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A Study on the Integration of Clean Governance Culture into the Building of Primary-Level Party Organizations from the Perspective of Governance Modernization

张志元、王一桐:治理现代化视域下廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设研究

· · Research Highlights · "Research on Clean Government Culture" 2025, no. 1 · 33 min read

Clean governance culture is an important means of advancing Party building and holds profound significance for strengthening the building of primary-level Party organizations and promoting the modernization of national governance. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has attached great importance to primary-level governance and the construction of a clean governance culture, repeatedly emphasizing the important role of primary-level governance in the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. In 2021, the "Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Strengthening the Modernization of the Primary-Level Governance System and Governance Capacity" pointed out that "primary-level governance is the cornerstone of national governance, and coordinating the promotion of governance in townships (subdistricts) and urban-rural communities is a foundational project for realizing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity." [1]1 This refers to a document issued by the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council in 2021, formally titled "Opinions on Strengthening the Modernization of the Primary-Level Governance System and Governance Capacity." The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC explicitly stated, "Strengthen the construction of a clean governance culture in the New Era, and educate and guide the majority of Party members and cadres to enhance their consciousness of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt." [2]2 The "three non-corruptions" (三不腐) is a standard formulation in CPC anti-corruption discourse: "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt." The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC explicitly stated, "Strengthen the construction of a clean governance culture in the New Era," [3]3 The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC was held in July 2024. further improving the working mechanism for promoting the "three non-corruptions" in an integrated manner. [4]4 The "three non-corruptions" (三不腐) is a standard formulation in CPC anti-corruption discourse: "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt." As the practical subjects of primary-level governance, primary-level Party organizations are a key link in strengthening Party building in the New Era. Their integrity and honesty not only concern the level of modernization of primary-level governance but are also an important component of advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. In the process of advancing Chinese-path modernization, it is necessary to persistently advance the building of primary-level Party organizations, uphold Party leadership to build primary-level Party organizations into strong fighting fortresses that effectively realize Party leadership, and deepen the rectification of corruption issues around the masses. From the perspective of governance modernization, clarifying the important motivations and contemporary value of integrating clean governance culture into the building of primary-level Party organizations, and analyzing the practical pathways for integrating clean governance culture into the building of primary-level Party organizations, have important theoretical value and practical significance for achieving new breakthroughs in the great new project of Party building in the New Era.

廉洁文化是推进党的建设的重要手段,对于加强基层党组织建设、推动国家治理现代化具有深刻的意义。党的十八大以来,以习近平同志为核心的党中央高度重视基层治理和廉洁文化建设,多次强调基层治理在国家治理体系和治理能力现代化建设中的重要作用。2021年,《中共中央国务院关于加强基层治理体系和治理能力现代化建设的意见》指出,“基层治理是国家治理的基石,统筹推进乡镇(街道)和城乡社区治理,是实现国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的基础工程”。党的二十大报告中明确指出,“加强新时代廉洁文化建设,教育引导广大党员、干部增强不想腐的自觉”。党的二十届三中全会明确指出“加强新时代廉洁文化建设”,进一步完善一体推进“三不腐”的工作机制。基层党组织作为开展基层治理的实践主体,是新时代加强党的建设的关键环节,其清正廉洁不仅事关基层治理的现代化水平,更是推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的重要内容。在推进中国式现代化的进程中,要持之以恒推进基层党组织建设,坚持党的领导将基层党组织建设成为有效实现党的领导的坚强战斗堡垒,深化整治群众身边的腐败问题。在治理现代化视域下,厘清廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的重要动因和时代价值,剖析廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的实践路径,对于在新时代推动党的建设新的伟大工程取得新突破具有重要的理论价值和现实意义。

I. Important Motivations for Integrating Clean Governance Culture into the Building of Primary-Level Party Organizations

一、廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的重要动因

The construction of a clean governance culture is an important magic weapon for advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. The building of primary-level Party organizations is a crucial link in the Party's long-term governance and the advancement of national governance modernization. It is necessary to unremittingly advance the Party's own construction and forever maintain the Party's advanced nature and purity. In the process of using primary-level governance modernization to boost Chinese-path modernization, the integration of clean governance culture into the building of primary-level Party organizations originates from the clean governance cultural thought of Marxist classical writers, draws nourishment from the clean governance culture in Chinese political thought, and conforms to the practical needs of the Communist Party of China in solving the unique problems of a large party. [5]5 "The unique problems of a large party" (大党独有难题) is a term used by Xi Jinping to refer to the specific challenges faced by a Therefore, from the perspective of governance modernization, the integration of clean governance culture into the building of primary-level Party organizations has rich theoretical motivations and is an organic combination based on historical development and practical needs.

