“The Theoretical Connotation and Practical Requirements of ‘Using the Party’s Self-Reform to Lead Social Revolution’”

“Only a party that has weathered many storms yet remains true to its original aspiration can enjoy enduring vitality; only a party that has achieved brilliance yet still dares to engage in self-revolution can be invincible.” Looking back at the more than one hundred years of the Communist Party of China’s arduous history, and at the great journey of the People’s Republic of China, which started from scratch and transformed heaven and earth, an important reason why the Chinese nation has ushered in a great leap from standing up and growing prosperous to becoming strong is that our Party has unswervingly insisted on using self-revolution to lead the great social revolution. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party proposed, “Maintain a high degree of consciousness in using the Party’s self-revolution to lead the social revolution, persist in governing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, improve the institutional system for the Party’s self-revolution, and continuously advance the Party’s self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement, ensuring that the Party always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.” This profoundly summarizes the Party’s historical experience in leading revolution, construction, and reform, powerfully reveals the objective laws of the Party’s long-term governance, and incisively encapsulates the core code of the Party’s ability to adeptly respond to changing situations, foster new opportunities, and open up new prospects.

“一个饱经沧桑而初心不改的党，才能基业常青；一个铸就辉煌仍勇于自我革命的党，才能无坚不摧。”回顾中国共产党一百多年的峥嵘岁月，回首新中国筚路蓝缕、改天换地的伟大历程，中华民族之所以迎来了从站起来、富起来到强起来的伟大飞跃，一个重要原因就是我们党始终不渝地坚持以自我革命引领伟大社会革命。党的二十届三中全会提出，“保持以党的自我革命引领社会革命的高度自觉，坚持用改革精神和严的标准管党治党，完善党的自我革命制度规范体系，不断推进党的自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高，确保党始终成为中国特色社会主义事业的坚强领导核心”，深刻总结了我们党领导革命、建设和改革的历史经验，有力揭示了我们党长期执政的客观规律，精辟概括了我们党善于应变局、育新机、开新局的核心密码。

1. Daring to engage in self-revolution is the Party’s most distinctive character and greatest strength

1.勇于自我革命是党的最鲜明品格和最大优势

The essence of the Party’s self-revolution is that the Party takes itself as both the subject and object of revolution, achieving the dialectical unity of ideality and reality through self-criticism to realize “purification, improvement, renovation, and enhancement.” The Party’s self-revolution is a process in which the Party, as the revolutionary subject, engages in self-reflection at the level of ideology and consciousness, and self-sublation and innovation at the level of behavior and action. It embodies the distinctive character of Marxism and achieves a high degree of alignment between the subjective and the objective, spirit and matter, the “ought” and the “is.” The history of Marxist party building shows that self-revolution is an inherent requirement of a proletarian party. As the vanguard of the proletariat guided by Marxism, the Communist Party of China possesses an advanced class nature and distinctive basic characteristics. From the day of its birth, it has “had no interests separate from those of the entire proletariat,” resolutely “fought for the immediate aims and interests of the working class,” and been “the most resolute and always driving part” of this class, “representing the future of the movement.” [1]1 This is a paraphrase of the Communist Manifesto’s description of the Communist Party’s relationship to the proletariat. For such a proletarian party—one with lofty aspirations, no private interests, and resolute struggle—to consistently maintain its original aspiration and unswervingly fulfill its founding mission, it “must absolutely maintain Party discipline” and thoroughly abide by Party rules, forever preserving its advanced nature and purity, enhancing its cohesion and combat effectiveness, and at all times, with the courage to turn its blade inward, an indomitable will, and decisive and resolute action, eradicate deep-seated maladies and remove long-standing ills, thereby solidly advancing the Party’s self-revolution.

