A Profound Understanding That the Core of the Work Style Issue Is the Relationship Between the Party and the Masses

The launch of the study and education campaign on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations throughout the Party constitutes a re-education and re-armament of Party cadres’ thought and theory, and a re-inspection and re-enhancement of discipline and work style. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered a series of important discourses on strengthening Party conduct building, emphasizing that the core of the work style issue is the relationship between the Party and the masses, that strengthening conduct building must grasp the key of maintaining the Party’s flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, and that it must adhere to the Marxist mass viewpoint and implement the Party’s mass line. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s series of important discourses have pointed the direction and provided the guidance for focusing on the relationship between the Party and the masses to solidly carry out the study and education campaign and to promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of conduct building.

在全党开展深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育，是对党员干部思想理论的一次再教育、再武装，是对纪律作风的一次再检阅、再提升。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记围绕加强党的作风建设发表一系列重要论述，强调作风问题核心是党同人民群众的关系问题，加强作风建设必须紧扣保持党同人民群众血肉联系这个关键，必须坚持马克思主义群众观点、贯彻党的群众路线。习近平总书记的系列重要论述，为聚焦党同人民群众关系问题扎实开展学习教育，推进作风建设常态化长效化，指明了方向、提供了遵循。

I. Focusing on the Relationship Between the Party and the Masses to Strengthen Conduct Building Has Profound Theoretical Origins

一、聚焦党同人民群众关系问题加强作风建设具有深厚的理论渊源

The relationship between the Party and the masses is an important component of the Marxist mass viewpoint and a scientific application of the Marxist historical materialist view in the construction of a Marxist political party.

党同人民群众的关系问题，是马克思主义群众观点的重要内容，是马克思主义唯物史观在马克思主义政党建设方面的科学运用。

Marx profoundly revealed the objective laws of the development of human society through the contradictory movement of the interaction and mutual constraint between productive forces and relations of production, and between the economic base and the superstructure, and for the first time resolved the major issue of how to correctly understand the status and role of the masses in history. In Marx’s view, “history is the activity of the masses”; the masses are not only the creators of material wealth but also the creators of spiritual wealth, and are the fundamental force driving history forward. Marxist historical materialism reversed the historical facts long inverted by idealist historical views, providing the ideological weapon for Marxist political parties to correctly understand and handle their relationship with the masses, to scientifically answer the fundamental question of “for whom and by whom,” and to unite and lead the masses in advancing the cause of revolution and construction. The *Communist Manifesto* solemnly declares that all previous movements were movements of the minority or for the benefit of the minority; the movement of the proletariat is the independent movement of the overwhelming majority, for the benefit of the overwhelming majority. Representing the overwhelming majority or only the minority is the fundamental distinction between Marxist political parties and non-Marxist political parties. The proletarian movement, as an independent movement of the overwhelming majority for the benefit of the overwhelming majority, embodies not only the distinct political stance, nature, purpose, and historical mission of a Marxist political party but also the intrinsic relationship between a Marxist political party and the broadest masses of the people. The masses are the decisive force in social change. Only by closely rallying the broad masses around itself can a proletarian political party realize its leading role in social revolution.

马克思从生产力和生产关系、经济基础和上层建筑相互作用、相互制约的矛盾运动中深刻揭示了人类社会发展的客观规律，第一次解决了如何正确认识人民群众在历史上的地位作用这一重大问题。在马克思看来，“历史活动是群众的事业”，人民群众不仅是物质财富的创造者，也是精神财富的创造者，是推动历史前进的根本力量。马克思主义唯物史观把长期被唯心史观颠倒的历史事实重新颠倒了过来，为马克思主义政党正确认识和处理同人民群众的关系，科学回答“为什么人、靠什么人”这一根本问题，团结带领人民推动革命和建设事业发展，提供了思想武器。《共产党宣言》庄严宣告，过去的一切运动都是少数人的或者为少数人谋利益的运动，无产阶级的运动是绝大多数人的、为绝大多数人谋利益的独立的运动。代表绝大多数人还是只代表少数人，是马克思主义政党同非马克思主义政党的根本区别。无产阶级运动作为绝大多数人的、为绝大多数人谋利益的独立的运动，既体现了马克思主义政党鲜明的政治立场、性质宗旨和历史使命，也体现了马克思主义政党同最广大人民群众的内在关系。人民群众是社会变革的决定性力量。只有把广大人民群众紧密团结在自己的周围，无产阶级政党在社会革命中的领导作用才能得以实现。

