Intra-Party Political Ecology

The macro-environment of intra-Party political ecology is the comprehensive reflection of the Party and government work style, social conduct and folk customs. On June 30, 2014, Xi Jinping pointed out in the 16th collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee: “To strengthen Party building, we must create a good political environment. That is, we must have a good political ecology.” A good intra-Party political ecology is an inevitable requirement for promoting clean politics and realizing “honest cadres, clean government and political integrity”. It is an important guarantee for promoting the healthy development of the economy and society, and affects public support and the rise and fall of the Party’s cause. The inherent requirement of comprehensively strengthening Party discipline is to purify the political ecology and create a clean and honest political environment. We must have both clean natural ecology and clean political ecology. A poor political ecology will lead to a poor political environment; a clean political ecology will create a political environment. Like the natural ecology, political ecology will be easily polluted without noticing. Once there is a problem, we will have to pay a high price to restore it. To create a good intra-Party political ecology, we must first carry out intra-Party political activities seriously and guarantee a good political ecology with systems.

Deng Xiaoping said: “A good system can restrict bad persons, and a bad system will restrict good persons and even force them to the opposite side.” Xi Jinping emphasized that “we must strengthen Party discipline, fulfill the responsibility of Party management and governance, and integrate the requirements of work style construction into the Party system construction”. The key to serious intra-Party political activities is to strictly implement democratic centralism, promote the institutionalization, regularization and standardization of the Party's organizational activities, and create a harmonious political atmosphere. To create a good intra-Party political ecology, we must strictly observe the Party's discipline and rules. Strict discipline is the political advantage of the Party. It is also an important guarantee for casting a good Party work style and achieving political integrity.

Usually, officials who violate Party discipline start by refusing to follow discipline and breaking practical rules; problems in local political ecology are often caused by poor discipline and loose law enforcement. Talent selection and employment orientation is the vane of the political environment. To create a good political ecology, we must take correct employment orientation as the fundamental policy and further highlight correct orientation of talent selection and employment. Leading cadres at all levels are the "key minority" to create a good intra-Party political ecology. Leading cadres at all levels must stand upright, observe principles and disciplines, and resist corrosion to form a demonstration effect layer upon layer and actively create a clean and positive political environment. The creation of a good political ecology requires the participation of everyone. All Party officials must make further improvement in thought, work style and spirit, conscientiously fulfill their responsibilities and obligations, and actively play a vanguard and exemplary role; be strict with themselves in self-cultivation, in the exercise of power, and in self-discipline, and act in good faith when performing official duties, taking initiatives, and interacting with others; maintain loyal to the Party, clean, and responsible, and contribute to the realization of a clean political ecology.

The process of creating a good intra-Party political ecology is the process of improving Party health and optimizing the whole Party. The work style of Party officials and corruption are two intuitive benchmarks for the intra-Party political ecology of a place and a unit. The corruption and degeneration of some Party cadres often begins with the decline of thoughts and work style. It is an important entry point for the creation of a good intra-Party political ecology to unremittingly strengthen the work style construction and carry out the anti-corruption struggle in depth and persistently. We must further combat corruption, make great efforts to pull out “rotten trees”, cure “sick trees” and correct “crooked trees”, reconstruct the intra-Party political ecology, purify the Party and government work style, rectify the social conduct and folk customs, constantly improve and cultivate the soil for the intra-Party political ecology. It is a grand systematic program to create a clean and positive intra-Party political ecology.

Party committees at all levels must earnestly shoulder the main responsibility of building a clean and positive intra-Party political ecology. Xi Jinping pointed out: “Over the years, the problems of 'four malfeasances' are piling up in some areas and institutions. The hidden rules within the Party and in society have become increasingly prevailing. The political ecology and social environment are polluted, and the fundamental cause is failure to strengthen Party discipline in place.” “The key to creating a clean and positive intra-Party political ecology lies in the Party and the Party committees at all levels.” We must promote political and ecological construction in a coordinated manner with Party building, and earnestly shoulder and implement the responsibility of strictly strengthening Party discipline. Disciplinary committees at all levels must give full play to their functions, put forward opinions and suggestions to the CPC Committee to promote the Party's work style and clean government construction and the anti-corruption struggle and purify the intra-Party political ecology, enhance discipline supervision, strictly implement the Party's disciplines, seriously investigate and handle violations of Party discipline and cases, strengthen supervision and accountability, and maintain zero-tolerance for corruption. Intra-Party political culture is the soul of the intra-Party political life, and an important force for the survival and development of the Party, exerting a subtle influence on the political ecology.