Deeply understand the scientific connotation and logic of the party’s leadership system
The party’s leadership system is the fundamental leadership system in China. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee focused on "upholding and improving the Party’s leadership system, improving the Party’s scientific, democratic and legal governance", and clearly put forward six requirements, namely, establishing the system of Do not forget your initiative mind, keeping in mind the mission, improving the systems of firmly safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, improving the Party’s overall leadership system, improving the systems of governing for the people and relying on the people, improving the system of improving the Party’s ruling ability and leadership level, and improving the system of comprehensively and strictly administering the Party. These six specific systems not only have their own specific rich connotations, but also are interrelated and complementary to each other. They are closely woven from the aspects of ideological basis, system guarantee, coverage, value orientation, capacity support and self-revolution. Only by understanding its scientific connotation as a whole and grasping its internal logic can we continuously improve the comprehensive effect in practice, thus giving full play to the greatest advantage of the party’s leadership and continuously promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.
Lay the ideological foundation
Establishing the system of Do not forget your initiative mind and keeping in mind the mission is conducive to promoting the whole party to abide by the party’s nature, purpose, ideals, beliefs and goals, and laying an ideological foundation for upholding and improving the party’s leadership.
It is our party’s distinctive feature and glorious tradition to pay attention to building the party ideologically and strengthening the party theoretically. The initial intention and mission of seeking happiness for the people of China and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation embodies the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s nature, purpose, ideals, beliefs and goals, and is based on Marxist scientific theory. Only by persisting in building the Party with ideology and strengthening the Party with theory can Do not forget your initiative mind be more conscious and take on a more firm mission. At present, our party has gone through the course of nearly a hundred years. Under the long-term ruling condition of the Party, various factors weaken the Party’s advanced nature and damage the Party’s purity all the time, and all kinds of dangers that violate the initial intention and mission and shake the Party’s foundation are everywhere. The outstanding problems existing in the Party, such as impure thoughts, impure politics, impure organization and impure style of work, have not been fundamentally solved. Only by establishing the system of Do not forget your initiative mind and keeping in mind the mission, persisting in building the Party with thought and strengthening the Party with theory, arming the mind with the Party’s innovative theory, and taking Do not forget your initiative mind and keeping in mind the mission as the eternal task of strengthening Party building and the lifelong task of all party member and cadres, can we further consolidate the Party’s leading position and ruling foundation, so that our Party will always be supported and supported by the people and write about the great achievements of the Chinese nation.
Build a strong institutional guarantee
Perfecting various systems that firmly safeguard the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralize and unify leadership is conducive to promoting the effective implementation of the party’s leadership in all work and building a solid institutional guarantee for upholding and improving the party’s leadership.
The key to upholding the party’s leadership is to uphold the authority of the Party Central Committee and centralize and unify leadership, which is the highest principle of the party’s leadership. In the big chess game of the national governance system, the CPC Central Committee is the "handsome" in the military account. Only by upholding the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership can we ensure that the CPC Central Committee plays a leading role of "handsome". Throughout the development of the party in the past century, it can be seen that when the whole party firmly safeguards the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralizes and unifies leadership, the party’s cause will continue to win; Without the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership, the party’s leadership will inevitably weaken and the party’s cause will inevitably suffer setbacks. The sharp contrast between "the rule of China" and "the chaos in the West" highlighted in the answers to the COVID-19 epidemic exam shows that upholding the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralized and unified leadership cannot be vague and unshakable at any time and under any circumstances. Firmly safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee and centralizing and unifying leadership requires both a high degree of consciousness of the whole party and a sound and perfect system as a guarantee. By perfecting the system of implementing the "two maintenances", improving the leadership system of the CPC Central Committee for major work, improving the mechanism of promoting the implementation of major decisions of the CPC Central Committee, strictly implementing the system of asking for instructions and reporting from the CPC Central Committee, and improving the centralized and unified organizational system for safeguarding the party, we can ensure the smooth implementation of the party Central Committee’s decrees and decisions, and ensure that the whole party is United and in step. This provides a strong institutional guarantee for better playing the core role of the party’s leadership.
Clear coverage
Perfecting the party’s overall leadership system is conducive to ensuring that the party always takes the overall situation and coordinates all parties, and defines the coverage for upholding and improving the party’s leadership.
