The nature and purpose of the party are incompatible with corruption
The 100-year history of the Communist Party of China is a history of fighting for the liberation of the people and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, as well as a history of unremitting struggle against corruption.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the world situation was turbulent, China's political arena was turbulent, and various political parties rushed to emerge.
Now, a hundred years have passed. The vast majority of political parties established during that period have long since disappeared, gradually leaving people’s vision and memory. The Communist Party of China has grown from only more than 50 people when it was born to the world’s largest political party with more than 91 million members today. It still maintains its vitality and plays an increasingly important social leading role.
Why can the Chinese Communist Party do this?
An important reason is that we have always carried out the construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption with the spirit of self-revolution.
Over the past century, especially since the beginning of the new era, the anti-corruption struggle has been uncommon in the world in terms of intensity, effectiveness, and influence.
Today, in the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, we earnestly summarize the basic experience of the Communist Party of China in combating corruption over the past century, whether it is for the in-depth development of party style and clean government and anti-corruption struggle, or the realization of the party’s long-term governance and long-term stability in the country. Has extremely important meaning.
Always attach great importance to the fight against corruption, and never lose vigilance against the dangers of corruption
Why anti-corruption?
This is an issue that must first be clarified in anti-corruption.
Historically, there were complicated reasons and multiple manifestations that led to the collapse of the regime, but in essence, they were mostly caused by the corruption of the power holders themselves.
From July 1 to 4, 1945, Huang Yanpei and other 6 national political members visited Yan'an. Mao Zedong asked about Huang Yanpei’s thoughts about the visit. Huang Yanpei said, “In a history, there are also people who have'politics slack and eunuch'. There are also people who "seeking glory and disgrace". In short, they have not been able to jump out of this cycle rate." "The CCP monarchs from the past to the present, I have a little understanding, I just hope to find a new way to escape the domination of this cycle rate. "Yan'an cave dwellings are right", it is a microcosm of the Chinese Communist Party's constant vigilance against corruption.
The Communist Party of China is the vanguard of the Chinese working class armed with Marxism and is essentially incompatible with corruption.
Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has solemnly written "maintain integrity and oppose corruption" on its banner.
During the period of the new democratic revolution, in a dangerous environment, any corrupt behavior may lead to an existential crisis.
Therefore, in the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the "three mountains," the Communist Party of China maintained a high degree of vigilance against corruption in the party and carefully cleaned it up.
After the country is in power, the party’s ruling position and the peaceful environment have increased the risk of leading cadres to divorce from the masses and reality, as well as the risk of corruption.
In response to this, our party strictly administers the party with a fearless self-revolutionary spirit, and resolutely fights against all kinds of corruption.
Practice over the past 100 years has fully proved that no matter what environment the party faces, what tasks it undertakes, and no matter what changes in the party’s own structure, the party has always soberly believed that corruption will degenerate the party’s thinking and forget its original intentions. , Abandoning the mission; will weaken the party’s organization, lose its revolutionary character and combat effectiveness; will make the party’s career abandon its previous achievements and be in vain.
Anti-corruption is a struggle that cannot be lost. The party must unite and lead the people of all ethnic groups in the country in a great struggle, advance a great cause, and realize a great dream. , The courage of a strong man to break his arm and fight corruption with a zero tolerance attitude.
Our party has such a high degree of vigilance against corruption, with such an attitude, determination, and courage, it will have a strong will to consciously advance the fight against corruption and a strong driving force to overcome corruption and win victory.
After a hundred years of hard work by the Communist Party of China, especially since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core took up a scalpel with a spirit of self-revolution to get rid of its own illnesses, and is determined to crack the "goth of self-monitoring" of national governance. Bach’s Conjecture” answered the “Cave Dwelling Questions” with practical actions, and cultivated the “peerless martial arts” of self-purification.
"We have explored a successful path to solve our own problems under the conditions of long-term governance and break the historical cycle rate, and build an effective power supervision system and discipline enforcement system. This path and this system must be adhered to and continued for a long time. Consolidate development." This statement of General Secretary Xi Jinping is precisely a high evaluation of our party’s high priority in the fight against corruption over the past century.
