High-Quality Party Building Leading High-Quality Development: Theoretical Logic and Strategic Pathways

The Communist Party of China, as the leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, has a Party governance and Party discipline effectiveness that is a key variable affecting the quality of economic and social development. In the New Era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, China’s economy has shifted from a stage of high-speed growth to a stage of high-quality development. The key to comprehensively building a modern socialist country and achieving long-term sustainable high-quality development lies in the Party. In the historical process of advancing Chinese-path modernization, the Party plays key roles such as direction-setting, value-shaping, organizational mobilization, and overall coordination, and the status and role of high-quality Party building in the overall strategic situation of building a great modern socialist country are increasingly prominent. During the 2025 National Two Sessions [1]1 The National Two Sessions (两会) refers to the annual plenary meetings of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top legislative and advisory bodies., General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized “using high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development,” profoundly revealing the intrinsic relationship between high-quality Party building and high-quality development. High-quality Party building leading high-quality development means fully implementing the general requirements for Party building in the New Era, taking Party building as the practical carrier and strategic breakthrough point, continuously improving the quality of Party building, and through effective institutional mechanisms and a robust work system, transforming the Party’s political and organizational advantages into development momentum and governance effectiveness, thereby continuously raising the quality and level of economic and social development. The Proposal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development (hereinafter referred to as the “15th Five-Year Plan Proposal”), reviewed and approved at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC [2]2 The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC was held in 2025. The 15th Five-Year Plan covers the period 2026–2030., identifies “promoting high-quality development” as the theme of economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period; incorporates “taking comprehensive and strict governance of the Party as the fundamental guarantee” into the guiding ideology for economic and social development during the 15th Five-Year Plan period; and lists “enhancing the Party’s ability to set directions, plan overall situations, formulate policies, and promote reform, and integrating Party leadership throughout all aspects and the entire process of economic and social development” as a principle that must be adhered to during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, highlighting the extreme importance of Party leadership and Party building for achieving high-quality development. At the second plenary meeting of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping further emphasized: “The more effective Party governance and Party discipline are, the stronger the guarantee for economic and social development.” High-quality Party building leading high-quality development implies a high degree of correlation between Party governance and economic development, committed to forming a virtuous cycle of promoting governance through Party building, promoting development through governance, and providing favorable conditions for high-quality development through high-efficiency governance, ultimately achieving the organic unity of politics and economy, order and vitality. On the basis of systematically expounding the theoretical basis for high-quality Party building leading high-quality development, this article attempts to clarify the internal logic of high-quality Party building leading high-quality development. By analyzing and assessing the current situation and problems of high-quality Party building leading high-quality development, it provides theoretical reflections and policy recommendations for planning effective pathways for high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development.

中国共产党作为中国特色社会主义事业的领导核心，其管党治党效能是影响经济社会发展质量的关键变量。在中国特色社会主义新时代，我国经济已由高速增长阶段转向高质量发展阶段。全面建设社会主义现代化国家，实现长期可持续的高质量发展，关键在党。在推进中国式现代化的历史进程中，党发挥着方向引领、价值塑造、组织动员、统筹协调等关键作用，高质量党建在社会主义现代化强国建设战略全局中的地位与作用日益凸显。2025年全国“两会”期间，习近平总书记强调“以高质量党建引领高质量发展”，深刻揭示了高质量党建与高质量发展之间的内在关系。高质量党建引领高质量发展，就是要全面贯彻落实新时代党的建设总要求，以党的建设为实践载体和战略突破口，不断提升党的建设质量，并通过有效的制度机制和有力的工作体系将党的政治优势、组织优势不断转化为发展动能与治理效能，持续提升经济社会发展质量和水平。党的二十届四中全会审议通过的《中共中央关于制定国民经济和社会发展第十五个五年规划的建议》（以下简称《“十五五”规划建议》），将“推动高质量发展”确定为“十五五”时期经济社会发展的主题；将“以全面从严治党为根本保障”写入“十五五”时期经济社会发展的指导思想；将“提高党把方向、谋大局、定政策、促改革能力，把党的领导贯穿经济社会发展各方面全过程”列为“十五五”时期经济社会发展必须遵循的原则，凸显了党的领导和党的建设对于实现高质量发展的极端重要性。习近平总书记在党的二十届四中全会第二次全体会议上进一步强调：“管党治党越有效，经济社会发展的保障就越有力。”高质量党建引领高质量发展意味着政党治理与经济发展的高度关联，致力于形成以党建促治理，以治理促发展，以高效能治理为高质量发展提供有利条件的良性循环，最终实现政治与经济、秩序与活力的有机统一。本文在系统阐释高质量党建引领高质量发展理论依据的基础上，试图厘清高质量党建引领高质量发展的内在逻辑，通过分析评估高质量党建引领高质量发展的现状和问题，为规划高质量党建引领高质量发展的有效路径提供理论思考和对策建议。

I. The Theoretical Logic of High-Quality Party Building Leading High-Quality Development

一、高质量党建引领高质量发展的理论逻辑

“High-quality Party building leading high-quality development” is a major original theory proposed by the Communist Party of China in response to changes in the principal contradiction in society and the needs of socialist modernization. The connotation of high-quality Party building lies in better understanding and grasping the scientific laws governing the construction of a Marxist ruling party, raising the scientific, institutionalized, and standardized level of Party work, and providing strong political guidance and political guarantees for Chinese-path modernization. High-quality development is “development that can well meet the people’s ever-growing needs for a better life, and development that embodies the new development concept.” The two are closely linked, mutually reinforcing, and complement each other. Among them, the most fundamental link between the two is the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China. As the renowned modernization theorist Apter pointed out, party politicians occupy the most important position in the field of political modernization, and the path of modernization taken by different societies is often determined by political parties. A strong ruling party, as the leading core that coordinates major political relations, allocates various governance resources, and mobilizes and integrates diverse social forces, plays a crucial role in orderly advancing the modernization process. As a modern political party with a high sense of historical mission and social responsibility, and possessing strong organizational and mobilization capabilities, the Communist Party of China has always regarded the organic integration of adhering to self-revolution and leading social revolution, and promoting high-quality development, as the fundamental pathway to realizing its historical mission. “High-quality Party building leading high-quality development” is not only a microscopic manifestation of the Marxist worldview and methodology in the field of economic and social development in the New Era, but also a vivid practice of “using the Party’s self-revolution to lead social revolution.”

“高质量党建引领高质量发展”是中国共产党顺应社会主要矛盾变化和社会主义现代化建设需要提出的重大原创性理论。高质量党建的内涵在于通过更好地认识和把握马克思主义执政党建设的科学规律，提高党建工作科学化、制度化和规范化水平，为中国式现代化提供坚强的政治引领和政治保障。高质量发展则是“能够很好满足人民日益增长的美好生活需要的发展，是体现新发展理念的发展”，二者紧密相联、相互成就、相得益彰。其中，二者之间最为根本的联系纽带，则是中国共产党的坚强领导。正如现代化理论的著名学者阿普特所指出的，政党政治家在政治现代化领域居于最重要的地位，不同社会所走的现代化道路往往由政党决定，一个强有力的执政党作为协调重大政治关系、统筹配置各种治理资源、动员整合多元社会力量的领导核心，对于有序推进现代化过程具有至关重要的作用。作为一个具有高度历史使命感和社会责任感且具有强大组织动员能力的现代政党，中国共产党一直将坚持自我革命与引领社会革命、推进高质量发展有机结合视为实现自身历史使命的根本途径。“高质量党建引领高质量发展”既是马克思主义世界观方法论在新时代经济社会发展领域的微观呈现，也是“以党的自我革命引领社会革命”的生动实践。

(A) Scientific Adherence to the Marxist Principle of the Active Reaction of the Superstructure

（一）马克思主义关于上层建筑能动的反作用原理的科学遵循

High-quality Party building leading high-quality development is not an isolated proposition emerging from nowhere, but a major innovation strictly adhering to the Marxist worldview and methodology and rooted in the fertile soil of Marxist scientific theory. The fundamental principles of Marxism hold that the economic base determines the superstructure, and the superstructure reacts upon the economic base. The economy is the foundation, while politics is the concentrated expression of the economy. The interaction between politics and the economy is essentially a specific manifestation of the laws governing the movement of the two pairs of fundamental contradictions in society—productive forces and relations of production, and economic base and superstructure—in a particular domain. Marx pointed out: “At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or—this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms—with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto.” [3]3 Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Preface (1859). Therefore, the degree to which political actions conform to the laws of economic and social development is positively correlated with the quality of economic and social development. Engels also pointed out: “The economic situation is the basis, but the various elements of the superstructure... also exert an influence on the course of the historical struggles and in many cases determine their form in the main.” [4]4 Friedrich Engels, Letter to Joseph Bloch (21–22 September 1890). Among the many elements constituting the superstructure, politics occupies a core and dominant position, directly connecting with the economic base. As the core subject of modern politics, a political party means that the reaction of the superstructure upon the economic base is not an abstract and spontaneous force, but must be concretely implemented through a specific form of political organization, namely, a party holding leadership power. Under certain conditions, a political party can even play a decisive role in economic and social development. Therefore, while establishing the basic framework of historical materialism, the classical Marxist writers turned their attention to the issue of the leadership power of the proletarian party. Marx and Engels emphasized that communists “have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole” [5]5 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), Chapter II. and, in practice, “the Communists are the most resolute and consistently driving section of the working-class parties of all countries,” [6]6 Ibid. elucidating that the proletarian party is precisely the active carrier capable of transforming the reaction of the superstructure upon the economic base from obstruction to leadership.

