Comprehensively Strengthen the Party’s Leadership

The Party’s leadership is the most essential attribute of path of building socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest strength of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics. The 19th CPC National Congress identified "ensuring Party leadership over all work" as the first article of the basic strategy for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The Party exercises overall leadership over all areas of endeavor in the country. To strengthen the Party's leadership in an all-round way, we must strengthen our consciousness of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment, and to uphold the authority of the CPC Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership. To strengthen the Party's leadership in an all-round way, we must reflect it in all aspects of the cause of the Party and country. Policies and plans made by the CPC Central Committee should be implemented not only by the Party’s organization departments, publicity departments, united front departments, and judicial, procuratorial and public security bodies, but also by Party organizations in people’s congresses, governments, CPPCC committees, people’s courts, and people’s procuratorates at all levels, as well as by Party organizations in public institutions and people’s organizations.

General Secretary Xi Jinping attended and made important speeches for general mobilization and deployment of all work at conferences, including the Central United Front Work Conference, the Central Party's Group Work Conference, the Party's News and Public Opinion Work Symposium, the National State-owned Enterprise Party Building Work Conference, the National University Ideological and Political Work Conference, and the Army Political Work Conference. The theories, guidelines and policies defined by the CPC Central Committee have become the foundation to ensure that all Party members and people of all ethnic groups in China are united in mindset, determination and action. To strengthen the Party's leadership in an all-round way, we must integrate it in all aspects of the work of the Party and country. To strengthen the Party's leadership in an all-round way, we must uphold the Party's political leadership, ideological leadership, and organizational leadership. To uphold the Party's political leadership, we must adhere to the Party's political line, strictly abide by the Party’s political discipline and political rules, and make intra-Party political activities more politically oriented, up-to-date, principled, and effective; to uphold the Party's ideological leadership, we must strengthen the ideals and beliefs of the whole Party and strengthen theoretical arming; to uphold the Party's organizational leadership, we must implement the organizational principle of democratic centralism, strengthen the construction of grassroots organizations, constantly consolidate the foundation of the Party's governance, and persist in the Party's control over cadres and talents. To strengthen the Party's leadership in an all-round way, we must run it through the whole process of the development of the Party and country, reflect and implement it in all aspects such as reform, development and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs and national defense, and governance of the Party, country and armed forces.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPC Central Committee has strengthened its leadership over economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction, military and national defense construction, solved many lingering problems and accomplished many long overdue tasks. The Party’s role of exercising overall leadership and coordinating all efforts has been given full play, which becomes the fundamental guarantee for overcoming various risks and challenges.