Strengthening discipline construction is a radical solution to comprehensively and strictly administering the party. At the 19th National Congress of the CPC, discipline construction was brought into the overall layout of the Party's construction and placed in a more prominent position. The amendment to the Constitution of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Party puts forward the new task of Party building in the new era and enriches and perfects the relevant contents of discipline building. In October 1st, the newly revised regulations on disciplinary action of the Communist Party of China came into effect. This is the second revision of the Regulations by the Party Central Committee after the 18th National Congress of the Party. It further releases a strong signal that the Party is governed by iron discipline and is another institutional achievement of the strict and comprehensive administration of the Party.
We firmly believe that under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core, and with the enactment, implementation and rooting of various laws and regulations within the Party, it will provide a strong and compulsory guarantee for building a well-off society in an all-round way, building a socialist modernization power and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The Communist Party of China is a Marxist party with lofty ideals and iron discipline. Strict discipline is the glorious tradition and unique advantage of the Party. The extreme importance of Party discipline has made the party attach importance to discipline construction since its establishment. This is manifested not only in the clear stipulation of discipline in the important documents such as the Party Constitution (the Party Program) and the resolution, but also in the prominent emphasis on the importance of discipline by the main leaders of the Party, and also in the rich practice of the Party's discipline construction in different periods.
The initial establishment of discipline construction in the period of democratic revolution
Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has attached great importance to strict discipline, strengthened the Party's discipline construction by cultivating the sense of discipline, creating laws and regulations within the Party, establishing discipline inspection institutions, and shaping fine Party conduct, so as to enable the Party to withstand the test of war and ultimately win the Democratic revolution.
As early as the founding of the Party, the First Program of the Communist Party of China stipulated on discipline, emphasizing that "when the Party is in a state of secrecy, the Party's important proposals and membership should be kept secret". The Party Constitution passed at the Second, Third and Fourth National Congresses of the Party has a special chapter on discipline, which clearly expounds the importance of strict discipline. In May 1927, the Resolution on Organizational Questions adopted by the Fifth Five Party Members for the first time explicitly put forward the concept of "political discipline", emphasizing the importance of intra-Party discipline and "political discipline should be emphasized". The Central Committee of the five leading election of the party has pioneered the party's discipline inspection organization. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, Comrade Mao Zedong gradually put forward and practiced the "Three Disciplines and Eight Attentions" to strengthen Party discipline and military discipline, which played an important role in enhancing the fighting power of the people's army and consolidating the military-civilian relationship.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, in September 1938, the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China formulated a special document to strengthen discipline, and for the first time put forward the organizational discipline of "four obediences". After that, the Central Committee of the Party launched the Yan'an rectification movement, taking the opposition to hill-top doctrine and sectarianism and strengthening the Party's discipline construction as one of the main contents of the rectification movement. During the War of Liberation, in 1948, Comrade Mao Zedong issued a call for "strengthening discipline and invincible revolution", which was not only transformed into the conscious action of the whole Party, but also tested and confirmed in the practice of winning the national revolution.
As Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out in his review of the 28 years of arduous revolutionary struggle the Party has gone through, our Party has three "major weapons for defeating the enemy", the first being "a party with discipline, armed with Marxist-Leninist theories, adopting self-criticism and linking up with the masses of the people". Comrade Mao Zedong put "discipline" at the forefront, reflecting his profound summary of the Party's construction experience in the revolutionary era and the victorious experience of the new democratic revolution.
The deepening of discipline construction since the founding of new China
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Communist Party of China, as always, has placed the strengthening of discipline construction in an important position. According to the changes in the environment and the tasks it undertakes, it has highlighted the key contents of discipline construction under the ruling conditions and effectively promoted the development of the Party's cause in different periods.
In the early days of the founding of New China, the Central Committee of the Party established the Central Discipline Inspection Committee and the Local Discipline Inspection Committee with Comrade Zhu De as the secretary. It was one of the important tasks to inspect and examine the violations of Party discipline by Party organizations and Party members and cadres at all levels. In September 1956, the Constitution of the Eighth National Congress of the CPC stressed that "the Party is a united combat organization linked with the discipline that all Party members must observe; without discipline, the Party can never lead the country and the people to overcome powerful enemies and achieve socialism and communism."
