China News Agency, Beijing, January 11. Title: Interpretation of the communiqué of the Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection: According to the time and situation, comprehensively and strictly govern the party "advance in multiple ways"

  Author Zhang Su Guo Chaokai Xie Yanbing

  The second plenary meeting of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from the 9th to the 10th. The plenary session will study and deploy the 2023 discipline inspection and supervision work.

Analyzing the communique passed by the plenary session, many scholars of party building and clean government believe that the deployment of relevant work will promote comprehensive and strict governance of the party "multi-pronged".

  "The communiqué of the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection lists eight aspects of deployment. Generally speaking, there are two characteristics. One is to implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and refine the multiple strategic deployments of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China; The second is to combine the situation to set the key points and point out the direction for the current and future discipline inspection and supervision work." Zhuang Deshui, deputy director of the Public Policy Research Center of Peking University, told a reporter from China News Agency.

  The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed for the first time to "improve the system of comprehensive and strict party governance."

Lin Jianhua, deputy director of the Institute of Marxism of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that this reflects "our party's firm determination to systematically promote comprehensive and strict party governance and develop in depth."

  2023 is the first year to implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

When deploying this year's discipline inspection and supervision work, the plenary session put "strengthening political supervision around the implementation of the Party's 20th National Congress" at the top of the list, and called for "strengthening supervision and inspection around the decisions and arrangements made by the Party Central Committee according to the time and situation, to ensure that the implementation is not biased, Not flexible, not out of shape."

  "Political supervision leads other supervisions, which reflects that comprehensive and strict governance of the party must first be viewed politically. At the same time, this requires the discipline inspection and supervision agencies to perform their supervisory duties from a higher position, focus on correcting political deviations, and ensure that the Party Central Committee's major policies are effective. " Zhuang Deshui said.

  Zhu Lijia, a professor at the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (National School of Administration), said that the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that "the party has found the second answer of self-revolution, which jumps out of the historical cycle of prosperity and decline of governance and chaos."

In the face of new missions and tasks, the CCP must continue to adhere to the spirit of self-revolution, and continue to adhere to comprehensive and strict party governance. To this end, it is necessary to promote specific, precise, and normalized political supervision.

  Scholars have also noticed that, compared with the past, this communique puts more emphasis on inspections.

The essence of this strategic institutional arrangement for comprehensively and strictly governing the party is also political supervision.

  From the high-quality completion of the full-coverage tasks of the 19th Central Inspection to the establishment of a strategic pattern of inspections that is compatible with the party's leadership system and the national governance system, the inspection work has made steady progress in recent years.

Focusing on the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to "play the role of political inspection as a sharp sword", the plenary session clarified "revision of inspection work regulations", "formulation of five-year plan for central inspection work", and "doing well in the first and second rounds of the 20th Central Committee" patrolling” and other measures.

  Zhuang Deshui said that these measures are intended to further demonstrate the advantages of inspections and promote the integration of political supervision and other supervision, so as to provide continuous support for the in-depth promotion of comprehensive and strict party governance.

  The "multi-pronged approach" of comprehensively and strictly governing the party is also reflected in the new trend of positive wind, discipline and anti-corruption released in the communiqué.

  The eight central regulations have been issued for ten years.

The plenary session proposed to continue to deepen the implementation of the spirit of the eight central regulations and rectify the "four winds". , increase the investigation and accountability."

  Song Wei, deputy director of the Research Center for Integrity and Governance at Tsinghua University, said that the construction of work style is related to the success or failure of a career, and the current "four styles" problem still exists in invisible variations and refurbishment.

The deployment made by the plenary session is "strict" and prescribes the right medicine, which will help strengthen the embankment of the eight central regulations, promote the normalization and long-term effect of work style construction, and make the party style, government style, and social atmosphere continue to improve.

  The fight against corruption is a key task for comprehensively and strictly governing the party.

In order to cope with the new situation and new challenges, the plenary session emphasized "adhere to the promotion of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt", and required strict investigation of key issues, highlighting key areas, and keeping a close eye on key targets.

In the communiqué, "resolutely prevent political and business collusion, capital infiltration into the political field, etc. from damaging the political ecology and economic development environment", "resolutely investigate and deal with new types of corruption and hidden corruption” have attracted attention.

  "The plenary session emphasized that we should not dare to be corrupt, can not be corrupt, and do not want to be corrupt at the same time, in the same direction, and comprehensively, reflecting the Party Central Committee's strategic thinking and systematic deployment of the anti-corruption struggle." Song Wei said that in the future, the The rectification and investigation of corruption in key areas, key industries, and key groups of people will further improve the effectiveness of anti-corruption governance.

  Zhuang Deshui analyzed that identifying the prominent manifestations, key areas, and prone links of corruption, and strengthening the analysis and research of new features such as the invisible variation of corruption means, renovation and upgrading, will also more effectively curb the increase in corruption, more effectively eliminate the stock of corruption, and comprehensively Consolidate and develop the overwhelming victory in the fight against corruption.

  "The emergence of new types of corruption and hidden corruption requires us to adapt to the current situation, summarize the laws, further strengthen the construction of laws and regulations, weave a network of discipline and law, and lay a solid foundation for fighting corruption and promoting integrity." Measures such as Party Disciplinary Sanctions and Promoting National Anti-Corruption Legislation".

  In addition, the plenary session focused on the construction of discipline inspection and supervision agencies, and made arrangements for further promoting the reform of the discipline inspection and supervision system and forging the discipline inspection and supervision cadre team, including "integrating and deepening the reform of the party's discipline inspection system, the reform of the national supervision system, and the reform of discipline inspection and supervision institutions." Zero tolerance for discipline violations and law enforcement violations” and other content.

  Scholars interviewed said that as comprehensive and strict governance of the party is advancing in multiple ways and deepening, it is more urgent and necessary to strengthen the self-construction of discipline inspection and supervision agencies and cadres.

The plenary meeting put forward higher requirements for this, and the intention is to let these discipline inspection and supervision personnel who are on the front line of comprehensively and strictly governing the party take up the heavy responsibility and get off to a good start.

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