Advancing Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party by Starting with Work Style Improvement
安钰峰:从抓作风入手推进全面从严治党
The Party’s work style is the Party’s image, it concerns the people’s support or opposition, and it determines the success or failure of the Party’s and the state’s undertakings. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out, “Starting with work style improvement to advance comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is an important experience of the Party’s self-revolution in the New Era.” Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has begun by formulating and implementing the Eight-Point Regulations of the Central Committee, [1]1 The Eight-Point Regulations: A set of rules adopted by the CPC Central Committee in December 2012 to improve Party and government conduct, requiring austerity, reduced bureaucracy, and closer ties with the masses. adhering to a top-down approach with the upper level setting an example for the lower level, and solving the question of what to focus on and how to carry out Party work style building under the new circumstances. Once the Eight-Point Regulations were implemented, work style building came to life across the board; Party and government conduct took on a completely new look, and social customs and public sentiment continued to improve. Our Party, with a new atmosphere in work style, has won the trust and support of the people.
党的作风就是党的形象,关系人心向背,决定党和国家事业成败。习近平总书记指出,“从抓作风入手推进全面从严治党是新时代党的自我革命一条重要经验”。党的十八大以来,以习近平同志为核心的党中央从制定和落实中央八项规定开局破题,坚持自上而下、以上率下,解决了新形势下党的作风建设抓什么、怎么抓的问题。八项规定一子落地,作风建设满盘皆活,党风政风焕然一新,社风民风持续向好,我们党以作风建设新气象赢得了人民群众信任拥护。
1. Understanding the Important Significance of Work Style Building
1.理解作风建设的重要意义
“The beginning of extravagance is the approach of danger and ruin.” [2]2 A classical allusion from the Tang dynasty, warning that extravagance signals the onset of national peril. The Party’s work style concerns the Party’s creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, and determines the success or failure of the Party’s and the state’s undertakings. An important reason why our Party was able to win the New Democratic Revolution and lead the people in establishing New China is that it always maintained flesh-and-blood ties with the masses, “defeating the Xi’an work style with the Yan’an work style.” [3]3 A historical reference contrasting the austere, mass-line work style of the CPC’s wartime base in Yan’an with the corrupt, bureaucratic style of the Kuomintang regime in Xi’an. In the long-term practice of revolution, construction, and reform, our Party has formed and persistently carried forward fine work styles such as integrating theory with practice, maintaining close ties with the masses, practicing criticism and self-criticism, working hard and striving tirelessly, and seeking truth from facts. These work styles epitomize the Party’s nature and purpose and are also the distinctive marks that distinguish the CPC from other political parties in the world. The longer the Party has been in power, and the more profound the changes in the domestic and international environment, the more complex the new manifestations of the Party’s work style problems become. If work style building is neglected and unhealthy tendencies are allowed to erode the Party’s body, the Party faces the danger of losing popular support and even losing state power. Work style building serves the overall work of the Party and should reflect the new requirements for work style posed by the new situations and tasks the Party faces, so that the process of improving work style becomes a process of implementing the Party’s theories, lines, principles, and policies, and a process of smoothly advancing reform and opening up and socialist modernization.
