The Internal Logic and Realization Path of the Two "Always on the Road"

The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC clearly states, "Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is always on the road, and the Party's self-revolution is always on the road. There must be no slackening, no resting on our laurels, no fatigue or war-weariness. We must unswervingly advance comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, deeply advance the great new project of Party building in the New Era, and lead social revolution through the Party's self-revolution." Since the 18th National Congress of the

党的二十大报告明确指出，“全面从严治党永远在路上，党的自我革命永远在路上，决不能有松劲歇脚、疲劳厌战的情绪，必须持之以恒推进全面从严治党，深入推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程，以党的自我革命引领社会革命”。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记着眼于新时代新征程新方位党的使命和任务，着眼于党所面临的考验和挑战，着眼于解决大党独有难题的清醒和坚定，提出两个“永远在路上”的重要论断，为落实新时代党的建设总要求指明了前进方向，对于我们深入推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程，全面建设社会主义现代化国家和推进中华民族伟大复兴，具有十分重要的意义。

I. Deeply Grasping the Internal Logical Relationship of the Two "Always on the Road"

一、深刻把握两个“永远在路上”的内在逻辑关系

(1) The Party's self-revolution is the theoretical foundation of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. When Marx and Engels drafted the first programmatic document of scientific socialism, the *Communist Manifesto*, they clearly pointed out: Communists "have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole," and "they do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement." This indicates the genuine revolutionary character displayed by the proletariat at various stages of its struggle against the bourgeoisie. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has persisted in carrying out self-revolution, resolutely struggling against all issues that affect the Party's advanced nature and weaken its purity. It always conducts self-revolution based on the tasks of different periods and the prominent problems within the Party. During the New Democratic Revolution period, the Party actively carried out self-revolution around issues such as the political line and ideological and organizational impurity. From the August 7th Meeting, the Gutian Meeting, to the Zunyi Meeting, and then to the Yan'an Rectification Movement, the Party, with the spirit of self-revolution, proactively corrected mistakes, summed up experience, improved itself, and moved towards victory. During the period of socialist revolution and construction, the Party launched the "Three-Anti" and "Five-Anti" campaigns in national construction and resolutely struggled against counter-revolutionary cliques. During the new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, the Party proactively faced problems, turned its blade inward to solve them, actively promoted reform from rural to urban areas, and continuously improved the quality of Party building under new historical conditions. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has continuously deepened its understanding of the laws governing the building of a ruling party. In the great practice of promoting comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, it has continuously advanced the strategic thought of the Party's self-revolution. The report of the 19th National Congress of the CPC pointed out: "Having the courage to carry out self-revolution and strictly governing the Party is the most distinctive quality of our Party." At the celebration of the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Having the courage to carry out self-revolution is a significant hallmark that distinguishes the Communist Party of China from other political parties." The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC emphasized: "Through unremitting efforts, the Party has found a second answer to the question of how to escape the historical cycle of rise and fall—self-revolution. The Party's ability to purify, improve, reform, and enhance itself has been significantly strengthened. The lax and soft state of Party governance has been fundamentally reversed. A clean and upright political ecosystem within the Party is continuously being formed and developed, ensuring that the Party never changes its nature, color, or flavor." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important expositions on the Party's self-revolution systematically elaborate on the significance, basic ideas, content system, and scientific methods of promoting self-revolution in the New Era, providing fundamental guidance for advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and opening up a new realm of the Party's self-revolution.