高质量党建引领高质量发展并非一个凭空而来的孤立命题，而是严格遵循马克思主义世界观方法论、植根于马克思主义科学理论沃土的重大创新。马克思主义基本原理认为，经济基础决定上层建筑，上层建筑反作用于经济基础。经济是基础，政治则是经济的集中表现。政治与经济的互动，实质上是生产力与生产关系、经济基础与上层建筑两对社会基本矛盾运动规律在特定领域的具体展现。马克思指出：“社会的物质生产力发展到一定阶段，便同它们一直在其中运动的现存生产关系或财产关系……发生矛盾。”因此，政治行为合乎经济社会发展规律的程度与经济社会发展质量呈正相关关系，恩格斯也指出：“经济状况是基础，但是对历史斗争的进程发生影响并且在许多情况下主要是决定着这一斗争的形式的，还有上层建筑的各种因素。”在构成上层建筑的诸多要素中，政治居于核心主导地位，与经济基础直接发生联系。政党作为现代政治的核心主体，意味着上层建筑对经济基础的反作用并非是抽象与自发的力量，而是要通过特定的政治组织形态即掌握领导权的政党来具体实施。在一定条件下，政党甚至对经济社会发展发挥决定性作用。因此，马克思主义经典作家在确立历史唯物主义基本框架的同时，将目光投向无产阶级政党的领导权问题。马克思恩格斯强调，共产党人“没有任何同整个无产阶级的利益不同的利益”，且在实践方面“共产党人是各国工人政党中最坚决的、始终起推动作用的部分”，阐明了无产阶级政党正是能够将上层建筑对经济基础的反作用从阻滞转为引领的能动载体。

Lenin likewise recognized the importance of politics to economic development, pointing out: “If a class does not view questions correctly from the political standpoint, it cannot maintain its rule, and consequently cannot accomplish its production tasks.” [7]7 V. I. Lenin, “Once Again on the Trade Unions, the Current Situation and the Mistakes of Trotsky and Bukharin” (1921). Especially after the proletariat has seized political power, the center of struggle must shift to “politics in the economic sphere,” and he put forward the famous thesis that “politics cannot but take precedence over economics.” Therefore, when the relations of production lag behind the development of the productive forces, the economic base and superstructure that are incompatible with the development of the productive forces must be transformed. But this process is very difficult to achieve solely through the spontaneous forces of society; it must be actively promoted and brought about by a Marxist political party possessing superb political wisdom and strong governing capacity, in accordance with the laws of historical development and exerting historical initiative. Lenin inherited Marx and Engels’ idea that the proletarian party must hold leadership, stressing that “the party is the vanguard of the class; its task is by no means to reflect the average level of the masses, but to lead the masses forward.” If before seizing power this “leading” was mainly expressed as political mobilization and revolutionary leadership, then after coming to power this “leading” function was transformed into the party’s overall guidance of state life and social development. Precisely on the basis of this understanding, Lenin further clarified the party’s leadership methods under conditions of governance, emphasizing that “the party’s task is to exercise general leadership over the work of all state organs, not to engage in excessively frequent, abnormal, and often petty interference as is currently the case.” [8]8 V. I. Lenin, “The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government” (1918). This is essentially an exploration of how, under conditions of governance, the superstructure can precisely react upon the economic base by giving play to the party’s role as the leadership core.

列宁同样认识到政治对经济发展的重要性，指出：“一个阶级如果不从政治上正确地看问题，就不能维持它的统治，因而也就不能完成它的生产任务。”尤其在无产阶级取得政权后，就要把斗争中心转向“经济方面的政治”，并提出“政治同经济相比不能不占首位”这一著名论断。因此，当生产关系落后于生产力的发展时，必须变革与生产力发展不相适应的经济基础和上层建筑，但是这个过程仅靠社会的自发动力很难实现，必须由具备高超政治智慧和强大执政能力的马克思主义政党顺应历史发展规律，发挥历史主动精神，积极推动和促成这种相互适应。列宁继承了马克思恩格斯关于无产阶级政党要掌握领导权的思想，强调“党是阶级的先锋队；它的任务决不是反映群众的一般水平，而是带领群众前进”。如果说夺取政权之前，这种“带领”主要表现为政治动员与革命领导，那么在执政之后，这种“带领”功能便转化为党对国家生活和社会发展的整体性引领。正是基于这一认识，列宁进一步明确了执政条件下党的领导方式，强调“党的任务则是对所有国家机关的工作进行总的领导，不是像目前那样进行过分频繁的、不正常的、往往是琐碎的干预”。这实质上是在探索执政条件下上层建筑如何通过发挥党的领导核心作用精准地反作用于经济基础。

As some scholars have pointed out, a political party is an organizational form for realizing the demands of the social groups it represents, and its program contains demands concerning the relations of production. The inner logic of a political party leading economic and social development is that the party, as the core element of the superstructure, continuously adjusts the relations of production and the superstructure to achieve a benign interactive process in which the productive forces, the relations of production, and the superstructure are mutually adapted, thereby liberating and developing the productive forces. Specifically, this means that the party must accurately grasp the objective laws of the development of the productive forces, formulate scientific strategic plans, institutional arrangements, and public policies, and continuously promote theoretical innovation and optimize development strategies to meet the needs of high-quality economic and social development. Developing the social productive forces is the most important governing goal of a Marxist political party. In China, the revolution, construction, and reform led by the party are the core content of national politics. As a Marxist political party that has long governed by leading the people, the effectiveness of the Chinese Communist Party’s own building directly or indirectly affects the efficacy of national governance; thus, Party building becomes an organic component of the political superstructure of the state. Therefore, high-quality Party building and high-quality development are essentially the concrete practice of the relationship between the superstructure and the economic base, and between politics and the economy, with Chinese characteristics. High-quality Party building leading high-quality development is essentially an organic interaction between political logic and economic logic, and between Party-building logic and development logic.

正如有学者所指出的，政党是实现所代表的社会群体诉求的组织形式，其纲领中包含对于生产关系的要求。政党引领经济社会发展的内在逻辑，就是政党作为上层建筑的核心要素，不断调整生产关系和上层建筑以达到生产力、生产关系和上层建筑相适应的良性互动过程，进而解放和发展生产力。具体而言，就是政党要准确把握生产力发展的客观规律，制定科学的战略规划、制度安排与公共政策，持续推动理论创新并优化发展方略，以适应经济社会高质量发展的需要。发展社会生产力是马克思主义政党最为重要的执政目标。在中国，党领导人民进行的革命、建设与改革，是国家政治的核心内容。作为领导人民长期执政的马克思主义政党，中国共产党的自身建设成效也会直接或间接地影响国家治理效能，党的建设因而成为国家政治上层建筑的有机组成部分。因此，高质量党建与高质量发展实质上是中国特色上层建筑与经济基础、政治与经济关系的具体实践，高质量党建引领高质量发展本质上是政治逻辑与经济逻辑、党建逻辑与发展逻辑的有机互动。

(II) Upholding and Innovating the Principle of the Organic Interactive Relationship between Politics and the Economy in Sinicized Marxism

（二）中国化马克思主义政治与经济有机互动关系原理的守正创新

Chinese Communists have attached great importance to the dialectical relationship between politics and the economy, successively putting forward a series of scientific theses that have further enriched and developed the basic theories of Marxist political economy. Mao Zedong emphasized the importance of political work, holding that “political work is the lifeblood of all economic work.” In his “Sixty Articles on Working Methods (Draft),” he stressed that “if one does not pay attention to ideology and politics, and busies oneself with routine affairs all day long, one will become an economist or technician who has lost his bearings, and that is very dangerous.” [9]9 Mao Zedong, “Sixty Articles on Working Methods (Draft)” (1958), a set of internal guidelines for economic and political work during the Great Leap Forward period. He was also the first to realize that the development of the productive forces requires both internal impetus and external impetus from relations of production that are adapted to them, pointing out that “when the relations of production cannot be changed and the productive forces cannot develop, the change in the relations of production plays the principal and decisive role.” After reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping insisted on considering politics and the economy as a whole, endowing “politics” with constructive and economic content, proposing that “economic work is the biggest politics at present, and economic issues are political issues that override everything else.” At the same time, he recognized the safeguarding role of the political environment, proposing that “to achieve the four modernizations, we must have a stable and united political situation,” and stressing that “without a stable environment, nothing can be accomplished, and what has been achieved will also be lost.” Jiang Zemin emphasized that leading cadres must speak of politics, holding that “in our modernization drive, the central task is to develop the economy, but there must be political guarantees; it will not do to fail to speak of politics or to fail to observe political discipline.” Hu Jintao, for his part, held that “in all work, the requirement to speak of politics must be carried through, enhancing principle, systematicity, foresight, and creativity, standing firm, taking a clear-cut stand, and always adhering to the correct direction.” The Chinese Communists’ ideological views on the dialectical relationship between politics and the economy constitute a profound and systematic theoretical system, forming an important part of Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, and laying a solid theoretical foundation for high-quality Party building leading high-quality development.

中国共产党人高度重视政治与经济的辩证关系，先后提出了一系列科学论断，进一步丰富和发展了马克思主义政治经济学的基本理论。毛泽东强调政治工作的重要性，认为“政治工作是一切经济工作的生命线”，他在《工作方法六十条（草案）》中强调“不注意思想和政治，成天忙于事务，那会成为迷失方向的经济家和技术家，很危险”。他还率先意识到生产力的发展既要有内部驱动，又要以与之相适应的生产关系为外部驱动，指出“当着不变更生产关系，生产力就不能发展的时候，生产关系的变更就起了主要的决定的作用”。改革开放以后，邓小平坚持政治与经济一体考虑，赋予“政治”以建设性和经济性内容，提出“经济工作是当前最大的政治，经济问题是压倒一切的政治问题”，同时认识到政治环境的保障作用，提出“我们搞四个现代化，必须要有安定团结的政治局面”，强调“没有稳定的环境，什么都搞不成，已经取得的成果也会失掉”。江泽民强调领导干部一定要讲政治，认为“我们搞现代化建设，中心任务是发展经济，但必须有政治保证，不讲政治、不讲政治纪律不行”。胡锦涛则认为，“在各项工作中要贯穿讲政治的要求，增强原则性、系统性、预见性、创造性，立场坚定，旗帜鲜明，始终坚持正确方向”。中国共产党人关于政治与经济辩证关系的思想观点，是一个内涵深邃、系统完备的理论体系，构成了中国化时代化马克思主义的重要内容，为高质量党建引领高质量发展奠定了坚实的理论基础。

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping, based on the new historical juncture, has creatively put forward a series of new concepts, ideas, and strategies, forming Xi Jinping’s important thoughts on Party building. This theoretical system is concentratedly embodied in the “Thirteen Persistences” and is the latest achievement in adapting Marxist Party-building theory to the Chinese context and the needs of the times. [10]10 The “Thirteen Persistences” (十三个坚持) are a summary of Xi Jinping’s key principles on Party building, first systematically articulated in 2023, covering leadership, self-revolution, organizational discipline, and other aspects. Among them, “persisting in and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership” occupies the first place among the “Thirteen Persistences,” clarifying the Party’s leading core position in economic and social development; “persisting in using the Party’s self-revolution to lead social revolution” reveals the deep-seated connection between the quality of Party building and the quality of social development; “persisting in tightening the Party’s organizational system” provides institutional support for Party leadership from the organizational guarantee level. In addition, Xi Jinping’s economic thought creatively put forward concepts such as “new quality productive forces,” making important original contributions to enriching and developing Marxist political economy, and endowing the Marxist principle of the active reaction of the superstructure with distinct Chinese characteristics and contemporary connotations. In short, Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era provides the fundamental guidance and action guide for China’s economy to develop in the correct direction and for high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development. The major theoretical thesis of “high-quality Party building leading high-quality development” realizes the upholding and innovation of the principle of the organic interactive relationship between politics and the economy in Sinicized Marxism.

