Leaders of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission answer reporters' questions on the "Regulations on Party Building of the Communist Party of China"

　　Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 10 -

　　Xinhua News Agency reporter

　　With the approval of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, the "Regulations on Party Building in the Chinese Communist Party Army" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") were promulgated and implemented recently.

The leaders of the Political Work Department of the Central Military Commission answered reporters' questions on the relevant situation of the "Regulations."

　　Question: Please introduce the background and significance of the formulation of the "Regulations"?

　　Answer: Party building in the army is the core issue of army building and development and the key to all army work.

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has attached great importance to party building in the military, and has made a series of important deployments to set clear requirements for the comprehensive and strict management of the party and the military.

The 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made important arrangements for strengthening party building in the new era, and the revised party constitution put forward new regulations and new requirements.

With the overall revolutionary remodeling of the people's army, party building in the army is facing many new situations and new problems.

The military at all levels earnestly implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, the Central Military Commission, and Chairman Xi, and has accumulated important experience in insisting that the party manages the party and governs the party strictly.

Facing the new era, new mission and new system, it is necessary to make an overall design and comprehensive standard for party building in the military.

　　At the 2018 CMC Policy and System Reform Work Conference, Chairman Xi clearly proposed to formulate regulations on party building in our army and build a systematic and complete system for party building in our army.

The Party Central Committee has included the "Regulations" in the central party's internal party law-making plan, and the Central Military Commission has made specific arrangements for the formulation of the "Regulations" on the overall deployment of military policy system reform.

The drafting of the Regulations was launched in January 2019, and it took more than a year to form the draft of the Regulations.

On June 29, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping presided over a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee to deliberate and pass the Regulations.

　　The "Regulations" are the backbone of the party's internal regulations for comprehensively regulating party building in the military. They are an important achievement in advancing the reform of military policies and systems. They mark a new level of scientific, standardized, and institutionalized party building in our military.

The promulgation and implementation of the "Regulations" is important for enhancing the "four consciousnesses", strengthening the "four self-confidences", and achieving the "two safeguards", implementing the chairman responsibility system of the Military Commission, ensuring the party's absolute leadership over the military and ensuring the effective implementation of the new era military The mission and task of ensuring that the people's army always maintains its nature, purpose, and true qualities is of great significance to achieving the party's goal of strengthening the army in the new era and building the people's army into a world-class army in an all-round way.

　　Question: What are the distinctive features and key points of the "Regulations"?

　　Answer: The "Regulations" occupies an important position in the party's legal system in the military. They are clearly political, basic, pioneering, and practical.

The most important thing is the political nature. The "Regulations" run through the "two maintenances" and implement the requirements of the military committee chairman responsibility system. The comprehensive provisions are related to the party's absolute leadership of the army, the nature, purpose, and true qualities of the people's army. The major issue of the implementation of the comprehensive and strict governance of the party reflects strong political standards and political requirements.

The important thing is the foundation. The "Regulations" focus on major issues with fundamental direction and overall importance in the party building of the military, and provide guiding principles and norms for the content of work operations, which demonstrates the basic positioning of the basic internal party laws and regulations.

What stands out is the groundbreaking. The "Regulations" carry forward the red genes and fine traditions of our party and our army, summarize the new experience and new achievements of strict governance of the party since the 18th National Congress of the party, and adapt to the new requirements of military party building in the new era. For the first time, a comprehensive and systematic regulation of party building in the military was specifically made, and it was an innovative measure to build a legal system within the military party.

Focusing on practicality, the "Regulations" focus on solving the prominent contradictions and weaknesses in the party building of the military, focusing on solving the difficulties, obstacles, and confusions in the party building of the military under the new system, and the guiding and targeted requirements of various regulations Both sex and operability are very strong.

　　The formulation of the "Regulations" grasped six key points: First, highlight the fundamental guidance of Xi Jinping’s thoughts on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, thoroughly implement Xi Jinping’s thoughts on strengthening the army, and integrate Chairman Xi’s important instructions on strengthening party building and the 19th National Congress of the Party. The deployment is transformed into rigid system regulations and strict disciplinary requirements.

The second is to adhere to the party constitution as the fundamental observance, to specify the principles, systems, and requirements of the party constitution on party building, and to fully reflect the new regulations and requirements of the central party’s internal regulations formulated since the 18th National Congress of the party.

The third is to uphold the party's absolute leadership over the army, and centrally stipulate a series of fundamental principles and systems for the party's absolute leadership over the army, the implementation of the military committee chairman responsibility system, and leadership systems.