党的自我革命本质就是党把自身作为革命的主客体，通过自我批判以实现“净化、完善、革新、提高”，完成理想性与现实性的辩证统一。党的自我革命就是党作为革命主体在思想意识层面的自我反思与在行为活动层面的自我扬弃、革故鼎新的过程，蕴含着马克思主义的鲜明品格，实现了主观与客观、精神与物质、应然与实然的高度契合。马克思主义政党建设历程表明，自我革命是无产阶级政党的内在要求。作为以马克思主义为指导思想的无产阶级先锋队，中国共产党有着先进的阶级属性和鲜明的基本特征，从诞生之日起就“没有任何同整个无产阶级的利益不同的利益”，坚决地“为工人阶级的最近的目的和利益而斗争”，是本阶级中“最坚决的、始终起推动作用的部分”，“代表运动的未来”。这样一个志向高远、毫无私利、斗争坚决的无产阶级政党，要始终如一地保持初心，矢志不移地牢记使命，就“必须绝对保持党的纪律”和彻底恪守党的规矩，永葆先进性、纯洁性，增强凝聚力、战斗力，时刻以刀刃向内的胆识、坚韧不拔的意志和果断决绝的行动，铲除顽瘴痼疾、祛除沉疴积弊，扎实推进党的自我革命。

Revolutionary character is the basic attribute and distinctive character of a Marxist party. Only by continuously engaging in inward self-criticism and renovation can a proletarian party achieve its own development, improvement, and strength, and better lead the social revolution. The Constitution of the Communist Party of China explicitly declares that “the Party has no special interests of its own apart from the interests of the working class and the broadest masses of the people.” This indicates that our Party, beyond the interests of the state, the nation, and the people, has had, has now, and will have no special interests of its own in the future. “A steep cliff stands a thousand feet tall; without desires, it is unyielding.” [2]2 A classical Chinese saying from Lin Zexu, a Qing dynasty official, expressing that a person without selfish desires is unyielding. Only a party with no private interests has the courage to carry out the most thorough self-revolution; only a party that embraces all ages and focuses on the overall situation can unwaveringly advance the social revolution. Self-revolution is the “unique political character” of the Communist Party of China as a Marxist party; “daring to engage in self-revolution is a distinctive mark that distinguishes the Communist Party of China from other political parties,” and it is the second answer [3]3 The “first answer” refers to Mao Zedong’s proposal at the “Yan’an talks” in 1945 that the people’s supervision of the government could break the historical cycle of rise and fall. for our Party to escape the historical cycle of rise and fall. [4]4 The “historical cycle of rise and fall” (治乱兴衰历史周期率) refers to the pattern in Chinese dynastic history of founding, flourishing, decline, and collapse. It is precisely because it possesses the revolutionary breadth of mind, confidence, and conscious action for self-negation and self-sublation, and always maintains the vigilance and state of self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement, that the Communist Party of China, after a century of vicissitudes, remains in its prime, and after repeated hardships and trials, becomes ever more vigorous.

革命性是马克思主义政党的基本属性和鲜明品格。无产阶级政党只有不断进行向内的自我批判和革新，才能实现自身的发展、完善和强大，更好地引领社会革命。《中国共产党章程》明确宣告“党除了工人阶级和最广大人民群众的利益，没有自己特殊的利益”。这表明，我们党除了国家、民族、人民的利益之外，过去、现在、将来都不会有任何属于自己的特殊利益。“壁立千仞，无欲则刚”，一个毫无私利的政党才有勇气进行最彻底的自我革命，一个胸怀万世、着眼全局的政党才能义无反顾地推进社会革命。自我革命是中国共产党作为马克思主义政党的“独有的政治品格”，“勇于自我革命是中国共产党区别于其他政党的显著标志”，是我们党跳出治乱兴衰历史周期率的第二个答案。正是由于具备自我否定和自我扬弃的革命襟怀、底气和行动自觉，始终保持自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高的警醒和状态，中国共产党才能历经百年沧桑依然风华正茂，才能屡经坎坷磨难而愈发朝气蓬勃。

