Upholding the Political Responsibility for Party Governance and Strict Party Discipline

Within the scientific system of Xi Jinping's Party-building thought, which is structured around the "Fourteen Persistences," upholding the political responsibility for Party governance and strict Party discipline occupies the position of logical culmination, serving as the ultimate anchor of the entire system and manifesting a clear practical orientation. General Secretary Xi Jinping has emphasized: "To govern the Party strictly, we must strengthen our awareness of Party governance and fulfill our responsibility for Party governance." For the Communist Party of China, a major party with over 100 million members and a long-term governing status, Party governance and strict discipline cannot be relaxed for even a moment. We must firmly grasp the "ox nose" [n1] of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, earnestly enhance our sense of responsibility and mission for Party governance, carry the strict requirements through the entire process of Party governance, and provide a strong guarantee for deepening the great new project of Party building in the New Era.

在习近平党建思想“十四个坚持”的科学体系中，坚持落实管党治党政治责任居于逻辑收束之位，是整个体系的落脚点，彰显了清晰的实践指向。习近平总书记强调：“从严治党，必须增强管党治党意识、落实管党治党责任。”对于中国共产党这样一个拥有1亿多名党员、长期执政的大党来说，管党治党一刻都不能松懈。必须牢牢牵住全面从严治党的“牛鼻子”，切实增强管党治党的责任感使命感，把严的要求贯穿管党治党全过程，为深入推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程提供坚强保障。

It contains a far-reaching consideration that spans from theory to practice, from deployment to implementation.

蕴含从理论到实践、从部署到落实的深远考量

The power of theory lies not only in interpreting the world but also in changing it. Marxism holds that the dynamic process from practice to cognition and then from cognition back to practice is the necessary path for transforming the objective world. The "Fourteen Persistences" of Xi Jinping's Party-building thought, interlocking and logically rigorous, systematically map out the blueprint for Party building in the New Era, and are precisely a vivid embodiment of this dialectical process. The first thirteen Persistences each carry their specific functional positioning: upholding the leadership of the Party is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and upholds the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, serving as the fundamental political guarantee of this ideological system and resolving the basic questions of who leads and how to lead; upholding comprehensive and strict governance of the Party establishes the strategic policy and answers the principled question of how to govern and discipline the Party; upholding the original aspiration and founding mission points to the value orientation and answers the question of what the Communist Party of China is and what it seeks to accomplish. On this basis, the overall layout of Party building unfolds in full, encompassing political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, work-style construction, discipline construction, institutional construction, and the fight against corruption. Political construction leads the direction, ideological construction forges the soul and consolidates the foundation, organizational construction gathers strength and reinforces the base, work-style construction rectifies conduct and shapes behavior, discipline construction delineates the bottom line, institutional construction provides safeguards, and the fight against corruption removes disease and addresses the root causes. Each item points to the specific path of what Party governance and strict discipline must do and how to do it, jointly constituting a systematically complete theoretical matrix. From top-level design to on-the-ground implementation, from knowing what to do to truly accomplishing it, a rigid force is needed to connect and drive the process—and that is responsibility. Upholding the political responsibility for Party governance and strict Party discipline is the fulcrum that transforms theory into practice.

理论的伟力不仅在于解释世界，更在于改造世界。马克思主义认为，从实践到认识、再从认识到实践的能动过程，是改造客观世界的必由之路。习近平党建思想“十四个坚持”，环环相扣、逻辑严密，系统擘画了新时代党的建设的蓝图，正是这一辩证过程的生动体现。前十三个坚持各自承载特定的功能定位：坚持党的领导是中国特色社会主义最本质的特征和坚持党中央集中统一领导，是这一思想体系的根本政治保证，解决了谁来领导和如何领导的基本问题；坚持全面从严治党确立战略方针，回答怎样管党治党的原则问题；坚持不忘初心、牢记使命指明价值归宿，回答中国共产党是什么、要干什么的问题。以此为基础，党的建设整体布局全面铺开，涵盖政治建设、思想建设、组织建设、作风建设、纪律建设、制度建设和反腐败斗争。政治建设统领方向，思想建设铸魂固本，组织建设聚力强基，作风建设正风塑行，纪律建设划出底线，制度建设提供保障，反腐败斗争祛病治本。每一项都指向管党治党要做什么、怎么做的具体路径，共同构成了系统完备的理论矩阵。从顶层设计到落地实施，从知道做什么到真正做到了什么，需要一种刚性力量来衔接和驱动，这就是责任。坚持落实管党治党政治责任，是将理论转化为实践的支点。