Uphold the party's leadership in the fight against corruption and correctly handle the relationship between the fight against corruption and the overall work
Who will lead the fight against corruption?
This is a key issue related to the success or failure of the anti-corruption struggle.
The Communist Party of China has consciously assumed the important task of leading the fight against corruption since it entered the stage of history.
From the legal point of view, the constitution defines the leadership of the party in the preamble, and both the constitution and the party constitution specify in the general outline that “the leadership of the Communist Party of China is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics”, which provides for upholding and strengthening the party’s overall leadership. The fundamental system guarantees.
From the perspective of the nature of the party, the Communist Party of China is an advanced party armed with Marxist-Leninist scientific theories and serving the people wholeheartedly as its fundamental purpose. It is incompatible with corruption.
Judging from the inherent requirements of the anti-corruption struggle, it is a major political task related to the prosperity and decline of the country. This task can only be accomplished under the leadership of the Communist Party, which is guided by scientific theories and has a strong political force.
From a practical point of view, only by adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China can we establish the correct anti-corruption guiding ideology, basic principles, leadership system and working mechanism, embark on a path of anti-corruption and upholding integrity with Chinese characteristics, and effectively mobilize and organize the entire party and the entire society. Oppose corruption, so that the anti-corruption work will always move forward steadily and healthily in the correct political direction.
In terms of political leadership, the Communist Party of China has always made and implemented major anti-corruption decisions based on the party’s political program, political principles, political line, and central work, and correctly handled the relationship between the anti-corruption struggle and the party’s overall work.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, our party insisted on the task of building a clean government and anti-corruption, policy formulation, and work deployment, all based on obedience and service to the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the starting point and goal, and comprehensive and strict governance. The party and the country’s economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, and ecological civilization construction are planned as a whole, and the construction of party style and clean government and anti-corruption work are integrated into the party’s cause to ensure the implementation of the party’s major decisions and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation Smooth development.
In terms of ideological leadership, the Communist Party of China has always insisted on using the developing Marxism to guide the construction of party style and clean government and the practice of anti-corruption struggle.
Without revolutionary theory, there would be no revolutionary practice.
The Communist Party of China is a party that attaches great importance to theoretical guidance.
During the period of the new democratic revolution, the socialist revolution and the socialist construction, Mao Zedong always attached great importance to opposing corruption and formed a wealth of anti-corruption ideas, leaving behind valuable spiritual wealth for future generations.
In the new era of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, our party insists on guiding the construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption with the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, which provides a strong guarantee for the smooth development of reform, opening up and socialist modernization.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has focused on administering the party strictly and comprehensively. It has made a series of important expositions on the construction of party style and clean government and the fight against corruption in the new era, and put forward a series of new ideas, new viewpoints and new ideas. The thesis provides a powerful ideological weapon and action guide for the in-depth promotion of strict party governance, party conduct and clean government building, and anti-corruption struggle.
In terms of organizational leadership, the Communist Party of China has always adhered to the unified leadership of the party committee in the fight against corruption.
After the reform and opening up, our party has gradually formed an anti-corruption leadership system and working mechanism featuring unified leadership by the party committee, joint management by the party and government, organization and coordination of the discipline inspection commission, and departments responsible for their own responsibility, relying on the support and participation of the masses.
After the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party proposed "two responsibilities." The party committee bears the main responsibility, the party committee secretary bears the first responsibility, and the disciplinary committee bears the supervision responsibility; the party and government functional departments have detailed responsibilities, and each performs its own duties and each bears its own responsibilities. ; In all localities and systems, the pressure is transmitted from level to level, and responsibilities are implemented level by level.
Party committees at all levels insist on including comprehensive and strict governance of the party into the overall structure of the party committee's work, comprehensively consider, unified deployment, and consolidate and develop the good situation of the whole party in the prevention and control of corruption.
