Xinhua News Agency:

We have seen data showing that the number of CPC members has now exceeded 95 million. Facing such a large group, how can we guarantee the quality of Party members? Do some individual members have any utilitarian considerations regarding their motives for joining the Party? How do we ensure the purity of the CPC members' motivations for joining the Party? Thank you.

Qi Jiabin:

Thank you very much for the questions. Let me answer them. As of this June, the CPC has 95.148 million Party members and 4.864 million grassroots Party organizations, making it the largest ruling party in the world. Ever since the founding of the CPC, our Party has always regarded maintaining the advanced nature and purity of its members as a fundamental issue and important goal of Party building. Especially since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has promoted full and strict governance over the Party and vigorously strengthened development of the Party membership. The number of Party members has continued to increase and the membership quality has been greatly improved.

For the past 100 years, our Party has been persistently strengthening its ideological and theoretical work. Guided by the scientific theories of Marxism, it has constantly armed the whole Party with the latest achievements of the sinicization of Marxism. Our Party has firm ideals and convictions, and regards communism, the greatest cause in human history, as the Party's unswerving goal. Our Party adheres to the people's stance and is rooted in the people, and its bloodline and strength lie in the people. Our Party has always been linked with the hearts of the people, breathing together, and sharing a common future. These essential characteristics are a vivid portrayal of the advanced and pure nature of the millions of Party members, and are the inexhaustible source of the CPC in maintaining high-quality development.

Our Party has a high degree of organization and discipline, and has a well-knit organizational system that runs between top and bottom, and enforces efficiently. From the central to the local and grassroots level, Party organizations at all levels faithfully fulfill their political responsibilities of self-governance, and implement the requirements of full and rigorous Party governance within every Party branch and every Party member, ensuring that the role of grassroots Party organizations as a battle fortress and the role of Party members as exemplary vanguards can be brought fully into play. Our Party has a complete system of rules and regulations. It has established and perfected a regulation mechanism based on the Party constitution and other rules and regulations. It insists on strictly governing the Party in accordance with regulations. Our Party has iron-clad discipline, especially since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, as it has further tightened Party rules and discipline, drawn the red line and bottom line for Party members and cadres, strengthened supervision and discipline enforcement, and formed a strong restraining force.

Our Party strictly controls the gateway to membership, prioritizes political integrity as the primary criterion, adheres to the principle of admission on an individual basis, and factors in the characteristics of the times to admit the most advanced individuals from all aspects of society into the Party. To become a Party member, there are no requirements regarding personal identity, education or wealth, but there are strict political and moral requirements. The procedures for joining the Party are strict. Not only must individuals actively apply, but they must also be subject to strict inspections by the organization. After joining the party, every Party member, regardless of their status, will be incorporated into a Party branch, Party group, or specific Party organization, and will regularly participate in organizational life, accept the supervision of the organization and the people, and improve their Party spirit. In light of the situation and tasks faced by our Party in a certain period of time, our Party has also carried out intensive education in response to prominent problems among Party members. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, we have conducted five intensive mass studies and education campaigns. This strict intra-party political life has played an important role in eliminating some incorrect thoughts in the ideology of Party members and also ensured the high-quality development of Party members.

Our Party continues to fight corruption and resolutely expels corrupt individuals from the Party. It combines organizational activities with democratic appraisal of Party members, and regularly deals with unqualified Party members. We will not retain any unqualified Party members, and we will resolutely remove them from the Party. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, more than 900,000 members have been removed from the Party. This fully demonstrates the courage of the CPC to carry out self-reform and that it dares to "scrape the poison off the bone." It also ensures that the Party's body is healthy and the Party members are full of vitality.

The CPC is determined to make great long-term achievements for the Chinese nation. Its centenary simply marks its prime and bloom of youth. Thank you.