The fourth is to focus on the main responsibility and main business of preparing for war, implement the strategic requirements of the "four standing up", and implement combat effectiveness standards and actual combat requirements throughout the entire process of party building in the military.

Fifth, to keep up with the new era, new missions and new systems to promote system innovation, make full use of the results of the Party Building Conference of the Central Military Commission and the fresh experience of army exploration, so that various norms are in line with the new leadership and command system, and the new scale, structure and strength The composition is matched and integrated with the effective fulfillment of the military's mission in the new era.

Sixth, implement the requirements for strict party governance in an all-round way, adhere to problem orientation, and integrate strict standards and strict requirements into all aspects of party building in the military.

　　Question: How to grasp the framework and style of the "Regulations"?

　　Answer: The "Regulations" has 7 chapters and 79 articles, more than 17,000 words, divided into 3 major sections: Chapter One is the general rules, which constitutes the first section. It mainly stipulates the purpose and basis for formulating the "Regulations", the role of the military party building, and the guiding ideology , Goals, tasks and principles.

Chapters 2 to 5 constitute the second section and are the main part of the "Regulations." They mainly stipulate the party's absolute leadership of the army and the major issues of implementing the military committee chairman responsibility system, and stipulate the army's party organization and the army's party discipline inspection agency , Stipulating the main tasks of party building in the army.

Chapters 6 and 7 constitute the third section, which mainly stipulates the responsibility system and supervision and guarantee mechanism for party building in the military, as well as supplementary provisions.

　　Question: What clear provisions do the "Regulations" make for upholding the party's absolute leadership over the army?

　　Answer: The party's absolute leadership over the army is an essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, an important political advantage of the party and the country, and the foundation of the people's army and the soul of a strong army.

The primary task of party building in the army is to ensure the party's absolute leadership over the army.

The "Regulations" tightly grasped this primary task and focused on strengthening the party's institutional guarantee of absolute leadership over the army.

The first is to stipulate the fundamental principles and system of the party's absolute leadership over the armed forces. The series of fundamental principles and systems for the party's absolute leadership over the armed forces, which have been formed through long-term practice, are systematically clarified in the form of central party regulations.

The second is to stipulate important issues concerning the implementation of the military committee chairman responsibility system, and clarify the status, role, connotation requirements, working mechanism, and responsibility system.

The third is to stipulate the leadership system, emphasize the centralized and unified leadership of the Central Military Commission, and standardize the party organization system of the military.

The fourth is to stipulate organizational principles, mainly to maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee, the "four obediences", and collective leadership.

These norms are an important guarantee for upholding the party's absolute leadership over the army.

　　Question: What are the regulations that the "Regulations" are responsible for implementing the Chairman of the Military Commission?

　　A: The chairman responsibility system of the Military Commission is an important system stipulated by the party constitution and the constitution. It is the fundamental system and fundamental realization form for adhering to the party's absolute leadership over the army. It is at the highest level and in the commanding position of the party's entire system of leadership of the army.

The "Regulations" specifically provide for the implementation of the military committee chairman responsibility system.

The first is to clearly implement the connotation requirements of the CMC chairman’s responsibility system, and emphasize the need to resolutely implement the CMC chairman’s responsibility for the overall work of the CMC, lead and command the national armed forces, and determine all major issues of national defense and military construction, and implement them in all areas of national defense and military construction. The whole process.

The second is to improve the working mechanism for implementing the chairman responsibility system of the Military Commission, and strive to form a closed loop for implementing the chairman responsibility system of the Military Commission.

The third is to establish a responsibility system that implements the responsibility system of the chairman of the Military Commission, and clarify related responsibilities at all levels.

　　Question: How does the "Regulations" implement the requirements of focusing on preparing for war and being responsible for the main business?

　　Answer: President Xi emphasized that party building in the army must be closely focused on being able to fight and win wars, and become an enhancer and power amplifier of the army's combat effectiveness.

The "Regulations" conscientiously implement President Xi's instructions and requirements on preparing for war, and focus on preparing for war throughout the article.

It is mainly embodied in four aspects: First, in the principles of party building in the army, "persist in focusing on preparing for war and fighting the main responsibility and main business" as one of the important principles.

The second is to highlight theater party committees as a single type in the party organization system of the military, and to clarify the leadership relationship of the party organizations of the troops performing combat missions.

The third is to emphasize the responsibility of leadership in preparing for war in the main tasks of the party organization in the military.

Fourth, in the main tasks of party building in the military, emphasize the improvement of the "five capabilities" of the party committee, promote the construction of talent teams such as joint operations command and new combat forces; emphasize the strengthening of war awareness and actual combat orientation, and cultivate the fighting spirit and bloody courage of officers and soldiers .