Insist on relying on the people, give full play to the role of a dedicated agency, and strive to form a powerful force in the fight against corruption
Who to rely on to fight corruption? This is another important issue concerning the success or failure of the fight against corruption. The Chinese Communists are thorough materialists and have always believed that the people are the creators of world history and the decisive force in overcoming corruption. As early as the period of the Agrarian Revolution, our party established the system of congress of workers, peasants and soldiers, stipulating that workers, peasants and soldiers are the masters of state power, and the people have the right to select representatives to control the political power, and have the right to criticize, supervise, inspect and dismiss base government officials. After the founding of New China, the party relied on the masses to carry out the "three evils" and "five evils" movements, effectively curbing the growth and spread of corruption. After the reform and opening up, our party has learned historical lessons and regarded the development of democracy and strengthened supervision of the exercise of public power as the basic way to guide the masses to participate in the anti-corruption struggle in an orderly manner. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the historic achievements in building a clean government and fighting corruption have not only benefited from the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, but also from the sincere support and support of the broad masses of people. A powerful social network supervised by power. Practice has proved that only by adhering to the leadership of the party, centering on the people and relying on the people, can the anti-corruption work better safeguard the fundamental interests of the people and more fully mobilize the enthusiasm of the overwhelming majority of the people in the fight against corruption. Form a powerful force in the fight against corruption.
The most important thing in anti-corruption is to have a special agency to conduct unselfish supervision and inspection.
The disciplinary inspection agency, as the agency responsible for inner-party supervision, plays a special and important role in the fight against corruption.
From April 27 to May 9, 1927, the Fifth National Congress of the Party was held and the first Central Supervisory Committee was elected, which was the first central discipline inspection and supervision agency of the Party.
Since then, the party’s discipline inspection and supervision agencies have passed through the Central Review Committee, the Central Party Affairs Committee, the Central Supervisory Committee, and the Central Disciplinary Inspection Committee, and have always performed their duties in accordance with the party constitution and guarded their original mission.
After the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the reform of the national supervisory system was carried out throughout the country. The four-level supervisory committees at the national, provincial, municipal and county levels were established to work together with the party’s disciplinary inspection agencies to fully perform supervision, discipline, accountability, and supervision investigations. The function of disposal.
In the special supervision, we insist on putting discipline and rules in the forefront, resolutely implementing the policy of punishing the past, treating the sick and saving people, and combining disciplinary supervision, supervision and supervision, patrol supervision, stationed supervision and various supervisions, grasp the early and prevent the slightest failure, and use it correctly. "Four forms", strive to solve the problem in the normal state, resolutely punish the corrupt elements who violate the law, and seriously pursue the direct and leadership responsibilities of serious problems, implement "one case double investigation" and "lifetime accountability", and compact management The main responsibility and supervisory responsibility of the party governing the party.
Through strengthened supervision, strict enforcement of discipline and law enforcement, and serious accountability, it is ensured that the power conferred by the party and the people is not abused, and that the sword of punishing evil and promoting good will never be dusted.
Adhere to both the symptoms and the root causes, not only severely punish corruption, but also pay attention to strengthening system construction and improving ideological awareness
How to fight corruption?
The basic method of the Chinese Communist Party to combat corruption is to adhere to both symptoms and root causes.
From the anti-corruption practices in the Anyuan Workers Movement at the beginning of the founding of the party, to the corrupt person Xie Busheng who was shot on May 9, 1932; from the case of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan after the founding of the People’s Republic of China, to the sentence of Haifeng County Party Secretary Wang Zhong after the reform and opening up The death penalty and the subsequent investigation of a large number of corruption cases indicate that the party has always had "zero tolerance" for corruption.