“奢靡之始,危亡之渐”,党的作风关系党的创造力、凝聚力、战斗力,决定党和国家事业成败。我们党之所以能够取得新民主主义革命的胜利,带领人民建立了新中国,一个重要原因是始终保持同人民群众的血肉联系,“用延安作风打败西安作风”。我们党在长期革命、建设、改革实践中形成并坚持发扬的理论联系实际、密切联系群众、批评和自我批评以及艰苦奋斗、求真务实等优良作风,集中体现了党的性质和宗旨,也是中国共产党区别于世界其他政党的显著标志。执政时间越长、国内外环境变化越深刻,党的作风问题的新表现就越复杂。如果不注重作风建设,听任不正之风侵蚀党的肌体,党就有失去民心、丧失政权的危险。作风建设是为党的工作大局服务的,应体现党面临的新形势新任务对作风的新要求,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。
The essence of work style problems is fundamentally a matter of Party spirit. The Party’s work style reflects the Party’s image and the quality of its members, embodies Party spirit, and what plays a decisive role is also Party spirit. For Chinese Communists, whether they can solve work style problems is a very important yardstick for measuring the firmness of their faith in Marxism, their belief in socialism with Chinese characteristics, and their confidence in realizing the Chinese Dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Party spirit education is a required course for Communists to cultivate their moral character, and it is also the “study of the mind” [4]4 A term from traditional Chinese philosophy, here repurposed to refer to the cultivation of Party spirit through inner-party political life. for Communists. Practice has proven that serious and regular inner-Party political life is an important magic weapon for our Party to uphold its nature and purpose and maintain its advanced nature and purity; it is the “golden key” to resolving inner-Party contradictions and problems; it is the “great furnace” for the vast number of Party members and cadres to temper their Party spirit; and it is the “purifier” for purifying Party conduct. Among these, the most important is to focus on upholding and improving the Party’s political line, ideological line, organizational line, and mass line, adhering to and improving democratic centralism, and strictly enforcing the Party’s organizational life, concentrating on solving prominent problems. It is necessary to prioritize strengthening ideological and political construction, guiding Party members, especially leading cadres, to build a solid foundation of faith, replenish their spiritual calcium, and steady the helm of thought, unswervingly using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to arm their minds, guide practice, and advance work.
作风问题本质上是党性问题。党的作风反映的是党的形象和党员的素质,体现的是党性,起决定作用的也是党性。对中国共产党人来讲,能不能解决好作风问题,是衡量对马克思主义的信仰、对中国特色社会主义的信念、对实现中华民族伟大复兴中国梦的信心是否坚定的一把十分重要的尺子。党性教育是共产党人修身养性的必修课,也是共产党人的“心学”。实践证明,严肃认真的党内政治生活是我们党坚持党的性质和宗旨、保持先进性和纯洁性的重要法宝,是解决党内矛盾和问题的“金钥匙”,是广大党员干部锤炼党性的“大熔炉”,是纯洁党风的“净化器”。其中,最重要的是围绕坚持党的政治路线、思想路线、组织路线、群众路线,坚持和完善民主集中制、严格党的组织生活等重点内容,集中解决好突出问题。必须把加强思想政治建设摆在首位,引导党员特别是领导干部筑牢信仰之基、补足精神之钙、把稳思想之舵,坚定不移用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想武装头脑、指导实践、推动工作。
The core of work style problems is the relationship between the Party and the masses. Since its founding, our Party has taken serving the people wholeheartedly as its fundamental purpose. The mass line is the Party’s lifeline and fundamental work line, an important heirloom for the Party to maintain eternal youthful vitality and combat effectiveness, and an important reason for the Party’s continuous growth and strengthening. To follow the mass line well in the New Era, we must continue to insist on doing everything for the masses, relying on the masses, coming from the masses and going to the masses, turning the Party’s correct propositions into the conscious actions of the masses, and implementing the mass line in all activities of governing the country. We must have genuine feelings for the masses, truly regard ourselves as one of them, and treat the masses’ affairs as our own. As long as we adapt to the new characteristics and new requirements of mass work under the new circumstances, deeply do the work of organizing, propagating, educating, and serving the masses, humbly learn from the masses, sincerely accept supervision by the masses, always take root among the people and work for their benefit, and always share the same heart, breath, and destiny with the people, the masses will treat us as their own and sincerely support us.