（一）党的自我革命是全面从严治党的理论根基。马克思和恩格斯在起草科学社会主义的第一个纲领性文献《共产党宣言》时就明确指出：共产党人“没有任何同整个无产阶级的利益不同的利益”，“他们不提出任何特殊的原则，用以塑造无产阶级的运动”，这指明了无产阶级在反对资产阶级斗争的各个阶段所表现出的真正的革命性。中国共产党自成立之日起，就坚持进行自我革命，坚决同一切影响党的先进性、弱化党的纯洁性的问题作斗争，总是根据不同时期的任务、党内存在的突出问题来进行自我革命。新民主主义革命时期，党围绕政治路线问题、组织思想不纯等问题进行了积极的自我革命，从八七会议、古田会议到遵义会议再到延安整风，党以自我革命精神主动纠正错误、总结经验、完善自身、走向胜利。社会主义革命和建设时期，党又在国家建设中开展了“三反”“五反”运动，并同反革命集团等进行了坚决斗争。改革开放和社会主义现代化建设新时期，党主动直面问题，刀刃向内解决问题，从农村到城市积极推行改革，在新的历史条件下不断提升党的建设质量。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央不断深化对执政党建设规律的认识，在推进全面从严治党的伟大实践中，不断将党的自我革命战略思想推向前进。党的十九大报告指出：“勇于自我革命，从严管党治党，是我们党最鲜明的品格”。在庆祝中国共产党成立一百周年大会上，习近平总书记指出：“勇于自我革命是中国共产党区别于其他政党的显著标志”。党的二十大报告强调指出：“经过不懈努力，党找到了自我革命这一跳出治乱兴衰历史周期率的第二个答案，自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高能力显著增强，管党治党宽松软状况得到根本扭转，风清气正的党内政治生态不断形成和发展，确保党永远不变质、不变色、不变味”。习近平总书记关于党的自我革命的重要论述，集中阐述了新时代推进自我革命的重要意义、基本思想、内容体系和科学方法，为推进全面从严治党、开辟党的自我革命新境界提供了根本遵循。

(2) Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is the great practice of the Party's self-revolution in the New Era. In January 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in his speech at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection: "Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is the great practice of the Party's self-revolution in the New Era, opening up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major party." In the New Era, how to solve the Party's own problems, continue to forge the Party into a strong leading core, and enable it to have sufficient capability and energy to lead the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics to greater victories—the issue of governing and managing the Party is of the utmost importance. It concerns the fundamental interests of the country, the nation, and the people, as well as the future and destiny of the Party. This inevitably requires our Party to display the revolutionary spirit of a Marxist political party, always maintaining the consciousness to face problems and the courage to turn the blade inward. Facing major risk tests and prominent problems within the Party, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has repeatedly emphasized that "handling China's affairs well depends on the Party, and on the Party governing and strictly governing the Party." It has incorporated comprehensive and strict governance of the Party into the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy, integrated it into all aspects of Party building, and used its rich connotations to interpret the inherent requirements of self-revolution. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized on various occasions the need to maintain close ties with the masses, maintain and develop the Party's advanced nature and purity, never relax Party governance, adhere to bottom-line thinking, improve the quality of Party members and cadres, strengthen the functions of Party organizations, apply strict requirements throughout the entire process of Party governance, ensure that the blacksmith himself is strong, prioritize discipline, prevent the spread of corruption, never relax in solving the Party's own problems, recognize that the Party has no special interests of its own, ensure the Party is never complacent or slack, resolutely oppose privileges, and adhere to a problem-oriented approach, among other things. This series of new ideas, viewpoints, and judgments are major achievements that deeply grasp the practice of Party building in the New Era, scientifically apply Marxist party-building theory, continuously summarize the experiences and lessons of the Party's self-revolution and the laws of communist party governance, and enrich the Party's revolutionary theory. They possess significant contemporary value and implications. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has comprehensively and strictly governed the Party with immense courage and resolve, adhering to strict standards, strict measures, and a strict atmosphere, strengthening supervision, discipline enforcement, and accountability, and focusing on the "key minority." The Party has become stronger through revolutionary tempering. With the determination to use strong medicine to cure the disease and severe punishment to bring order, and the courage to scrape the poison off the bone and cut off the wrist, it has unswervingly "cracked down on tigers," "swatted flies," and "hunted foxes." Starting with the Eight-Point Regulations, it has curbed unhealthy tendencies that had persisted for years, solved many deep-seated problems that had long remained unresolved, and eliminated serious hidden dangers within the Party, the state, and the military. Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party has achieved historic and groundbreaking accomplishments, producing comprehensive and profound impacts. This great practice of the Party's self-revolution in the New Era has opened up a new realm of self-revolution for a century-old major party.