“Preparing against unforeseen dangers is the constant way of the state.” [5]5 A classical allusion from the Tang dynasty text *Zhenguan Zhengyao* (Essentials of Government of the Zhenguan Era), meaning that preparing for adversity is the constant principle of governing a state. The Communist Party of China was conceived and born amid domestic turmoil and foreign aggression, grew and strengthened amid severe trials, and became ever more resilient amid the social revolution of overcoming difficulties. Every brilliant achievement our Party has led the people of all ethnic groups across the country to attain, and every victory in the social revolution it has won, is directly related to the Party’s self-revolution and the enhancement of its own advanced nature and combat effectiveness. The history of socialist development powerfully proves that an advanced Marxist party is forged through self-revolution; the more than one hundred years of the Communist Party of China’s struggle fully confirm that our Party, in every period and stage, has adhered to and promoted the spirit of self-revolution, always maintaining the attitude and courage to face contradictions head-on. From the August 7th Meeting [6]6 The August 7th Meeting (1927) was an emergency meeting of the CPC that corrected Chen Duxiu’s right-leaning capitulationism and decided on the policy of agrarian revolution and armed resistance. and the Zunyi Meeting [7]7 The Zunyi Meeting (1935) was a pivotal Politburo meeting that established Mao Zedong’s leadership within the Party and the Red Army. to the Yan’an Rectification Movement, [8]8 The Yan’an Rectification Movement (1942–1945) was a Party-wide campaign to study Marxist-Leninist theory and correct subjectivist, sectarian, and stereotypical tendencies. from the “Two Musts” [9]9 The “Two Musts” (两个务必) are: “comrades must be taught to remain modest, prudent, and free from arrogance and rashness, and comrades must be taught to preserve the style of arduous struggle.” proposed at the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee to the setting things right at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, [10]10 The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee (1978) marked the beginning of reform and opening up, shifting the Party’s focus to economic development. and then to the new journey of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party initiated since the 18th National Congress of the CPC… the Party’s history is a history of struggle in which the Party continuously engages in self-warning, self-revolution, and self-transcendence. Daring to face its own challenges, courageously excising its own malignant tumors, and adeptly solving its own problems are the keys to the Party’s forever maintaining a healthy body and continuously enhancing its vitality, and are the important magic weapon and political advantage that enable the Party to always remain the strong leading core of China’s revolution, construction, and reform.

“备豫不虞，为国常道。”中国共产党是在内忧外患中孕育诞生的，是在饱经磨难中成长壮大的，是在攻坚克难的社会革命中愈挫愈强的。我们党领导全国各族人民取得的每一项辉煌成就、赢得的每一场社会革命的胜利，都与党进行自我革命、增强自身先进性与战斗力直接相关。社会主义发展史有力证明，先进的马克思主义政党是在自我革命中锻造出来的；中国共产党百余年奋斗史充分印证，我们党在任何时期和阶段都坚持发扬自我革命精神，始终保持直面矛盾的态度和勇气。从八七会议、遵义会议到延安整风，从党的七届二中全会提出的“两个务必”，到党的十一届三中全会的拨乱反正，再到党的十八大以来开启的全面从严治党新征程……党的历史就是一部党持续进行自我警示、自我革命、自我超越的奋斗历史。敢于直面自身挑战、勇于革除自身毒瘤、善于解决自身问题，是我们党永葆健康肌体、不断增强生机活力的关键所在，是我们党始终成为中国革命、建设和改革的坚强领导核心的重要法宝和政治优势。

2. The Party’s self-revolution and the social revolution are dialectically unified, mutually promoting and advancing together

2.党的自我革命与社会革命辩证统一、互促共进

The essence of the social revolution is the great social practice in which the Communist Party of China, daring to engage in self-revolution, unites and leads the people of all ethnic groups across the country in seeking the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation; the Party’s self-revolution is a process of continuous self-criticism and self-sublation for the purpose of better undertaking the task of the social revolution, thereby enhancing itself. The Party’s self-revolution and the social revolution are in a relationship of dialectical unity and mutual promotion and advancement. The Party’s self-revolution takes the social revolution as its theme and main line, always operates around the social revolution, undergoes tempering in the social revolution and consciously promotes theoretical and practical innovation, and thereby leads the great social revolution.