作风问题的核心是党同人民群众的关系问题。我们党自成立之日起,就把全心全意为人民服务作为根本宗旨。群众路线是党的生命线和根本工作路线,是党永葆青春活力和战斗力的重要传家宝,是党不断发展壮大的重要原因。走好新时代党的群众路线,就要继续坚持一切为了群众,一切依靠群众,从群众中来,到群众中去,把党的正确主张变为群众的自觉行动,把群众路线贯彻到治国理政全部活动之中。要做到对人民群众有真感情,真正把自己当作群众中的一员,把群众的事当作自己的事。只要我们适应新形势下群众工作的新特点新要求,深入做好组织群众、宣传群众、教育群众、服务群众工作,虚心向群众学习,诚心接受群众监督,始终根植人民、造福人民,始终与人民心连心、同呼吸、共命运,群众就会把我们当亲人,真心实意拥护和支持我们。
2. Grasping the Methods and Requirements of Work Style Building
2.把握作风建设的方法要求
Adhere to the integration of rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption. The building of a clean and honest Party conduct and the fight against corruption are important aspects of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, important content of the great struggle with many new historical characteristics under the new circumstances, and important guarantees for coordinating the advancement of the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy. [5]5 The Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy: A strategic plan comprising comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively governing the country according to law, and comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline form an organic whole: Party spirit is the foundation, Party conduct is the manifestation, and Party discipline is the guarantee. Only by grasping Party spirit, Party conduct, and Party discipline together, integrating the rectification of conduct, enforcement of discipline, and combating of corruption, and deeply promoting the simultaneous investigation and treatment of misconduct and corruption, can we consolidate the foundation and cultivate the source ideologically, enhance Party spirit awareness, and strengthen the ability to resist corruption and prevent degeneration. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, facing the “four tests” [6]6 The “four tests”: tests of governance, reform and opening up, the market economy, and the external environment. and “four dangers,” [7]7 The “four dangers”: dangers of mental slackness, insufficient capacity,脱离群众 (estrangement from the masses), and passive corruption. our Party has put forward the requirement that the Party must supervise itself and govern itself strictly and comprehensively, resolutely opposed the “four forms of decadence,” [8]8 The “four forms of decadence”: formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance. insisted on starting with leading cadres, insisted on equality before discipline, strictly implemented the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations and its implementation rules, with the momentum of “gripping iron leaving marks and stepping on stone leaving prints,” [9]9 A four-character idiom meaning to act with firm resolve and tangible results. insisted on regular, detailed, and long-term efforts, put discipline and rules first, highlighted political discipline and political rules, used strict discipline to maintain the Party’s unity and solidarity, and forged our Party into a piece of hard steel. The Party has successively carried out across the Party the mass line education and practice campaign, the “Three Stricts and Three Honests” [10]10 The “Three Stricts and Three Honests”: strict in self-cultivation, use of power, and self-discipline; honest in planning, starting undertakings, and personal conduct. special education, the “Two Studies, One Action” [11]11 The “Two Studies, One Action”: study the Party Constitution and regulations, study Xi Jinping’s series of important speeches, and be a qualified Party member. learning and education, the “Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind” [12]12 The “original aspiration and founding mission”: the Party’s founding goal of serving the people and rejuvenating the nation. theme education, the Party history learning and education, the theme education on studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the Party discipline learning and education, and the learning and education on thoroughly implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations, focusing on improving work style and strictly enforcing discipline.
