China News Service, Beijing, June 10th, title: The oath to join the party has been revised several times, why have these two words remained the same?
China News Agency reporter Wang Kai
"The Book of Changes" says: Poorness leads to change, change leads to continuity, and generality leads to long.
"Xunzi" also said: There is one way to change everything.
Most things in the world can be explored between "change" and "unchanged".
Looking back on the history of the Communist Party of China, the oath to join the party has been revised several times. This is a "change."
In each version of the oath, the word "discipline" is a key word that is emphasized, which is its "unchanged".
From the first day of its founding, discipline construction has always been an indispensable part of the CCP’s construction.
When the party was founded, the CCP established the party with strict discipline and rules.
The "First Program of the Communist Party of China" adopted by the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in 1921 contained only 15 items, but most of them involved disciplines such as organization and finance.
The second party constitution set up a "discipline" chapter, which has been the content of the party constitution since then.
In addition, in the early days of its establishment, the struggle environment was harsh, and the rebellion of the unsteady people had caused the CCP to suffer heavy losses. Discipline was about life and death, so it was placed in a more prominent position.
On May 9, 1927, the first central discipline inspection and supervision agency in the history of the Chinese Communist Party-the Central Supervision Commission (the predecessor of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection) was elected by the five congresses.
This marked the establishment of the Chinese Communist Party's disciplinary inspection system.
In the years of war that followed, the choices made by every Communist Party member before the test of blood and fire, life and death, witnessed the CCP’s path to discipline construction from various aspects.
Xia Minghan and Chen Yannian talked and laughed freely in front of the guillotine; Jiang Zhuyun and Zhao Yiman did not change their colors in front of the tiger stool and bamboo sticks.
The forging of iron will and faith is inseparable from iron discipline.
Many researchers at home and abroad have also been thinking about why the CCP has been able to step by step from weak to strong in history?
And why can the weak beat the strong repeatedly in unfavorable situations?
The answer may be found in the word "discipline".
Mao Zedong has a familiar Chinese saying, "Strengthen the discipline, and the revolution is invincible."
After Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan, he also said that the Communist Party has discipline, but the Kuomintang has no discipline.
After becoming the ruling party, how does the CCP "corrupt and resist change" and continuously achieve self-purification?
How to solve the problem of "It is easy to fight the country and it is difficult to defend the country"?
"Discipline" has once again become one of the key words in problem-solving.
In November 1949, only one month after the founding of New China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China made the "Decision on the Establishment of the Central Committee and the Party's Disciplinary Inspection Committee at all levels", which took an important step in the construction of the party's discipline.
Two senior leaders, Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, were executed by public trial for serious corruption. The Republic’s first anti-corruption case witnessed the CCP’s “iron discipline”.
Since then, as a disciplined political party, the Communist Party of China has continuously promoted the construction of party discipline by establishing and improving relevant systems, and governing the party by strict discipline and rules.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, proposed to "administer the party strictly in an all-round way," and the Communist Party's discipline building has further strengthened.
From formulating the "Eight Regulations", to correcting the "Four Winds" and establishing a new style, to continuously strengthening the party’s work style building with the combination of "current reforms" and "long standing", the CCP has made a series of beautiful "combinations" in serious party discipline. fist".
Within a period of time, the number of investigations and punishments of corrupt officials, the wide range of areas involved, the density of action, and the strength of accountability were unprecedented. The "fighting tigers and flies" did not soften, and declared the Chinese Communist Party's determination to govern the party strictly in an all-round way.
"We are such a big party, what do we rely on to manage our team? What do we rely on to overcome risks and challenges? In addition to correct theories and routes, principles and policies, we must rely on strict norms and discipline." Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized strictness on multiple occasions. Party discipline, "obedience to Party discipline is unconditional", "All disciplines are equal, and special party members who are not subject to discipline are not allowed within the party." The offenders are indulgent, do not leave'secret doors', do not open'skylights', and resolutely prevent the'broken window effect'" and "make discipline a real high-voltage line with electricity".
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, party members revisit the oath of joining the party and keep in mind their original aspirations and mission.
At such a special point in time, thinking about why the word "discipline" in the oath to join the party has always been "unchanged", and it has become something special.
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