The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out that "the leadership of the Party must be comprehensive, systematic and holistic, and must be reflected in economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction, national defense forces, reunification of the motherland, diplomatic work, party building and other aspects. Which field, which aspect and which link are missing and weakened will weaken the party’s strength and damage the cause of the party and the state. " This shows that the party’s leadership must be embodied in all aspects of governing the country and the activities of various organizations at all levels. In view of the weakening of the party’s leadership in some fields to varying degrees, we need to ensure the full coverage of the party’s leadership from the system. Improve the party’s overall leadership system, improve the working system of party committees (party groups) at all levels, improve the specific system of party leadership in various undertakings and the functional system of party and state institutions by improving the systems of party leaders, governments, CPPCC, supervisory organs, judicial organs, procuratorial organs, armed forces, people’s organizations, enterprises and institutions, grassroots mass autonomous organizations and social organizations. So as to ensure that the party plays a leading role in various organizations, implement the party’s leadership in promoting the overall layout of the "five in one" and coordinating the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, and implement it throughout the whole process of the party and all state institutions performing their duties.
Indicate the value orientation
Perfecting various systems of governing for the people and relying on the people is conducive to consolidating the class foundation and mass foundation of the party’s governance and pointing out the value orientation for upholding and improving the party’s leadership.
Who is in power and who is in power is a problem that any ruling party must face, and it is also the touchstone to judge whether a political party is a Marxist political party. Our party has always maintained flesh-and-blood ties with the people, insisting on doing everything for the people and relying on them to govern the country. Whether ruling for the people or relying on the people, its focus is always around the "people", reflecting the people-centered value orientation. Governing for the people and relying on the people is not an empty slogan, but has concrete and practical content, which requires our party to actively practice in the process of governing and make scientific arrangements from the system. By improving the system of party member and cadres contacting the masses, innovating the mass work mechanism in the Internet era, and improving the mass work system with extensive contacts and serving the masses, the systems of governing for the people and relying on the people will be gradually improved and organically unified to ensure the people’s dominant position in state governance, which is of great significance for continuously consolidating the class foundation of the party’s governance and planting the mass foundation of governance.
Provide capacity support
Perfecting the system of improving the party’s ruling ability and leadership level is conducive to adapting to the new era and new requirements and providing capacity support for upholding and improving the party’s leadership.
The key to China’s success lies in the Party. At present, the domestic and international environment has undergone profound changes, and the task of comprehensively deepening reform is arduous. The party’s ruling ability and leadership level directly determine and affect the ability and effectiveness of governing the country. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader clearly pointed out that "our Party should be politically competent as well as technically competent". The purpose of perfecting the system of improving the party’s ruling ability and leadership level is to organically unify the construction of the party’s long-term ruling ability with the improvement of the national governance level, and improve the party’s ability to take the direction, seek the overall situation, formulate policies and promote reform by adhering to democratic centralism, perfecting the relevant system of developing inner-party democracy and implementing correct centralization; By improving the decision-making mechanism, the level of scientific decision-making, democratic decision-making and legal decision-making of leading bodies at all levels will be enhanced; Enhance the political function and organizational power of party organizations at all levels by improving the party’s leadership and governance style; By improving the incentive mechanism of taking responsibility, we can improve the ruling ability and ability of leading cadres at all levels and make the party’s leadership more suitable for the requirements of practice, the times and the people.
Promote self-revolution.
Perfecting the system of strictly administering the Party in an all-round way is conducive to continuously promoting the Party’s self-revolution and ensuring that the Party will always be the strong leadership core of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause.
Our party must always be the pioneer of the times and the backbone of the nation, and always be the ruling party of Marxism, and it must always be excellent. The General Secretary of the Supreme Leader pointed out: "If the Party is poorly managed and lax, and the outstanding problems within the Party that are strongly reflected by the people are not solved, then our Party will lose its ruling qualification sooner or later and will inevitably be eliminated by history." Therefore, to strengthen the party’s leadership, we must be strict with the word, put strict requirements through the whole process of managing the party and the party, and constantly promote the comprehensive and strict development of the party. To promote the comprehensive and strict administration of the party, we must not only solve ideological problems, but also rely on systems. The purpose of perfecting the system of strictly administering the Party in an all-round way is to persist in administering the Party according to regulations, improve the system of managing cadres, selecting talents and appointing people, and improve and implement the responsibility system of strictly administering the Party in an all-round way, so as to carry out the great self-revolution of strictly administering the Party in an all-round way to the end, continuously enhance the Party’s creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness, and continuously improve the Party’s level of governing the country.
(This article Source: Economic Daily Author: Yu Kun is a researcher at the Central Socialism with Chinese characteristics Theoretical System Research Center of the Communist Youth League)