（二）全面从严治党是新时代党的自我革命的伟大实践。2022年1月，习近平总书记在十九届中央纪委六次全会上讲话时指出：“全面从严治党是新时代党的自我革命的伟大实践，开辟了百年大党自我革命的新境界。”新时代，如何解决好党自身的问题，把党继续锻造成坚强的领导核心，使其能够有足够的能力和能量引领中国特色社会主义事业取得更大的胜利，管党治党这一党的建设问题关系最大，关乎国家、民族和人民的根本利益，也关乎党的前途命运。这就必然需要我们党拿出马克思主义政党的革命精神，始终保持正视问题的自觉和刀刃向内的勇气。以习近平同志为核心的党中央，面对重大风险考验和党内存在的突出问题，多次强调“办好中国的事情，关键在党，关键在党要管党、全面从严治党”，并把全面从严治党纳入“四个全面”战略布局，把全面从严治党贯穿于党的建设各方面，以其丰富内涵诠释了自我革命的内在要求。习近平总书记更是多次在不同场合强调，要保持同人民群众的血肉联系、保持和发展党的先进性和纯洁性、管党治党一刻不能松懈、坚持底线思维、提高党员干部素质、增强党组织功能、把严的要求贯穿管党治党全过程、打铁必需自身硬、坚持把纪律挺在前面、防止腐败蔓延、一刻不放松地解决自身存在的问题、党没有自己的特殊利益、党要永不自满永不懈怠、坚决反对特权、坚持问题导向，等等。这一系列新思想、新观点、新论断，都是深刻把握在新时代党的建设实践的基础之上，科学运用马克思主义建党学说，不断总结党的自我革命经验教训和共产党执政规律，丰富党的革命理论的重大成果，具有重大的时代价值和意蕴。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央以巨大的勇气和定力全面从严治党，坚持严的基调严的措施严的氛围，强化监督执纪问责，抓住“关键少数”，党在革命性锻造中更加坚强；以猛药去疴、重典治乱的决心，以刮骨疗毒、壮士断腕的勇气，坚定不移“打虎”“拍蝇”“猎狐”；以八项规定开局破题，刹住了一些多年未刹住的歪风邪气，解决了许多长期没有解决的顽瘴痼疾，消除了党、国家、军队内部存在的严重隐患。全面从严治党取得了历史性、开创性成就，产生了全方位、深层次影响，全面从严治党这一新时代党的自我革命伟大实践，开辟了百年大党自我革命的新境界。

II. Deeply Understanding the Significant Historical Significance of the Two "Always on the Road"

二、深入领会两个“永远在路上”的重大历史意义

(1) The two "Always on the Road" clarify the general requirements of the great project of Party building in the New Era. To advance the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics into an irreversible historical process and to promote the great project of Party building in the New Era, the Communist Party of China is the core, the key, and the important guarantee. The two are dialectically unified: the realization of the great cause requires the guarantee function of the great project, and the construction of the great project is integrated into the historical process of the great cause, serving its development and realization. The great project of Party building in the New Era requires the ruling party to maintain a positive, healthy, continuously upward, responsible, and vigorous posture, physique, and energy; to possess the governing capability and level to govern and manage the Party and solve the unique problems of governing a major party; and to be able to continuously think deeply, maintain a clear head, and recognize complex situations. The two "Always on the Road" adhere to strict, tight, and firm Party governance, with the sobriety and determination of always being on the road of examination, persistently and unremittingly grasping the task. They align with the general requirements of the great project of Party building in the New Era, ensuring that our Party forever maintains its combat effectiveness, cohesion, and leading power in the process of advancing the great cause.