　　Question: What optimizations have been made to the military party organization system in the Regulations?

　　Answer: President Xi put forward the Party’s organizational line for the new era at the National Organizational Work Conference, emphasizing “focusing on the construction of the organizational system”. After the reform, the organization of the People’s Army has been reshaped as a whole. All of these have contributed to the improvement and optimization of the military’s party organization. The system puts forward new requirements.

The "Regulations" focus on the formation of a party organization system in the military that is reasonably hierarchical, well-structured, efficient, and conducive to work. It focuses on answering the new situations and new problems faced by the construction of the military party organization system under the new system, and generally regulates the establishment of party organizations and leadership relationships in the military. Standardize the functional positioning, powers, composition, methods and main tasks of six types of party organizations, including party committees in theaters, party committees at all levels, party committees, directly affiliated party committees, basic-level party committees (party branch committees), and party branches.

Among them, there are mainly six aspects of innovation: First, clarify the principles of the establishment of party organizations, solve the problem of "whether or not" and "how to establish" the establishment of party organizations, and provide clear compliance for all levels.

The second is to refine the general requirements for the establishment of different types of party organizations, adapt to the reality of the diversified organization system and large differences in units after the reform, and clarify the specific requirements for the establishment of party organizations by category, so that the establishment of various party organizations can be based on evidence.

The third is to expand the establishment of certain types of party organizations, add new units directly under the party committees, units of indeterminate grades, and basic-level party committees and joint party branches of military divisions, brigade and regiment-level units that do not have agencies, and clarify the requirements for the establishment of temporary organizations.

The fourth is to standardize the leadership relationship of the party organization, to the party committees of the theater party committees, service party committees, and theater service party committees, as well as the party organizations that perform combat tasks, participate in joint training, and perform non-war military operations. The leadership relationship is made clear.

The fifth is to adjust and improve the functional positioning of party organizations, and adjust, optimize, and improve the functional positioning of various party organizations in accordance with the new provisions of the party constitution and regulations.

The sixth is to clarify the principles of party committee composition, adjust the composition of party committees from the past "number-oriented" to the current "principle-oriented", and strive to solve the problem of large differences in the establishment of different types of units at the same level and the difficulty of uniformly stipulating the number of party committee members under the new system.

　　Question: What new regulations does the "Regulations" make for the party's discipline inspection organs in the military?

　　Answer: The party constitution adopted by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has made some new regulations on the party's discipline inspection organs.

The "Regulations" implement the provisions of the party constitution, closely follow the reality of the reform of the military's discipline inspection and supervision system, optimize the establishment of discipline inspection committees, scientifically allocate powers and responsibilities, and integrate relevant systems, so that the party's discipline inspection organs in the military can better adapt to the new situation and task requirements.

There are five main points of improvement: First, clarify the leadership system of the disciplinary committees, standardize the leadership relationship between the disciplinary committees at all levels and the disciplinary committees of the combat missions, and ensure the relative independence and authority of the supervisory powers of the disciplinary committees at all levels.

The second is to adjust the functional positioning of the Disciplinary Committee, and clarify that the Disciplinary Inspection Committee established by the party in the military is the special agency for internal party supervision in the military, which is responsible for comprehensively and strictly governing the party and performing its duties of supervision, discipline, and accountability.

The third is to clarify the general requirements for the establishment of disciplinary committees, coordinate with the establishment of party organizations, and expand the types of disciplinary committees on the basis of the original three types of disciplinary committees above the regiment level, agency disciplinary committees, and direct disciplinary committees, and expand and increase theater disciplinary committees and temporary unit disciplinary committees.

The fourth is to clarify the main tasks of the Commission for Discipline Inspection. On the basis of the three main tasks of the Commission for Discipline Inspection as stipulated in the party constitution, the specific content and requirements are clarified based on the actual situation of the military.

The fifth is to clarify the general principles of the composition of the Disciplinary Committee, and standardize the composition of the theater discipline committee, troops above the regiment, and units equivalent to the troops above the regiment (excluding theaters), and the discipline committee of agencies and departments to facilitate the implementation of the troops.

　　Question: How does the "Regulations" stipulate the main tasks of party building in the military?

　　Answer: The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China puts forward the general requirements for party building in the new era, emphasizing that the party’s political building is the leading one to comprehensively promote the party’s political building, ideological building, organizational building, work style building, and discipline building, and system building throughout it , Intensify the fight against corruption.

In accordance with this overall layout, the "Regulations" clearly put forward the principle requirements for party building in the military, and at the same time clearly clarified the main tasks of party building in the military.