廉洁文化建设是推进全面从严治党的重要法宝。基层党组织建设是党在长期治国理政中推进国家治理现代化的重要一环,必须坚持不懈推进党的自身建设,永葆党自身的先进性和纯洁性。在以基层治理现代化助推中国式现代化的进程中,廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设,是源于马克思主义经典作家的廉洁文化思想,并汲取中国政治思想中廉洁文化的滋养,符合中国共产党解决大党独有难题的现实需要。因此,在治理现代化视域下,廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设有着丰富的理论动因,是基于历史发展和现实需要的有机结合。

(A) Theoretical Motivation: The Clean Governance Thought of Marxist Classical Writers

(一)理论动因:马克思主义经典作家的廉洁思想

Theory is the guide to action. The integration of clean governance culture into the building of primary-level Party organizations can be traced in the relevant expositions of Marxist classical writers and has a profound origin with the clean governance cultural thought proposed by Marxist classical writers. The clean governance thought of Marxist classical writers provides theoretical motivation for enriching and developing clean governance culture in the New Era, and for integrating the New Era clean governance culture into the building of primary-level Party organizations to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.

理论是行动的先导。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设在马克思主义经典作家的相关论述中有迹可循,与马克思主义经典作家所提出的廉洁文化思想有着深厚的渊源。马克思主义经典作家的廉洁思想为新时代丰富和发展廉洁文化,以及将新时代廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设从而推动国家治理体系和治理能力现代化提供了理论动因。

Marx and Engels clearly pointed out in the *Communist Manifesto* that the Communists "have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole," [6]6 Yanzi (c. 578–500 BCE), a famous statesman and thinker of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period. The quotation is from the *Yanzi Chunqiu* (Annals of Master Yan). that is, the Communist Party itself has no special interests. The proposition by Marx and Engels that the Communist Party has no special interests of its own determines that the Communist Party should be a clean party, Communist Party members should be clean party members, and the policies and guidelines formulated by the Communist Party should proceed from the interests of the people. Moreover, both Party organizations at all levels and individual Party members must always accept the supervision of the people and forever maintain their advanced nature and purity. This important thesis proposed by Marx and Engels provides a solid political foundation for the Communist Party to always stand on the people's side, correctly handle various complex relationships in the modernization process with its own advanced nature and purity, and solidly promote governance modernization. After successfully leading the October Revolution in Russia and establishing the world's first socialist state, Lenin inherited and enriched Marx and Engels' theory on Party building and continued to explore the building of the ruling party in a socialist country. Lenin clearly recognized that after completing the socialist revolution, in the process of leading the socialist regime to explore and advance governance modernization, they would face corruption problems, and pointed out the need to unremittingly struggle against corruption within the Party, stating that "red tape and bribery are ailments that no military victory or political reform can cure." [7]7 Li Shimin (598–649 CE), the second emperor of the Tang dynasty, known as Emperor Taizong. The quotation is from the *Zhenguan Zhengyao* (Essentials of Government in the Zhenguan Era). Lenin strengthened institutional construction by requiring the Political Education Committee to eliminate illiteracy, raise cultural levels, and teach the masses the culture of eradicating bribery, enabling the masses to participate in the supervision of Communist Party organizations and Communist Party members at all levels. Through mass supervision, the soil for breeding corruption problems in society was reduced, thereby eliminating different forms of corruption problems within Communist Party organizations at all levels. At the same time, starting from the advanced nature of the Communist Party and Communist Party members, Lenin raised the requirements for Communist Party members and increased the severity of punishment for Communist Party members who committed corruption. During the implementation of the New Economic Policy, facing the situation where some Party cadres abused the New Economic Policy, he explicitly stated that "punishment for Communist Party members should be twice as severe as for non-Party personnel." [8]8 The Sage Ancestor (Shengzu) is the temple name of the Kangxi Emperor (1654–1722 CE), the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty. In the process of carrying out mass supervision and severely punishing intra-Party corruption, Lenin continuously increased the cost of corrupt behavior. In the process of advancing national governance and social governance, by continuously strengthening and improving the institutional construction of Party organizations, he reduced the occurrence of corruption problems within Communist Party organizations at all levels, inheriting and developing the clean governance thought of Marx and Engels. Therefore, the clean governance cultural thought of Marxist classical writers provides theoretical motivation for further developing and improving clean governance culture under new historical conditions, lays a theoretical foundation for integrating clean governance culture into the building of primary-level Party organizations, and thus provides useful reference and guidance for promoting governance modernization.

