Valuable Experience in Deepening the Reform of the Party Building System in the New Era

From the Third Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the CPC, which first proposed the important proposition of “deepening the reform of the Party building system,” to the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, which placed it in an important position for overall planning and continuous advancement, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has, through more than a decade of theoretical accumulation and practical exploration, reached a new height in its understanding of the laws governing the Party building system. It has not only provided scientific answers to the goals of building a Marxist political party that remains in power for the long term and realizing Chinese-path modernization, but has also coordinated the present with the long term, clarifying major epochal questions such as “what to reform, how to reform, and what results to achieve” in the reform of the Party building system on the new journey of the New Era. Summarizing the valuable experience of deepening the reform of the Party building system since the 18th National Congress of the CPC is of important theoretical significance and practical value for improving the system for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, enhancing the Party’s leadership level and long-term governance capacity, and further deepening reform comprehensively to advance Chinese-path modernization.

从党的十八届三中全会首次提出“深化党的建设制度改革”这一重要命题，到党的二十届三中全会将其置于重要位置进行统筹谋划和接续推进，以习近平同志为核心的党中央历经十余年的理论积淀与实践探索，对党的建设制度的规律性认识达到了新高度；既对建设长期执政的马克思主义政党和实现中国式现代化目标作出了科学回答，又统筹当前与长远，明确了新时代新征程上党的建设制度改革“改什么、如何改、要取得什么样的成效”等重大时代性问题。总结党的十八大以来深化党的建设制度改革的宝贵经验，对于健全全面从严治党体系、提高党的领导水平和长期执政能力、进一步全面深化改革以推进中国式现代化，具有重要的理论意义和现实价值。

Adhering to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the fundamental principle for deepening the reform of the Party building system. Marxism is an important magic weapon guiding the Chinese people in revolution, construction, and reform. Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, as the Marxism of the 21st century, profoundly answers major questions such as why and how to deepen the reform of the Party building system, manifests the crystallized wisdom of the Two Integrations, and has become an important ideological and working method for further deepening the reform of the Party building system on the new journey. Advancing reform under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era not only ensures that reform proceeds in the correct political direction but also explores a series of new methods for Party building through the interaction of theory and practice, such as improving the regular training mechanism, perfecting the mechanisms for the education, management, and role-fulfillment of Party members, and implementing the tenure system for leading cadres. This further stimulates the initiative, creativity, and enthusiasm of Party members and cadres, ensuring that the Party’s vitality remains strong.

坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指引，是深化党的建设制度改革的根本遵循。马克思主义是指引中国人民进行革命、建设、改革的重要法宝，习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想作为21世纪的马克思主义，深刻回答了为什么要深化党的建设制度改革、如何深化党的建设制度改革等重大问题，彰显了“两个结合”的智慧结晶，成为新征程上进一步深化党的建设制度改革的重要思想方法和工作方法。以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为指引推进改革，不仅确保改革沿着正确的政治方向前进，还在理论与实践的互动中探索出一系列党的建设新方式，如健全常态化培训机制，完善党员教育管理和作用发挥机制，落实领导干部任期制等，进一步激发了党员干部的积极性、主动性和创造性，确保党的生机活力始终旺盛。

Upholding the Party’s overall leadership is the fundamental guarantee for deepening the reform of the Party building system. Comprehensively deepening reform is a complex systemic project that must establish a leadership system at a higher level to form a powerful reform synergy. Whether Party leadership can be upheld directly concerns the success or failure of reform. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee has, by improving the system for the Party’s overall leadership, upholding the Two Establishments, and achieving the Two Upholds, cultivated a group of Party members and cadres who are daring to take responsibility, clean and honest, and enterprising, in order to adapt to the rapidly developing new situation of national governance, overcome multiple risks and challenges on the path forward, and accomplish the arduous tasks of reform, development, and stability. By upholding Party leadership, the organizational structure and management system of the Party and state have been continuously optimized, the Party leadership system has become increasingly institutionalized and standardized, the role of the Party Central Committee’s decision-making and coordination bodies has become more prominent, and the Party building system has achieved historic changes and systemic reshaping, giving full play to the “backbone” role of the CPC. Practice has proven that deepening the reform of the Party building system must consistently uphold the Party’s overall leadership to provide a fundamental guarantee for advancing reform in depth.