坚持正风肃纪反腐相贯通。党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争是全面从严治党的重要方面,是新形势下进行具有许多新的历史特点的伟大斗争的重要内容,是协调推进“四个全面”战略布局的重要保证。党性、党风、党纪是有机整体,党性是根本,党风是表现,党纪是保障。只有坚持党性党风党纪一起抓、正风肃纪反腐相贯通,深入推进风腐同查同治,才能从思想上固本培元,提高党性觉悟,增强拒腐防变能力。党的十八大以来,面对“四大考验”“四种危险”,我们党提出了党要管党、全面从严治党,坚决反对“四风”,坚持从领导干部抓起,坚持纪律面前人人平等,严格落实中央八项规定及其实施细则精神,以抓铁有痕、踏石留印的劲头,坚持抓常、抓细、抓长,把纪律和规矩挺在前面,突出抓政治纪律和政治规矩,用严明的纪律维护党的团结统一,把我们党锻造成一块坚硬的钢铁。先后在全党开展党的群众路线教育实践活动、“三严三实”专题教育、“两学一做”学习教育、“不忘初心、牢记使命”主题教育、党史学习教育、学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想主题教育、党纪学习教育、深入贯彻中央八项规定精神学习教育等,着力改进作风,严明纪律。
Promote the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style building. Work style problems are stubborn and recurrent; they cannot be solved in one fell swoop. The key lies in perseverance, in regular, detailed, and long-term efforts, and in adhering to both symptomatic and root-cause treatment and comprehensive measures. It is necessary to both address the present, effectively solving prominent issues strongly reflected by the masses, and look to the long term, establishing and improving long-term mechanisms to promote all Party members and cadres to serve the people, be pragmatic, and remain clean. Institutions are fundamental, holistic, stable, and long-term issues concerning the development of the Party’s and the state’s undertakings. Grasping work style building fundamentally relies on institutions, highlighting their pertinence, guidance, and operability. To this end, we should improve the Party member management mechanism, establish and perfect a strict management system that governs thoughts, work, conduct, and discipline, improve the normalization mechanism for rectifying conduct, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption, adhere to the unity of high standards and bottom lines, the unity of punishment and responsibility, the unity of problem identification and deepening reform, and the unity of personnel selection and strict management, perfect the working mechanism for promoting the simultaneous advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, [13]13 A framework for anti-corruption: deterrence (not daring), prevention (not being able), and ethical cultivation (not wanting). and implement strict requirements on all Party organizations and all Party members. Strictly implement the “three distinctions,” [14]14 The “three distinctions”: distinguishing between mistakes made in exploration and experimentation and violations of discipline; between work errors not for personal gain and corruption; between normal regulation and arbitrary decision-making. encouraging the vast number of Party members and cadres to bravely take on responsibilities and act. Comprehensively strengthen the construction of laws and regulations, based on the principle of being comprehensive in law and simple in practice, embodying the spirit of reform and legal thinking, establish a strict and complete system of laws and regulations for work style building, ensuring that the established systems are workable, strongly guiding, and effective in the long term. Once institutions are established, they must be strictly observed, implemented with vigor, and their seriousness and authority resolutely maintained, making them truly a hard constraint for Party members and cadres to contact and serve the masses.
推进作风建设常态化长效化。作风问题具有顽固性和反复性,不可能毕其功于一役,贵在持之以恒,抓常、抓细、抓长,坚持标本兼治、综合施策。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、建立健全促进全体党员干部坚持为民务实清廉的长效机制。制度是关系党和国家事业发展的根本性、全局性、稳定性、长期性问题。抓作风建设,从根本上讲还要靠制度,突出针对性、指导性、操作性。为此,应改进党员管理机制,建立完善管思想、管工作、管作风、管纪律的从严管理体系,健全正风肃纪反腐常态化机制,坚持高标准和守底线相统一、抓惩治和抓责任相统一、查找问题和深化改革相统一、选人用人和严格管理相统一,完善一体推进不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐工作机制,把严的要求落实到党的各级组织和全体党员身上。严格落实“三个区分开来”,激励广大党员干部勇于担当作为。全面加强法规制度建设,本着于法周延、于事简便的原则,体现改革精神和法治思维,建立严格、完善的作风建设法规制度体系,确保形成的制度行得通、指导力强、能长期管用。制度一经形成,就要严格遵守,狠抓落实,坚决维护严肃性和权威性,使之真正成为党员干部联系和服务群众的硬约束。
