Advance Style-of-Work Construction from the Height of Serving the Party’s Work Overall Situation

The Party’s style of work and image bear on the Party’s creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, and determine the success or failure of the Party’s and the state’s undertakings. General Secretary Xi Jinping has clearly pointed out that style-of-work construction serves the Party’s work overall situation, should embody the requirements that the new situations and new tasks facing the Party place on style of work, and should make the process of improving style of work a process of implementing the Party’s theories, lines, principles, and policies and a process of promoting reform and opening up and the smooth progress of socialist modernization. This important exposition further clarifies the goal connotation and direction path of style-of-work construction.

党的作风和形象关系党的创造力、凝聚力、战斗力，决定党和国家事业成败。习近平总书记明确指出，作风建设是为党的工作大局服务的，应该体现党面临的新形势新任务对作风的要求，使改进作风的过程成为贯彻执行党的理论和路线方针政策的过程，成为推动改革开放和社会主义现代化建设顺利进行的过程。这一重要论述进一步明确了作风建设的目标内涵和方向路径。

The Party’s style-of-work construction does not exist in isolation; it is a practical project deeply rooted in the soil of the Party’s cause development and closely serving the Party’s work overall situation. Looking back over the century-long struggle course, the Communist Party of China has cultivated and adhered to a series of fine styles of work in long-term practice, gathering solid strength for the development of the Party’s and the state’s undertakings. History has repeatedly proven that when the Party’s style of work is upright, the people’s morale is smooth, the Party and the people can share hardships, and our cause will flourish. Mao Zedong pointed out that as long as our Party’s style of work is completely upright, the people of the whole country will learn from us, and China’s reform and construction will be led by us; therefore, we must rectify the style of work, we must rectify it now, and we must rectify it in the future. From the Yan’an Rectification Movement [1]1 The Yan’an Rectification Movement (1942–1945) was a Party-wide campaign to correct subjectivist, sectarian, and stereotypical styles of work, establishing “seeking truth from facts” and “linking theory with practice” as core norms. establishing the style benchmark of “linking theory with practice” to the New Era’s correction of the “Four Forms of Decadence” [2]2 The “Four Forms of Decadence” (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance, which were the target of a major rectification campaign launched after the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012. reshaping the political ecosystem, style-of-work construction has always resonated with the Party’s mission and tasks. Today, the significance of style-of-work construction has long transcended the category of disciplinary rectification and become a key variable determining the depth of reform, the quality of development, and the effectiveness of governance. Style-of-work construction is not only a key move to practice the purpose and purify the Party’s style, but also a practical effort to impel Party members and cadres to unite their hearts and minds and start undertakings and do solid work.

党的作风建设不是孤立存在的，而是深深植根于党的事业发展土壤、紧密服务于党的工作大局的实践工程。纵观百年奋斗历程，中国共产党在长期实践中培育并坚持了一系列优良作风，为党和国家事业发展凝聚了坚实力量。历史反复证明，党的作风正，人民心气顺，党和人民就能同甘共苦，我们的事业就会蓬勃发展。毛泽东指出，只要我们党的作风完全正派了，全国人民就会跟我们学，中国的改革和建设靠我们来领导，所以要整风，现在要整风，将来还要整风。从延安整风运动确立“理论联系实际”等作风基准，到新时代纠治“四风”重塑政治生态，作风建设始终与党的使命任务同频共振。今时今日，作风建设的意义早已超越纪律整饬的范畴，成为决定改革深度、发展质量、治理效能的关键变量。作风建设不仅是践行宗旨、纯洁党风的关键之举，更是推动党员干部凝心聚力、干事创业的务实之功。

With the expansion of the Party’s organizational scale, the increase in the Party’s time in power, and the profound changes in the internal and external environment in which the Party is situated, the manifestations of style-of-work problems have also become increasingly complex. Strengthening style-of-work construction is an important guarantee for adapting to the new changes in long-term governance and the cadre contingent, properly solving the unique problems of a large Party, and promoting the implementation of all decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee. Whenever the Party’s and the state’s undertakings enter a critical stage, style-of-work construction can always become a sharp weapon to break through problems and open up paths. From the “Two Musts” [3]3 The “Two Musts” (两个务必) were Mao Zedong’s 1949 injunction that the Party must remain modest and prudent, not arrogant or impetuous, and must remain hardworking and frugal, not extravagant or hedonistic. to the “Three Musts” [4]4 The “Three Musts” (三个务必) were Xi Jinping’s 2022 update of the “Two Musts,” adding a third:, from the Central Eight-Point Regulations [5] to the Party-wide study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulations, from the self-revolution of the “key minority” [6] to that of “the vast majority of Party members and cadres,” from concept reshaping and mechanism innovation to method improvement and capacity enhancement, our Party, with great historical self-awareness, closely follows the requirements that new situations and new tasks place on style of work, continuously deepens the practical content and era connotation of style-of-work construction, and forms a systematic project covering ideological style of work, study style, work style, leadership style, and cadre life style.

