Provide the strongest political guarantee for realizing the Chinese dream.
[Roundtable Dialogue on "Striving Forward in the Direction Guided by the General Secretary: Historical Change in My Eyes"]
The five years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China have been extraordinary in the development of the Party and the country. In his "July 26th" speech, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader emphasized that in the past five years, the CPC Central Committee has scientifically grasped the development trend of today’s world and contemporary China, complied with the requirements of practice and people’s wishes, launched a series of major strategic measures, promulgated a series of major principles and policies, pushed forward a series of major tasks, solved many long-term unsolved problems, and accomplished many major events that had been tried but failed in the past. Among the nine major tasks listed by General Secretary of the Supreme Leader, the first one is: "We have comprehensively strengthened the party’s leadership and greatly enhanced the party’s cohesiveness, combat effectiveness, leadership and appeal." On the eve of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, this newspaper specially invites four experts and scholars to review the glorious course that the Communist Party of China (CPC) has gone through in the past five years and make an in-depth interpretation of "comprehensively strengthening the leadership of the Party".
Moderator: Luo Xu Wang Haokui
Jiabin: Xiong Yun (Vice President of China Pudong Cadre College)
Han Dongxue (Vice President of Chinese Political Science Association, Professor Tsinghua University)
Xu Yaotong (Professor of National School of Administration, former director of scientific research department)
Feng Cuiling (Party Secretary, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, Tianjin University, National Excellent Party Worker)
1. What the mission requires.
Moderator: Of the nine "major tasks" summarized in the "July 26th" speech of the Supreme Leader, the first one is "comprehensively strengthening the Party’s leadership". What does this mean?
Yun Xiong:The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership is the most essential feature of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of Socialism with Chinese characteristics system. Strengthening the party’s leadership in an all-round way is not only a historic achievement made by the party and the country in the past five years, but also the fundamental reason for other achievements made by the party and the country.
In the past five years, the key to our party’s solution to many long-term unsolved problems and many major events that we wanted to do in the past but failed to do is to comprehensively strengthen the party’s leadership. Only by further building the Party well and ensuring that our Party will always maintain its vigorous vitality and strong combat effectiveness can our Party lead the people to successfully meet major challenges, resist major risks, overcome major obstacles and resolve major contradictions, and constantly move from victory to new victory, thus providing the strongest political guarantee for realizing the Chinese dream.
Han Dongxue:Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, facing the complicated international situation and domestic environment, comprehensively promoting the new great project of Party building is the key to the continuous innovation of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s great cause.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is the leading core of China’s modernization. If we want to give full play to the role of the ruling party, we must strengthen the party’s leading role in the country, constantly improve the party’s leadership style and ruling style, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. At the same time, to govern the country, we must first govern the party. Only by striving to achieve our own leap forward, can we continuously inject vitality into the cause of the party and the people.
Xu Yaotong:Building Socialism with Chinese characteristics is an extremely arduous undertaking and a great creative project in human history. We can neither find ready-made answers from Marxist books, nor copy the experiences and models of other countries. We are facing the dual tasks of reform and construction, and we will encounter all kinds of obstacles. Its arduousness, complexity and long-term nature are incomparable at any time in the past. Without the Party’s leadership and strategy, it is impossible to accomplish the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s construction.
Only by strengthening the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leadership, combining the universal principles of Marxism with China’s reality, and testing the road suitable for China’s national conditions through practical exploration, can we fully understand the construction law of Socialism with Chinese characteristics and formulate the correct line, principles and policies.
Feng Cuiling:We should be soberly aware that there are still some problems in the Party, such as the weakening of the advanced nature of some party member cadres, the weakness and laxity of some Party grass-roots organizations, formalism, bureaucracy and corruption. Failure to change this situation will weaken the party’s ruling ability, shake the party’s ruling foundation, and even ruin the bright future of our party and people.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, under the leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, many long-term unsolved problems have been solved, and many major events that we wanted to do in the past have been accomplished. The Communist Party of China (CPC) takes the overall situation into consideration and plays the core role of the Party’s leadership in all aspects of economy, politics, culture, society and ecological civilization. The development in all fields shows that "strengthening the Party’s leadership in an all-round way" is the mission and the need of the cause.
2. Always want to be with the people and work together.
Moderator: "The party’s cohesiveness, combat effectiveness, leadership and appeal" have been greatly enhanced. What are the aspects?