In terms of the party’s political construction, it emphasizes the firm belief in Marxism, the implementation of the “two safeguards”, the implementation of the responsibility system of the Chairman of the Military Commission, serious political life within the party, strengthening political ability training and political practice, and developing a positive and healthy political culture within the party, etc. .

In terms of party ideological construction, emphasis is placed on studying and implementing Xi Jinping’s thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, especially Xi Jinping’s thought on strengthening the army, highlighting party spirit education, doing a good job in party ideological work, and strengthening ideological and moral construction.

In terms of party organization building, emphasis is placed on improving the quality of implementing democratic centralism, highlighting political standards to do a good job in recruiting party members, strengthening the building of cadres and talent teams, implementing standards for good military cadres, and strengthening the construction of the Communist Youth League.

In terms of the party’s style building, it emphasizes the strict implementation of the spirit of the eight central regulations, the ten regulations of the Military Commission, and the spirit of its implementation rules, comprehensively and thoroughly rectify the problems of peace, correct the style of training and examination, and promote the spirit of strictness and style.

With regard to the construction of the party’s discipline, it is emphasized that political discipline should be the first priority, disciplinary education should be carried out, strict discipline requirements, and rigid implementation of discipline should be strengthened.

With regard to the building of the party’s system, emphasis is placed on strengthening the awareness of the party constitution, deepening the reform of the party’s building system in the military, and maintaining the seriousness and authority of the party’s laws and regulations.

In the anti-corruption struggle, we emphasized maintaining a high-pressure situation in investigating and punishing corruption, strengthening supervision and remediation in key industries, deepening and expanding political inspections, and fostering a culture of clean government.

These regulations implement Chairman Xi’s important instructions on party building, answer the questions of what and what to do in party building in the military, and provide compliance for the normal work of party building at all levels.

　　Question: What specific measures does the "Regulations" take to improve the responsibility system and supervision and guarantee mechanism for party building in the military?

　　Answer: Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has attached great importance to the implementation of the responsibility system for party building work and the improvement of relevant internal party laws and regulations, which has effectively promoted the implementation of the responsibility for strict party governance.

The "Regulations" focus on consolidating the chain of responsibility for party governance, clearly stipulating the responsibility system for party building in the military, and proposing to build a centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, the party committee shall perform the main responsibility, the discipline inspection committee shall perform the supervision responsibility, and the agencies and departments shall bear their own responsibilities. The responsibility system emphasizes the improvement of the party’s political construction work responsibility system, ideological work responsibility system, organ party building responsibility system, grassroots party building responsibility system, and party style and clean government building responsibility system.

The "Regulations" aimed at the problem of insufficient implementation of party building work, and required all levels to improve and implement the supervision mechanism; for the problem of insufficient party building work, emphasized the construction of the secretarial team and party staff team; aimed at the organization of a small number of grassroots party organizations. It emphasizes the improvement and implementation of open party affairs, inner-party incentives, care and assistance, and the military’s inner-party commendation system, and the improvement of the fault-tolerant and error-correcting mechanism; in view of the problems in the work guarantee of grassroots party organizations, it is emphasized that party committees at all levels should be grassroots party organizations Carry out activities to provide the necessary guarantees.

These regulations have adapted to the deployment requirements for strict governance of the party in an all-round way, responded to the concerns of the troops, officers and soldiers, and provided institutional support for solving problems in the work of party organizations.

　　Question: Please tell us how to implement the "Regulations"?

　　Answer: The vitality of the system lies in its implementation.

In accordance with the requirements of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission, the study and implementation of the "Regulations" must be taken as an important political task to promote the implementation of the "Regulations" and see real results.

Party committees and leading cadres at all levels must fully and accurately grasp the requirements of the "Regulations", study the "Regulations" from the original, fully grasp the content, deeply understand the spirit, and improve the awareness and ability of grasping party building; adopt centralized classes, guidance, lectures, and seminars Through communication and other forms, we will do a good job in the study, training, publicity and interpretation of the "Regulations", and promote the requirements of various regulations.

It is necessary to strictly follow the "Regulations" to standardize and strengthen party building in the military, carefully review and inspect the party building of the unit, and resolutely correct those that do not comply with the "Regulations."

Party organizations at all levels should assume the political responsibility for studying and implementing the "Regulations," analyze the situation in a timely manner, study and solve problems, strengthen supervision and inspection, and hold accountable for ineffective implementation.

The party building work team, party building research institutions, and the majority of party members must combine their own responsibilities and earnestly implement the requirements of the "Regulations."

Through joint efforts, we will promote the high-quality development of party building in the military and gather the majestic forces to strengthen and rejuvenate the army.