China News Service:

We have noticed that, over the last decade, the CPPCC has made great efforts to strengthen the Party and as a result has greatly enhanced political awareness and leadership, improved performance of duties, and promoted unity. Could you please introduce the work in this regard? Thank you.

Zou Jiayi:

Thank you for your question. Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the CPPCC has adhered to its essential nature as a political organization, regarded the Party's leadership as a fundamental political principle, and given top priority to strengthening the Party in all our work. We have enhanced our Party's political awareness as the overarching principle, promoted Party building in all aspects. We have acquired a deep understanding of the decisive significance of the establishment of both Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party 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, and 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 have remained confident in the path, the theory, the system, and the culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We have firmly upheld Comrade Xi Jinping's core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole and upheld the Central Committee's authority and its centralized, unified leadership. We have given full play to the important role of the leading Party groups of the CPPCC in guiding the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring the implementation of all our work. Therefore, the role of primary Party organizations can now be seen as solid battle fortresses and play an exemplary and vanguard role for all CPC members in all CPPCC organizations. 

Firstly, we have resolutely followed the Party's leadership in all our work. We have formulated and implemented the system of the Party's overall leadership over the work of CPPCC, improved supervision mechanisms to ensure the implementation of major decisions and plans made by the CPC Central Committee and important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping, advanced the system of reporting major issues, such as the work report of the Standing Committee, annual consultation plans, and political resolutions, to the CPC Central Committee, in a bid to ensure that all major policies and decisions made by the CPC Central Committee are faithfully implemented in all of the CPPCC's work. We have also held Party-building symposiums and undertaken sharing meetings, summed up experiences, and conducted in-depth discussions. We have earnestly implemented the general requirement of the Party building in the new era and carried out the Guidelines on Strengthening Party Building in the CPPCC for the New Era. The leading Party group of the CPPCC has put forward eight key tasks, including participating in the dual organizational life system, establishing the Party-building leading group of CPPCC, and enhancing Party building at all levels of leading party groups among the CPPCC, government organs, and special committees, in a bid to ensure that all Party members of the CPPCC can be covered by Party organizations and all CPPCC members can be covered by the Party's work.

Secondly, we have concretely enhanced our political awareness. We have put the study and implementation of the Party's innovative theory as the top priority of ideological armament, established the system of study symposium on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, improved the learning system led by the theoretical learning center of the Party leading group, adopted the forms of group study at chairman's meetings and Standing Committee meetings, and upheld theory-discussing meeting system at chairman's meetings so as to learn the spirit of the latest important speeches delivered by General Secretary Xi Jinping in a timely manner and promote the normalization and institutionalization of theoretical learning. We have also actively launched reading activities among CPPCC members to promote the integration between studying and performing duties. During major events such as the ones in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC, we creatively adopted new forms of activities based on the characteristics of the CPPCC, and guided the members to strengthen their ideals and faiths throughout the experiential learning process in a bid to march forward hand in hand under the flag of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

Thirdly, we have given full play to the exemplary and vanguard role of CPC members at the CPPCC. We have encouraged and supported our CPC members to make efforts in the Party's united front work and mass work, keep political principles in mind, perform duties diligently, take responsibilities, and set good examples through multiple measures such as building mechanisms, enhancing guidance, and strengthening management. For example, we have established multiple systems represented by an independent research system led by members of the Party group and CPPCC members, as well as the performance evaluation system of the CPC members of the Standing Committee, to guide our Party members to play a leading role in political guidance, promoting democracy, building consensus, working together, and performing duties in a clean and honest manner. Over recent years, a large number of our Party members have not only provided advice and wisdom in the fields of poverty alleviation, epidemic prevention and control, the "six stabilities" and "six guarantees," and scientific and technological self-reliance, but also bravely undertook heavy tasks and overcome difficulties, demonstrating the exemplary role and responsibility of CPC members of the CPPCC in the new era.

Thank you.