Anti-corruption is like curing a disease. It must treat both the symptoms and the root causes. For a hundred years, Chinese Communists have paid great attention to curing the root cause. On the one hand, strengthen the construction of an anti-corruption system. In 1921, there were 15 programs formulated by the first major party of the party, six of which involved party discipline. In 1922, the first party constitution formulated by the Second National Congress of the Communist Party of China set up a special chapter for party discipline. In various revolutionary base areas or liberated areas, our party has issued a series of party disciplines, such as "Order No. 26 of the Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Soviet Republic-Regarding Punishment of Corruption and Waste", and "Regulations on Punishment of Corruption in the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region (Draft)", etc. Laws and regulations to punish corruption that integrate political and military disciplines. After the founding of New China, our party formulated the "Instructions of the Central Committee on Handling Party Discipline Issues in the Three Evil Movements", "Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Punishment of Corruption", "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention for Party and Government Cadres (Second Draft Amendment)" And other regulatory documents. After the reform and opening up, our party formulated a number of anti-corruption and upholding regulations, such as the "Several Guidelines on Political Life within the Party", "Several Guidelines for the Clean Government of the Communist Party of Party Members and Leading Cadres", "The Regulations on Disciplinary Measures of the Communist Party of China", and "The Regulations on Internal Supervision of the Communist Party of China" The important laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China have laid an important foundation for the establishment of a sound anti-corruption legal system. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our party has formulated and revised the party constitution, several guidelines for political life within the party under the new situation, integrity and self-discipline guidelines, regulations on internal party supervision, regulations on inspection work, regulations on party disciplinary measures, regulations on accountability, regulations on disclosure of party affairs, etc. Laws and regulations, anti-corruption and upholding a clean government, the system of laws and regulations is more scientific and complete, and the cage for governing the party is getting tighter and tighter.
Our party has always attached great importance to ideological education.
From "building the party ideologically" during the Jinggangshan period and correcting the wrong ideas in the party, to the public servant education for cadres at all levels during the War of Resistance against Japan, wholeheartedly serving the people, education, rectification movement, and then to the "three evils" launched after the founding of New China. The "Five Evil" Movement and the Rectification Movement in 1957, our party always regards the strengthening of ideals and beliefs as the primary task of the party's ideological construction, educates and guides the whole party to keep in mind the party's purpose, stands up the spiritual backbone of the Communists, and solves the world outlook and outlook on life. , Values, the "master switch" issue.
Since the reform and opening up, our party has successively carried out learning, education and practice activities such as party consolidation, "three stresses" education, the important thinking of "three represents", the party’s advanced nature, and the scientific outlook on development. These activities have contributed to maintaining the party’s advanced nature and purity, Improving the party's leadership and governance capabilities has played a very important role.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the party’s mass line education practice activities, "three stricts and three realities" special education, "two studies and one action" learning education, "not forgetting the original heart, keeping in mind the mission" theme education, party history learning and education, etc. The internal intensive education continues to develop, ideologically correct the source, consolidate the source, and tighten the "master switch."
Insist on starting from reality, formulate and implement scientifically effective anti-corruption strategies and strategies
The anti-corruption struggle is a great people's war and a grand social system project. It is necessary to build a scientific anti-corruption strategic system and implement effective anti-corruption strategies.
For hundreds of years, our party has always adhered to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, and formulated scientific and effective anti-corruption strategies and strategies based on the specific circumstances of the anti-corruption struggle in different periods.
Our party has carried out long-term party style and clean government building and anti-corruption struggle in various base areas and liberated areas. These practices have provided valuable experience for the subsequent party style and clean government building and anti-corruption struggle.
On the eve of the founding of New China, Mao Zedong proposed that "comrades must continue to maintain a humble, cautious, arrogant, and non-irritable style, and must enable comrades to continue to maintain a style of hard work."
After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Zedong led the whole party to actively explore the laws of building a clean government and fighting corruption under the conditions of governance in the face of corruption that has already appeared and may appear.
Mao Zedong emphasized equal emphasis on education and punishment, close integration, emphasized that education is the first, and cannot "punish people without teaching."