Drive the improvement of social conduct and public morals upward and toward the good through a fine Party conduct. To improve work style, it is necessary to educate and guide Party cadres at all levels to establish and carry forward our Party’s fine work style, to be strict in cultivating themselves, strict in using power, and strict in disciplining themselves, to strive to improve their ideological style, work style, leadership style, and lifestyle, to strive to improve their style of study, style of writing, and style of meetings, so that the Party’s work style is comprehensively purified, and through a fine Party conduct, drive the improvement of social conduct and public morals upward and toward the good. The work style of leading cadres directly affects the Party’s internal atmosphere and political ecosystem, directly affects the will of the people, and determines the Party’s mass base. Leading cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, must understand great virtue, uphold public virtue, and be strict in private virtue, establish a correct outlook on political performance, outlook on power, outlook on status, and outlook on interests, be clean in self-cultivation, clean in managing their families, and clean in exercising power, maintain noble moral sentiments and a healthy lifestyle, steady their own minds, control their own behavior, and preserve their own integrity. They must strictly discipline their children, properly handle the test of family affection, set an example in family building, strive to become moral models for the whole society, take the lead in practicing the core socialist values, emphasize Party spirit, value conduct, and set an example, take the lead in focusing on family, family education, and family traditions, maintain the noble character and clean conduct of Communists, and through concrete actions, drive the whole society to uphold virtue and goodness, respect the law and abide by the law.
以优良党风带动社风民风向上向善。抓作风建设,就要教育引导各级党员干部树立和发扬我们党的优良作风,严以修身、严以用权、严以律己,努力改进思想作风、工作作风、领导作风、生活作风,努力改进学风、文风、会风,使党的作风全面纯洁起来,以优良党风带动社风民风向上向善。领导干部的作风直接关系党内风气和政治生态,关系民心向背,决定着党的群众基础。各级领导干部特别是高级干部要明大德、守公德、严私德,树立正确的政绩观、权力观、地位观、利益观,廉洁修身、廉洁齐家、廉洁用权,保持高尚道德情操和健康生活情趣,稳得住自己的心神,管得住自己的行为,守得住自己的清白。要严格要求子女,过好亲情关,作家风建设的表率,努力成为全社会的道德楷模,带头践行社会主义核心价值观,讲党性、重品行、作表率,带头注重家庭、家教、家风,保持共产党人的高尚品格和廉洁操守,以实际行动带动全社会崇德向善、尊法守法。
3. Practical Paths for Promoting Work Style Improvement
3.推动作风建设的实践路径
The Eight-Point Regulations of the Central Committee are the entry point and mobilization order for improving work style, and are long-term effective iron rules and hard constraints, reflecting our Party’s sobriety and resolve to always address the unique challenges of a large party, and reflecting our Party’s firm confidence and courage in self-revolution. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, “The construction of a clean and honest Party and government must start with leading cadres, and leading cadres must first start with central leading cadres.” He emphasized, “Regulations are regulations; the absence of the word ‘trial’ is meant to show a resolute attitude, indicating that these regulations are rigid.” “The Eight-Point Regulations are neither the highest standard nor the ultimate goal; they are only the first step in our work style improvement, the basic requirement that we as Communists should meet.” All localities and departments should strictly implement the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations of the Central Committee and its implementation rules, and apply all requirements to daily work and every link. Extensively listen to the opinions and suggestions of the masses, consciously accept the supervision and criticism of the people, and take the satisfaction of the people as the standard for measuring the improvement of work style. Leading cadres at all levels should lead by example and set an example, turn the implementation of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations into conscious action, effectively solve prominent problems in work style, grasp the work level by level, earnestly achieve results, turn customs into common practice, and improve the Party’s work style.