坚持党的全面领导，是深化党的建设制度改革的根本保证。全面深化改革是一项复杂的系统工程，必须在更高层面建立领导体制，才能形成强大的改革合力。能否坚持党的领导，直接关乎改革的成败。党的十八大以来，党中央通过健全党的全面领导制度，坚持“两个确立”，做到“两个维护”，培养了一批敢于担当、清正廉洁、锐意进取的党员干部，以适应快速发展的治国理政新形势，破解前进道路上的多重风险挑战，完成改革发展稳定的艰巨任务。通过坚持党的领导，党和国家的组织结构与管理体制不断优化，党的领导制度日趋制度化、规范化，党中央决策议事协调机构的作用更加突出，党的建设制度实现了历史性变革和系统性重塑，中国共产党的“主心骨”作用得到了充分发挥。实践证明，深化党的建设制度改革，必须一以贯之地坚持党的全面领导，为纵深推进改革提供根本保证。

Adhering to a problem-oriented approach and breaking through deep-seated institutional obstacles and structural contradictions is the focal point for deepening the reform of the Party building system. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes that we Chinese Communists engage in revolution, construction, and reform always to solve China’s practical problems. As the Party building system has been continuously improved, a series of deep-seated institutional obstacles and structural contradictions have emerged. For example, some cadres have problems of acting recklessly, failing to act, not daring to act, or acting incompetently; some Party members have a weakened awareness of their vanguard and exemplary role, weak organizational discipline, and an unclear role; some primary-level Party organizations have weak political functions, with problems of weakening, hollowing out, and marginalization, leading to the occasional phenomenon of “orders not being carried out and prohibitions not being heeded” in the construction of Party political norms. Reform arises from problems and deepens in the process of solving them. By directly confronting various blockages, obstacles, pain points, difficulties, and focal issues, and adhering to the unity of the two-point theory and the key-point theory, the Party building system has been continuously improved in the process of effectively resolving contradictions, playing a role in consolidating foundations, promoting strengths, making up for shortcomings, and strengthening weak links. This must be adhered to for the long term and continuously deepened.

坚持问题导向，破解深层次体制机制障碍和结构性矛盾，是深化党的建设制度改革的着力点。习近平总书记强调，我们中国共产党人干革命、搞建设、抓改革，从来都是为了解决中国的现实问题。随着党的建设制度不断完善，一系列深层次体制机制障碍和结构性矛盾相继显现，如部分干部存在乱作为、不作为、不敢为、不善为的问题；部分党员先锋模范意识淡化，组织纪律性不强，作用发挥不明显；部分基层党组织政治功能不强，存在弱化、虚化、边缘化等问题，导致党的政治规范建设中“有令不行、有禁不止”现象时有发生。改革因问题而生，也在解决问题的过程中不断深化。通过直面各类卡点、堵点、痛点、难点和焦点问题，坚持两点论和重点论相统一，党的建设制度在有效化解矛盾中不断完善，发挥出固根基、扬优势、补短板、强弱项的作用，必须长期坚持并持续深化。

Adhering to upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground is the essential requirement for deepening the reform of the Party building system. The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC points out that only by upholding fundamental principles can we avoid losing our direction and committing subversive errors, and only by breaking new ground can we grasp the times and lead the times. Upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground embodies the dialectical unity of inheritance and development, forming the “two wings” of the reform of the Party building system, driving it to continuously mature and take shape. From the perspective of “change” in reform, the Party building system has achieved a series of breakthroughs and transcendences in new practice, such as issuing intra-Party regulations like the “Several Provisions of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee on Strengthening and Upholding the Centralized and Unified Leadership of the Party Central Committee” and revising the “Regulations of the CPC on Disciplinary Actions.” These have promptly removed institutional obstacles that are unsuitable, unreasonable, or incomplete, achieving a positive interaction between theoretical and practical innovation. From the perspective of “constancy” in reform, during the process of adjustment and optimization, the Party building system has always upheld the Party’s overall leadership, always adhered to the scientific guidance of Marxism, and always adhered to the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics without wavering, laying a solid institutional foundation for building a strong country and achieving national rejuvenation. Deepening the reform of the Party building system must take upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground as an essential requirement, continuously enhance the historical initiative, and inject new vitality into building a Marxist ruling party that can withstand various trials, always maintain vigorous vitality, and always stay at the forefront of the times.

