Phoenix TV:

General Secretary Xi Jinping mentioned in his report to the 20th CPC National Congress, that through painstaking efforts, the Party had found a second answer to the question of how to escape the historical cycle of rise and fall. The answer is self-reform. He also stressed that the systems and regulations for the Party's self-reform should be improved. Why did he make such an emphasis? How will the Party improve the systems and regulations for self-reform?

Tian Peiyan: 

It is an important task that our Party has put forward in the process of exercising full and rigorous governance over the Party and advancing the great new project of Party building in the new era.

Having the courage to perform self-reform is our Party's defining characteristic and distinctive advantage. It was also the key for our Party to remain vibrant and robust after undergoing trials and tribulations over the past century. To inherit, keep and develop the defining character and the distinctive advantage well, we have to give full play to the role of institutions, which can offer actual, overall, stable and long-term effectiveness. Party governance through institutions and rules is the fundamental solution to exercising full and rigorous Party self-governance and the basic way for enforcing Party self-discipline. It also plays an irreplaceable role in safeguarding the unity and solidarity of the Party, supervising and restricting power, regulating party members' words and deeds, and conducting vigorous campaign to regulate political activities and conduct within the Party.

Since the 18th CPC National Congress, the Party has emphasized developing a system of intraparty regulations and institutions. Among nearly 4,000 intraparty regulations currently in effect, over 70% have been formulated or revised in the past decade. At the ceremony marking the centenary of the CPC on July 1, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping announced that our Party had formed a relatively complete regulation system. The hard-won achievement is a milestone in Party building, especially in intraparty regulations and institutional development, which marks that we have had comprehensive rules to follow in conducting rigorous Party self-discipline. Our Party has deepened reforms on the discipline inspection and the national supervisory systems, formulated or revised regulations on intraparty scrutiny and punishment for violating Party discipline, and promoted the promulgation of the Supervision Law and the establishment of the National Commission of Supervision so as to supervise everyone working in the public sector who exercises public power. The building of the Party and national supervision system guaranteed that public power is exercised in a fair, law-based, people-oriented and clean manner. 

There is no end to the Party's journey of self-reform and the systems and regulations for the Party's self-reform should advance with the times, reform and innovate. We should follow new requirements of enhancing overall leadership and rigorous self-governance of the Party, fill in the gaps of institutions in a timely way, and improve the quality of intraparty regulations in the formulation process to ensure rules are tenable, adaptable and effective. We must step up record review and sorting out work, safeguard the uniformity and authority of intraparty regulations, and also improve enforcement by giving full play to the roles of prohibition and regulations. We should also enhance the building of a comprehensive, authoritative and effective supervision system under the leadership of the Party. We should focus on intraparty supervision, promote coordination of various kinds of supervision, and make the supervision system with Chinese characteristics more mature, in good shape and serve governance more effectively. Thank you.