（一）两个“永远在路上”明确了新时代党的建设新的伟大工程的总要求。推进中国特色社会主义伟大事业进入不可逆转的历史进程，推动新时代党的建设伟大工程，中国共产党是核心，是关键，是重要保证。二者是辩证统一的关系，伟大事业的实现需要伟大工程的保障作用，伟大工程的建设统揽于伟大事业的历史进程中，且服务于伟大事业的发展和实现。新时代党的建设新的伟大工程要求执政党务必保持积极健康、持续向上、担当作为、踔厉奋发的姿态、肌体和能量，拥有管党治党和解决大党治理独有难题的执政能力和执政水平，能够持续深入思考、保持清醒头脑和认清复杂形势。两个“永远在路上”坚持管党治党严紧硬，以永远走在赶考路上的清醒和坚定，常抓不懈、紧抓不放，契合了新时代党的建设新的伟大工程的总要求，使得我们党在推进伟大事业进程中永葆战斗力、凝聚力和引领力。

(2) The two “always on the road” manifest the original aspiration and founding mission and the sense of responsibility of Chinese Communists. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has taken seeking happiness for the Chinese people and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its original aspiration and founding mission. For over a hundred years, the original aspiration has remained unchanged and the mission remains the same; the interests of the people and the future of the nation have always been a weighty presence in the heart of our Party, and are also the endogenous force and source of motivation for our Party to carry forward the cause and forge ahead into the future, to blaze new trails and innovate, and to continuously advance from victory to victory. Precisely because it is deeply aware of the heavy responsibilities it bears, and because the governing environment is so complex, our Party absolutely does not permit the long-term existence within it of prominent problems such as impurity in thought, impurity in organization, and impurity in work style that affect its advanced nature and purity. The scientific thesis of the two “always on the road” has clarified the requirements, pointed the direction, and provided guarantees for taking Party building as the guide for all work, ensuring that the Party does not change its nature, its color, or its flavor, and forever maintaining the true character of a Marxist governing party.

（二）两个“永远在路上”彰显了中国共产党人的初心使命和担当责任。中国共产党自成立以来就把为中国人民谋幸福、为中华民族谋复兴作为自己的初心使命，百余年来，初心不变、使命依旧，人民的利益和民族的未来始终是我们党心中沉甸甸的存在，也是我们党继往开来、开拓创新、不断从胜利走向胜利的内生力量和动力源泉。正因为深知自身肩负重任，执政环境又是如此复杂，我们党决不允许内部长期存在思想不纯、组织不纯、作风不纯等影响其先进性和纯洁性的突出问题。两个“永远在路上”科学论断的提出，为把党的建设作为一切工作的统领，确保党不变质、不变色、不变味，永葆马克思主义执政党本色，明确了要求、指明了方向、提供了保障。

(3) The two “always on the road” reveal the endogenous driving force of a century-old Party in its prime. Over the past hundred years, the Communist Party of China has led the Chinese people in bloody struggles, unyielding efforts, self-reliance, determined endeavor, self-confidence and self-reliance, upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground; it has promoted the great founding spirit of the Party, carried forward the spirit of struggle, adhered to correct historical materialism and the correct view of Party history, and created the great achievements of the new-democratic revolution, socialist revolution and construction, reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and socialism with Chinese characteristics for a New Era, composing a magnificent and grand epic. As a Marxist political party with a strong sense of urgency and crisis awareness, while achieving great successes, we are also deeply aware that there still exist factors and problems within the Party in political, ideological, study, work, and work style construction that endanger its ruling position, some of which are quite serious. In January 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in a speech at the seminar on studying and implementing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era and the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the CPC for newly elected members and alternate members of the Central Committee and leading cadres at the provincial and ministerial level: “After the First Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee, when I met Chinese and foreign journalists, I said that the Communist Party of China is dedicated to the eternal cause of the Chinese nation, and that a century-old Party is just in its prime. At the same time, when I said this, I also had a deep sense of urgency. After a political power is established, it is very difficult to maintain prosperity, stability, and long-term peace. If we do not engage in self-reflection, remain vigilant, and make efforts, even the most powerful political power could end up on a dead-end road.” The two “always on the road” are strategic thoughts and strategic deployments put forward in the practical exploration of governing and managing the Party over the extraordinary century-long course. A century of braving wind and rain, a century of being tempered into steel, a century of being in its prime—none of this is separable from the Party’s revolutionary forging of itself; this is the genetic code and endogenous driving force that makes the Communist Party of China stronger, more capable, and more vibrant.