Lenin further enriched and developed the Marxist mass viewpoint and successfully applied the theory of the relationship between Marxist political parties and the masses to his country’s revolutionary and construction practice. First, he clearly stated that the strength of a proletarian political party comes from the broad masses of the people. Only a party that relies on a certain class is strong and can weather the storms of various changes in the era safely. Second, he clearly stated that for a proletarian political party to win victory in revolution and seize state power, it must believe in the people and rely on the people. Only by believing in the people, only by plunging into the living spring of the people’s creative power, can it win victory and retain state power. Third, he clearly stated that for a proletarian political party to win the support of the masses, besides representing the people’s interests, it must also have a good work style. Bureaucratism is “one of the important roots of the masses’ dissatisfaction with the Party.” A proletarian political party must improve its conduct building, including opposing bureaucratism.

列宁进一步丰富发展了马克思主义的群众观点，并把马克思主义政党与人民群众关系的理论成功运用于本国革命和建设实践。一是明确提出无产阶级政党的力量来源于广大人民群众。只有以一定的阶级为依靠的政党才是强有力的，才能在形势发生各种各样的转变的时代安然无恙。二是明确提出无产阶级政党要取得革命的胜利并夺取政权，必须相信人民、依靠人民。只有相信人民，只有投入生气勃勃的人民创造力泉源中去，才能获得胜利并保持政权。三是明确提出无产阶级政党要赢得人民群众拥护支持，除了要代表人民利益，还必须要有好的作风。官僚主义是群众“对党产生不满的重要根源之一”。无产阶级政党必须改进作风建设，包括反对官僚主义。

The distinct Marxist mass viewpoint provides important guidance for Marxist political parties in various countries to correctly handle the relationship between the Party and the masses. The practice of the world socialist movement has repeatedly proven that when a Marxist political party strengthens its conduct building and maintains close ties with the masses, the cause of revolution and construction can achieve significant development; when it neglects conduct building and becomes divorced from the masses, it will suffer setbacks, even extremely serious ones.

马克思主义鲜明的群众观点，为各国马克思主义政党正确处理党同人民群众的关系提供了重要指导。世界社会主义运动实践一再证明，马克思主义政党什么时候加强党的作风建设，保持同人民群众的密切联系，革命和建设事业就能取得长足发展；什么时候忽视党的作风建设，脱离人民群众，就会遭受挫折甚至极其严重的挫折。

II. Focusing on the Relationship Between the Party and the Masses to Strengthen Conduct Building Has a Solid Practical Foundation

二、聚焦党同人民群众关系问题加强作风建设具有坚实的实践基础

To change the tragic and humiliating fate of the Chinese nation, the Chinese people and countless people with lofty ideals since modern times have fought one after another. After comparison, China’s advanced elements resolutely chose to accept Marxism as the ideological weapon for understanding and solving China’s problems, and only then did saving the nation from subjugation have a fundamental turning point.

为了改变中华民族悲惨屈辱的命运，近代以来中国人民和无数仁人志士前赴后继奋起抗争。中国先进分子经过比较毅然选择接受马克思主义作为认识中国问题、解决中国问题的思想武器，拯救民族危亡才有了根本转机。

