Xinhua News Agency:

My question goes to Mr. Wang. Exercising full and strict self-governance of the Party is a notable feature of the CPC's governance of the country in the new era. How do you interpret the historic and groundbreaking achievements in ensuring full and strict self-governance of the Party? Thank you.

Wang Jianxin:

Thank you for your question. I will answer this question briefly. To have the courage to carry out self-reform and conduct strict self-governance: this is the most distinctive part of our Party's character. It has been 10 years since the 18th National Congress of the CPC. Just as a blacksmith in the past would spend 10 years forging the perfect sword, a great endeavor takes years to make significant progress. In accordance with the strategic vision of the Two Centenary Goals and realizing the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has placed the full and rigorous self-governance of the Party as part of the Four-pronged Comprehensive Strategy and pushed forward the campaign to improve Party conduct, build a clean government, and fight corruption with tremendous political courage and strategic focus. In the past decade, full and rigorous self-governance of the Party has played its due role in providing political guidance and political guarantees, the problem of lax and weak governance over the Party organizations has been addressed at the fundamental level, and the Party has grown stronger through revolutionary tempering. I'd like to brief our achievements in the following four aspects.

First, we have upheld and strengthened the Party's overall leadership. Firmly upholding Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and upholding the Central Committee's authority and its centralized and unified leadership has become the highest political principle of the Party. The leadership by the Party is the defining feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest strength of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and the Party is the highest force for political leadership. Under the firm leadership of the CPC Central Committee, we have completed the transformation of the system of exercising full and rigorous self-governance of the Party, its strategic goals, organizations, workforce, and responsibility system. The Party's strong leadership, organizational and executive capacity make it the most reliable backbone of the Chinese people. 

Second, the Party has played its leading role in political construction and its basic role in ideological work and preserved its political character in complex and severe struggles. From the political point of view, we have strictly enforced the Party's political rules and discipline, tightened political oversight over the issues related to the country's most fundamental interests, regulated political activities, improved the political ecosystem, and acquired a deep understanding of the decisive significance of the establishment of both Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. We also boosted our consciousness of the need to maintain political integrity, think in big-picture terms, follow the leadership core, and keep in alignment with the central Party leadership. We stay confident in the path, the theory, the system, and the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics and conscientiously uphold Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the CPC Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and upholding the Central Committee's authority and its centralized and unified leadership. We have insisted on combining regular education with intensive education. We keep consolidating the basis and fostering vitality through lofty beliefs, equipping ourselves with the Party's new theories, nourishing our minds, and solidifying our faith by following the Party's inspiring principles.

Third, we have steadfastly improved Party conduct, enforced Party discipline and fought corruption to eliminate any viruses that would erode its health. By practicing rigorous self-governance, we have carried out work to enhance the Party spirit, improve Party conduct, strengthen Party disciplines, and oppose the Four Malfeasances [the practices of favoring form over substance, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance], corruption, and any sense of entitlement. I will present you with some figures. From the 18th National Congress of the CPC to the end of April this year, the discipline inspection and supervision departments have criticized, educated, and helped 11.344 million people by conducting four forms of oversight over discipline compliance, in which 6.951 million, or 61.3% of the violators were criticized and educated through the first form, 3.341 million, or 29.4% of the violators, through the second form, 565,000, or 5%, through the third form, and 487,000, or 4.3%, through the fourth form. The anti-corruption campaign saved the Party, the anti-Four Malfeasances reshaped the Party, and the anti-entitlement helped improve the engagement between CPC members and the people and between cadres and the people. These efforts have solidified the foundations of the Party's governance.

Fourth, we have enhanced the regulations for the Party's self-reform, and the overall authoritative and effective supervision system under the Party's unified leadership has been constantly improved. Enforcing strict Party discipline requires developing rules and regulations. We have formed an intra-Party regulation system with the Party Constitution as the guiding principle, and the Party's regulations concerning its organization, leadership, self-development, and supervision and oversight have formed a major portion of this system. We have deepened reforms of the discipline inspection and supervision system and set up supervisory commissions at the national, provincial, prefecture, and county levels. Discipline inspection commissions of the Party and supervision commissions of the government at all levels jointly carry out full supervision over all public functionaries who exercise public power to promote the coordination of all types of supervision and create a long-standing synergy for conducting oversight that covers all areas.

The historic and groundbreaking achievements over the past decade have proved that exercising full and rigorous self-governance of the Party is a significant practice of self-reform. It opened a new chapter for self-reforms in the major Party with a 100-year history. Our Party radiates new and strong vitality, the people have more confidence and trust in our Party, and the political foundation of the Party's governance has become more stable.

Thank you.