（三）两个“永远在路上”揭示了百年大党风华正茂的内生动力。一百年来，中国共产党带领中国人民浴血奋战、百折不挠、自力更生、发愤图强、自信自强、守正创新，弘扬伟大建党精神，发扬斗争精神，坚持正确的唯物史观和党史观，创造了新民主主义革命、社会主义革命和建设、改革开放和社会主义现代化建设、新时代中国特色社会主义的伟大成就，谱写了一部气壮山河、恢弘磅礴的伟大史诗。作为一个极具忧患意识和危机意识的马克思主义政党，在取得巨大成就的同时，我们也深知党内政治、思想、学习、工作、作风建设等方面仍存在危及执政地位的因素和问题，有些还很严重。2018年1月，习近平总书记在新进中央委员会的委员、候补委员和省部级主要领导干部学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想和党的十九大精神研讨班上讲话时指出：“党的十九届一中全会后我见中外记者时说，中国共产党立志于中华民族千秋伟业，百年恰是风华正茂。同时，我讲这个话时也是有深深的忧患意识的。一个政权建立起来后，要保持兴旺发达、长治久安是很不容易的。如果不自省、不警惕、不努力，再强大的政权都可能走到穷途末路。”两个“永远在路上”是对百年非凡历程中治党管党的实践探索中提出的战略思想和战略部署，百年栉风沐雨、百年淬火成钢、百年风华正茂，都离不开党对自身的革命性锻造，这是中国共产党更加坚强有力和充满活力的基因密码和内生动力。

III. The Realization Path of the Two “Always on the Road”

三、两个“永远在路上”的实现路径

(1) Taking political construction as the guide to ensure the centralized and unified leadership of the Party. Taking a clear stand on politics is the fundamental requirement for our Party as a Marxist political party. Party political construction is a major proposition clearly put forward at the 19th National Congress of the CPC. The report defines the important position of political construction in Party building by using terms such as “fundamental construction,” “placed first,” and “as the guide,” which has great practical and historical significance. The Party emphasizes taking political construction as the guide to ensure its centralized and unified leadership, thereby consolidating the political foundation for the two “always on the road.” On the basis of deeply grasping the historical experience of over a hundred years of unremitting struggle, our Party has clearly placed upholding and strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee as the first task in comprehensively and strictly governing the Party and deeply advancing the great new project of Party building in the New Era, demonstrating the extreme importance of the Party’s centralized and unified leadership, as well as the sense of responsibility of the Communist Party of China. From the Gutian Congress establishing the principles of building the Party ideologically and building the army politically, to the 7th National Congress of the CPC stating “first and foremost focus on construction in ideology and politics, while also carrying out construction in organization,” to after the founding of New China “ideological work and political work are the guarantees for completing economic work and technical work,” and in the New Era “central and state organs are first and foremost political organs, and must take a clear stand on politics,” the Party has always taken political construction as the top priority in building, governing, and managing the Party, never relaxing political education for Party members and cadres. This is a successful experience in the work of Party building. Only by grasping and implementing the Party’s political construction firmly and effectively can the Party become stronger and more capable through revolutionary forging, and can it bear the mission of social construction.

（一）以政治建设为统领，确保党的集中统一。旗帜鲜明讲政治是我们党作为马克思主义政党的根本要求。党的政治建设是党的十九大明确提出的重大命题，报告以“根本性建设”“摆在首位”“为统领”来界定政治建设在党的建设中的重要地位，具有重大的现实意义和历史意义。党强调以政治建设为统领确保党的集中统一，为两个“永远在路上”夯实了政治基础。我们党在深刻把握百余年不懈奋斗历史经验的基础上，明确把坚持和加强党中央集中统一领导置于全面从严治党、深入推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程的第一任务，彰显了党的集中统一的极端重要性，以及中国共产党的责任担当。从古田会议建立思想建党、政治建军原则，到党的七大“首先着重在思想上、政治上进行建设，同时也在组织上进行建设”，再到新中国成立后“思想工作和政治工作，是完成经济工作和技术工作的保证”，以及新时代“中央和国家机关首先是政治机关，必须旗帜鲜明讲政治”，党始终把政治建设作为建党、治党、管党的重中之重，丝毫不放松对党员干部的政治教育，这是党的建设工作的一条成功经验。唯有把党的政治建设抓紧抓实抓好，党才能在革命性锻造中更加坚强有力，才能承担社会建设的使命担当。

