At the State Council's first work conference on clean government, Li Qiang stressed the need to thoroughly implement the strategic principle of comprehensively administering the party strictly, and unswervingly promote the building of the government's party style and clean government

Beijing, 3 Mar (Xinhua) -- On 31 March, the State Council held its first clean government work conference, at which Li Qiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and premier of the State Council, stressed the need to adhere to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, fully implement the spirit of the 3th CPC National Congress and the First and Second Plenary Sessions of the 31th CPC Central Committee, fully implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Second Plenary Session of the <>th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the strategic plan of the CPC Central Committee on comprehensively administering the party strictly, and unswervingly promote the construction of the government's party style and clean government. It provides a strong guarantee for promoting high-quality development and comprehensively building a modern socialist country to get off to a good start.

Ding Xuexiang, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice premier of the State Council, presided over the meeting. Vice Premiers He Lifeng, Zhang Guoqing, Liu Guozhong, and State Councilors Wang Xiaohong, Wu Zhenglong, and Chen Yiqin attended the meeting.

Li Xi, member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and Liu Jinguo, secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and director of the State Supervision Commission, were invited to attend the meeting.

Li Qiang pointed out: The building of the government's party style and clean government is an important part of administering the party strictly in an all-round way. Facing the new era and new journey, in the face of the new situation and new tasks, we must thoroughly implement the strategic principle of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, unswervingly promote the construction of the government's party style and clean government in depth, enhance the government's credibility and executive power, truly win the trust of the people, better serve the people, and strive to build a government under the rule of law, an innovative government, a clean government and a service-oriented government that the people are satisfied with.

Li Qiang stressed: This year is the first year to comprehensively implement the spirit of the 20th CPC National Congress and the first year for the current government to perform its duties. It is necessary to focus on being the executors, activists, and doers who implement the decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee, further tighten discipline, strengthen supervision, and ensure that the decrees of the Party Central Committee are smoothly implemented and prohibited by orders. It is necessary to persevere in implementing the spirit of the eight central regulations, persist in correcting the "four winds" and creating new winds at the same time, persist in doing all undertakings with diligence and thrift, and promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction. It is necessary to promote as a whole that we do not dare to be corrupt, cannot be corrupted, and do not want to be corrupt, deepen the treatment of both the symptoms and the root causes, and systematically manage them, strictly prevent and seriously investigate and deal with corruption in key areas, and resolutely punish corruption and unhealthy tendencies around the masses. It is necessary to deeply promote the transformation of government functions, reduce the space for rent-seeking power through reform, eradicate the soil that breeds corruption, and use institutional rigidity to prevent power from being capricious.

Li Qiang stressed that governments at all levels and their staff should insist on putting the party's political construction in the first place, carry out in-depth education on the theme of studying and implementing Xi Jinping's Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, deeply understand the decisive significance of "two establishments", enhance the "four consciousness", strengthen the "four self-confidence", and achieve "two safeguards". It is necessary to resolutely implement the main responsibility of running the party strictly in an all-round way, strictly be honest and self-disciplined, stress politics, abide by rules, strictly discipline oneself, do not seek selfishness, work diligently, and bravely take responsibility, create a good environment for upright conduct and entrepreneurship, and create new achievements that satisfy the party and the people.

The main responsible persons of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Heilongjiang Provincial Government and the Guangdong Provincial Government spoke at the meeting.