20th National Congress are implemented. .

Chinese President and Central Military Commission Chairman Xi Jinping made the remarks while addressing the second plenary session of the Communist Party’s 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, Xinhua News Agency reported on Monday.

Analysts said that after the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the key to the second century-old anti-corruption journey of the Chinese Communist Party is system construction and institutional construction. Effective long-term sustainable self-government and supervision can solve long-standing problems such as corruption, misconduct, bureaucracy Doctrine requires a sound and mature institutional system to allow the party’s self-government to keep up with the idea of ​​ruling the country according to law.

Yang Xuedong, a political science professor at Tsinghua University, told the Global Times on Monday: “Anti-corruption is a long-term work that requires unremitting efforts and is crucial to ensuring the Chinese Communist Party is in power.”

More importantly, Yang said, this is also an ongoing fight against corruption that requires system building and comprehensive supervision, while the fundamental goal of the meeting is to ensure that the party’s important decisions are correctly and effectively implemented at all levels of the party.

Analysts said that the work of discipline inspection and supervision is not just anti-corruption. The problems of bureaucracy and dereliction of duty in recent years are actually irresponsible “lazy administration”, which seriously damages the interests of the people and normal operation. Social image, party image. Therefore, the main task of the discipline inspection and supervision work in the future will also focus on solving these problems and further improving the party’s ability to govern.

Zhang Xixian, a professor at the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China in Beijing, told the Global Times on Monday that “we need to fully implement the party’s 20th congress decision-making and deployment, but it is also important to oppose mechanical copying or one-sided implementation” because this may eventually distort and destroy the party’s The correctness and effectiveness of decision-making at the grassroots level.

On the eve of the meeting of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, three high-ranking officials were sacked, and the release of a new documentary on former Minister of Justice Fu Zhenghua and his corruption group symbolizes the party’s determination and perseverance in fighting corruption and upholding integrity in its new journey. The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

The first anti-corruption documentary since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China was broadcast on CCTV on Saturday. The first episode focused on the former Minister of Justice Fu Zhenghua and his corrupt group headed by the former Deputy Minister of Public Security Sun, which attracted widespread attention.

Experts said that the documentary shows that the CCP will maintain high pressure within the party to curb corruption, and by showing the consequences and lessons of corruption among senior officials and the law enforcement process, it tries to continuously educate party members to be loyal to the party’s central leadership, wholeheartedly respect and abide by party discipline, and to The society demonstrates the party’s transparency and self-confidence in the fight against corruption.