Yun Xiong:In the past five years, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has comprehensively examined the new changes in the world, national conditions and party conditions, placed the management of the party in an important strategic position, paid attention to strategic planning of party building from the top-level design, and pushed the new great project of party building to a new realm. Constantly promoting theoretical innovation and strengthening ideological and theoretical armed forces, the whole party has constantly strengthened the "four self-confidences" and firmly established the "four consciousnesses." Serious inner-party political life, the political ecology has been purified, the political environment has been continuously optimized, and a lively political situation has been formed day by day. Vigorously promote system construction, introduce and revise nearly 80 inner-party laws and regulations, and strictly manage the party and officials, which are more and more rules-based and evidence-based.
The vigorous promotion of party building has greatly enhanced the party’s cohesion, combat effectiveness, leadership and appeal. At present, the whole Party is more unified in thinking and pace. Party organizations at all levels and the vast number of party member and cadres resolutely safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, consciously implement the various decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee, and strive to achieve a firm response advocated by the CPC Central Committee, a firm implementation of the CPC Central Committee’s decisions, and a firm refusal to do so.
Han Dongxue:In the new century and new stage, the profound changes of the world, the national conditions and the party’s situation and various risk tests have put forward new and higher requirements for the Communist Party of China (CPC). Managing the party is not only related to the future and destiny of the party, but also to the future and destiny of the country and the nation.
In the past five years, from the party’s mass line education practice, the special education of "three strictness and three realities" and the study and education of "two studies and one doing", we have put forward clear requirements for ideological party building, and defined the rigid norms of institutional party building &hellip in the Regulations on Disciplinary Actions in the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Regulations on Inner-Party Supervision in the Communist Party of China (CPC) and Several Guidelines on Inner-Party Political Life under the New Situation; … A series of major arrangements and measures have always focused on maintaining the advanced nature and purity of the party and ensuring that the party is always at the forefront of the times.
Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind. In the past five years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) adhered to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, adhered to the people-centered development thought, vigorously guaranteed and improved people’s livelihood, resolutely won the tough battle against poverty, respected the people’s dominant position, and ensured that the people were the masters of their own affairs … … It is the insistence on doing everything for the people and relying on the people that greatly enhances the party’s cohesiveness, combat effectiveness, leadership and appeal.
Xu Yaotong:In the past five years, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has taken the construction of work style as a breakthrough, unswervingly promoted the comprehensive and strict administration of the party, and made efforts to solve the outstanding problems that the people have most strongly reflected. The political life within the party has been updated, and the party’s ruling foundation and mass foundation have been further consolidated.
Comprehensively strengthen Party building to the grassroots level, promote the formation of a good employment orientation and institutional environment, and further highlight the role of party member as a vanguard model and a fighting fortress for grassroots party organizations … … The outstanding achievements in managing the party and the party have fulfilled the solemn promise of "striking while the iron is hot" and practiced the solemn oath of "always wanting to be with the people and working together".
Feng Cuiling:A political party, a political power, its future and destiny depend on people’s hearts.
In the past five years, the party’s ideological construction, organizational construction, work style construction, anti-corruption construction and system construction have been comprehensively strengthened. The whole party has earnestly carried out the party’s mass line education and practice activities, the special education of "three strictness and three realities" and the study and education of "two studies and one doing"; The Party Central Committee fought against corruption with an iron fist, and the tigers and flies fought together, and the serious illness and minor illness were treated together, which won the party’s heart and people’s hearts. The introduction of eight regulations on improving work style and keeping close contact with the masses has purified the political ecological environment and greatly enhanced the image of the party in the hearts of ordinary people; With the continuous development of economic construction and the improvement of people’s living standards, the people are the direct beneficiaries; The international political influence has been continuously improved, and the national culture has gone global, which has enhanced the national pride and cultural self-confidence of the broad masses of the people; The construction of ecological civilization has greatly improved the living environment of ordinary people. In the past five years, the party style and political style have been one of the new ones, which has won the heartfelt praise of the people.
3. The development of China needs a strong leadership core.
Moderator: The communiqué of the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee formally put forward "the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core". What does this mean for the development of the party’s cause?
Xu Yaotong:The core position of the Supreme Leader General Secretary in the CPC Central Committee and the whole Party was formed in the practice of upholding and developing Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s new great struggle. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has taken the lead in setting an example, firmly promoted the comprehensive and strict administration of the Party, adhered to the close combination of ideological party building and institutional party management, concentrated put in order’s party style, severely punished corruption, and purified the political ecology within the Party, which showed a new atmosphere in the political life within the Party and won the hearts and minds of the Party.