党的十八大以来，习近平总书记立足新的历史方位，开创性地提出一系列新理念新思想新战略，形成了习近平总书记关于党的建设的重要思想，这一理论体系集中体现为“十三个坚持”，是马克思主义建党学说中国化时代化的最新成果。其中，“坚持和加强党的全面领导”居于“十三个坚持”的首位，明确了党在经济社会发展中的领导核心地位；“坚持以党的自我革命引领社会革命”揭示了党的建设质量与社会发展质量的深层关联；“坚持严密党的组织体系”从组织保障层面为党建引领提供了制度化支撑。此外，习近平经济思想创造性提出了“新质生产力”等概念，为丰富和发展马克思主义政治经济学作出了重要原创性贡献，赋予马克思主义上层建筑能动反作用原理以鲜明的中国特色和时代内涵。总之，习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想为我国经济沿着正确方向发展、为高质量党建引领高质量发展提供了根本遵循和行动指南。“高质量党建引领高质量发展”这一重大理论论断，实现了对中国化马克思主义理论关于政治与经济有机互动关系原理的守正创新。

At the level of Party leadership, upholding fundamental principles is embodied in unswervingly adhering to the Party’s leadership over economic work, inheriting the Marxist basic principle that political power in the superstructure exerts a dynamic role on the economic base; innovation is embodied in comprehensively transforming the advantages of Party leadership into development effectiveness through institutional arrangements, deeply integrating Party leadership into the entire process of high-quality development. At the level of Party organization functions, upholding fundamental principles is embodied in consistently adhering to the founding principle of a Marxist party’s strict organizational system, inheriting the political advantage that “the Party is the organized contingent of the working class”; innovation is embodied in endowing Party organizations with clear political and organizational functions, just as General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out, “strengthen the political and organizational functions of Party organizations, and focus on solving problems such as the weakening of Party leadership, the absence of Party building, and ineffective Party governance and management.” Party organizations exert their political function to ensure the development direction does not deviate, and exert their organizational function to broadly mobilize Party members and the masses, reshaping the Party’s organizational structure into a battle fortress that drives economic and social development. At the level of the dynamic mechanism, upholding fundamental principles is embodied in consistently adhering to the basic Marxist principle that relations of production must adapt to the development of productive forces; innovation is embodied in establishing the Party’s self-revolution as the political driving force for transforming the relations of production and superstructure that do not adapt to the requirements of productive forces development, holding that “the Party’s self-revolution and economic and social development are closely linked, mutually reinforcing, and complement each other.” Through self-revolution, it transforms the relations of production and superstructure that are incompatible with the development of productive forces, breaks down ideological concepts and fixed modes of thinking that lag behind the times and social needs, and activates development momentum. At the level of development orientation, upholding fundamental principles is embodied in firmly grasping the fundamental task of liberating and developing social productive forces; innovation is embodied in scientifically grasping the trend of change, proposing the entirely new category of “new quality productive forces,” emphasizing that “developing new quality productive forces is the intrinsic requirement and key focus for promoting high-quality development,” thereby expanding Marxist production theory. At this level, the role of Party building leadership lies in ensuring that the development of new quality productive forces is always anchored to the value coordinate of meeting the people’s needs for a better life, and in strategic planning, it must promote the formation of new-type relations of production that match new quality productive forces. As General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized, it is necessary to adhere to Party building leadership, “to successfully complete the goals and tasks of the 15th Five-Year Plan period, we must strive to improve the Party’s ability and level in leading economic and social development.” [11]11 The 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030) is the next five-year national economic and social development plan following the 14th Five-Year Plan (2021–2025). At the level of systematic methodology, upholding fundamental principles is embodied in following the law of coordinated exertion of various elements of the superstructure in the Marxist theory of the interactive relationship between politics and economy; innovation is embodied in the Party, through formulating reasonable economic policies and reforming economic systems and mechanisms, coordinating and promoting further comprehensive deepening of reform, adjusting and perfecting relations of production across multiple departments and fields, promoting the formation of new-type relations of production, and achieving the holistic reconstruction of the superstructure.

在党的领导层面，守正体现在毫不动摇坚持党对经济工作的领导，继承了马克思主义关于上层建筑中的政治权力对经济基础具有能动作用的基本原理；创新则体现在将党的领导优势通过制度化的安排全面转化为发展效能，使党的领导深度融入高质量发展全过程。在党组织功能层面，守正体现在始终坚持马克思主义政党严密组织体系的建党原则，继承“党是工人阶级的有组织的部队”的政治优势；创新则体现为赋予党组织以明确的政治功能和组织功能，正如习近平总书记所指出的，“增强党组织政治功能和组织功能，着力解决党的领导弱化、党的建设缺失、管党治党不力等问题”，党组织发挥政治功能保证发展方向不偏航，发挥组织功能广泛动员党员群众，将党的组织架构重塑为推动经济社会发展的战斗堡垒。在动力机制层面，守正体现为始终坚持生产关系必须适应生产力发展这一马克思主义基本原理；创新则体现为将党的自我革命确立为变革不适应生产力发展要求的生产关系和上层建筑的政治动力，认为“党的自我革命和经济社会发展是紧密相联、相互促进、相得益彰的”，通过自我革命变革与生产力发展不相适应的生产关系和上层建筑，破除落后于时代发展和社会需要的思想观念与思维定式，激活发展动力。在发展指向层面，守正体现为牢牢把握解放和发展社会生产力这一根本任务；创新则体现为科学把握变革趋势，提出“新质生产力”这一全新范畴，强调“发展新质生产力是推动高质量发展的内在要求和重要着力点”，拓展了马克思主义生产理论。在这一层面，党建引领的作用在于确保新质生产力的发展始终锚定满足人民美好生活需要的价值坐标，在战略规划上要推动形成与新质生产力相匹配的新型生产关系。正如习近平总书记所强调的，要坚持党建引领，“顺利完成‘十五五’时期目标任务，必须着力提高党领导经济社会发展能力和水平”。在系统方法论层面，守正体现为遵循马克思主义政治与经济互动关系理论中上层建筑各要素协同发力的规律；创新则体现为党通过制定合理的经济政策、改革经济体制机制，统筹协调进一步全面深化改革，在多个部门、多个领域调整与完善生产关系，推动新型生产关系的形成，实现上层建筑的整体性重构。

(III) Theoretical Presentation of the Dialectical-Unity Relationship between High-Quality Party Building and High-Quality Development

（三）高质量党建和高质量发展辩证统一关系的理论呈现

The practical experience of China’s development shows that the quality of the Party’s role in economic and social development is a key factor influencing and determining the quality of modernization development, and Party leadership and Party building are the fundamental guarantees for achieving high-quality development. Similarly, high-quality development is the value orientation of high-quality Party building, testing the quality of Party building work, calibrating the forward direction of Party building work, and preventing it from falling into the misunderstandings of “turning Party building into Party affairs” and “formalizing Party building.” On the one hand, high-quality Party building is the political guidance and political guarantee for high-quality development. The market is given the decisive role in resource allocation, “but the Party and government still play very crucial roles in planning guidance and organizational coordination in economic activities, playing an active, forward-looking, and creative role in economic development.” The role of state power and other superstructures on the economic base must still be realized through the Party’s line, principles, and policies. “The miracle of rapid economic development” is also created through the political, organizational, and institutional advantages highlighted by the Chinese Communist Party in the process of governing the country.

中国发展的实践经验表明，党在经济社会发展中作用发挥的质量，是影响和决定现代化发展质量的关键因素，党的领导和党的建设是实现高质量发展的根本保证。同样，高质量发展是高质量党建的价值旨归，检验党建工作质量，校准党建工作前进方向，使之不陷入“党建党务化”“党建形式化”的误区。一方面，高质量党建是高质量发展的政治引领与政治保障。市场被赋予在资源配置中起决定性作用的地位，“党和政府在经济活动中仍然发挥着规划引导和组织协调等十分关键的作用，在经济发展中扮演着富有主动性、前瞻性和创造性的角色”，国家权力等上层建筑对于经济基础的作用发挥仍要依靠党的路线、方针、政策得以实现，“经济快速发展的奇迹”也正是通过中国共产党在治国理政过程中所凸显的政治、组织和制度优势所创造的。

First, high-quality Party building, by exerting its political advantages, establishes the value coordinate of “why to develop” for high-quality development. The significant advantage of the Chinese Communist Party in concentrating resources to accomplish major tasks, solve difficult problems, and achieve great undertakings can effectively organize and mobilize forces and resources from all sides, concentrating them on the implementation of national development strategic goals, paving the way for and removing obstacles to high-quality development, and creating a favorable social environment for promoting high-quality development. Second, high-quality Party building, by exerting its organizational advantages, answers the subject question of “who to rely on for development” for high-quality development. In the national governance system, the Party is the leadership core that aggregates forces from all sides. Party organizations at different levels also assume different roles in the process of high-quality development. The strict organizational system not only provides high-quality Party member and cadre teams with both moral integrity and professional competence for high-quality development but also facilitates the integration of various resources and forces to concentrate on overcoming various development difficulties. Finally, high-quality Party building, by exerting its institutional advantages, solves the development problem of “how to make breakthroughs” for high-quality development. In promoting high-quality development, Party building leadership can ensure that phased high-quality development strategies conform to the overall national strategy, seek an effective balance between principled systems and flexible tactics, provide a reasonable incentive structure and effective framework for national governance and economic and social development with sufficient institutional advantages, and provide a fundamental guarantee for improving development quality.