中央八项规定是改进作风的切入口和动员令,是长期有效的铁规矩、硬杠杠,体现了我们党时刻保持解决大党独有难题的清醒和坚定,体现了我们党勇于自我革命的坚定信心和勇气。习近平总书记指出,“党风廉政建设,要从领导干部做起,领导干部首先要从中央领导做起”,他强调,“规定就是规定,不加‘试行’两字,就是要表明一个坚决的态度,表明这个规定是刚性的”“八项规定既不是最高标准,更不是最终目的,只是我们改进作风的第一步,是我们作为共产党人应该做到的基本要求”。各地各部门应严格落实中央八项规定及其实施细则精神,把各项要求落实到日常工作中,落实到每个环节。广泛听取群众意见建议,自觉接受人民群众监督批评,把人民群众满意作为衡量作风好转的标准。各级领导干部要以身作则、率先垂范,把落实八项规定精神化作自觉行动,切实解决作风上存在的突出问题,一级抓一级,认真抓出成效,化风成俗,把党的作风建设搞好。
Continuously deepen the correction of the “Four Forms of Decadence.” [15]15 The “Four Forms of Decadence” (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance, which the CPC has targeted in its work style rectification campaigns since 2013. The “Four Forms of Decadence” are contrary to our Party’s fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly and are an important root cause of damage to the relationship between the Party and the masses and between cadres and the masses. To solve the “Four Forms of Decadence” problem, it is necessary to aim at the focus, find the right point, and grasp the key. Oppose formalism, focusing on solving the problem of unreal work; oppose bureaucracy, focusing on solving the problem of not safeguarding and not acting in the interests of the people; oppose hedonism, focusing on overcoming the idea of timely pleasure and the phenomenon of privilege; oppose extravagance, focusing on resolutely curbing the bad habits of squandering, pleasure-seeking, and extravagant dissipation. The “Four Forms of Decadence” are, in the final analysis, a loss of faith and spiritual direction, linked to unsteady and unfirm ideals and convictions. It is necessary to educate and guide the vast number of Party members and cadres to keep in mind the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, adhere to hardship before enjoyment, work diligently, be honest in performing official duties, consciously resist the erosion of various decadent ideas, build a solid ideological defense line, forever maintain the political nature of Communists, and consciously become firm believers and loyal practitioners of the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics. At the same time, the “Four Forms of Decadence” problem is stubborn, long-term, and complex. It is necessary to maintain a high degree of vigilance against the “Four Forms of Decadence” and their various mutated manifestations, continue to maintain a high-pressure posture, tighten the spring, strike as soon as it appears, yield not an inch, and follow through to the end.
持续深化纠治“四风”。“四风”问题和我们党全心全意为人民服务的根本宗旨是相悖的,是损害党群干群关系的重要根源。解决“四风”问题,就要对准焦点、找准穴位、抓住要害。反对形式主义,着重解决工作不实的问题;反对官僚主义,着重解决在人民群众利益上不维护、不作为的问题;反对享乐主义,着重克服及时行乐思想和特权现象;反对奢靡之风,着重狠刹挥霍享乐和骄奢淫逸的不良风气。“四风”问题说到底是信仰迷茫、精神迷失,是与理想信念不坚定、不牢固联系在一起的。应教育引导广大党员干部牢记全心全意为人民服务的根本宗旨,坚持吃苦在前、享受在后,勤奋工作、廉洁奉公,自觉抵御各种腐朽思想的侵蚀,筑牢思想防线,永葆共产党人政治本色,自觉做共产主义远大理想和中国特色社会主义共同理想的坚定信仰者、忠实实践者。同时,“四风”问题具有顽固性、长期性、复杂性,要对“四风”问题及其各种变异表现保持高度警惕,持续保持高压态势,拧紧发条,露头就打,寸步不让,一抓到底。
“The wind forms above, and customs transform below.” [16]16 A classical Chinese saying meaning that the conduct of those in power sets an example that influences the behavior of the common people below. Leading cadres at all levels should take the lead in transforming work style, forming a “head goose effect.” [17]17 A metaphor for leading cadres acting as the lead goose in a flock, setting an example for others to follow. Party organizations at all levels and leading cadres at all levels should firmly establish an outlook on political performance of benefiting the people, with the realm of “success need not be in my term, but success must necessarily include my contribution,” [18]18 A phrase often used by Xi Jinping, expressing a selfless attitude toward political achievements, emphasizing contribution over personal credit. take the lead in following the Party’s mass line in the New Era, take the lead in rectifying work style, enforcing discipline, and combating corruption, resolutely correct the stubborn and chronic diseases of the “Four Forms of Decadence,” fulfill the main responsibility for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, actively create a clean and upright political ecosystem, form refreshing comradely relations and standardized superior-subordinate relations; adhere to a clean and pro-business relationship between government and business, and actively create an upward and good social environment.