Marx said: "Ideas can never lead beyond an old world order but only beyond its ideas. In order to have ideas one needs people who use practical force." [n2] Responsibility is precisely the norm and rigid constraint on those who use practical force. Marx and Engels clearly stated in the *Communist Manifesto* that "in practice, the Communists are the most resolute and always pushing-forward section of the working-class parties of every country," and this advanced nature itself implies an inherent responsibility. Lenin held that "the Party is the vanguard of the proletariat, directly exercising leadership, and is the leader," bearing the major responsibility of leading the state power in carrying out all work. Therefore, the profound theoretical implication of upholding the political responsibility for Party governance and strict Party discipline lies in this: it combines the thought of the classical Marxist writers with the practical exploration of the Communist Party of China in governing and disciplining the Party, strengthening and rejuvenating the Party, and transforms the theoretical deployments of the first thirteen Persistences into a responsibility system that is operable, verifiable, and accountable, making the "Fourteen Persistences" an organic whole that unifies knowledge and action and operates as a closed loop.

马克思说：“思想本身根本不能实现什么东西。思想要得到实现，就要有使用实践力量的人。”责任，就是对使用实践力量的人的规范与刚性约束。马克思、恩格斯在《共产党宣言》中明确指出“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”，这种先进性本身就意味着一种与生俱来的责任。列宁认为“党是直接执政的无产阶级先锋队，是领导者”，担负着领导国家政权开展各项工作的重大责任。因此，坚持落实管党治党政治责任，其深刻的理论意涵在于：它将马克思主义经典作家的思想与中国共产党管党治党、兴党强党实践探索相结合，将前十三个坚持的理论部署落为可操作、可检验、可追究的责任体系，使得“十四个坚持”成为知行合一、闭环运行的有机整体。

The mechanisms for implementing the political responsibility for Party governance and strict Party discipline

管党治党政治责任落实的机制

In the second volume of *Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building*, in the article "Improving the System for Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party," General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: "With responsibility subjects in place, responsibility requirements in place, and assessment and accountability in place, we can push the implementation of responsibility for Party governance to be fully in place." Implementing the political responsibility for Party governance and strict Party discipline must rely on a scientifically complete operational mechanism. Through the three mechanisms of pressure transmission, rigid constraint, and systematic integration of responsibility, institutional norms are transformed into the concrete actions of Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres.

在《习近平党建文选》第二卷《健全全面从严治党体系》中，习近平总书记指出：“以责任主体到位、责任要求到位、考核问责到位，推动管党治党责任落实到位。”落实管党治党政治责任，必须依托一套科学完备的运行机制，通过责任的压力传导、刚性约束与系统整合三重机制，将制度规范转化为各级党组织和党员干部的具体行动。

The pressure transmission mechanism ensures the smooth flow of orders from the Party Central Committee. The system for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is vast, covering all organizational units from the central level to the grassroots. Without an effective transmission mechanism, the phenomenon of pressure diminishing is highly likely to occur. Through institutional designs such as primary responsibility and the "dual responsibility for one post" [n3], the responsibility system constructs a top-down, through-to-the-end pressure transmission chain. The Party Central Committee transmits pressure downward through top-level design, political inspections, and special supervision, while local Party organizations at all levels feed back their performance of responsibility upward through request-for-instructions and reporting, and through accountability reports and integrity self-assessments. This two-way interactive transmission mechanism ensures that the orders of the Party Central Committee can reach the "nerve endings" of grassroots organizations smoothly, enabling various decisions and deployments to take effect at the grassroots level.

压力传导机制确保党中央政令畅通。全面从严治党体系庞大，涵盖中央到基层的各组织单元。如果缺乏有效的传导机制，极易出现压力递减现象。责任体系通过主体责任和“一岗双责”等制度设计，构建了一条自上而下、贯通到底的压力传导链。党中央通过顶层设计、政治巡视、专项督查等方式向下传导压力，地方各级党组织则通过请示报告、述责述廉等方式向上反馈履责情况。这种双向互动的传导机制，确保了党中央的政令能够通畅到达基层组织的“神经末梢”，使各项决策部署在基层落地见效。