马克思和恩格斯早在《共产党宣言》中明确指出,共产党“他们没有任何同整个无产阶级的利益不同的利益”,即共产党自身没有任何特殊的利益。马克思和恩格斯提出的共产党没有自身任何特殊的利益就决定了共产党应是廉洁的党、共产党员应是廉洁的党员,共产党制定的方针政策都应从人民的利益出发,并且无论是各级党组织还是党员个人都要时刻接受人民的监督,永葆自身的先进性和纯洁性。马克思和恩格斯所提出的这一重要论断,为共产党始终站在人民立场,以自身的先进性和纯洁性正确处理现代化进程中的各种复杂关系、为扎实推进治理现代化提供了坚实的政治基础。列宁在成功领导俄国十月革命并建立起世界上第一个社会主义国家后,继承和丰富了马克思和恩格斯关于党的建设理论,继续探索社会主义国家执政党的建设。列宁清醒地认识到完成社会主义革命后,在领导社会主义政权探索推进治理现代化的过程中将面临腐败问题,指出要与党内腐败问题坚持不懈地进行斗争,“拖拉作风和贪污受贿行为是任何军事胜利和政治改革都无法治好的毛病”。列宁通过加强制度建设要求政治教育委员会扫清文盲、提高文化,教给人民群众破除贪污受贿的文化,让人民群众参与到对各级共产党党组织和共产党员的监督工作之中,通过人民群众监督减少社会中滋生腐败问题的土壤,进而杜绝各级共产党党组织内部出现不同形式的腐败问题。同时,列宁从共产党和共产党员的先进性出发,提高对共产党员的要求,加大对共产党员发生腐败问题的惩处力度。在实施新经济政策期间,面临部分党员干部滥用新经济政策的情况明确指出,“对共产党员的惩办应比对非党人员加倍严厉”。列宁在开展人民监督和严惩党内腐败的过程中不断提高腐败行为成本,在推进国家治理和社会治理的过程中,通过持续加强和完善党组织的制度建设,减少各级共产党党组织内部腐败问题的发生,继承和发展了马克思恩格斯的廉政思想。因此,马克思主义经典作家的廉洁文化思想为在面临新的历史条件下进一步发展和完善廉洁文化提供了理论动因,为廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设奠定了理论基础,进而为推动治理现代化提供了有益借鉴和参考。

(B) Historical Motivation: The Experience of Clean Governance Culture Construction in Chinese Political Practice

(二)历史动因:中国政治实践中廉洁文化建设经验

The construction of a clean governance culture in Chinese political practice has a long history. From the ancient Chinese rulers' rectification of officialdom, advocacy of integrity, and punishment of corruption, to the modern and contemporary Chinese Communists' adherence to comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and advancement of the anti-corruption struggle, clean governance culture has gradually formed and continuously improved over thousands of years of historical development in Chinese society, becoming an important component of excellent Chinese culture. The New Era clean governance culture is deeply rooted in the excellent traditional Chinese clean governance culture, gradually formed during the period of socialist revolution and construction, continuously developed during the period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and further enriched and improved in the process of carrying out the anti-corruption struggle in the New Era.

中国政治实践中的廉洁文化建设源远流长,从中国古代的统治者整顿吏治、倡廉惩贪到近现代的中国共产党人坚持全面从严治党、推进反腐败斗争,廉洁文化在中国社会几千年的历史发展中逐步形成、不断完善,成为中华优秀文化的重要组成部分。新时代廉洁文化深深植根于中华优秀传统廉洁文化,在社会主义革命和建设时期逐步形成,在改革开放和社会主义现代化建设时期不断发展,在新时代开展反腐败斗争的过程中得到进一步丰富和完善。