(2) Continuously improve and perfect the system of norms and regulations and the system of intra-Party regulations. Comrade Deng Xiaoping, as the main advocate of governing the Party through institutions, pointed out when summarizing the profound lessons of the ten-year catastrophe of the “Cultural Revolution”: “Institutional issues are more fundamental, overarching, stable, and long-term. Such institutional issues concern whether the Party and the state will change color, and must be given high priority by the entire Party.” “If institutional issues are not resolved, ideological and work style issues cannot be resolved either.” This was an innovation in the early period of reform and opening up when the Party, while addressing work style and ideological issues, focused on improving the leadership system of the Party and the state, exploring the issue of Party building in the realm of institutional norms, and laid the ideological and institutional reform foundation for the Party’s healthy development over the following forty-plus years. To improve the institutional normative system for the Party’s self-revolution, we must adhere to governing the Party through institutions and governing the Party according to regulations. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out in a speech at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection: “Adhere to building an institutional normative system for self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement, to provide institutional guarantees for advancing the great self-revolution.” The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC further clarified that “through unremitting efforts, the Party has found the second answer to the historical cycle of rise and fall—self-revolution—and the ability for self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement has been significantly enhanced,” and made strategic deployments to “improve the comprehensive and strict governance of the Party system, comprehensively advance the Party’s self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement,” and “improve the institutional normative system for the Party’s self-revolution.” Governing the Party through institutions and governing the Party according to regulations are inherent requirements for carrying out the Party’s self-revolution, and are also two major topics in the field of Party building. In regulating the words and deeds of Party members and cadres, supervising the exercise of public power, enforcing strict intra-Party political life, and maintaining the Party’s unity and solidarity, institutional regulations have always played an irreplaceable role, and are an important guarantee for the practical innovation of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the New Era.

（二）不断健全和完善制度规范体系和党内法规体系。邓小平同志作为制度治党的主要倡导者，在总结“文化大革命”十年浩劫深刻教训时曾指出：“制度问题更带有根本性、全局性、稳定性和长期性。这种制度问题，关系到党和国家是否改变颜色，必须引起全党的高度重视”，“制度问题不解决，思想作风问题也解决不了。”这是改革开放初期党在解决作风和思想问题时着力完善党和国家的领导体制，探索制度规范领域党的建设问题的创新，为之后四十余年党的健康发展奠定了思想和制度改革基础。完善党的自我革命制度规范体系，要坚持制度治党和依规治党。习近平总书记在十九届中央纪委六次全会上讲话时指出：“坚持构建自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高的制度规范体系，为推进伟大自我革命提供制度保障”。党的二十大报告又进一步明确“经过不懈努力，党找到了自我革命这一跳出治乱兴衰历史周期率的第二个答案，自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高能力显著增强”，作出“健全全面从严治党体系，全面推进党的自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高”，“完善党的自我革命制度规范体系”的战略部署。制度治党和依规治党是进行党的自我革命的应有之义，也是党的建设领域的两大课题。在规范党员干部言行、监督公权力行使、严肃党内政治生活和维护党的团结统一方面，制度规定始终发挥着不可替代的作用，是新时代全面从严治党实践创新的重要保障。