社会革命的本质是勇于自我革命的中国共产党团结和带领全国各族人民谋求民族复兴的伟大社会实践；党的自我革命是为更好承担社会革命的重任而不断进行自我批判扬弃的提升过程。党的自我革命与社会革命是辩证统一、互促共进的关系，党的自我革命以社会革命为主题主线，始终围绕社会革命展开运行，在社会革命中经受淬炼并自觉推进理论和实践创新，进而引领伟大社会革命。

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes, “We must be vigilant in times of peace and always be alert to whether this century-old major party of ours will become decrepit and riddled with disease. We must not forget or lose memory of the detours and twists our Party has taken in its history, nor must we forget or lose memory of the profound lessons from Chinese and foreign political history of those who were complacent and died in comfort,” and profoundly points out that “we must use the great self-revolution to lead the great social revolution, and use the great social revolution to promote the great self-revolution.” “Leading” and “promoting” profoundly confirm, from the perspective of dialectical materialism, the relationship between self-revolution and social revolution. Through self-revolution, the Party maintains its own advanced nature and purity, thereby driving society forward toward the goal of comprehensively building a modern socialist country and even toward communism. Therefore, the Party’s self-revolution has the great significance of providing directional guidance and operational guarantees for the social revolution. In the process of the social revolution, new situations will continuously emerge and new issues will be raised, thereby promoting the Party, in the process of constantly responding to changing situations, fostering new opportunities, and opening up new prospects, to further deepen reforms comprehensively, carry out self-improvement and enhancement, and better fulfill its responsibility of leading the social revolution. Therefore, the social revolution has a traction effect on the Party’s self-revolution. The Party’s self-revolution and the social revolution are unified in the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and unified in the grand journey of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.

习近平总书记强调，“我们要居安思危，时刻警惕我们这个百年大党会不会变得老态龙钟、疾病缠身。对党的历史上走过的弯路、经历的曲折不能健忘失忆，对中外政治史上那些安于现状、死于安乐的深刻教训不能健忘失忆”，并深刻指出“要以伟大自我革命引领伟大社会革命，以伟大社会革命促进伟大自我革命”。“引领”和“促进”从辩证唯物主义的视域深刻印证了自我革命和社会革命的关系，党通过自我革命保持自身先进性、纯洁性，从而带动社会向着实现全面建成社会主义现代化强国目标乃至共产主义方向前进。因此，党的自我革命对社会革命具有方向指引和行进保障的重大意义。社会革命发展过程中会不断出现新状况、提出新课题，以此促进党在不断应变局、育新机、开新局过程中进一步全面深化改革，进行自我完善和提高，以更好胜任引领社会革命的职责。因此，社会革命对党的自我革命具有牵引作用。党的自我革命和社会革命统一于中国特色社会主义的伟大实践，统一于中华民族伟大复兴的宏阔征程。

As the Communist Party of China leads the entire people in advancing toward the realization of the second centenary goal, building China into a great modern socialist country in all respects, and promoting historical development and social progress, it must coordinate and handle the relationship between the Party’s self-reform and the social revolution. First, unremittingly advance the Party’s self-reform. Only by forging a strong capacity for self-reform can the Party more forcefully organize and lead the social revolution, and more effectively assume the historical responsibility of promoting social progress. The Party’s self-reform includes revolutions in the subsystems of politics, ideology, organization, work style, and discipline, with the goal of seeking happiness for the Chinese people, rejuvenation for the Chinese nation, progress for humanity, and harmony for the world, thereby promoting the progress of human society and the development and prosperity of the world. Second, the social revolution is the purpose, destination, and criterion for judging the Party’s self-reform. Whether the Party’s self-reform is effective ultimately depends on whether it can successfully lead the social revolution; the social revolution is an important touchstone for examining and testing the success or failure of the Party’s self-reform. Therefore, the social revolution inherently requires that the theory and practice of the Party’s self-reform constantly keep pace with the times, develop and innovate, and use the Party’s own advanced nature to steadily advance the social revolution. Finally, the goals of the Party’s self-reform and the social revolution jointly point toward the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation. In the process of realizing the great dream, our Party must adapt to the requirements of new situations and new tasks, always maintain the spirit and resolve of self-reform, continuously advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, further deepen reform in all respects, and comprehensively advance the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization.

