The Building the Party’s Advanced Nature and Purity

Building the Party’s advance nature and purity is the essential requirement for Marxist Party and an important content of the general requirement of making Party building more scientific in all respects. To strengthen the building of the Party's advanced nature, we must promote the Party's ideological, organizational, work style, anti-corruption and institutional construction to make the Party's theories, lines, principles and policies conform to the trend of the times and the requirements of China's social development and progress and reflect the interests and aspirations of the people of all ethnic groups in China, enable Party organizations at all levels to continuously improve their creativity, cohesion and combat effectiveness, and always play the role of leadership core and fighting fortress, so that the majority of Party members will constantly improve their own competence and always play a vanguard and exemplary role, and the Party will always keep pace with the times and will always be in the forefront of the times. To strengthen the construction of the Party's purity, we must promote all aspects of Party building to ensure that the Party's organizations at all levels and the majority of Party members meet the requirements of the Party purpose in thoughts and deeds and maintain honest and upright.

The purity of the Party reflects in aspects of thought, politics, organization, and work style. Maintaining the advancement and purity of Marxist parties was first proposed by Hu Jintao in his speech at the CPC’s 90th Anniversary on July 1, 2011. In November 2012, the report of the 18th CPC National Congress incorporated “the construction of the Party's advancement and purity” into the general requirement of making Party building more scientific in all respects as the “main line of Party building”. Historic experience shows that the construction of the Party's advancement and purity has always been the fundamental ideological and political task of Marxist parties, affecting the survival and future of the Party. The Party's advancement and purity are determined by its nature as the vanguard of the working class and its purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly.

The Party’s purity and advancement complement each other and are inseparable. Purity is the premise and foundation of advancement, and advancement is the embodiment and guarantee of purity. They are essentially the same. As a Marxist Party, the Party has always regarded maintaining the Party's advancement and purity as the fundamental problem and important goal of Party building in various historic periods of China's revolution, construction and reform. Mao Zedong pointed out clearly that we must build “a disciplined, ideologically pure, organizationally pure Party meeting unified standards”. The fundamental reason why the Party can be the core force leading China's revolution, construction and reform, shoulder the historic trust of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation, and remain invincible in the drastically changing international and domestic environment is that it attaches great importance to maintaining its advancement and purity as a Marxist Party. The advancement and purity of the Party are both consistent and advancing with the times. That a Party had advancement and purity in the past does not mean it still has them now. And having them now does not mean it will have them forever. Maintaining the Party's advancement and purity is an important weapon for the Party to cope with and withstand various tests, resolve and overcome various dangers in the process of Reform and Opening-up and socialist modernization. In the profoundly changing domestic and international environment, the Party’s self-supervision and self-governance becomes increasingly arduous, and maintaining the advancement and purity of the Party becomes more important. To strengthen the Party's advancement and purity, we must ensure that the Party's work always conforms to reality and social development and always leads the development and progress of Chinese society; take the realization, maintenance and development of the fundamental interests of the overwhelming majority of the people as the touchstone for testing the Party's advancement and purity, and embody the Party's advancement and purity in the practice of solving problems for the masses and benefiting the people; start from ideological education and guide the Party officials to strengthen Party spirit cultivation and exercise and practice Socialist core value by model; consolidate the organizational foundation, give play to the fighting bastion role of grassroots Party organizations and the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members, and promote leading cadres to take the lead in setting an example to reflect the Party's advancement and purity; uphold that the Party must supervise its own conduct and run itself with strict discipline, focus on enhancing the Party's advancement in ideology, organization, style and system, keep the Party officials pure in thought, team, style, and integrity, and ensure that the Party always maintain great vigor and vitality.

On October 8, 2014, Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the summary meeting of the Party's mass line education practice activities that we must combine tradition inheritance with reform and innovation and combine summing up our own experience with learning from the experience of other political parties in the world, and must run the Party with strict discipline in a more systematic, predictive, creative and effective manner, so that all efforts made to run the Party with strict discipline are focused on strengthening the Party's capabilities of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation and self-enhancement, improving the Party's leadership and governing capacity, maintaining and developing the Party’s advancement and purity.