In July 1919, Comrade Mao Zedong published the inaugural declaration of the *Xiangjiang Review*, [1]1 The *Xiangjiang Review* was a weekly newspaper founded by Mao Zedong in Changsha in July 1919, serving as a platform for spreading new ideas and promoting the May Fourth Movement. clearly stating, “What force is the strongest? The force of the people united is the strongest.” The Party program adopted at the First National Congress stipulated “to organize workers, peasants, and soldiers, and to take social revolution as the main purpose of its policy,” “to overthrow the regime of the capitalist class,” and “to abolish capitalist private ownership.” The Second National Congress of the Party further clarified the Party’s highest program as “to organize the proletariat, use the means of class struggle, establish the political power of the workers and peasants, eradicate the system of private property, and gradually reach a communist society,” emphasizing that “all movements of the Party must penetrate deeply into the broad masses.” During the revolutionary war period, Comrade Mao Zedong pointed out, “What is a true bastion of iron? It is the masses, the millions upon millions of people who sincerely support the revolution. That is a true bastion of iron, which no force can break, absolutely cannot break. The counter-revolution cannot break us, but we will break the counter-revolution. Rallying millions upon millions of people around the revolutionary government, developing our revolutionary war, we can eliminate all counter-revolution and seize all of China.”

1919年7月，毛泽东同志发表《湘江评论》创刊宣言，鲜明提出“什么力量最强？民众联合的力量最强”。党的一大通过的党纲规定，“要把工人、农民和士兵组织起来，并以社会革命为自己政策的主要目的”，“推翻资本家阶级的政权”，“消灭资本家私有制”。党的二大进一步明确党的最高纲领是“组织无产阶级，用阶级斗争的手段，建立劳农专政的政治，铲除私有财产制度，渐次达到一个共产主义的社会”，强调“党的一切运动都必须深入到广大的群众里面去”。革命战争时期，毛泽东同志指出，“真正的铜墙铁壁是什么？是群众，是千百万真心实意地拥护革命的群众。这是真正的铜墙铁壁，什么力量也打不破的，完全打不破的。反革命打不破我们，我们却要打破反革命。在革命政府的周围团结起千百万群众来，发展我们的革命战争，我们就能消灭一切反革命，我们就能夺取全中国”。

The country is the people, and the people are the country. Our Party has adhered to integrating the basic principles of Marxism with China’s specific realities and with the fine traditional Chinese culture, clearly put forward the Party’s mass line, always represented the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the Chinese people, insisted on doing everything for the masses and relying on the masses, and maintained the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the masses, ensuring that China’s revolution, construction, and reform cause always has an inexhaustible source of strength. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly and affectionately recounted vivid stories of how the Chinese Communists inspired the masses with fine traditions and fine conduct. For example, the song sung by the masses in the Central Soviet Area: “Cadres of the Soviet Area have a good work style, bringing their own dry rations to the office; wearing straw sandals by day to do revolutionary work, visiting poor peasants by night walking mountain paths”; the story of the “half a quilt” of three female Red Army soldiers during the Long March, [2]2 The “half a quilt” story refers to an incident during the Long March (1934–1935) when three Red Army women soldiers, staying overnight with a poor elderly woman, cut their only quilt in half and left one half with her, symbolizing the Party’s commitment to sharing the people’s hardships. and so on. In the Party’s more than one hundred years of struggle, such vivid examples are too numerous to enumerate. They vividly interpret the flesh-and-blood ties between the Party and the masses and profoundly reveal the secret of the success of the Chinese Communist Party in creating a series of great achievements. Our Party comes from the people, takes root among the people, and serves the people; the Party’s foundation is in the people, its bloodline is in the people, and its strength is in the people. The support of the masses is the source of strength for China’s revolution, construction, and reform cause to continuously move from victory to new and greater victories. Winning the trust of the people and gaining the support of the people, the Party can overcome any difficulty and will be invincible.