首先，高质量党建通过发挥政治优势，为高质量发展确立“为何发展”的价值坐标。中国共产党集中力量办大事、解难事、成伟业的显著优势，能够有效组织动员各方面力量和资源，集中投入到国家发展战略目标的实施中，为高质量发展铺平道路、消除阻碍，并营造推动高质量发展的有利社会环境。其次，高质量党建通过发挥组织优势，为高质量发展解答“靠谁发展”的主体问题。在国家治理体系中，党是聚合各方力量的领导核心，不同层级的党组织也在高质量发展过程中承担着不同的角色，严密的组织体系不仅为高质量发展提供了德才兼备、高素质的党员干部队伍，还有利于整合各种资源和力量，集中攻克各种发展难题。最后，高质量党建通过发挥制度优势，为高质量发展解决“如何突破”的发展难题。在推进高质量发展过程中，党建引领能够确保阶段性的高质量发展策略符合整体性国家战略，在原则性制度和灵活性策略之间寻求有效平衡，以充分的制度优势为国家治理和经济社会发展提供合理的激励结构和有效框架，为提升发展质量提供根本保证。

On the other hand, high-quality development is the value goal and practical yardstick of high-quality Party building. The Chinese Communist Party takes promoting high-quality development as an important mission, has a distinct development orientation, and is a typical development-oriented political party. First, achieving high-quality development is the value goal of strengthening Party building. High-quality development is not only a transformation in the economic field but also a systematic optimization and holistic reshaping of the Party building ecosystem, injecting new vitality into Party building so that Party building is no longer isolated from development practice. At the same time, high-quality development can enhance the people’s sense of gain, happiness, and security, strengthen the people’s political identification with the Party, and continuously consolidate the Party’s ruling foundation. Second, the actual effectiveness of development is an important yardstick for testing the effectiveness of Party building. The difficulties and problems existing in the process of high-quality development can be promptly fed back into the practical process of strengthening Party building, thereby promoting the Party’s continuous self-improvement. At the same time, with the improvement of the quality and efficiency of economic development, more resources will be invested in the construction of Party organizations, Party member education, and innovation in Party building work methods, creating more opportunities and space for improving the quality of Party building. Finally, the technological achievements of high-quality development can feed back into the innovation of Party building and governance paradigms. The new technologies and new business forms brought by high-quality development can effectively solve the problem of adapting traditional Party building to emerging fields, and also continuously enhance the contemporary adaptability of Party building work. The innovation in Party organization settings brought by high-quality development enhances the Party’s influence in new economic fields, laying a solid foundation for high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development.

另一方面，高质量发展是高质量党建的价值目标与实践标尺。中国共产党以推动高质量发展为重要使命，具有鲜明的发展导向，是典型的发展型政党。首先，实现高质量发展是加强党的建设的价值目标。高质量发展不仅是经济领域的变革，更是对党建生态的系统性优化和整体性重塑，为党的建设注入新活力，使党建不再孤立于发展实践之外。同时，高质量发展能够提升人民群众获得感、幸福感、安全感，增强人民群众对党的政治认同，持续巩固党的执政根基。其次，发展实际成效是检验党的建设成效的重要标尺。高质量发展过程中存在的困难与问题，能够及时反馈到加强党的建设的实践过程中，从而推动党不断进行自我完善。同时，随着经济发展质效的提升，将有更多资源投入到党组织建设、党员教育和党建工作方式创新中来，为提升党的建设质量创造更多的机会和空间。最后，高质量发展的技术性成就能够反哺党的建设与治理范式创新。高质量发展带来的新技术新业态能够有效破解传统党建与新兴领域适配的难题，也持续增强着党建工作的时代适应性。高质量发展带来的党的组织设置创新提升了党在新经济领域的影响力，为高质量党建引领高质量发展筑牢基础。

High-quality Party building and high-quality development, as a community of mutual promotion and coordinated development, are unified in the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country. The two are unified in the fundamental principle of “upholding the Party’s overall leadership,” unified in the goal orientation of “the direction of socialist development,” unified in the fundamental stance of “people-centered development,” and unified in the era requirement of “innovation-driven development.” The relationship between the two profoundly embodies the methodology of dialectical materialism: on the one hand, it highlights the dialectical thinking of using high-quality Party building as a lever to drive overall development, reflecting the historical initiative of a Marxist party to lead social revolution through self-revolution; on the other hand, it reveals the intrinsic connection between governing the Party strictly and the well-being of the people, ensuring that development is anchored to the people-oriented direction by maintaining the Party’s advanced nature. At the same time, this relationship conforms to the dialectical law of practice and cognition, safeguarding high-quality development with the institutionalized achievements of high-quality Party building.

高质量党建与高质量发展作为互相促进、协同发展的共同体，统一于全面建设社会主义现代化国家的新征程中。二者统一于“坚持党的全面领导”的根本原则、统一于“社会主义发展方向”的目标导向、统一于“以人民为中心”的根本立场、统一于“创新驱动发展”的时代要求。二者之间的关系深刻体现了辩证唯物主义的方法论：一方面，它彰显了以高质量党建为抓手带动全局发展的辩证思维，体现了马克思主义政党以自我革命引领社会革命的历史主动性；另一方面，它揭示了管党治党与人民福祉的内在关联，以保持党的先进性确保发展锚定人民性方向。同时，这一关系契合实践与认识的辩证规律，以高质量党建的制度化成果护航高质量发展。

II. Analysis of the Current Situation of High-Quality Party Building Leading High-Quality Development

二、高质量党建引领高质量发展的现状分析

At present, the situation of high-quality Party building leading high-quality development is sound, achieving an organic interaction between politics and the economy. A number of grassroots organizations, such as universities and enterprises, have established models of “strong Party building, strong development.” However, the theoretical logic of high-quality Party building leading high-quality development also encounters multiple difficulties in the actual field, still facing many challenges in areas such as conceptual cognition, organizational coverage and work coverage, integration mechanisms, and talent support.

当前，高质量党建引领高质量发展的现状良好，实现了政治与经济的有机互动，高校、企业等基层组织树立了一批“党建强、发展强”的典型。但高质量党建引领高质量发展的理论逻辑在现实场域也遭遇多重困境，在理念认知、组织覆盖与工作覆盖、融合机制、人才支撑等方面依然面临诸多挑战。

(I) Notable Achievements in High-Quality Party Building Leading High-Quality Development

（一）高质量党建引领高质量发展取得的显著成效

Currently, promoting high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development has become a consensus and practical direction for Party organizations at all levels. Party organizations at all levels are able to firmly grasp the highest political principle of upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, always placing political construction in the first position, ensuring the unity of will and coordination of action across the entire Party, and laying a solid political foundation for high-quality development. In practice, some regions and departments have placed Party building leadership within the overall planning of development. Particularly in emerging fields such as non-public economic organizations and social organizations, by establishing industry Party committees and dispatching Party building指导员 [12]12 党建指导员 (Party building instructors) are cadres dispatched by Party organizations to guide and assist in Party building work in enterprises, social organizations, and other units, especially in non-public sectors where Party organizations are weak or absent., they accurately deliver various support policies concerning economic development, people’s livelihood security, and talent cultivation to service targets. At the same time, they have drafted a series of documents aimed at promoting high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development, clarifying the requirements of Party building leadership, enhancing the understanding of the importance of Party building leadership, and initially forming an ideological foundation for promoting development through Party building.

目前，推动高质量党建引领高质量发展已成为各级党组织的共识与实践方向，各级党组织能够牢牢把握坚持党中央集中统一领导这一最高政治原则，始终将政治建设置于首位，确保全党意志统一、行动协调，为高质量发展奠定了坚实的政治基础。在实践中，一些地区与部门将党建引领置于发展全局中谋划，特别是在非公有制经济组织、社会组织等新兴领域，通过成立行业党委，选派党建指导员等方式将关于经济发展、民生保障、人才培养等各类支持政策精准送达服务对象，同时起草一系列旨在推动高质量党建引领高质量发展的文件，明确党建引领的要求，提升对党建引领重要性的认识，初步形成了以党建促发展的思想基础。

With the introduction of relevant policies, the rate of Party organizational coverage and Party work coverage has significantly increased. New economic forms have also spurred innovation in the establishment of Party organizations, with organizational models such as industrial chain Party building alliances, park Party building alliances, and commercial building Party building continuously emerging, solving the problems of fragmented management of Party members and fragmented activities in emerging fields. “As of July 2024, Jiangsu Province had cumulatively established 901 industrial chain Party building alliances (Party committees), incorporating 36,100 grassroots Party organizations, covering 67,000 enterprises.” [13]13 Source: “Jiangsu Builds 901 Industrial Chain Party Building Alliances,” Xinhua Net, July 2024. Innovations in organizational establishment models can continuously consolidate the Party’s ruling foundation in emerging fields. In terms of institutional supply, documents such as the “Three-Year Implementation Plan for Strengthening Party Building in Emerging Fields (2025–2027),” the “Hainan Province Implementation Measures for Party Building in Emerging Fields,” and the “Shenyang City Guidelines for the Selection and Dispatch of Full-Time Party Building Instructors in Emerging Fields” have been successively issued from the central to local levels, providing a preliminary institutional framework for high-quality Party building leading high-quality development.

随着相关政策的出台，党的组织覆盖和党的工作覆盖率显著提高。新经济业态也催生了党的组织设置创新，不断涌现出产业链党建联盟、园区党建联盟、商务楼宇党建等组织模式，解决了新兴领域党员管理离散化、活动碎片化问题。“截至2024年7月，江苏省累计建立产业链党建联盟（党委）901个，3.61万个基层党组织纳入其中，覆盖企业6.7万家。”组织设置模式的创新能够不断巩固党在新兴领域的执政根基。在制度供给方面，从中央到地方陆续出台了《加强新兴领域党建工作三年实施方案（2025—2027）》《海南省新兴领域党建工作实施办法》《沈阳市新兴领域专职党建工作指导员选派工作导则》等文件，为高质量党建引领高质量发展提供了初步的制度框架。

In the practical process of promoting the integration of Party building and development, Party committees at all levels generally recognize that high-quality Party building leading high-quality development cannot rely solely on the organizational departments “fighting alone.” Some regions, by establishing regionalized Party building platforms and holding joint Party building meetings, have linked multiple forces such as government departments, mass organizations, and market entities to achieve resource integration. For example, the Shipbuilding Industry Alliance Party Committee promoted by the Organization Department of the Jingjiang Municipal Party Committee in Jiangsu Province “covers Party organizations of more than 20 enterprises along the industrial chain, with co-building units including over 20 functional departments, 6 financial institutions, and 10 universities and research institutes,” [14]14 Source: “Jingjiang Shipbuilding Industry Chain Party Building Alliance Promotes High-Quality Development,” Jiangsu Party Building Network, 2023. effectively connecting resources such as upstream and downstream enterprises, government-enterprise-finance, and industry-university-research. The emergence of new technologies has driven innovation in the Party’s governance paradigm. Some regions, by building smart Party building platforms, have solved traditional governance pain points such as the lack of education for mobile Party members and the formalization of organizational life meetings, promoting precision in Party member education and management, online organizational life, and intelligent Party affairs work, achieving an organic integration of Party building and business. Some enterprises attach great importance to Party building work, promoting “incorporating Party building into the company charter” and achieving “two-way entry and cross-appointment” [15]15 双向进入、交叉任职 (two-way entry and cross-appointment) refers to a practice where Party committee members concurrently hold positions in the board of directors or management, and vice versa, to ensure Party leadership in enterprise governance. within the enterprise, and attempting to combine Party building work with corporate culture and social responsibility. These are all true portrayals of high-quality Party building leading high-quality development.