The rigid constraint mechanism drives responsibility subjects to take on their duties and fulfill them. For a period of time, Party governance and strict discipline faced the difficulty of too many soft constraints and too few hard handles. In the first volume of *Selected Works of Xi Jinping on Party Building*, in the article "Exploring the Characteristics and Laws of Strict Party Governance in the New Situation," General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: "If responsibility is not clarified, not implemented, and not pursued, strict Party governance cannot be achieved." Through the sharp instrument of accountability, the responsibility system constructs a powerful constraint mechanism. By improving accountability regulations and standardizing accountability procedures, serious accountability is pursued against localities, departments, and units where Party governance and strict discipline are ineffective and where the intra-Party political ecosystem has deteriorated. This rigid constraint of "where there is dereliction of duty, there must be questioning; where there is questioning, there must be strictness" thoroughly breaks the long-standing malpractice of "doing well or doing poorly amounts to the same," transforming past soft exhortations into an unapproachable electrified high-voltage line, and pushing responsibility subjects at all levels to act proactively and take on their duties.

刚性约束机制推动责任主体担当尽责。一个时期以来，管党治党面临软约束过多而硬抓手不足的难题。在《习近平党建文选》第一卷《探索新形势下从严治党的特点和规律》中，习近平总书记强调：“不明确责任，不落实责任，不追究责任，从严治党是做不到的。”责任体系通过问责这一利器，构建了强有力的约束机制。通过健全问责条例、规范问责程序，对管党治党不力、党内政治生态恶化的地方、部门、单位严肃追责。这种失责必问、问责必严的刚性约束，彻底打破了干好干坏一个样的积弊，将过去的柔性号召转变为不可触碰的带电高压线，推动各级责任主体主动作为、担当尽责。

The systematic integration mechanism forms a governance pattern of coordinated synergy. Party building is a systematic project involving multiple functional departments, including discipline inspection, organization, propaganda, and united front work. Without effective integration, a situation of fighting separately and singly would arise, or even overlapping or blank work. By strengthening the primary responsibility of Party committees (Party groups), all forces are integrated under the unified leadership of the Party. The secretary of the Party committee (Party group), as the first responsible person, plays a coordinating and overall-planning role, twisting all aspects into a single rope and planning and advancing various tasks as a whole. The supervisory responsibility of the discipline inspection commission serves as an important guarantee, assisting the Party committee in advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and conducting supervision and inspection of the performance of responsibility. It can be said that the systematic integration mechanism breaks down departmental barriers, moving Party governance and strict discipline from "piecemeal efforts" to "systematic integration," forming a governance pattern of coordinated synergy in which the Party committee provides unified leadership, departments perform their respective duties, and the discipline inspection commission supervises and enforces discipline.

系统整合机制形成协同发力治理格局。党的建设是一项系统工程，涉及纪检、组织、宣传、统战等多个职能部门。如果缺乏有效整合，就会出现各自为战、单打独斗的局面，甚至产生工作重叠或空白。通过强化党委（党组）的主体责任，将各方力量整合到党的统一领导之下。党委（党组）书记作为第一责任人，发挥统筹协调作用，将各方面拧成一股绳，一体谋划、推进各项任务。纪委的监督责任则作为重要保障，协助党委推进全面从严治党，并对履责情况进行监督检查。可以说，系统整合机制打破了部门壁垒，使得管党治党从“零敲碎打”走向“系统集成”，形成了党委统一领导、部门各司其职、纪委监督执纪的协同发力的治理格局。

The key to implementing the political responsibility for Party governance and strict Party discipline lies in clarifying responsibility and compacting responsibility

落实管党治党政治责任关键在明确责任、压实责任

General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasizes: "Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is the common responsibility of the entire Party. We must establish and improve the responsibility system by layer and by category, and through clarifying responsibility and compacting responsibility, push Party organizations at all levels and the broad masses of Party members and cadres to know their responsibility, take on their responsibility, and fulfill their responsibility." The key to implementing the political responsibility for Party governance and strict Party discipline lies in clarifying responsibility and compacting responsibility. By constructing a closed-loop system of knowing responsibility, taking on responsibility, fulfilling responsibility, and pursuing accountability, we ensure that responsibility links are interlocked, push the implementation of the political responsibility for Party governance and strict Party discipline to land and take effect, and realize the transformation of Party governance and strict discipline from institutional design to governance effectiveness.