江山就是人民，人民就是江山。我们党坚持把马克思主义基本原理同中国具体实际相结合、同中华优秀传统文化相结合，鲜明提出了党的群众路线，始终代表中国最广大人民的根本利益，坚持一切为了群众、一切依靠群众，保持党同人民群众的血肉联系，使中国革命、建设、改革事业始终拥有不竭的力量源泉。习近平总书记多次深情讲述中国共产党人以优良传统和优良作风感召人民群众的生动故事。比如，中央苏区群众传唱的“苏区干部好作风，自带干粮去办公；日着草鞋干革命，夜走山路访贫农”；长征途中三个红军女战士“半条被子”的故事，等等。在党的百余年奋斗历程中，类似这样的生动事例可以说不胜枚举，生动诠释了党同人民群众的血肉联系，也深刻揭示了中国共产党能够创造一系列伟大成就的成功奥秘。我们党来自人民、植根人民、服务人民，党的根基在人民、血脉在人民、力量在人民。人民群众的拥护支持是中国革命、建设、改革事业不断从胜利走向新的更大胜利的力量源泉。赢得人民信任，得到人民支持，党就能够克服任何困难，就能够无往而不胜。

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has put forward a series of original new concepts, new viewpoints, and new judgments concerning the relationship between the Party and the masses, endowing the Marxist view of the masses with new connotations for the times. “Putting the people first” centrally manifests the most distinctive value orientation of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era; it is an important component of the worldview and methodology of this important thought and of the standpoints, viewpoints, and methods that run through it, and it runs through all the Party’s theories and practices in the New Era. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core upholds the principal position of the people, adheres to the people-centered development thought, implements the mass line in all activities of governance, takes the people’s aspiration for a better life as the goal of struggle, takes improving the people’s well-being as the essential requirement of upholding the principle of building the Party for the public and exercising power for the people, and takes enabling the common people to live a good life as the starting point and ultimate goal of all work, so as to achieve development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people, fully mobilizing the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of hundreds of millions of people, thereby gathering an invincible and mighty force for promoting historic achievements and historic transformations in the cause of the Party and the state in the New Era.

党的十八大以来，习近平总书记围绕党同人民群众的关系，提出一系列原创性的新理念新观点新论断，赋予马克思主义群众观点以新的时代内涵。“坚持人民至上”集中彰显了习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想最鲜明的价值取向，是这一重要思想世界观方法论和贯穿其中立场观点方法的重要内容，贯穿新时代党的所有理论和实践。以习近平同志为核心的党中央坚持人民主体地位，坚持以人民为中心的发展思想，把党的群众路线贯彻到治国理政全部活动之中，把人民对美好生活的向往作为奋斗目标，把增进民生福祉作为坚持立党为公、执政为民的本质要求，把让老百姓过上好日子作为一切工作的出发点和落脚点，做到发展为了人民、发展依靠人民、发展成果由人民共享，充分调动亿万人民的积极性、主动性、创造性，为推动新时代党和国家事业取得历史性成就、发生历史性变革凝聚起无坚不摧的磅礴力量。

III. Focusing on the Relationship Between the Party and the Masses to Strengthen Work Style Improvement Has Sufficient Practical Basis

三、聚焦党同人民群众关系问题加强作风建设具有充分的现实依据

The 20th National Congress of the CPC mapped out a grand blueprint for comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively advancing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC made arrangements for further deepening reform comprehensively and advancing Chinese-path modernization, sounding the clarion call for further deepening reform comprehensively. The new situation and new tasks on the new journey place new and higher demands on advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and strengthening the Party’s work style improvement.

党的二十大擘画了全面建设社会主义现代化国家、以中国式现代化全面推进中华民族伟大复兴的宏伟蓝图。党的二十届三中全会对进一步全面深化改革、推进中国式现代化作出部署，吹响了进一步全面深化改革的号角。新征程上新的形势新的任务，对推进全面从严治党和加强党的作风建设，提出了新的更高要求。

In today’s world, the century-old changes are accelerating, and changes of the world, of the times, and of history are unfolding in unprecedented ways. The world situation is interwoven with turmoil, presenting both a new situation of multipolarity and a dangerous situation of a “new Cold War.” Peace and development face challenges such as geopolitics, rising unilateralism, and protectionism. Both history and reality tell us that, whether facing high winds and choppy waters or raging storms, the people are always our most solid support and our strongest source of confidence. The Party sharing weal and woe, life and death with the people, and always maintaining a flesh-and-blood connection with them, is the fundamental guarantee for overcoming all difficulties and risks. To overcome various risks, challenges, difficulties, and obstacles on the road ahead and continuously advance Chinese-path modernization, we must unswervingly promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the New Era, continuously win the trust and support of the people with new achievements in work style improvement, and further consolidate the foundation for our Party to remain invincible.