随着党的组织规模的扩大、党执政时间的增加、党所处内外环境的深刻变化，作风问题的表现形态也越来越复杂。加强作风建设是适应长期执政和干部队伍新变化、妥善解决大党独有难题、推动党中央各项决策部署落到实处的重要保障。每当党和国家事业进入关键阶段，作风建设总能成为破题开路的利器。从“两个务必”到“三个务必”，从中央八项规定到全党开展深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育，从“关键少数”到“广大党员干部”的自我革命，从理念重塑、机制创新到方法改进、能力提升，我们党以巨大的历史自觉，紧扣新形势新任务对作风建设的要求，不断深化作风建设的实践内容和时代内涵，形成涵盖思想作风、学风、工作作风、领导作风、干部生活作风的系统工程。

Strengthening style-of-work construction to serve the Party’s work overall situation requires efforts from multiple aspects. Improve style of work in close connection with the people, and win people’s hearts and keep people’s hearts through style-of-work construction. The blueprint for national rejuvenation has been drawn; facing the people’s new expectations for a better life, use fine styles of work to break the shackles of formalism and bureaucracy, let cadres focus their energy on core tasks such as high-quality development and improvement of people’s livelihood, let “lying-flat cadres” [7] have nowhere to hide, and let “doers” stand out. Temper style of work in complex environments, and integrate the process of style-of-work construction into the process of implementing the Party’s major lines, principles, and policies and comprehensively deepening reform. At present, changes unseen in a century are accelerating; external pressures such as Sino-US economic and trade frictions, technological blockades, and geopolitical conflicts are surging, while domestic tasks such as economic transformation and upgrading and risk prevention and resolution are arduous. How to calmly respond, break through the ice, unite the top and bottom, and unite millions of hearts requires cadres’ style of work to be more pragmatic and more efficient. Facing the complexity of reform and tackling tough issues, the diversity of people’s demands, and the uncertainty of the external environment, let cadres enhance their struggle skills and strategic resolve on the front lines of scientific and technological innovation, in the deep-water zone of reform and tackling tough issues, and at the first line of conflict resolution, and answer the era’s propositions of building a strong country and national rejuvenation with an excellent work style.

加强作风建设，为党的工作大局服务，需要从多个方面着力。在同人民的密切联系中改进作风，通过作风建设赢得人心、守住人心。民族复兴的蓝图已经绘就，面对人民群众对美好生活的新期待，以优良作风破除形式主义、官僚主义桎梏，让干部将精力聚焦于高质量发展、民生改善等核心任务，让“躺平式干部”无所遁形，让“实干家”脱颖而出。在复杂环境中锤炼作风，将作风建设过程融入贯彻党的重大路线方针政策和全面深化改革的进程。当前百年变局加速演进，中美经贸摩擦、科技封锁、地缘冲突等外部压力激增，国内经济转型升级、风险防范化解等任务艰巨，如何做到从容应对、破冰突围，上下同欲、万众一心，要求干部作风更务实、更高效。面对改革攻坚的复杂性、群众诉求的多元性、外部环境的不确定性，让干部在科技创新最前沿、改革攻坚深水区、矛盾化解第一线，增强斗争本领和战略定力，以过硬的工作作风，回答好强国建设、民族复兴的时代命题。

2025 is the year for concluding the 14th Five-Year Plan. To cope with the arduous and heavy tasks of reform and development, it is necessary to provide a solid guarantee with fine styles of work. The whole Party should take the study and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulations as an opportunity, combine it with implementing the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, combine it with deeply advancing the construction of a clean and honest Party and the fight against corruption, unremittingly deepen style-of-work construction, and create a new situation of high-quality development with new achievements in style-of-work construction.

2025年是“十四五”规划收官之年，应对艰巨繁重的改革发展任务，必须以优良作风提供坚实保障。全党要以深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育为契机，同贯彻落实党中央重大决策部署结合起来，同深入推进党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争结合起来，驰而不息将作风建设引向深入，以作风建设新成效开创高质量发展新局面。

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