During the "three evils" movement, he personally led the investigation of the cases of Liu Qingshan and Zhang Zishan, which played a great deterrent effect in preventing corruption in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, China has entered a new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization. Under the new historical conditions, the anti-corruption struggle is also facing new situations and new characteristics that are different from the past. "Open the windows and bring fresh air. Come in, flies and mosquitoes also come in."
Deng Xiaoping emphasized that we should adhere to the principle of focusing on reform and opening up on the one hand and punishing corruption on the other, and the anti-corruption struggle should be carried out around the implementation of the party's basic line.
The second plenary session of the 14th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection put forward, "Punishing corruption must be tackled as a systematic project, with both symptoms and root causes, comprehensive governance, and perseverance."
The 15th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that “adhere to both the symptoms and the root causes, education is the foundation, the legal system is the guarantee, and supervision is the key”.
The Sixteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China emphasized "treatment of both symptoms and root causes and comprehensive management."
The Fourth Plenary Session of the 16th Central Committee of the Party put forward the anti-corruption policy of "solving both symptoms and root causes, comprehensive management, simultaneous punishment and prevention, and emphasis on prevention."
The Seventeenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China incorporated the construction of anti-corruption and upholding integrity into the overall layout of the party’s construction, emphasizing more attention to root cause, prevention, and system construction.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has been fighting against corruption in accordance with the still grim and complex situation. In the process of fighting corruption, it has attacked with thunder and resolutely curbed the spread of corruption and tackled the symptoms. Time was gained to cure the root cause, and gradually summarized and refined the strategy of advancing the strategy of not daring to corrupt, not wanting to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt. This is the basic guideline in the fight against corruption and an important strategy for comprehensively and strictly governing the party in the new era.
Practice has proved that only by adapting to the development and changes of the world, national and party conditions, persisting in emancipating the mind, seeking truth from facts, advancing with the times, reform and innovation, and persisting in strategic overall planning, and tactical implementation in phases, can we build a clean government and fight corruption. The work constantly reflects the times, grasps the regularity, and is full of creativity.
Persist in strengthening international cooperation with a broad perspective, and provide China's experience for global anti-corruption governance
Anti-corruption is the common task of all mankind, especially in the context of globalization, corruption crimes are increasingly showing a transnational (border) trend, and it is imperative to strengthen international anti-corruption cooperation.
Our party not only carefully learns and draws on the good practices and successful experiences of other countries in anti-corruption, but also creates a favorable environment for international anti-corruption and promotes the domestic anti-corruption struggle. Especially after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core deeply grasped the overall situation, upgraded international anti-corruption cooperation to the national political and diplomatic level, and made important decisions and deployments to increase the intensity of international pursuit of escape and stolen goods. Participating in the international governance of anti-corruption has become an important part of major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era. General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed to intensify international efforts to chase and recover stolen goods, spread the net of punishment for corruption all over the world, so that those who have already absconded have nowhere to hide, let those who attempt to escape from abroad lose their illusions, and never allow corrupt elements to hide in "a paradise for avoiding crime." , Impunity. General Secretary Xi Jinping has profoundly expounded China’s anti-corruption concepts and practices, whether at home or abroad, on multilateral or bilateral occasions, taking the lead in telling the story of China’s anti-corruption, and promoting anti-corruption as an important agenda for global governance. From the adoption of the "Beijing Anti-Corruption Declaration" at the APEC Ministerial Meeting in November 2014, to the launch of the "Skynet" operation in April 2015, a global arrest warrant for 100 Hongtong personnel was issued. From September 2016, the leader of the Group of Twenty Hangzhou The summit unanimously adopted the "G20 Advanced Principles on Anti-corruption, Recovery and Recovery of Procurement", and launched the "Beijing Initiative on the Clean Silk Road" in April 2019. International anti-corruption cooperation has been continuously deepened and a series of new major results have been achieved. The extensive development of international anti-corruption cooperation has not only provided strong support for consolidating and developing the overwhelming victory in the anti-corruption struggle, but also contributed Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to global anti-corruption governance. It has become an important factor in advancing major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics and building a community with a shared future for mankind. content. (Shao Jingjun)