习近平总书记强调：“全面从严治党是全党的共同责任，必须分层分类建立健全责任体系，以明确责任、压实责任推动各级党组织和广大党员、干部知责、担责、履责。”落实管党治党政治责任，关键在明确责任、压实责任，通过构建知责、担责、履责、问责的闭环体系，确保责任环环相扣，推动管党治党政治责任落实落地，实现管党治党从制度设计向治理效能的转化。

Knowing responsibility is the premise for fulfilling responsibility, aimed at clarifying the boundaries of responsibility. For a period of time, some Party organizations and Party members and cadres had an unclear understanding and imprecise definition of the Party-building responsibilities they bore. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee has constructed a responsibility system with clear subjects and clear requirements through the formulation and revision of a series of intra-Party regulations. It has clarified the specific connotations and task boundaries of the primary responsibility of Party committees (Party groups), the supervisory responsibility of discipline inspection commissions, the first-responsible-person responsibility of secretaries, and the "dual responsibility for one post" of leading group members, so that every responsibility subject clearly knows what to do and what responsibility to bear, laying a solid foundation for taking on and fulfilling responsibility.

知责是履责的前提，旨在厘清责任边界。一个时期以来，一些党组织和党员干部对自身承担的党建责任认识不清、界定不准。党的十八大以来，党中央通过制定和修订一系列党内法规，构建起主体明确、要求清晰的责任体系。明确党委（党组）的主体责任、纪委监督责任、书记第一责任人责任以及班子成员“一岗双责”的具体内涵和任务边界，使得每一个责任主体都清楚要干什么、要负什么责，为担责、履责奠定坚实基础。

The key to assuming responsibility lies in strengthening political commitment. Once responsibility is defined, it cannot remain merely on paper or in words. General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed: “Party organizations at all levels and all Party members and cadres must truly regard the fulfillment of the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly as their most fundamental political commitment.” This requires leading cadres at all levels, especially “top officials,” to firmly establish the principle that “doing Party building well is one’s proper duty, failing to do Party building is dereliction of duty, and doing Party building poorly is incompetence,” treating Party building as an integral part of their work and a responsibility they must bear. Assuming responsibility requires leading cadres to be strict with themselves, strictly fulfill their own duties, and strictly manage their areas of jurisdiction—daring to take a clear stand on major issues of principle, daring to rise to challenges in the face of contradictions and difficulties, and daring to wage resolute struggle against unhealthy tendencies and malpractices. Only when the “key minority” carries responsibility on their shoulders and in their hands can a leading-geese effect take shape, driving the entire Party organization to form a sound political ecosystem in which everyone assumes responsibility and every level fulfills its duty.

担责的关键在于强化政治担当。责任一旦明确，便不能仅停留于纸面或口头。习近平总书记强调：“各级党组织和全体党员、干部要真正把落实管党治党政治责任作为最根本的政治担当”。这就要求各级领导干部特别是“一把手”，牢固树立“抓好党建是本职、不抓党建是失职、抓不好党建是不称职”的理念，把抓好党建当作分内之事、必须担当之责。担责要求领导干部严于律己、严负其责、严管所辖，面对大是大非敢于亮剑，面对矛盾困难敢于迎难而上，面对歪风邪气敢于坚决斗争。只有“关键少数”把责任扛在肩上、抓在手上，才能形成头雁效应，带动整个党组织形成人人担责、层层尽责的良好政治生态。

The focus of fulfilling responsibility lies in integrating the implementation of responsibility into daily work and making it a regular practice. The process of fulfilling responsibility is the process of translating responsibility requirements into concrete work measures. Fulfilling responsibility requires solving the problem of “two separate skins” between Party building and professional work, insisting that Party building and professional work be planned together, deployed together, advanced together, and assessed together. At the same time, through regular mechanisms such as political ecosystem analysis and assessment, heart-to-heart talks, supervision and inspection, and reports on work and integrity, problems of an incipient or tendentious nature must be discovered and corrected in a timely manner. A scientific assessment and evaluation system serves as the “baton” for testing the effectiveness of responsibility fulfillment, ensuring that responsibility is implemented in practice and produces tangible results.