当今世界百年变局加速演进，世界之变、时代之变、历史之变正以前所未有的方式展开，世界局势变乱交织，既有多极化的新局，也有“新冷战”的危局，和平与发展面临地缘政治、单边主义和保护主义上升等挑战。历史和现实都告诉我们，无论是风高浪急还是惊涛骇浪，人民永远是我们最坚实的依托、最强大的底气。党与人民风雨同舟、生死与共，始终保持血肉联系，是战胜一切困难和风险的根本保证。要战胜前进道路上各种风险挑战和艰难险阻，把中国式现代化不断推向前进，必须坚定不移全面从严治党，深入推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程，以作风建设新成效不断赢得人民群众信任拥护，进一步筑牢我们党立于不败之地的根基。

Chinese-path modernization is an unprecedented pioneering undertaking and also the undertaking of hundreds of millions of people themselves. The people are the main body of Chinese-path modernization and the decisive force for comprehensively building a great modern socialist country. Only by closely relying on the people and pooling the wisdom and strength of all the people can we better respond to and resolve various risks, challenges, difficulties, and obstacles on the road ahead and continuously advance Chinese-path modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out that the people are the creators of history and the most solid foundation and deepest strength for advancing modernization. On the new journey, to accomplish arduous and heavy tasks such as resolving the prominent contradictions and problems of unbalanced and inadequate development, fully, accurately, and comprehensively implementing the new development concept, accelerating the establishment of a new development pattern, developing new quality productive forces according to local conditions, and promoting high-quality development, we must more consciously adhere to putting the people first, uphold the principal position of the people, fully mobilize the initiative, enthusiasm, and creativity of the people, and better gather the mighty force to respond to major challenges, resist major risks, overcome major resistance, and resolve major contradictions.

中国式现代化是前无古人的开创性事业，也是亿万人民自己的事业。人民是中国式现代化的主体，是全面建成社会主义现代化强国的决定性力量。只有紧紧依靠人民，汇集全体人民的智慧和力量，才能更好应对化解前进道路上各种风险挑战和艰难险阻，把中国式现代化不断推向前进。习近平总书记指出，人民是历史的创造者，是推进现代化最坚实的根基、最深厚的力量。新征程上，要完成好解决发展不平衡不充分的突出矛盾问题、完整准确全面贯彻新发展理念、加快构建新发展格局、因地制宜发展新质生产力、推进高质量发展等艰巨繁重任务，必须更加自觉坚持人民至上，坚持人民主体地位，充分调动人民群众的积极性、主动性、创造性，更好汇聚起应对重大挑战、抵御重大风险、克服重大阻力、解决重大矛盾的磅礴伟力。

The most important thing in strengthening work style improvement is to grasp the core issue of maintaining the Party’s flesh-and-blood connection with the masses, persistently achieve results, and use a fine work style to unite the masses more closely around the Party, providing a strong guarantee for overcoming all difficulties and risks. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has firmly grasped comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, starting with the formulation and implementation of the Eight-Point Regulations [3]3 The “Four Forms of Decadence” (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance. to break new ground, and work style improvement has achieved historic results. At present, compared with the requirements of advancing Chinese-path modernization, there are still some aspects of the Party’s self-building that are unsuitable or mismatched. Outstanding problems such as impurity in ideology, organization, and work style within the Party still need to be fundamentally resolved. The “four tests” [4]4 “Driving the nail” (钉钉子精神) is a metaphor used by Xi Jinping to describe the need for persistence and precision in implementing policies and reforms, likening the work to hammering a nail: one must aim accurately and strike repeatedly until the task is completed. and “four dangers” [5] facing the Party will exist for a long time. Under the new situation, the tasks of advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and strengthening work style improvement are more arduous and urgent than ever before. Both history and reality tell us that the more complex the situation, the more severe the challenges, and the more arduous the tasks, the more necessary it is to strengthen the Party’s work style improvement. We must use the momentum of rolling a stone up a mountain and the courage of climbing a slope and crossing a ridge to carry the Party’s self-revolution through to the end and build the Party stronger and more powerful.