在推进党建与发展融合的实践过程中，各级党委普遍能够认识到党建引领高质量发展不能靠组织部门“单打独斗”，部分地区通过建立区域化党建平台、开展党建联席会议等方式联动政府部门、群团组织、市场主体等多方力量，实现资源整合。如中共江苏省靖江市委组织部推动成立的船舶制造产业联盟党委，“覆盖产业链上20多家企业党组织，共建单位包括20多个职能部门、6家金融机构、10家高校院所”，使上下游、政企金、产学研等资源得到有效贯通。新技术的产生推动党的治理范式创新，一些地区通过打造智慧党建平台，破解了流动党员教育缺失、组织生活会形式化等传统治理痛点，推动党员教育管理精准化、组织生活在线化、党务工作智能化，实现党建与业务的有机融合。一些企业高度重视党建工作，在企业内部推进“党建入章”、实现“双向进入、交叉任职”，并尝试将党建工作与企业文化、社会责任等相结合，这些都是高质量党建引领高质量发展的真实写照。

In terms of team building, Party organizations at all levels generally focus on selecting and strengthening Party branch secretaries, absorbing Party affairs work backbones with high political quality, and the training system for Party affairs workers is gradually improving. By dispatching Party building instructors, the problem of insufficient work force has been alleviated. Some regions have carried out “Party building + business” integrated training to enhance the political literacy and performance capabilities of Party member cadres. These measures prove that we have accumulated preliminary experience in building a professional and composite Party building talent team.

在队伍建设上，各级党组织普遍注重选优配强党组织书记，吸纳政治素质高的党务工作骨干，对于党务工作人员的培训体系也逐步完善。通过选派党建指导员，缓解了工作力量不足的问题，部分地区开展“党建+业务”融合培训，增强党员干部队伍的政治素养和履职能力。这些举措证明，当前我们在建立专业化、复合型党建人才队伍上积累了初步经验。

(II) Problems and Causes in High-Quality Party Building Leading High-Quality Development

（二）高质量党建引领高质量发展存在的问题及原因

The leading consciousness is superficial, and the positioning of leading goals is vague. On the one hand, some Party organizations and Party member cadres still understand the connotation of high-quality Party building leading high-quality development only at the conceptual level, lacking in-depth thinking about “Party building leadership.” They simplistically equate Party building leadership with holding meetings, mentioning it in documents, and attaching names to activities, satisfying formal compliance with “having done it.” There are also some Party organizations and Party members who view Party building and development as separate, habitually attributing business results simplistically to the role of Party building, unable to clarify from internal logic how Party building specifically functions. For example, some enterprises regard Party building work as an independent political task rather than an organic component conducive to overall development. Some Party organizations exhibit a passive response phenomenon in the process of carrying out Party building leadership, weakening the effect of high-quality Party building leading high-quality development. On the other hand, in practice, the goal positioning of Party building leadership is often too broad and abstract, often expressed in universal terms such as “promoting development” and “improving efficiency,” lacking in-depth research on how to concretely transform the macro requirements of high-quality development. “Party building in emerging fields is mainly limited to ‘visible’ coverage. Grassroots Party organizations exhibit characteristics of fragmentation, mobility, and weak organizational adhesion, and internal Party members also have strong ‘hollow’ characteristics.” [16]16 Source: “Research on Party Building in Emerging Fields,” Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2023. This leads to tension between the standardized requirements of organizational activities and the efficiency logic of market entities in the relationship between Party building and development. The “15th Five-Year Plan Proposal” [17]17 The “15th Five-Year Plan Proposal” refers to the Central Committee’s proposal for formulating the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development (2026–2030), issued in 2025. emphasizes “strengthening Party building in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups.” Strengthening Party building in the “three new” fields is an inherent requirement for promoting high-quality development. However, because the development goals of emerging fields mainly focus on improving economic efficiency, practitioners lack a sense of social belonging and professional honor, and also have characteristics such as non-institutionalization, blurred organizational boundaries, and difficulty in organizing personnel. In the process of implementing relevant policies, there may be problems such as ineffective execution and hidden barriers.

引领意识表层化与引领目标定位模糊。一方面，部分党组织和党员干部对高质量党建引领高质量发展的内涵理解仍停留在概念层面，对“党建引领”缺乏深入的思考，将党建引领简单等同于开会强调、文件提及与活动挂名等，满足“做了”的形式上合规。还有部分党组织和党员将党建与发展两者割裂看待，习惯将业务成果简单归因于党建作用发挥，不能从内在逻辑上厘清党建如何具体发挥作用。如一些企业将党建工作视为一项独立政治任务而不是有利于整体发展的有机组成部分，还有一些党组织在开展党建引领过程中存在被动式响应现象，削弱了高质量党建引领高质量发展的效果。另一方面，在实践中，党建引领的目标定位往往过于宽泛和抽象，常常以“推动发展”“提升效益”等普适性话语体现，对于如何将高质量发展的宏观要求进行具象化转化缺乏深入研究。“新兴领域党的建设主要局限于“有形”覆盖，基层党组织呈现碎片化、流动性、弱组织黏性等特征，且内部党员还带有较强的“空壳化”特征。”这导致党建与发展之间存在组织活动的规范化要求与市场主体的效率逻辑之间产生张力。《“十五五”规划建议》强调“加强新经济组织、新社会组织、新就业群体党的建设”，加强“三新”党建是着力推动高质量发展的题中应有之义。但由于新兴领域的发展目标主要聚焦在提高经济效益，从业人员社会归属感与职业荣誉感不强，同时具有非体制化、组织边界模糊、人员组织难度大等特点。在相关政策落地过程中，可能存在执行不力、产生隐性壁垒等问题。

The “Two Coverages”[18]18 The “Two Coverages” (两个覆盖) refer to the Party’s requirement to achieve organizational coverage (establishing Party organizations in all eligible units) and work coverage (extending Party activities and influence to all units) across all sectors of society, especially in non-public enterprises and social organizations. are suspended in form and institutional supply lags behind. On the one hand, some localities excessively pursue the number of Party organizations established and one-sidedly emphasize the coverage rate of Party organizations, leading to idle operation of Party organizations and reducing organizational coverage to a mere formality. There are also some primary-level Party organizations that suffer from the problem of “loud thunder in deploying work but small raindrops in implementing it”; the conduct of Party-building activities is driven by tasks rather than needs, and participation in Party-building activities often concentrates on “being present” or “symbolic participation.” Some science-and-technology innovation-oriented enterprises, aiming to quickly seize market share and pursue profits, cut costs on Party-building platforms and lower training standards, causing the actual effectiveness of Party building to be greatly diminished. Some small and medium-sized enterprises find it difficult to achieve Party organization coverage, lacking platforms and lacking leverage points. In large enterprises, the “Two Coverages” exhibit a phenomenon of diminishing marginal returns; the organizational chain does not effectively extend to branch offices, outlets, and stations, rendering the role of Party organizations insufficiently forceful. The reason for these phenomena lies in the difficulty of traditional methods of setting up Party organizations and conducting activities to fully match the flexible and variable organizational forms of emerging fields. On the other hand, the existing institutional system is not yet sufficient to fully support and guarantee the transformation of the “Two Coverages” from tangible to effective. Some “relevant regulations” are scattered across documents in different fields and at different levels, lacking systematicity and coordination; some even contain ambiguities and conflicts. The linkage mechanism between Party-building work requirements and other laws, regulations, and policies has not yet been fully opened, leaving Party organizations without sufficient basis when coordinating resources and playing their role. For example, there is a lack of clear regulatory systems for who should manage Party-building work in mixed-ownership enterprises and social organizations, and how to manage it. Campaign-style Party-building mobilization has resulted in a lack of precision and operability in the institutionalization of Party-building-led development. The organization of some activities often exhibits a tendency toward short-termism and one-off events, lacking sustained institutional design. Some systems can be well implemented in the initial stage of execution but lack continuity and stability, constraining the role of Party-building leadership.

“两个覆盖”悬浮化与制度供给滞后。一方面，一些地方过分追求党组织建立数量、片面强调党组织覆盖率，导致出现党组织空转，使组织覆盖流于形式。还有部分基层党组织存在部署工作“雷声大”与落实工作“雨点小”的问题，党建活动的开展由任务而非需求驱动，参与党建活动往往集中在“在场”或“象征性参与”。还有一些科技创新型企业以快速抢占市场、逐利为目的，缩减党建平台成本，降低培训规格，导致党建实际效果大打折扣；一些中小企业党组织覆盖难，缺平台、少抓手；大型企业“两个覆盖”存在边际递减现象，组织链条未有效覆盖到分支机构、网点站点，使党组织作用发挥不够有力等，出现这些现象的原因在于传统党组织设置方式和活动方式难以完全匹配新兴领域组织形式灵活多变的现状。另一方面，现有制度体制尚不足以完全支撑和保障“两个覆盖”从有形向有效转变。一些“有关规定”散见于不同领域与不同层级的文件中，系统性、协同性不足，有的甚至还存在模糊与冲突之处，党建工作要求与其他法规政策之间的联动机制尚未完全打通，使党组织在协调资源、发挥作用时依据不足。如对于混合所有制企业、社会组织等的党建工作该谁管、如何管理党建工作等缺乏明确的监管制度。运动式的党建动员造成了党建引领发展的制度精准化、操作性不强。一些活动的组织往往存在短期化、单次化倾向，缺乏持续的制度设计。部分制度在执行初期能够较好落实，但缺乏持续性与稳定性，制约党建引领作用的发挥。

Resource integration is weak and integration mechanisms are formalized. On the one hand, resource integration exhibits systemic weakness. First, resource integration between Party and government departments is not smooth. Apart from Party affairs departments, some economic departments and management departments lack a strong awareness that handling business affairs necessarily requires handling Party building; the phenomenon of “two separate skins” between Party affairs and government affairs resources is prominent. Second, resource integration oriented toward enterprises and social organizations is inefficient. A linkage mechanism between Party-building performance and enterprise-benefiting policies has not been established, so there is no stable institutional connection between good Party building in enterprises and social organizations and strong political support. Third, the strength of resource integration within enterprises and social organizations is weak. In some enterprises, Party-building work is not closely integrated with business operations, R&D innovation, and other links, and cannot be transformed into competitiveness. Enterprise development is often constrained by factors such as family-style management and profit-seeking tendencies; resource sharing has not been truly realized, and the supporting role of Party-building work for business work has been overlooked. The reason for these phenomena lies in the insufficiency of total resources and the imbalance of resource allocation, as well as the lack of efficient overall coordination and deployment of Party-building resources, administrative resources, and social resources. On the other hand, the formalization of integration mechanisms has become a significant obstacle. In some enterprises and social organizations, Party building and business work have not achieved systematic overall planning, and their integration lacks clear strategic guidance. At the same time, the existing management system has deficiencies; information sharing between departments is poor, leading to insufficiently close linkage between Party building and business work. Some Party-building joint-construction projects have good initial intentions but empty content, failing to form sustainable cooperation models or substantive results. Evaluation of integration effects focuses on visible indicators such as the number of activities, lacking a scientific assessment of the effectiveness of Party-building leadership. For example, some upstream and downstream enterprises in an industrial chain have information barriers between them, giving rise to a series of problems such as enterprises gathering without aggregating, industries coexisting without co-connecting, resources being dispersed without sharing, low-level redundant construction, and vicious competition among homogeneous enterprises. The reason is that existing integration mechanisms mostly lean toward formal joint construction and co-building, lacking substantive operational mechanisms for interest linkage, shared responsibility, and shared outcomes.