履责的重心在于将责任落实融入日常、抓在经常。履责的过程，就是把责任要求转化为具体工作举措的过程。履责要求破解党建与业务“两张皮”的问题，坚持党建工作与业务工作同谋划、同部署、同推进、同考核。同时，要通过常态化的政治生态分析研判、谈心谈话、监督检查、述责述廉等机制，及时发现和纠正苗头性、倾向性问题。科学的考核评价体系，则是检验履责成效的“指挥棒”，确保责任落到实处、见到实效。

Accountability is the line of defense ensuring the implementation of responsibility. Where there is power, there must be responsibility; where there is responsibility, there must be commitment; where there is dereliction, there must be accountability. General Secretary Xi Jinping has stressed: “Hold fast to the word ‘responsibility’ and grasp the key link of ‘accountability.’” For localities, departments, and units where problems occur—such as the failure of the Party’s leadership role to function, deviations in implementing the Party’s line, principles, and policies, lax and insincere governance of the Party, or errors in selecting and appointing personnel—responsibility must be pursued, including not only primary responsibility and supervisory responsibility but also leadership responsibility. At the same time, accountability must be precise and standardized, preventing its overextension and oversimplification. It must carry both force and warmth. Through precise accountability, the effect of “holding one person accountable and alerting an entire area” can be achieved, thereby reinforcing the seriousness of knowing, assuming, and fulfilling responsibility.

问责是保障责任落实的防线。有权必有责、有责要担当、失责必追究。习近平总书记强调：“紧紧咬住‘责任’二字，抓住‘问责’这个要害”。对于发生了党的领导作用不发挥、贯彻党的路线方针政策走样、管党治党不严不实、选人用人失察等问题的地方、部门、单位，就要追究责任，既追究主体责任、监督责任，也追究领导责任。同时，问责要精准规范，防止问责泛化、简单化，既要问出力度，也要问出温度，通过精准问责，达到问责一个、警醒一片的效果，从而强化知责、担责、履责的严肃性。

The above four links are interlocked and indispensable, forming a rigorous logical closed loop. The essence of this operational mechanism lies in managing power through institutions, handling affairs according to institutions, and managing personnel through institutions, promoting the normalization and institutionalization of fulfilling the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly, and transforming it into the governance effectiveness of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. The political responsibility emphasized by our Party is fundamentally different from the responsibility mechanisms in Western public governance theory. Under Western public governance theory, responsibility is often dispersed legal and contractual responsibility. Our Party’s political responsibility, by contrast, is a centralized and unified responsibility for the fundamental interests of the people, reflecting the notable advantages of the system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

以上四个环节环环相扣、缺一不可，构成一个严密的逻辑闭环。这一运行机制的本质在于靠制度管权、按制度办事、用制度管人，推动落实管党治党政治责任常态化、制度化，并转化为全面从严治党的治理效能。我们党强调的这种政治责任，与西方公共治理理论中的责任机制存在本质区别。西方公共治理理论下的责任往往是分散的法律性、契约性责任。我们党的政治责任，则是集中统一的、对人民根本利益负责的责任，体现了中国特色社会主义制度的显著优势。

Further tightening and consolidating the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly

进一步压紧压实管党治党政治责任

The “four tests” and “four dangers” facing our Party will exist for a long time to come, and it is necessary to further tighten and consolidate the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly, implementing the requirements of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party throughout the entire process of Party building. General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered an important speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and, standing at a new historical juncture, put forward the clear requirements of the “three mores” for deepening comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, namely, “implement the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee more resolutely and forcefully, confine power within the cage of institutions more scientifically and effectively, and advance the fight against corruption more soberly and steadfastly.” The “three mores” point the direction for further tightening and consolidating the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly, and define its new connotations for the times.

我们党面临的“四大考验”“四种危险”长期存在，必须进一步压紧压实管党治党政治责任，把全面从严治党的要求落实到党的建设全过程。习近平总书记在二十届中央纪委五次全会上发表重要讲话，站在新的历史方位，对深入推进全面从严治党提出了“三个更加”的明确要求，即“更加坚决有力地贯彻落实党中央重大决策部署，更加科学有效地把权力关进制度笼子，更加清醒坚定地推进反腐败斗争”。“三个更加”为进一步压紧压实管党治党政治责任指明了方向，明确了新的时代内涵。