We should unite more closely around the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core with a high degree of consciousness, more firmly safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, and strive to maintain a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core in ideological and political actions.
Feng Cuiling:As the saying goes: the train runs fast, all by the headband. With his broad mind, deep friendship for the people and high responsibility for the Party, the Supreme Leader General Secretary led China, a huge train carrying more than 1.3 billion people of 56 ethnic groups, with new ideas, new ideas and new strategies. In the five years since the 18th CPC National Congress, he struggled forward and made great achievements in the country’s development. The leadership core of a country, a nation and a political party is very important. The Sixth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee formally put forward the "CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core", which is the aspiration of the party’s heart and people’s hearts, the luck of the party and the blessing of the people. It is expected that after the 19th National Congress, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core will lead us to continue to win great victories in Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Yun Xiong:Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader has personally led the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reform, the Central Leading Group for Finance and Economics and other leading groups, and further strengthened leadership in economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction, military and national defense construction. Giving full play to the leading core role of the Party in overall planning and coordinating all parties has become the fundamental guarantee for overcoming various risk challenges.
The decision made at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee is of great and far-reaching significance for safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee, maintaining the unity and centralized leadership of the Party, and ensuring new victories in the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics. This means that the party’s cause has a strong leadership core, winning a well-off society in an all-round way and realizing the Chinese dream have a fundamental guarantee, and the prosperous situation of the country’s long-term stability and people’s living and working in peace and contentment can be maintained for a long time.
Han Dongxue:The life and strength of the party depend on the unity and unity of the party, and the unity and unity of the party first lies in safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee. Today, the Communist Party of China (CPC) is a big party with more than 89 million party member and more than 4.5 million grass-roots party organizations. The larger the organization is, the more it needs to maintain the authority of the CPC Central Committee, and the more it needs a strong leadership core.
Since the 18th National Congress, the strong leadership of the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has become the most distinctive feature of China’s political life. The Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee defined the core position of the Supreme Leader General Secretary, which was a far-reaching strategic decision, formed in the process of leading and advancing great struggles, great undertakings and great projects, and was the choice of the whole party, the people and the history and practice.
4. Deliver excellent answers to the Party and the people with solid work.
Moderator: Why do party member cadres have to strengthen the "four consciousnesses" and strengthen the "four self-confidences"?
Han Dongxue:Ideological Party Building is the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s fine tradition and the way to strengthen the soul. We should use the development practice of contemporary China and the latest achievements of Marxism in China to educate party member cadres, strengthen the "four self-confidences" and "four consciousnesses", take a clear-cut stand on politics, strictly abide by political discipline and rules, and maintain a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core in ideological and political actions. Only in this way can we form a strong political leading force and maximize the will and strength of the whole party and the people throughout the country. Strengthening the "four self-confidences" and strengthening the "four consciousnesses" is a dynamic process. We should constantly improve our political stance and political consciousness and hand in excellent answers to the party and the people with down-to-earth work.
Yun Xiong:Under the new historical conditions, strengthening the "four consciousnesses" is an important measure to strengthen party building, adhere to the centralized and unified leadership of the CPC Central Committee, enhance the unity and unity of the party, and form the centripetal force, cohesion and combat effectiveness of the whole party, which has rich ideological connotations.
Only by strengthening the "four consciousnesses" can party member cadres consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the CPC Central Committee in ideological and political actions, and make our party more United and strong, and always become the strong leadership core of the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Xu Yaotong:Flags lead the way, and roads determine fate. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has held high the great banner of Socialism with Chinese characteristics, led the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups to overcome all difficulties and break the waves, and pushed the great cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics into a new stage. In order to learn and understand the spirit of the important speech of the Supreme Leader on July 26th, we must further strengthen the "four consciousnesses", always strengthen the "four self-confidences", and earnestly enhance the implementation of political consciousness and action consciousness.