“风成于上,俗化于下”,各级领导干部要带头转变作风,形成“头雁效应”。各级党组织和各级领导干部要牢固树立为民造福的政绩观,以“功成不必在我、功成必定有我”的境界,带头走好新时代党的群众路线,带头正风肃纪反腐,坚决纠治“四风”顽瘴痼疾,履行好全面从严治党主体责任,积极营造风清气正的政治生态,形成清清爽爽的同志关系和规规矩矩的上下级关系;坚持亲清政商关系,积极营造向上向善的社会环境。
(Author: An Yufeng, Deputy Director and Secretary-General of the University Affairs Committee of Peking University, Researcher, and Chairman of the Marxist Research Branch of the China Higher Education Association)
(作者:安钰峰,系北京大学校务委员会副主任兼秘书长、研究员,中国高等教育学会马克思主义研究分会理事长)
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Notes
- The Eight-Point Regulations: A set of rules adopted by the CPC Central Committee in December 2012 to improve Party and government conduct, requiring austerity, reduced bureaucracy, and closer ties with the masses. ↩
- A classical allusion from the Tang dynasty, warning that extravagance signals the onset of national peril. ↩
- A historical reference contrasting the austere, mass-line work style of the CPC’s wartime base in Yan’an with the corrupt, bureaucratic style of the Kuomintang regime in Xi’an. ↩
- A term from traditional Chinese philosophy, here repurposed to refer to the cultivation of Party spirit through inner-party political life. ↩
- The Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy: A strategic plan comprising comprehensively building a moderately prosperous society, comprehensively deepening reform, comprehensively governing the country according to law, and comprehensively and strictly governing the Party. ↩
- The “four tests”: tests of governance, reform and opening up, the market economy, and the external environment. ↩
- The “four dangers”: dangers of mental slackness, insufficient capacity,脱离群众 (estrangement from the masses), and passive corruption. ↩
- The “four forms of decadence”: formalism, bureaucratism, hedonism, and extravagance. ↩
- A four-character idiom meaning to act with firm resolve and tangible results. ↩
- The “Three Stricts and Three Honests”: strict in self-cultivation, use of power, and self-discipline; honest in planning, starting undertakings, and personal conduct. ↩
- The “Two Studies, One Action”: study the Party Constitution and regulations, study Xi Jinping’s series of important speeches, and be a qualified Party member. ↩
- The “original aspiration and founding mission”: the Party’s founding goal of serving the people and rejuvenating the nation. ↩
- A framework for anti-corruption: deterrence (not daring), prevention (not being able), and ethical cultivation (not wanting). ↩
- The “three distinctions”: distinguishing between mistakes made in exploration and experimentation and violations of discipline; between work errors not for personal gain and corruption; between normal regulation and arbitrary decision-making. ↩
- The “Four Forms of Decadence” (四风) refers to formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance, which the CPC has targeted in its work style rectification campaigns since 2013. ↩
- A classical Chinese saying meaning that the conduct of those in power sets an example that influences the behavior of the common people below. ↩
- A metaphor for leading cadres acting as the lead goose in a flock, setting an example for others to follow. ↩
- A phrase often used by Xi Jinping, expressing a selfless attitude toward political achievements, emphasizing contribution over personal credit. ↩