中国共产党带领全体人民向着实现第二个百年奋斗目标进军，全面建成社会主义现代化强国，推动历史发展和社会进步，必须协调处理好党的自我革命与社会革命的关系。首先，坚持不懈推进党的自我革命。只有练就过硬的自我革命本领，党才能更加有力地组织和领导社会革命，才能更加有效地承担起推动社会进步的历史责任。党的自我革命包括政治、思想、组织、作风、纪律等子系统的革命，目标是为中国人民谋幸福、为中华民族谋复兴，为人类谋进步、为世界谋大同，推动人类社会进步和世界发展繁荣。其次，社会革命是党的自我革命的目的、归宿和评判标准。党的自我革命成效如何，最终要看它能否成功地引领社会革命，社会革命是考察和检验党的自我革命成败的重要试金石。因而，社会革命内在地要求党的自我革命理论和实践不断与时俱进、发展创新，以党自身的先进性引领社会革命稳步推进。最后，党的自我革命和社会革命目标共同指向强国建设和民族复兴伟业。在实现伟大梦想过程中，我们党必须适应新形势新任务的要求，始终保持自我革命的精神和定力，不断推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化，进一步全面深化改革，以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴。

3. Maintain a High Degree of Consciousness in Using the Party’s Self-Reform to Lead the Social Revolution

3.保持以党的自我革命引领社会革命的高度自觉

As a long-term governing Marxist political party, our Party must always maintain its advanced nature and purity. The important way to achieve this is to establish a problem-oriented approach, insist on turning the blade inward, grasp the correct political direction, rectify conduct and work style, optimize the organizational structure, use the spirit of self-reform to discard the old and cultivate the new, strengthen the body and bones, enhance the Party’s cohesion, centripetal force, and combat effectiveness, and provide solid organizational support, strong ideological guarantees, and a firm political foundation for advancing the great social revolution. On the new journey, we must continue to carry forward the thorough revolutionary spirit, have the courage to carry out self-reform, build the Party to be stronger and more powerful, and strive to carry out the great social revolution of upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era.

作为一个长期执政的马克思主义政党，我们党要始终保持先进性、纯洁性，其重要途径就是树立问题导向、坚持刀刃向内，把准政治方向、整肃行为作风、优化组织架构，以自我革命的精神革故鼎新、强筋壮骨，提升党的凝聚力、向心力和战斗力，为推进伟大社会革命提供坚实的组织支撑、强大的思想保障，奠定坚实的政治基础。新征程上，我们必须继续发扬彻底的革命精神，勇于进行自我革命，把党建设得更加坚强有力，努力把新时代坚持和发展中国特色社会主义这场伟大社会革命进行好。

Strengthen the Party’s political construction to ensure the correct political direction for the social revolution. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: “Emphasizing politics is the fundamental guarantee for our Party to supplement calcium, strengthen bones, and build a strong body; it is the fundamental way for our Party to cultivate the courage for self-reform, enhance the capacity for self-purification, and improve the political immunity to expel toxins.” The Party’s political construction is the fundamental construction of the Party; it determines the effectiveness of the Party’s self-reform and the political direction of the social revolution. In practice, the entire Party must always place political construction first, firmly implement the Party’s political line, strictly observe political discipline and political rules, deeply understand the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, resolutely achieve the Two Upholds, and maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core in political stance, political direction, political principles, and political path, continuously strengthen political loyalty, firm up political belief, and ensure that the social revolution steadily advances along the correct direction.