资源整合乏力与融合机制形式化。一方面，资源整合呈现系统性乏力。一是党政部门之间的资源整合不畅。除了党务部门外，一些经济部门、管理部门对抓业务必须抓党建的意识不强，党务与政务资源“两张皮”现象突出。二是面向企业与社会组织的资源整合低效。党建业绩与惠企政策的挂钩机制未能建立，使企业与社会组织党建干得好与政治支持力度大之间缺乏稳定的制度关联。三是企业与社会组织内部的资源整合力量薄弱，一些企业的党建工作与业务经营、研发创新等环节结合不紧密，不能转化为竞争力。企业发展往往受制于家族式管理、逐利化倾向等因素，没有真正实现资源共享，忽视了党建工作对业务工作的支撑作用，造成这些现象的原因在于资源总量不足与资源配置不均衡，党建资源与行政资源、社会资源等缺乏高效的统筹调配。另一方面，融合机制形式化成为显著障碍。在一些企业与社会组织中，党建与业务工作未能实现系统性的统筹规划，两者融合缺乏清晰的战略指引。同时，现有管理体系存在不足，部门之间信息共享不畅，导致党建与业务工作衔接不够紧密。一些党建联建项目的设立初衷良好但内容空泛，不能形成可持续的合作模式与实质性成果，对融合效果的评价聚焦于活动次数等显性指标，缺乏对党建引领效能的科学评估。例如，一些产业链上下游企业彼此之间存在信息壁垒，存在链上企业聚集不聚合、产业共存不共联、资源分散不共享、低水平重复建设、同质化企业恶性竞争等一系列问题，原因在于现有的融合机制多偏向于形式上的联建共建，缺乏利益联结、责任共担、成果共享的实质性运行机制。

The support base for the talent team is weak and leadership capacity is insufficient. On the one hand, the strength of the Party-building talent team is weak. With the increase in organizations in emerging fields and the growing burden of Party-building work, the number of full-time Party affairs workers is struggling to meet development needs. The structural contradiction of cadres who “understand Party building but not business, or understand business but do not focus on Party building” is relatively prominent, constraining the conduct of Party-building-led work. Some Party affairs workers in emerging fields are characterized by high educational levels, youthfulness, and high mobility; their interest demands are also more diverse, their energy is scattered, and it is difficult for them to devote themselves to studying the laws of integrated development of Party building and business. The sources of Party affairs workers are singular, with a certain phenomenon of “inbreeding”; there is a lack of mechanisms for selecting Party-building talent from production and operation backbones and scientific research and development personnel, resulting in a narrow perspective for the talent team. In terms of incentive mechanisms, the career development paths for Party affairs workers are unclear, and their social recognition is low, leading to unstable teams and weak attractiveness. On the other hand, there is a gap between the leadership capacity of the Party-building work team and the requirements of high-quality development. High-quality development requires leading cadres to possess higher professional competence and comprehensive capabilities. Some leading cadres can only keep political leadership at the level of principled demands, unable to translate it into clear development plans in light of the actual development situation of their own units. In terms of the capacity to serve development, some leading cadres themselves are unfamiliar with industry development trends and find it difficult to demonstrate substantive action in solving development difficulties and optimizing the business environment. Faced with new problems in Party building, they are accustomed to applying traditional methods, and their ability to use digital and information-based means to promote innovation in Party-building work needs strengthening. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “Some leading cadres have an inadequate understanding; when they encounter contradictions and difficulties in actual work, they habitually revert to the old path of pursuing crude expansion and low-efficiency development. Some leading cadres have outdated concepts; in the name of promoting high-quality development, they are actually ‘putting new wine in old bottles.’ Some leading cadres lack capacity; faced with new domestic and international environments and new challenges, they do not know how to promote high-quality development.”[19]19 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the Central Economic Work Conference,” December 15, 2021, in *Excerpts from Important Documents on Promoting High-Quality Development*, Central Party Literature Press, 2022, p. 18. This situation inevitably constrains the depth and breadth of Party-building-led development. In addition, when economic and social development problems arise, misconduct and corruption often lurk behind them. These problems damage the Party’s image, affect the development environment, and hinder high-quality economic and social development. In November 2025, nationwide investigations into violations of the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations[20]20 The Eight-Point Regulations (八项规定) are a set of rules adopted by the CPC Central Committee in December 2012 to curb formalism, bureaucratism, extravagance, and misconduct among Party officials. found that problems of failing to take responsibility, failing to act, acting arbitrarily, and feigning action in performing duties, serving economic and social development, and protecting the ecological environment—problems that seriously affect high-quality development—accounted for 84.1% of the total number of formalism and bureaucratism problems investigated that month.[21]21 Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and National Supervisory Commission, “Monthly Report on the Investigation and Punishment of Violations of the Eight-Point Regulations in November 2025,” December 25, 2025. This shows that the deviation in the outlook on political performance[22]22 “Outlook on political performance” (政绩观) refers to the set of values and criteria by which Party officials judge what constitutes meritorious achievement in their work, often critiqued when it prioritizes short-term visible results over sustainable development. among some Party members and cadres has eroded the driving force of Party-building leadership, weakened its credibility and sustainability, and we still have a long way to go on the path of achieving high-quality Party building leading high-quality development.

人才队伍支撑薄弱与引领能力不够。一方面，党建人才队伍力量薄弱。随着新兴领域组织的增多与党建工作的日益繁重，专职党务工作人员数量难以满足发展需求。干部“懂党建不懂业务、懂业务不抓党建”的结构性矛盾较为突出，制约了党建引领工作的开展。一些在新兴领域的党务工作人员具有高学历、年轻化以及流动性强的特点，其利益诉求也更加多元，精力分散，难以潜心钻研党建与业务融合发展规律。党务工作者来源渠道单一，存在一定的“近亲繁殖”现象，缺乏从生产经营骨干、科技研发人员中选拔党务人才的机制，导致人才队伍视野不开阔。在激励机制上，党务工作者的职业发展路径不清晰，社会认同感较低，导致队伍不稳定，吸引力较弱。另一方面，党建工作队伍的引领能力与高质量发展要求之间存在差距。高质量发展要求领导干部具备更高的专业素养和综合能力，部分领导干部只能将政治引领停留于原则性的要求上，不能结合本单位发展实际将其转化为清晰的发展规划。在服务发展的能力上，一些领导干部自身不熟悉行业发展趋势，在破解发展难题和优化营商环境等方面难以展现实质性作为，对于党建面临的新问题，习惯于套用传统方法，运用数字化、信息化手段推进党建工作创新的能力有待加强。习近平总书记指出：“有的领导干部认识不到位，实际工作中一遇到矛盾和困难又习惯性回到追求粗放扩张、低效发展的老路上；有的领导干部观念陈旧，名曰推动高质量发展、实际上‘新瓶装旧酒’；有的领导干部能力不足，面对国内外新环境新挑战，不知如何推动高质量发展。”这种情况必然制约党建引领发展的深度和广度。另外，经济社会发展出现问题，其背后往往隐藏着不正之风与腐败问题。这些问题损害党的形象、影响发展环境，阻碍经济社会高质量发展。2025年11月，全国查处违反中央八项规定精神问题，发现在履职尽责、服务经济社会发展和生态环境保护方面不担当、不作为、乱作为、假作为，严重影响高质量发展方面的问题，占当月查处的形式主义、官僚主义问题总数的84.1%。这说明，部分党员干部存在的政绩观偏差问题侵蚀了党建引领的动力，弱化了党建引领的可信度与持续性，我们在实现高质量党建引领高质量发展的道路上仍然任重而道远。

III. Strategic Pathways for High-Quality Party Building Leading High-Quality Development

三、高质量党建引领高质量发展的战略路径

On the new journey of comprehensively building a modern socialist country, to effectively transform the Party’s political advantages and organizational advantages into development advantages, thereby forming a virtuous cycle in which Party building leads development and development strengthens Party building, it is necessary to address the problems existing in high-quality Party building leading high-quality development and explore optimization pathways from four dimensions: political and ideological leadership, optimization of the institutional system, innovation of working mechanisms, and capacity building of the team.

在全面建设社会主义现代化国家的新征程中，要将党的政治优势、组织优势切实转化为发展优势，进而形成以党建引领发展、以发展强化党建的良性循环，必须针对高质量党建引领高质量发展存在的问题，从政治思想引领、制度体系优化、工作机制创新、队伍能力建设等四个维度探索其优化路径。

(I) Strengthening Political and Ideological Leadership

（一）强化政治思想引领

Ideological understanding, as a guiding and fundamental force leading development practice, plays a directional and regulatory role that affects the overall development path and the quality of outcomes. The core strategic pathway for promoting high-quality Party building leading high-quality development lies in strengthening political and ideological leadership. This is not a partial adjustment of working methods, but a transformation of the cognitive paradigm of Party organizations at all levels and leading cadres regarding the intrinsic relationship between “high-quality Party building” and “high-quality development,” fundamentally solving the problem of the superficiality of leadership awareness.

思想认识作为引领发展实践的先导性与根本性力量，其定向与调节作用影响着整体发展路径与成效质量。推动高质量党建引领高质量发展的核心战略路径在于强化政治思想引领，这并非局部的工作方法调整，而是各级党组织、领导干部转变对“高质量党建”与“高质量发展”内在关系的认知范式，从根源上破解引领意识表层化的问题。

On the one hand, it is necessary to establish the concept that high-quality Party building can provide the core driving force for high-quality development. By strengthening the Party’s political construction, we ensure that economic and social development does not deviate from the course, and that high-quality development both conforms to economic laws and manifests the essence of socialism. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized the need to “use a clean and upright political ecosystem to guide the formation of a sound development environment.” Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is a distinctive feature of high-quality Party building. Deepening comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, fostering a political ecosystem full of righteousness, clarity, and integrity, and creating a stable, fair, and transparent development environment for various market entities are the solid foundation for achieving high-quality development. In the process of leveraging the leading role of Party building, it is necessary to deepen ideological understanding, starting from the self-interest of social organizations, to enhance the endogenous motivation for carrying out Party building work. Through the construction of Party organizations, direct connections between enterprises and government departments are achieved, making political-societal relations closer, enhancing organizational credibility, and continuously expanding the resources needed for development. At the same time, Party organizations should focus the center of gravity and energy of Party building leadership on organizational leadership, coordination, and responding to development demands, avoiding “putting on a one-man show.”