加强作风建设最重要的是抓住保持党同人民群众的血肉联系这个核心问题，持之以恒抓出成效，以优良作风把人民群众更加紧密团结在党的周围，为战胜一切困难和风险提供有力保证。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央把全面从严治党紧紧抓在手上，从制定和落实中央八项规定开局破题，作风建设取得了历史性成就。当前，同推进中国式现代化的要求相比，党的自身建设还存在一些不适应、不匹配的地方，党内存在的思想不纯、组织不纯、作风不纯等突出问题还有待进一步从根本上解决，党面临的“四大考验”、“四种危险”将长期存在。新形势下，推进全面从严治党和加强作风建设的任务比以往任何时候都更为繁重、更为紧迫。历史和现实都告诉我们，越是形势复杂，越是挑战严峻，越是任务艰巨，越是要加强党的作风建设，必须以滚石上山的劲头、爬坡过坎的勇气，把党的自我革命进行到底，把党建设得更加坚强有力。

IV. Focusing on the Relationship Between the Party and the Masses to Strengthen Work Style Improvement Has Clear Decisions and Deployments

四、聚焦党同人民群众关系问题加强作风建设具有明确的决策部署

Carrying out the study and education on deeply implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations is an important measure to consolidate and deepen the achievements of thematic education and Party discipline study and education, and to advance comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in depth; it is an inevitable requirement for closing the ties between the Party and the masses and between cadres and the masses, and for consolidating the Party’s governing foundation; and it is a powerful guarantee for advancing Chinese-path modernization. Party members and cadres should effectively unify their thinking and actions with the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, take the study and education on deeply implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations as an important starting point, adhere to addressing both symptoms and root causes, adopt comprehensive measures, and make unremitting efforts, promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style improvement, continuously improving the Party’s work style, ensuring that the Party always maintains its advanced nature and integrity, always breathes the same breath, shares the same fate, and is heart-to-heart with the people, and always becomes the strong leading core for comprehensively advancing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese-path modernization.

开展深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育，是巩固深化主题教育和党纪学习教育成果、纵深推进全面从严治党的重要举措，是密切党群干群关系、巩固党的执政基础的必然要求，是推进中国式现代化的有力保障。党员、干部应切实把思想和行动统一到党中央决策部署上来，以开展深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育为重要抓手，坚持标本兼治，综合施策，久久为功，推进作风建设常态化长效化，推动党的作风持续向好，确保党始终保持先进性和纯洁性，始终同人民同呼吸、共命运、心连心，始终成为以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业的坚强领导核心。

Adhere to returning to simplicity and consolidating the foundation. Faith is the root, work style is the form; when the root is upright, the form gathers; when the root is not upright, the form inevitably scatters. General

坚持返璞归真、固本培元。信念是本，作风是形，本正而形聚，本不正则形必散。习近平总书记指出，形式主义、官僚主义、享乐主义和奢靡之风，说到底，是与理想信念不坚定、不牢固联系在一起的。应加强马克思主义唯物史观教育，坚持以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想凝心聚魂，深入学习贯彻习近平总书记关于加强作风建设的重要论述和中央八项规定及其实施细则精神，不断筑牢信仰之基、补足精神之钙、把稳思想之舵。不忘初心、牢记使命，牢记中国共产党是什么、要干什么这个根本问题，牢固树立人民至上的理念，始终保持共产党人的政治本色。

Practice the Party’s mass line in the New Era. Firmly establish the Marxist view of the masses, adhere to coming from the masses and going to the masses, and adhere to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development achievements shared by the people. Focus on the people’s urgent, difficult, anxious, and expectant problems, relieve the people’s worries, ease the people’s grievances, and warm the people’s hearts. Take doing things for the people and bringing well-being to the people as the most important political performance, and take how many good deeds and practical things have been done for the common people as an important criterion for testing political performance.