坚持守正创新，是深化党的建设制度改革的本质要求。党的二十大报告指出，守正才能不迷失方向、不犯颠覆性错误，创新才能把握时代、引领时代。守正创新体现了继承与发展的辩证统一，构成党的建设制度改革的“两翼”，推动其不断成熟和定型。从改革之“变”来看，党的建设制度在新的实践中取得了一系列突破和超越，如出台《中共中央政治局关于加强和维护党中央集中统一领导的若干规定》等党内法规、重新修订《中国共产党纪律处分条例》等，及时清除了不适应、不合理、不全面的制度障碍，实现了理论创新与实践创新的良性互动。从改革之“不变”来看，党的建设制度在调整优化过程中，始终坚持党的全面领导，始终坚持马克思主义的科学指引，始终坚持中国特色社会主义道路不动摇，为强国建设和民族复兴筑牢制度根基。深化党的建设制度改革，必须把守正创新作为本质要求，不断增强历史主动精神，为建设经得起各种风浪考验、始终保持蓬勃生命力、始终走在时代前列的马克思主义执政党注入新活力。

Adhering to a systematic approach is the scientific methodology for deepening the reform of the Party building system. Dialectical materialism holds that the world is an organic whole of interconnected and interacting parts. Therefore, to accurately grasp the essential laws of things, one must use systematic thinking and analyze and solve problems with the method of connection and development. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has adhered to dialectical materialism, integrating the systematic approach throughout the entire process and all aspects of the reform of the Party building system, further enhancing the overall effectiveness of reform. For example, by integrating Party leadership into all aspects of national governance, using the reform of the Party leadership system to lead the reform of the economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological civilization systems and mechanisms, it has changed the previous inefficient method of piecemeal and isolated advances, giving full play to the key role of reform where a pull on one part affects the whole, and unswervingly promoting the reform of the Party building system in depth. Furthermore, the CPC Central Committee issued the “Outline of the Plan for the Formulation of Intra-Party Regulations of the Central Committee (2023–2027),” clarifying the task books, roadmaps, and timelines for the construction of the intra-Party regulation system at different stages, focusing on solving the problems of unsuitability, incoordination, disconnection, and inconsistency in intra-Party regulations, and achieving the mutual complementarity and promotion of reform and law-based governance. Therefore, deepening the reform of the Party building system must adhere to a systematic approach, seeking the optimal plan to solve reform difficulties through systematic planning, overall advancement, and coordinated development, forming a multiplier effect for deepening the reform of the Party building system.

坚持系统观念，是深化党的建设制度改革的科学方法论。唯物辩证法认为，世界是一个相互联系、彼此作用的有机整体。因此，准确把握事物的本质规律，必须运用系统思维，用联系和发展的方法分析问题、解决问题。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚持唯物辩证法，将系统观念贯穿于党的建设制度改革全过程、各环节，进一步提升了改革的整体效能。例如，通过将党的领导贯穿于治国理政各方面，以党的领导制度改革引领经济、政治、文化、社会、生态文明体制机制改革，改变了以往零敲碎打、单兵突进的低效方式，发挥出改革牵一发而动全身的关键作用，坚定不移地推动党的建设制度改革向纵深发展。不仅如此，中共中央还印发了《中央党内法规制定工作规划纲要（2023—2027年）》，明确不同阶段党内法规制度建设的任务书、路线图、时间表，着力解决党内法规的不适应、不协调、不衔接、不一致问题，实现改革与法治的相辅相成、相互促进。因此，深化党的建设制度改革，必须坚持系统观念，通过系统谋划、整体推进、协同发展，寻求破解改革难题的最优方案，形成深化党的建设制度改革的倍增效应。

The valuable experience of deepening the reform of the Party building system over more than a decade in the New Era can be summarized as follows: the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, standing at the strategic height of the Party, the state, the nation, and humanity, guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, has upheld the Party’s overall leadership, adhered to a problem-oriented approach, upheld fundamental principles and broken new ground, and adhered to a systematic approach, driving the reform of the Party building system to achieve new progress and new achievements. This not only consolidates the ideological consensus and action wisdom of the CPC but also provides a directional guide and action program for expanding the breadth and depth of reform, ensuring that Chinese-path modernization anchors its goals and proceeds steadily and far.

新时代十余年深化党的建设制度改革的宝贵经验，归结起来，就是以习近平同志为核心的党中央站在党和国家、民族以及人类的战略高度，以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为引领，坚持党的全面领导，坚持问题导向，坚持守正创新，坚持系统观念，推动党的建设制度改革取得新进展新成就。这不仅凝聚了中国共产党的思想共识和行动智慧，也为拓展改革的广度和深度提供了方向指南和行动纲领，确保中国式现代化锚定奋斗目标，行稳致远。

(The author is a researcher at the Research Center for Marxist Theory and Regional Practice, Guangxi Normal University)

（作者系广西师范大学马克思主义理论与区域实践研究中心研究员）

Online editor: Huihui

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