一方面，要确立高质量党建能够为高质量发展提供核心动能的理念。通过强化党的政治建设确保经济社会发展不偏航，确保高质量发展既符合经济规律，又能彰显社会主义本质。习近平总书记强调，要“以风清气正的政治生态引领形成良好发展环境”。全面从严治党是高质量党建的显著特征，纵深推进全面从严治党，涵养正气充盈、清明清廉的政治生态，为各类市场主体营造稳定公平透明的发展环境，是实现高质量发展的坚实基础。在发挥党建引领作用过程中，要深化思想认知，从社会组织自身利益出发，增强开展党建工作的内生动力。通过党组织建设，实现企业与政府部门的直接对接，使政社联系更为密切，增强组织公信力，不断拓展其发展所需的资源。同时，党组织要将党建引领的重心和精力放在组织领导协调、发展诉求的回应上，避免“唱独角戏”。

On the other hand, it is necessary to realize the functional expansion and role transformation of Party organizations in the process of promoting high-quality development. In the process of promoting high-quality development, the functional positioning and realization mechanism of the Party’s leadership undergo continuous adaptive adjustments in the evolving economic and social life, becoming the core clue and internal logic of high-quality Party building leading high-quality development. To give full play to the political leadership and political guarantee role of high-quality Party building, it is necessary to give full play to the Party’s core leadership role of exercising overall leadership and coordinating the efforts of all sides, to propose scientific theories that adapt to high-quality development, to ensure that economic and social development conforms to the socialist direction, to consolidate and develop the fundamental institutions that support high-quality development, and to lay a more solid foundation for achieving socialist modernization. To strengthen the awareness of Party building leadership, Party organizations should provide services such as policy publicity, technical training, and market docking, organize vanguard teams of Party members, go down to the front line to solve the “problem list,” and provide precise relief. For example, regarding the sustainable development issues of specialized and new enterprises [23]23 “Specialized and new enterprises” (专精特新企业) refers to small and medium-sized enterprises that are specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative, often operating in niche markets with advanced technologies., strengthen policy and theory publicity, allowing enterprises to consciously align with the Party’s and the state’s development plans and industrial layout, and find their correct positioning. The effectiveness of high-quality development should be assessed based on political standards, maintaining a sober political mind in complex economic and social situations, elevating the understanding of high-quality development to a political height, ensuring that the results of high-quality development can serve the people and the overall situation, thereby forming a long-term situation where politics promotes economic development.

另一方面，要实现党组织在推动高质量发展过程中的功能拓展与角色转换。在推动高质量发展过程中，党的领导的功能定位和实现机制在持续演进的经济社会生活中不断进行适应性调整，成为高质量党建引领高质量发展的核心线索与内在逻辑。要发挥好高质量党建的政治引领和政治保障作用，就必须发挥好党总揽全局、协调各方的领导核心作用，提出适应高质量发展的科学理论、确保经济社会发展符合社会主义方向、巩固和发展好支撑高质量发展的基础性制度，为实现社会主义现代化奠定更加坚实的基础。强化党建引领意识，党组织要提供政策宣讲、技术培训以及市场对接等服务，组建党员先锋队，下沉一线解决“问题清单”，精准纾困。如针对专精特新企业的持续发展问题，加强政策理论宣传，让企业自觉对照党和国家的发展规划、产业布局，找准定位。要以政治标准为根基来考量高质量发展的成效，在复杂的经济社会形势中始终保持清醒的政治头脑，将对高质量发展的认识上升到政治高度，确保高质量发展成效能够服务于人民和大局，进而形成政治促进经济发展的长效局面。

(II) Improve Relevant Institutional Arrangements

（二）完善相关制度安排

General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “In the process of establishing rules and regulations and building a system, we must grasp the key of improving institutional quality and transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness.” Institutions have stability, coercive force, and binding power. A mature, stable, systematic, and complete institutional system is the guarantee for practicing high-quality Party building leading high-quality development.

习近平总书记指出：“在建章立制、建构体系过程中，要扭住提高制度质量这个关键，把制度优势转化为治理效能。”制度具有稳定性、强制力、约束力，一套成熟稳定、系统完备的制度体系是践行高质量党建引领高质量发展的保障。

On the one hand, it is necessary to strengthen institutional cohesion at the macro level, so that the Party’s propositions become the direction for development to follow. The Party must proactively conform to the requirements of the modern economic system and social governance system, reform institutional mechanisms that do not adapt to development requirements, and continuously construct new institutional mechanisms. “The core of innovation at the management and institutional level is the ‘top-down’ innovative transformation of relations of production, which in turn promotes the development of new quality productive forces in both actual and potential forms.” [24]24 This quotation is from a Chinese academic source discussing the relationship between institutional innovation and new quality productive forces. Therefore, it is necessary to base ourselves on the requirements of developing new quality productive forces, give play to the leading role of the economic system, adjust and improve the structure and layout of relations of production. It is necessary to correctly handle the relationships between the Party and the government, the Party and the masses, inter-party relations, government-market relations, and government-society relations, actively promote the updating of governance philosophy and development concepts, increase the intensity and effectiveness of institutional construction, policy design, institutional adjustment, and mechanism innovation, carry out efficient responsive adjustments to the internal and external conditions of economic and social development, and ensure that phased development strategies conform to the steady realization of the overall national strategy. Promote the embedding of Party building work requirements into the decision-making procedures, business processes, and performance assessments of various fields through institutionalized arrangements. It is necessary to improve the institutional guarantee for high-quality development, realize the integration of government, enterprise, and social resources under the coordination of Party organizations, and solve bottleneck problems such as funding, technology, and talent in high-quality development.

一方面，要强化宏观层面的制度衔接，使党的主张成为发展遵循的方向。党要主动顺应现代化经济体系和社会治理体系的要求，改革不适应发展要求的体制机制并不断建构新的体制机制。“管理和制度层面的创新，核心就是‘自上而下’创新性变革生产关系，反促现实形态和潜在形态的新质生产力发展。”因此，要立足发展新质生产力的要求，发挥经济体制的引领作用，调整和完善生产关系的结构和布局。要正确处理党政关系、党群关系、党际关系、政府—市场关系和政府—社会关系，积极推动执政理念和发展理念的更新，加大制度建设、政策设计、体制调适和机制创新的力度和效度，对经济社会发展的内外部条件进行高效的回应性调适，确保阶段性发展策略符合整体性国家战略的稳妥实现。以制度化安排推动党建工作要求嵌入各领域的决策程序、业务流程和绩效考核。要完善高质量发展制度保障，实现在党组织的协调下，整合政府、企业与社会资源，解决高质量发展中资金、技术、人才等瓶颈问题。

On the other hand, it is necessary to focus on key areas to achieve institutional embedding and solve the problem of “two separate skins” between Party building and professional work. [25]25 “Two separate skins” (两张皮) is a Chinese idiom used in Party discourse to describe the disconnection between Party building work and the core business or professional work of an organization. At the level of enterprise governance, improve the institutional arrangements concerning the Party’s leadership in the modern enterprise system, perfect the governance system of modern enterprises, enhance the sensitivity and governance adaptability of relevant institutions, improve organizational resilience and strategic execution efficiency, and form a transparent and efficient governance framework. In the field of scientific and technological innovation, it is necessary to perfect the system of centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee over scientific and technological work, and rationally coordinate major tasks, scientific research forces, and resource platforms. Give full play to the advantages of the new nationwide system for mobilizing resources, deepen the reform of the systems for science and technology, education, and talent, and unblock the blockages and stuck points that constrain the development of new quality productive forces. In emerging fields, innovate the establishment methods and management systems of grassroots Party organizations. In view of the characteristics of new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups, adopt flexible forms such as regional joint establishment and industry co-establishment, incorporate the Party building of new economic organizations and new social organizations into the Party’s organizational framework and organizational system, strive to eliminate coverage blind spots, carry out centralized management, and effectively integrate the Party’s work into economic and social development.

另一方面，要聚焦关键领域实现制度嵌入，破解党建与业务“两张皮”难题。在企业治理层面，健全现代企业制度中有关党的领导的制度安排，完善现代企业的治理体系，提高相关制度的敏感性与治理适配度，提高组织韧性与战略执行效率，形成透明高效的治理框架。在科技创新领域，要完善党中央对科技工作的集中统一领导体制，合理统筹重大任务、科研力量、资源平台。发挥新型举国体制的优势，深化科技、教育、人才体制改革，打通束缚新质生产力发展的堵点卡点。在新兴领域，创新基层党组织设置方式与管理体制，针对新经济组织、新社会组织和新就业群体的特点，采取区域统建、行业联建等灵活形式，将新经济组织、新社会组织党建纳入党的组织框架和组织体系中，着力消除覆盖盲点，进行归口管理，将党的工作有效融入经济社会发展中。

(III) Improve Work Operation Mechanisms

（三）改进工作运行机制

To achieve high-quality Party building leading high-quality development, not only is deep optimization of the institutional system needed, but also active improvement of work operation mechanisms. Facing the complexity of the development environment and the diversity of practice scenarios, it is necessary to transcend the path dependence on traditional Party building work models, carry out systematic mechanism innovation, achieve full coverage of service positions, all-round unimpeded channels for expressing demands, and full-cycle and whole-process guarantee of development.