加强党的政治建设，为社会革命把准政治方向。习近平总书记强调：“讲政治，是我们党补钙壮骨、强身健体的根本保证，是我们党培养自我革命勇气、增强自我净化能力、提高排毒杀菌政治免疫力的根本途径。”党的政治建设是党的根本性建设，决定党的自我革命的效果，决定社会革命的政治方向。在实践中，全党上下要始终把政治建设放在首位，坚定执行党的政治路线，严格遵守政治纪律和政治规矩，深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义、坚决做到“两个维护”，在政治立场、政治方向、政治原则、政治道路上同以习近平同志为核心的党中央保持高度一致，不断强化政治忠诚，坚定政治信仰，保证社会革命沿着正确方向稳步前行。

Strengthen the Party’s ideological construction to provide spiritual impetus for the social revolution. Ideological construction is the engine and guide of the Party’s self-reform, and the ideological guidance and spiritual support for the great social revolution. At present, the diversity, multiplicity, and variability of ideology and culture are becoming more prominent, and exchanges, interactions, and confrontations are increasingly frequent. This requires arming the entire Party with the latest achievements in adapting Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to consolidate the soul, guide the entire Party to consciously correct the source and consolidate the foundation from an ideological perspective, promote the entire Party to always maintain unified thinking, unified will, and unified action, and especially promote the normalization and institutionalization of ideal and belief education, resolutely resist various erroneous ideological trends, build the foundation of faith, supplement the calcium of the spirit, cultivate the “mind science” of Chinese Communists, [11]11 “Mind science” (心学) is a term borrowed from the Neo-Confucian school of Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming, here repurposed to refer to the cultivation of ideological and moral integrity among Party members. guard the common spiritual home of Chinese Communists, and consolidate the ideological foundation of the social revolution.

加强党的思想建设，为社会革命提供精神动力。思想建设是党的自我革命的引擎与先导，是伟大社会革命的思想引领与精神支持。当前，思想文化多元多样多变更加凸显、交流交融交锋日益频繁，这就要求用马克思主义中国化时代化最新成果武装全党，用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想凝心铸魂，引导全党自觉从思想上正本清源、固本培元，推动全党始终保持统一思想、统一意志、统一行动，特别是要推动理想信念教育常态化制度化，坚决抵御各种错误思潮，筑牢信仰之基、补足精神之钙，修好中国共产党人的“心学”，坚守中国共产党人共同精神家园，筑牢社会革命的思想基础。

Strengthen the Party’s organizational construction to provide organizational guarantees for the social revolution. Our Party possesses the world’s largest, vertically integrated, and powerfully executing organizational system, which is a major political advantage that other political parties do not possess. Situated in the New Era and facing new tasks, we must use the Party’s organizational construction to drive the construction of the cadre and Party member team, adhere to the principle of the Party managing cadres, select good cadres who are loyal, clean, and responsible, improve the positive incentive system, optimize the punishment and elimination mechanism, and forge a team of Party members and cadres with strong politics, firm beliefs, high competence, and a solid work style to boost the social revolution.

加强党的组织建设，为社会革命提供组织保障。我们党拥有全世界最为庞大、上下贯通、执行有力的组织体系，这是其他政党不具备的重大政治优势。置身新时代、面对新任务，要以党的组织建设带动党员干部队伍建设，坚持党管干部原则，优选忠诚、干净、担当的好干部，完善正向激励体系，优化惩戒淘汰机制，为助推社会革命锻造政治强、信念坚、本领高、作风硬的党员干部队伍。

Strengthen the Party’s work style construction to create a clean and upright atmosphere for the social revolution. The Party’s work style construction is an important content and inherent requirement of the Party’s self-reform, and the driving force and solid foundation of the great social revolution. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has made solving work style problems such as the “four forms of decadence” [12]12 The “four forms of decadence” (四风) refer to formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance, which were targeted in the Party’s mass-line education campaign beginning in 2013. the entry point and breakthrough for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, used the self-reform spirit of turning the blade inward to rectify various unhealthy practices, and vigorously advocated and promoted the Party’s fine work style. For the current period and a considerable period to come, we must adhere to a strict tone to strengthen discipline and work style, continuously improve the long-term mechanism for work style construction, vigorously promote the Party’s glorious traditions and fine work style, ensure that Party members and cadres fulfill their duties, take responsibility, and act, and use a good work style and good image to promote the formation of a good situation for grasping reform implementation.