Implementing the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee more resolutely and forcefully is a higher requirement for fulfilling the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly. Whether responsibility is truly implemented ultimately depends on action and results. This requires Party organizations at all levels and leading cadres to continuously improve their political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, ensuring that the major decisions and arrangements of the Party Central Committee are implemented fully and without compromise, and absolutely forbidding any selective implementation, alteration, or discounting in the course of execution. Confining power within the cage of institutions more scientifically and effectively is a deeper extension of fulfilling the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly. The implementation of responsibility depends on institutions. Confining power within the cage of institutions is itself an important part of the primary responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly. This requires advancing institutional development in the spirit of reform, continuously improving the Party and state supervision systems, making institutions dense without being cumbersome and effective in practice, strengthening the restraint and supervision over the exercise of power, and especially strengthening supervision over “top officials” and leading groups, so that power operates in the sunlight and the soil for breeding corruption is eradicated at its source. Advancing the fight against corruption more soberly and steadfastly is a stronger commitment to fulfilling the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly. The fight against corruption is a “hard bone” that must be gnawed through in governing the Party comprehensively and strictly, and a major political struggle that cannot be lost and must never be lost. Maintaining sobriety and steadfastness means deeply recognizing the long-term, complex, and arduous nature of the fight against corruption, and maintaining the tenacity and perseverance of “always being on the road.” Advance in an integrated manner the efforts to ensure that officials do not dare to be corrupt, cannot be corrupt, and do not want to be corrupt, and resolutely win this tough, protracted, and overall battle.

更加坚决有力地贯彻落实党中央重大决策部署，是对落实管党治党政治责任的更高要求。检验责任是否落实，最终要看行动、看效果。这就要求各级党组织和领导干部不断提高政治判断力、政治领悟力、政治执行力，确保党中央重大决策部署不折不扣落到实处，决不允许在贯彻执行中做选择、搞变通、打折扣。更加科学有效地把权力关进制度笼子，是对落实管党治党政治责任的更深拓展。责任的落实，要靠制度。将权力关进制度的笼子，本身就是管党治党主体责任的重要内容。这要求以改革精神推进制度建设，持续健全党和国家监督体系，使制度密而不繁、有效管用，强化对权力运行的制约和监督，特别是要加强对“一把手”和领导班子的监督，让权力在阳光下运行，从源头上铲除腐败滋生的土壤。更加清醒坚定地推进反腐败斗争，是对落实管党治党政治责任的更强担当。反腐败斗争是管党治党必须啃下的“硬骨头”，是一场输不起也决不能输的重大政治斗争。保持清醒坚定，意味着必须深刻认识反腐败斗争的长期性、复杂性、艰巨性，保持“永远在路上”的坚韧和执着。一体推进不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐，坚决打赢这场攻坚战、持久战、总体战。

General Secretary Xi Jinping has cautioned the entire Party: “The Party’s governing status and leadership status will not be maintained naturally and automatically over the long term; if the Party is not governed and Party building is not pursued, problems may arise, or even major problems.” Only a Party that has weathered storms without changing its original aspiration can enjoy enduring vitality; only a Party that has forged brilliance and still dares to engage in self-revolution can be invincible. Looking back over the Party’s more than one hundred years of struggle, whenever the responsibility for governing the Party was grasped tightly and implemented solidly, Party building was strong and effective and the Party’s cause flourished; whenever responsibility loosened and implementation deviated, Party building went astray and the Party’s cause suffered setbacks. Marxist party-building theory holds that a proletarian party is distinguished from all other party organizations by its rigorous organizational system and iron discipline, and this advanced nature can only be maintained through continuous self-forging. The political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly, as the fulcrum connecting the theory and practice of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, both manifests theoretical strength and activates practical momentum. Upholding the political responsibility for governing the Party comprehensively and strictly, enhancing the overall effectiveness of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party through the full implementation of responsibility, ensures that the Communist Party of China always remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, guiding Chinese-path modernization steadily and far.

习近平总书记告诫全党：“党的执政地位和领导地位并不是自然而然就能长期保持下去的，不管党、不抓党就有可能出问题甚至出大问题”。一个饱经沧桑而初心不改的党，才能基业常青；一个铸就辉煌仍勇于自我革命的党，才能无坚不摧。回顾党的百余年奋斗历程，什么时候管党治党责任抓得紧、落得实，党的建设就坚强有力，党的事业就蓬勃发展；什么时候责任松动、落实走样，党的建设就会出现偏差，党的事业就会遭遇挫折。马克思主义建党学说认为，无产阶级政党以其严密的组织体系和铁的纪律而区别于其他一切政党组织，这种先进性只有在持续的自我锻造中才能得以保持。管党治党政治责任，作为连接全面从严治党理论与实践的支点，既彰显了理论力量，又激活了实践动能。坚持落实管党治党政治责任，以责任的全面落实增强全面从严治党的整体效能，确保中国共产党始终成为中国特色社会主义事业的坚强领导核心，引领中国式现代化行稳致远。

(The author is a professor at Nanjing University)

（作者为南京大学教授）