要实现高质量党建引领高质量发展，不仅需要深度的制度体系优化，更需要积极改进工作运行机制。面对发展环境的复杂性与实践场景的多样性，必须超越对传统党建工作模式的路径依赖，进行系统的机制创新，实现服务阵地全覆盖、诉求渠道全方位畅通，全周期全过程保障发展。

First, innovate the mechanism for exerting the role. Combining new economic forms and future development trends, optimize the methods of organizational establishment. In areas where private enterprises gather, such as industrial parks, commercial buildings, and the digital economy, further innovate methods such as Party building alliances and smart Party building. In response to practical challenges such as the high mobility of personnel in emerging fields and the large operational fluctuations of small and micro enterprises, innovate organizational establishment models, and systematically improve the quality of the Party’s organizational and work coverage. Persist in tackling difficulties in normal coverage, relying on methods such as “data comparison, normal investigation, and dynamic tackling,” flexibly adopt methods such as independent establishment, regional joint establishment, and industry co-establishment, and promote “two coverages” [26]26 “Two coverages” (两个覆盖) refers to the Party’s goal of achieving organizational coverage and work coverage of Party organizations in all eligible social and economic entities. by combining points and areas, and linking chains and blocks. Second, strengthen the mechanism for deep integration. Carry out relevant work of Party organizations around production and operation, achieve the integration of Party building work and central work, ensure that the Party committee and discipline inspection commission participate in the whole process of supervision, and ensure the integrity and compliance of central work. Third, perfect the mechanism for the standardized construction of Party organizations. Promote the standardization of Party building in new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups in a classified manner, and promote the leap of Party building work from tangible coverage to effective standardization. Deepen and expand in key leadership, pay attention to the exemplary role of key typical cases, promote the experience of a number of replicable and influential advanced Party organizations, and achieve a leap from key breakthroughs to comprehensive improvement through benchmark driving and overall advancement. Fourth, strengthen the mechanism for value leadership. Party organizations organize various public welfare activities externally, lead enterprises to fulfill social responsibilities, protect the legitimate rights and interests of employees internally, improve employee happiness, and adjust labor-capital relations. Promote the spirit of entrepreneurship in the New Era, encourage enterprises to actively integrate into the national overall situation of common prosperity and rural revitalization, and achieve the resonance of Party building leadership with enterprise growth and social development. Fifth, perfect the mechanism for rights protection and services. Broaden channels for expressing demands, comprehensively implement policies in areas such as platform responsibility implementation, assistance and problem-solving, and role model cultivation, and effectively respond to concerns. Promote the construction of consultation and coordination mechanisms, promote harmony through Party building, explore grassroots work methods such as “workshop political commissars” and “secretary hotlines,” assist in the stability of labor relations, and achieve Party building leading high-quality development in the process of improving service capabilities. Sixth, through the rule of law supervision and the improvement of power restriction mechanisms, severely crack down on acts that harm the interests of the masses, maintain a fair market competition environment, and remove various obstacles and industry monopolies in the development process.

一要创新作用发挥机制，结合新经济形态与未来发展趋势，优化组织设置方式，在产业园区、商业楼宇、数字经济等民营企业聚集领域，进一步创新党建联盟、智慧党建等方式，针对新兴领域人员流动性强、小微企业运营波动大等现实挑战，创新组织设置模式，系统性提升党的组织与工作覆盖质量。在常态覆盖上持续攻坚，依托“数据比对、常态摸排、动态攻坚”方法，灵活采取单独组建、区域联建、行业统建等方式，点面结合、链块贯通推进“两个覆盖”。二要强化深度融入机制，围绕生产经营开展党组织相关工作，实现党建工作与中心工作的融合，做到党委和纪委参与监督全过程，确保中心工作廉洁合规。三要健全党组织规范建设机制，分类推进新经济组织、新社会组织、新就业群体党建标准化，推动党建工作从有形覆盖向有效规范跃升。在重点引领上深化拓展，注重发挥关键典型示范作用，推广一批可复制、有影响力的先进党组织经验，通过标杆带动、整体推进，实现从重点突破到全面提升的跨越。四要强化价值引领机制，党组织对外组织各类公益活动，引领企业履行社会责任，对内保障员工合法权益，提高员工幸福感，调节劳资关系。弘扬新时代企业家精神，鼓励企业主动融入共同富裕、乡村振兴等国家大局，实现党建引领与企业成长、社会发展的同频共振。五要完善权益保障与服务机制，拓宽诉求反映渠道，在平台责任落实、帮扶解难、榜样培育等方面综合施策，切实回应关切。要推动构建协商协调机制，以党建促和谐，探索“车间政委”“书记热线”等基层工作法，助力劳动关系稳定，实现党建在提升服务能力的过程中引领高质量发展。六要通过法治监督和完善权力制约机制，严厉打击损害群众利益的行为，维护市场公平竞争环境，破除发展过程中的各种障碍与行业垄断。

(IV) Stimulate the Vitality of the Cadre Team

（四）激发干部队伍活力

The core of high-quality Party building lies in people, and the key lies in the contingent. Adhering to the Party’s management of cadres and the Party’s management of talent, comprehensively improving leading cadres’ capacity for modernization, and forging a high-quality and professionalized cadre contingent and talent contingent can provide organizational guarantees for realizing high-quality development.

高质量党建的核心在人，关键在于队伍。坚持党管干部和党管人才，全面提高领导干部的现代化建设能力，锻造高素质专业化干部队伍和人才队伍，能够为实现高质量发展提供组织保证。

First, we must uphold the correct orientation for selecting and appointing personnel. The actual results of promoting high-quality development should be taken as the yardstick for identifying and using cadres, selecting doers who are adept at implementing the new development philosophy and who dare to take action in areas such as scientific and technological innovation and industrial upgrading. At the same time, attention should be paid to whether Party-building personnel are adept at integrating political requirements into operational work, whether they can effectively play an organizational and mobilizing role in serving the central task and overall situation, so that composite cadres who understand both politics and operations, who can both grasp Party building and promote development, are given important posts. Second, we must strengthen education and study on the correct outlook on political performance. High-quality development requires Party members and cadres to establish a correct outlook on political performance; high-quality Party building can provide value guidance for high-quality development through the positioning of the correct outlook on political performance. Particular emphasis should be placed on strengthening the capacity-building of secretaries of grassroots Party organizations and Party-building instructors, turning them into composite leading talents who understand operations, are good at management, and are adept at coordination, thereby stimulating the endogenous impetus and creative vitality of the entire cadre contingent. Third, we must improve the working mechanism for effectively preventing and correcting deviations in the outlook on political performance. It is necessary to “perfect the assessment and evaluation system that promotes high-quality development,” and to seriously pursue accountability for behaviors that seek short-term conspicuous achievements and engage in “half-baked projects,” forming a long-term binding constraint. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “We must perfect the new system of nationwide resource mobilization under the conditions of the socialist market economy, and give full play to the state’s role as the organizer of major scientific and technological innovation.” [27]27 Xi Jinping, “Speech at the 28th Collective Study Session of the 19th Central Political Bureau of the CPC,” *People’s Daily*, May 29, 2021. [n] Therefore, to give play to the Party’s role as the leader and organizer of high-quality economic development, it is necessary to strengthen systematic competitive forces, and also to perfect the relevant institutional mechanisms for the cultivation, use, evaluation, service, support, and incentivization of scientific and technological talent, effectively resolving structural contradictions such as the fragmentation of innovation resources, the difficulty of transforming scientific and technological achievements, and insufficient innovation impetus, accelerating the building of a strong scientific and technological nation, and continuously injecting innovative momentum into high-quality development. Finally, we must adhere to the combination of strict management and loving care, creating a sound environment of clean and upright conduct and of undertaking endeavors and starting businesses. The political and social environment directly affects the Party’s ability to lead development, among which the role of the business environment is the most direct. “The Global Business Report points out that a good business environment will increase investment by 0.3% and GDP growth rate by 0.36%.” [28]28 The source of this data is not specified in the original text; it likely refers to a World Bank report. [n] Therefore, to realize high-quality Party building leading high-quality development, it is necessary to create a clean and upright political ecosystem, using a fine political ecosystem to boost the ultimate formation of a fair and just rule-of-law environment and a harmonious and stable social environment.

首先，要坚持正确选人用人导向。要将推动高质量发展的实际成效作为识别干部、使用干部的标尺，选出善于贯彻新发展理念、勇于在科技创新、产业升级等领域的实干家。同时，关注党建工作人员是否能够善于将政治要求融入业务工作中，是否能在服务中心大局中有效发挥组织动员作用，让既懂政治又懂业务、既能抓党建又能促发展的复合型干部得到重用。其次，要加强正确政绩观学习教育。高质量发展需要党员干部树立正确的政绩观，高质量党建能够通过正确的政绩观定位为高质量发展提供价值引领。要特别强化对基层党组织书记和党建指导员的能力锻造，使其成为懂业务、会管理、善协调的复合型领导人才，从而激发整个干部队伍的内生动力与创造活力。再次，要健全有效防范和纠治政绩观偏差工作机制。要“完善推动高质量发展的考核评价体系”，对为了短期显绩、搞“半拉子”工程的行为进行严肃追责，形成长效约束。习近平总书记指出：“要健全社会主义市场经济条件下新型举国体制，充分发挥国家作为重大科技创新组织者的作用。”因此，要发挥党作为经济高质量发展的领导者、组织者作用，需要加强体系化竞争力量，也要完善科技人才培养、使用、评价、服务、支持、激励相关制度机制，有效破解创新资源碎片化、科技成果转化难、创新动力不足等结构性矛盾，加快建成科技强国，为高质量发展持续注入创新动能。最后，要坚持严管厚爱相结合，营造风清气正、干事创业的良好环境。政治和社会环境直接影响党领导发展的能力，其中，营商环境的作用最为直接。“全球营商报告指出，良好的营商环境会使投资增加0.3%，GDP增长率增加0.36%。”因此，要实现高质量党建引领高质量发展，必须营造风清气正的政治生态，以优良政治生态助推公平正义的法治环境、和谐稳定的社会环境的最终形成。

High-quality Party building and high-quality development promote each other and rely on each other, becoming an important support for realizing socialist modernization and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Compared with traditional Party-building functions, high-quality Party building has distinct functional orientation and organizational flexibility in the process of leading high-quality development; it should, through a more flexible and networked organizational system, play the functions of value orientation, resource integration, interest coordination, and service guarantee in the dynamically changing development process. In future development practice, we should follow the basic experience that “Party building, as a systematic project, when Party-building work is made concrete, it is productive forces; when it is made strong, it is combat effectiveness; when it is made meticulous, it is cohesion.” [29]29 This is a common formulation in Chinese Party-building discourse, often attributed to grassroots experience, emphasizing that substantive Party-building work directly translates into economic and organizational strength. [n] Through organizational and institutionalized effective channels, high-quality Party building should be deeply embedded in all aspects and the entire process of high-quality development in the process of innovating operational mechanisms and work systems, transforming the advantages of Party-building work into tangible governance and development effectiveness.

高质量党建与高质量发展彼此促进、互为依托，成为实现社会主义现代化和中华民族伟大复兴的重要支撑。相较于传统党建功能，高质量党建在引领高质量发展过程中具有鲜明的功能导向与组织弹性，应该通过更加柔性化、网络化的组织体系在动态变化的发展过程中发挥价值导向、资源整合、利益协调与服务保障功能。在未来的发展实践中，应该遵循“党的建设作为一项系统工程，党建工作做实就是生产力、做强就是战斗力、做细就是凝聚力”这一基本经验。将高质量党建通过组织化和制度化的有效渠道，在运行机制和工作体系创新的过程中深度嵌入到高质量发展各方面全过程，将党建工作优势转化为实实在在的治理和发展效能。