After the reform and opening up, the Fifth Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CPC adopted the "Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party", which summed up 12 basic principles of political life within the Party, and established rules and regulations for Party members and cadres to abide by the Party's political and organizational principles and strictly observe Party discipline. In September 1982, the Party Constitution adopted at the Twelfth National Congress of the Party fully and concretely stipulated six basic principles of democratic centralism, clarified the types and procedures of disciplinary sanctions, and for the first time stipulated that the procedures of disciplinary enforcement must be examined and approved in accordance with the organizational procedures.
After entering the new century, the Party Central Committee attaches importance to discipline. In December 2003, the Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment of the Communist Party of China was issued, which was revised and perfected on the basis of the Regulations on Disciplinary Punishment of the Communist Party of China (Trial Implementation) promulgated by the Central Committee of the Party in February 1997. It has played an important role in safeguarding the Party's Constitution and other laws and regulations within the Party, strengthening Party discipline and purifying the Party's organization. . In October 2007, the 17th National Congress of the Party stressed: "All Party comrades should resolutely safeguard the centralization and unification of the Party, consciously abide by the Party's political discipline, always keep in line with the Party Central Committee, resolutely safeguard the authority of the Central Committee, and earnestly ensure the smooth flow of government decrees." In September 2009, the Fourth Plenary Session of the Seventeenth Central Committee of the CPC stressed that the whole Party should "strictly observe Party discipline, especially political discipline, to ensure the smooth flow of the central decree".
"The wise will change with time, and the wise will follow the business." After the founding of New China, the development of the situation and tasks and the change of the central work require the Party to respond to the construction of discipline. Through the revision of the party constitution and the formulation of relevant laws and regulations, the work of Party discipline construction has been deepened.
Vigorous advance in discipline construction in the new era
Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee, with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core, has placed the strengthening of discipline construction in a more prominent position. It has greatly enhanced the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the Party by administering the Party with strict discipline.
On November 16, 2012, just after the closing of the 18th National Congress of the Party, General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed in his speech: "The Party Constitution is the fundamental law of the Party and the general rules that the whole Party must follow." The CPC Central Committee regards strengthening discipline construction as the fundamental policy to administer the Party in an all-round and strict way. It provides system guarantee for administering the Party in an all-round and strict way by making regulations and amending regulations. It has become a "high voltage line with electricity" by strict supervision and disciplines. In October 2015, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China promulgated and amended the "Regulations on disciplinary punishment of the Communist Party of China". Whether it is the "Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party under the New Situation", "Regulations on Supervision within the Party of the Communist Party of China", "Three Strictness and Three Solidarities" special subject education and "Two Learning and One Doing" study education, the Party discipline is regarded as an important content, the leading cadres of Party members as the focus, and the Party rules and regulations are promoted into the mind.
On the basis of a thorough summary of the process and experience of discipline construction since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the 19th National Congress of the CPC put forward the key points of "taking the party's political construction as the leading factor" and "comprehensively promoting the party's political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, style of work and discipline construction, penetrating the system construction into it and further promoting the anti-corruption struggle" In this way, on the basis of adhering to the requirements of the "Five Major Constructions" put forward by the Eighteenth National Congress of the CPC, the "discipline construction" will be brought into the overall layout of Party building in the new era. In August 2018, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China issued the newly revised Regulations on Disciplinary Disposition of the Communist Party of China, which fixed the theoretical, practical and institutional innovations of the Party's discipline construction in the form of Party rules and Party discipline, and made great efforts to improve the political, epochal and targeted nature of discipline construction.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as its core has stressed the importance and urgency of strict discipline from the perspective of the overall situation of the Party and the national cause and the political height of promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, thus pushing the theoretical innovation and practical development of discipline construction of the Communist Party of China to a new era. Altitude has made historic changes and historic achievements in the cause of the party and the state.
Source: Guangming Daily