(III) Forging a high-quality discipline inspection and supervision cadre contingent. Discipline inspection and supervision organs are the Party’s “disciplinary forces,” and the discipline inspection and supervision cadre contingent is an important force for advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the Party’s self-revolution. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the discipline inspection and supervision cadre contingent, always placing great expectations in it, granting it great trust, and setting strict requirements. For 11 consecutive years, he has made important deployments at the plenary sessions of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection regarding the building of the discipline inspection and supervision cadre contingent, driving discipline inspection and supervision organs at all levels to strictly and substantively strengthen their own construction, and striving to forge an iron army of discipline inspection and supervision that is loyal, clean, responsible, and daring to struggle and adept at struggle. The discipline inspection and supervision cadre contingent must be loyal to the Party, bravely shoulder heavy burdens, dare to fight hard battles, and be adept at struggle, always charging to the forefront in protracted and sustained battles. It is necessary to strengthen political construction, making absolute loyalty to the Party and absolute political reliability the primary requirement, always maintaining sobriety and firmness, deeply comprehending the decisive significance of the Two Establishments[9]9 The Two Establishments: the establishment of Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as, strengthening the Four Consciousnesses[10], consolidating the Four Confidences[11], and achieving the Two Upholds[12]. Strengthen capacity building, enhance the ability to struggle, effectively enhance the historical sense of mission and political responsibility for solving the unique problems of a large Party, continuously strengthen ideological tempering, political training, practical exercise, and professional training, embody the division of the Party’s worries and the fulfillment of the Party’s duties in concrete actions, resolutely struggle against all kinds of negative corruption and unhealthy tendencies that erode the Party’s advanced nature and purity, and ensure that the Party does not change its nature, its color, or its flavor. Strengthen clean governance construction, run the concept of promoting the “three non-corruptions”[13] as a whole through one’s own construction, and in all aspects such as Party spirit cultivation, discipline and legal awareness, style cultivation, and moral standards, there should be higher standards and stricter requirements, leading by example and strictly abiding by all Party disciplines, never indulging, never crossing the line, never overstepping bounds, building a solid ideological defense line against corruption and degeneration, forever maintaining a clean and honest political character, and striving to forge an iron army of discipline inspection and supervision that is itself correct, itself hard, and itself clean, playing an important role in promoting the deepening of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and continuously opening up new realms of the Party’s self-revolution.

（三）锻造高素质纪检监察干部队伍。纪检监察机关是党的“纪律部队”，纪检监察干部队伍是推进全面从严治党和党的自我革命的重要力量。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记高度重视纪检监察干部队伍，始终寄予极大期望，给予极大信任，提出严格要求，连续11年在中央纪委全会上对纪检监察干部队伍建设作出重要部署，推动各级纪检监察机关从严从实加强自身建设，着力打造忠诚干净担当、敢于善于斗争的纪检监察铁军。纪检监察干部队伍必须忠诚于党、勇挑重担，敢打硬仗、善于斗争，在攻坚战持久战中始终冲锋在最前面。要强化政治建设，把对党绝对忠诚、政治上绝对可靠作为第一位的要求，始终保持清醒和坚定，深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义，增强“四个意识”，坚定“四个自信”，做到“两个维护”。强化能力建设，增强斗争本领，切实增强解决大党独有难题的历史使命感和政治责任担当，不断加强思想淬炼、政治历练、实践锻炼、专业训练，把为党分忧、为党尽责体现到实际行动上，坚决同各类侵蚀党的先进性纯洁性的消极腐败和歪风邪气作斗争，确保党不变质、不变色、不变味。强化廉洁建设，把一体推进“三不腐”的理念贯穿自身建设，在党性修养、纪法意识、作风养成、道德水准等各方面，都应该有更高的标准、更严的要求，以身作则带头严格遵守党的各项纪律，任何时候都不放纵、不越轨、不逾矩，筑牢拒腐防变的思想防线，永葆清正廉洁的政治本色，努力锻造自身正自身硬自身廉的纪检监察铁军，为推动全面从严治党向纵深发展、不断开辟党的自我革命新境界发挥重要作用。

(This article is a phased result of the Henan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Planning Research and Interpretation of the Spirit of the 20th National Congress of the CPC Special Project “The Internal Logic and Realization Path of the Two ‘Always on the Road’” (2022DWT049))

（本文系河南省哲学社会科学规划研究阐释党的二十大精神专题项目“两个‘永远在路上’的内在逻辑与实现路径”（2022DWT049）的阶段性成果）

(Author’s biography: Li Zhendong, Deputy Director of the Comprehensive Office of the Discipline Inspection Commission of Xinyang Normal University, PhD from Wuhan University of Technology)

（作者简介：李振东，信阳师范大学纪委综合室副主任、武汉理工大学博士）

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