Feng Cuiling:In the process of winning the Chinese dream of a well-off society in an all-round way and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, it is urgent for party member cadres to keep a clear political mind, stand firm and correct in their political stance, and always adhere to their faith in Marxism, Socialism with Chinese characteristics and communism, and their absolute loyalty to the party and the people. By strengthening the "four consciousnesses" and strengthening the "four self-confidences", we can make our Party more United and strong, and always become the strong leadership core of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause, and then lead the broad masses of people to build a well-off society in an all-round way, accelerate socialist modernization and realize the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
5. Constant dripping wears away the stone
Moderator: What is the practical and long-term significance of solidly promoting the normalization and institutionalization of "two studies and one doing" learning and education?
Feng Cuiling:To promote the normalization and institutionalization of "two studies and one doing" learning and education is to require party organizations at all levels to always put ideological education in the first place, educate and guide the vast number of party member to learn, practice and realize, and constantly strengthen the "four consciousnesses"; It is required that all party member always adhere to the party constitution Party Rules to regulate their behavior, always arm their minds, guide practice and promote their work with the spirit of the series of important speeches by the Supreme Leader General Secretary, and ensure that leading cadres in party member are loyal and clean, and play a vanguard and exemplary role. Steadily promoting the normalization and institutionalization of the study and education of "two studies and one doing" is an effective way to continuously strengthen the ideological and political construction of the Party, which is of great and far-reaching significance to further unify the thinking of the whole Party, ensure that the whole Party is more closely United around the CPC Central Committee with the supreme leader as the core, and constantly create a new situation in the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics.
Yun Xiong:Carrying out the study and education of "two studies and one doing" is an important practice to implement party constitution’s requirements on strengthening education management in party member and deepening inner-party education for all party member, an important measure to promote inner-party education from "key minority" to party member and from centralized education to regular education, and an important deployment to strengthen the party’s ideological and political construction.
Steadily promoting the normalization and institutionalization of "two studies and one doing" study and education will, from a practical point of view, help to solve some problems such as party member’s vague ideals and beliefs, the party’s weak consciousness, vague concepts of purpose, listlessness and misconduct, and guide and push party member to be a qualified party member who stresses politics, belief, rules, discipline, morality, conduct, dedication and achievement. In the long run, it is of great and far-reaching significance to ensure that the whole party is more closely United around the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core, to make our party more cohesive, combat-effective, leading and appealing, and to constantly push forward the cause of Socialism with Chinese characteristics to open up a new prospect.
Xu Yaotong:In my opinion, to promote the normalization and institutionalization of "two studies and one doing" study and education, the key is to deepen the expansion of "doing", better educate and guide the vast number of party member to be qualified in politics, discipline, morality and function according to the standard of "four stresses and four haves", and constantly improve their political consciousness, so as to truly become a qualified Communist party member. We must adhere to the combination of learning and doing, promote learning and doing, highlight problem orientation, and rectify problems. We should focus on finding and analyzing whether our ideals and beliefs are firm, whether we are loyal and honest to the Party, whether we have a clear-cut stand in front of major issues, and whether we are highly consistent with the CPC Central Committee on major issues by referring to party constitution’s party rules, series of speeches, and advanced models. We should focus on solving the problems such as the party’s weak consciousness, weak organizational concept, and insufficient role, so as to further establish party member’s vanguard image and reflect the power of faith with actions.
Han Dongxue:To promote the normalization and institutionalization of "two studies and one doing" study and education, we must also expand the word "learning", thoroughly study party constitution’s party rules and regulations, and thoroughly study the spirit of the series of important speeches by the Supreme Leader General Secretary.
Ideological consciousness is a prerequisite for "learning deeply and learning often" If there is no consciousness of "I save myself three times a day", how can there be the perseverance of "rushing without stopping, dripping water wears through"? In order to deepen and expand the word "learning", we must first have a clear understanding and full preparation for grasping the long-term and the long-term. Inner-party education cannot be accomplished in one battle. The pace of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-improvement of our party has never ended.
On the issue of rejuvenating and strengthening the Party, we must adhere to Do not forget your initiative mind, keep our mission in mind, strictly manage the Party and forge ahead. We should fully understand the great political significance, theoretical significance, practical significance and methodological significance of the series of important speeches by General Secretary of the Supreme Leader, take in-depth study of the spirit of the series of important speeches by General Secretary of the Supreme Leader as a compulsory course, insist on systematic study, in-depth study and follow-up study, so as to believe in learning, think while learning, and practice learning, effectively unify thoughts and actions with the spirit of speeches, and consciously guide new practice with developing Marxism, greeting the successfully convening of the 19th National Congress of the CPC with excellent achievements.
(Portrait: painted by Guo Hongsong)