加强党的作风建设，为社会革命营造风清气正的良好氛围。党的作风建设是党的自我革命的重要内容和内在要求，是伟大社会革命的动力源泉和坚实根基。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央把解决“四风”等作风问题作为全面从严治党的切入点和突破口，以刀刃向内的自我革命精神整治各种不正之风，大力倡导和弘扬党的优良作风。当前和今后相当长的时期，要坚持以严的基调强化正风肃纪，不断健全作风建设长效机制，大力弘扬党的光荣传统和优良作风，确保党员干部履职尽责、担当作为，以好作风好形象推动形成狠抓改革落实的良好局面。

Strengthen the Party’s discipline construction to provide strong disciplinary guarantees for the social revolution. Discipline is the “ruler” for governing the Party and managing the Party; strengthening discipline construction is the fundamental strategy for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. Strict discipline is a political advantage that our Party has maintained since its founding; strengthening discipline construction is a glorious tradition of Marxist political parties and a valuable historical experience for our Party to maintain eternal vitality. We must place Party discipline learning and education in a more important position, guide Party members and cadres to learn, understand, clarify, and abide by discipline, truly transform disciplinary rules into political consciousness, ideological consciousness, and action consciousness, and continuously enhance the Party’s creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness with strict discipline.

加强党的纪律建设，为社会革命提供坚强纪律保障。纪律是管党治党的“戒尺”，加强纪律建设是全面从严治党的治本之策。纪律严明是我们党自成立以来就保持的政治优势，加强纪律建设是马克思主义政党的光荣传统，是我们党永葆生机活力的宝贵历史经验。要把党纪学习教育摆在更加重要的位置，引导党员干部学纪、知纪、明纪、守纪，真正把纪律规矩转化为政治自觉、思想自觉、行动自觉，以严明纪律不断增强党的创造力凝聚力战斗力。

Use the strengthening of the Party’s institutional construction to run through all aspects of Party building, providing stable institutional mechanisms for the social revolution. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, our Party has promoted the formation of a relatively complete system of intra-Party regulations, achieving rules and regulations for governing the Party and managing the Party. We must adhere to institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party according to regulations, take the Party Constitution as the foundation, democratic centralism as the core, and take the new era, new situation, new tasks, and new issues as the orientation, revise and improve intra-Party regulations and systems in step with the times, forming a long-term mechanism of summarization-sedimentation, reflection-correction; improve the supervision system of unified Party leadership, comprehensive coverage, authority, and efficiency, promote the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision, give play to the sharp sword role of political inspections, [13]13 “Political inspections” (政治巡视) refer to the Party’s internal inspection system, which since the 18th National Congress has been intensified to enforce discipline and uncover corruption. ensure the normalization and long-term effectiveness of intra-Party supervision; implement the political responsibility for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, make good use of the accountability weapon, and consolidate the main responsibility for promoting the social revolution.

以加强党的制度建设贯穿党的各项建设，为社会革命提供稳定的机制保障。党的十八大以来，我们党推动形成比较完善的党内法规制度体系，做到管党治党有规可依、有章可循。要坚持制度治党、依规治党，以党章为根本，以民主集中制为核心，以新时代新形势新任务新课题为导向，与时俱进修订完善党内法规制度，形成总结—沉淀、反思—纠偏的长效机制；健全党统一领导、全面覆盖、权威高效的监督体系，推进政治监督具体化、精准化、常态化，发挥政治巡视利剑作用，保障党内监督常态化长效化；落实全面从严治党政治责任，用好问责利器，压实推动社会革命的主体责任。

(Author: Wang Liying, Distinguished Researcher of the Heilongjiang Provincial Research Center for the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Professor of the School of Marxism at Harbin Institute of Technology)

（作者：王丽颖，系黑龙江省中国特色社会主义理论体系研究中心特聘研究员、哈尔滨工业大学马克思主义学院教授）

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