践行新时代党的群众路线。牢固树立马克思主义群众观点，坚持从群众中来、到群众中去，坚持发展为了人民、发展依靠人民、发展成果由人民共享。聚焦人民群众的急难愁盼问题，解民忧、纾民怨、暖民心，把为民办事、为民造福作为最重要的政绩，把为老百姓办了多少好事实事作为检验政绩的重要标准。

Focus on prominent work style problems for targeted treatment. Take stopping the “Four Forms of Decadence”[n] as an important way to consolidate the Party’s and the people’s hearts, and take resolutely opposing formalism and bureaucracy as an important task. Keep a close watch on the hidden and mutated problems of the “Four Forms of Decadence,” and centrally rectify prominent problems that violate the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations and its implementation rules. Improve the mechanism for jointly investigating and governing unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems, use “joint investigation” to severely punish problems where decadence and corruption intertwine, and use “joint governance” to eradicate the common roots of decadence and corruption.

聚焦作风突出问题靶向治疗。把刹住“四风”作为巩固党心民心的重要途径，把力戒形式主义、官僚主义作为重要任务。紧盯“四风”隐形变异问题，集中整治违反中央八项规定及其实施细则精神的突出问题。健全不正之风和腐败问题同查同治机制，以“同查”严惩风腐交织问题，以“同治”铲除风腐共性根源。

Strengthen disciplinary constraints. Mass discipline is one of the Party’s six major disciplines, a code of conduct that must be observed by all Party organizations and all Party members, and an important manifestation of practicing the Party’s fundamental purpose and implementing the Party’s mass line. Implement the requirements of the Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Disciplinary Punishment regarding mass discipline, and for those who step on the “red line” or charge into the “minefield” in violation of Party discipline and Party rules, resolutely investigate and deal with each case as soon as it is discovered, effectively maintaining the rigidity and seriousness of discipline.

强化纪律约束。群众纪律是党的六大纪律之一，是党的各级组织和全体党员必须遵守的行为规则，是践行党的根本宗旨、贯彻党的群众路线的重要体现。要把《中国共产党纪律处分条例》对群众纪律的要求落到实处，对违反党纪党规踩“红线”、闯“雷区”的，发现一起就坚决查处一起，切实维护纪律的刚性、严肃性。

Cultivate the spirit of driving the nail.[4]4 “Driving the nail” (钉钉子精神) is a metaphor used by Xi Jinping to describe the need for persistence and precision in implementing policies and reforms, likening the work to hammering a nail: one must aim accurately and strike repeatedly until the task is completed. Work style issues are recurrent and stubborn; they cannot be resolved overnight or in a single campaign. To strengthen work style building, we must both address the present, earnestly solving prominent problems that the masses have strongly reflected upon, and look to the long term, establishing and improving long-term mechanisms to promote Party members and cadres in persisting in serving the people, being pragmatic, and remaining clean and honest. We must work hard on constancy and duration, on rigor and substance, and on depth and detail. We must promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style building, using new achievements in work style building to help maintain the Party’s advanced nature and purity, continuously win the trust and support of the masses, and provide a strong guarantee for further deepening reform comprehensively and advancing Chinese-path modernization.

发扬钉钉子精神。作风问题具有反复性和顽固性，不可能一蹴而就、毕其功于一役。加强作风建设既要立足当前、切实解决群众反映强烈的突出问题，又要着眼长远、建立健全促进党员、干部坚持为民务实清廉的长效机制，在常和长、严和实、深和细上下功夫。推动作风建设常态化长效化，以作风建设新成效推动保持党的先进性纯洁性、不断赢得人民群众信任拥护，为进一步全面深化改革、推进中国式现代化提供有力保障。

(The author is former director of the Academic and Editorial Committee of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the Central Committee of the CPC.)

（作者系中央党史和文献研究院学术和编审委员会原主任）

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