Diligence in governance and love for the people, along with clean governance and dedication to public service, were essential qualities of worthy officials and capable administrators in ancient China, and they also served as important criteria for the state’s assessment of officials. During the Spring and Autumn period, Yanzi already put forward the view that “clean governance is the foundation of statecraft,”[6]6 Yanzi (c. 578–500 BCE), a famous statesman and thinker of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period. The quotation is from the *Yanzi Chunqiu* (Annals of Master Yan). clearly pointing out that clean governance is the basis for governing the country. During the Tang dynasty, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin stated, “If a ruler is greedy, he will surely lose his state; if a minister is greedy, he will surely bring ruin upon himself,”[7]7 Li Shimin (598–649 CE), the second emperor of the Tang dynasty, known as Emperor Taizong. The quotation is from the *Zhenguan Zhengyao* (Essentials of Government in the Zhenguan Era). indicating the relationship between clean governance and social governance, and that whether one is clean or corrupt affects the security of state power. During the Qing dynasty, the Sage Ancestor Kangxi[8]8 The Sage Ancestor (Shengzu) is the temple name of the Kangxi Emperor (1654–1722 CE), the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty. proposed, “Whenever I consider the weal and woe of the people’s livelihood, it stems from the greed or clean governance of official administration,”[9]9 The quotation is from the *Kangxi Emperor’s Instructions on Governance*. pointing out the relationship between clean official administration and the people’s livelihood as well as social governance. The political practice of modern and contemporary China also contains a rich culture of clean governance. Sun Yat-sen advocated clean governance throughout his life, repeatedly stating on various occasions, “One must not set one’s heart on amassing wealth or on becoming a high official; one must resolve to make sacrifices and to do great things,”[10]10 Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), the founding father of the Republic of China. The quotation is from his speech at the founding ceremony of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924. indicating that when Chinese people participate in national governance and social governance, they must be clean and dedicated to public service, making sacrifices and contributions for the country, society, and the nation. Mao Zedong attached great importance to advancing the fight against corruption in social governance, pointing out that “the fight against corruption and waste is truly a major matter for the entire Party.”[11]11 Mao Zedong (1893–1976), the founding leader of the People’s Republic of China. The quotation is from his instruction on the “Three-Anti” campaign in 1951. In the early days of the founding of New China, he promptly launched the “Three-Anti” and “Five-Anti” campaigns[12]12 The “Three-Anti” campaign (1951–1952) targeted corruption, waste, and bureaucracy within the Party and government. The “Five-Anti” campaign (1952) targeted bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cheating on government contracts, and stealing state economic information among private businesses. to punish the unhealthy tendencies of corruption and embezzlement within the Party. Faced with the spread of unhealthy practices among the masses after reform and opening up, Deng Xiaoping vigorously strengthened the construction of clean politics, pointing out, “We must oppose corruption and build a clean government. This is not a matter of one or two days, or one or two months; the entire process of reform and opening up must oppose corruption,”[13]13 Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997), the chief architect of China’s reform and opening up. The quotation is from his speech in 1989. clearly stating that the Party must unswervingly punish and oppose corruption, and strengthen the construction of a clean governance culture to advance the modernization of governance. Jiang Zemin regarded strengthening Party conduct and clean governance construction as a major political task for the Party in governing and rejuvenating the country, and in the process of national governance and social governance, pointing out that “the construction of Party conduct and clean governance and the fight against corruption bear on the life and death of the Party and the state.”[14]14 Jiang Zemin (1926–2022), General Secretary of the CPC from 1989 to 2002. The quotation is from his speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 15th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in 2000. Hu Jintao attached great importance to the construction of Party conduct within the Party, enriching and developing the culture of clean governance on the basis of strengthening the construction of Party conduct, requiring leading cadres at all levels, in the process of participating in national governance and social governance, to “truly be upright and incorruptible, and always maintain the noble character and revolutionary integrity of Communists.”[15]15 Hu Jintao (b. 1942), General Secretary of the CPC from 2002 to 2012. The quotation is from his speech at the 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in 2007. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has attached great importance to the construction of clean governance culture, repeatedly emphasizing the importance of clean governance culture in the process of Party building, and stressing that the fundamental work of modernizing grassroots governance must be done well. Therefore, from the perspective of governance modernization, integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, drawing on the experience of building clean governance culture from thousands of years of Chinese political practice, will inevitably help strengthen Party building in the New Era and advance the modernization of national governance through comprehensive and strict governance of the Party.

勤政爱民、廉洁奉公是中国古代贤官能吏的必备品质,也是国家对官吏进行考察的重要标准。在春秋时期,晏子便提出“廉者,政之本也”,明确指出廉洁是开展治理国家的根本。在唐朝时期,唐太宗李世民指出“为主贪,必丧其国;为臣贪,必亡其身”,指明清正廉洁与社会治理之间的关系,廉洁与否危及国家政权的安危。在清朝时期,清圣祖康熙提出,“每念民生之休戚,由于吏治之贪廉”,点明吏治清明与人民生活、社会治理之间的关系。在近现代中国的政治实践中也包含着丰富的廉洁文化。孙中山一生倡廉,多次在不同场合指出“不可居心发财,想做大官,要立志牺牲,想做大事”,指明国人参与国家治理和社会治理时,要廉洁奉公,为国家、社会和民族牺牲奉献。毛泽东高度重视在社会治理中推进反腐败工作,指出“反贪污、反浪费一事,实是全党一件大事”,新中国成立初期及时开展“三反”“五反”运动,惩治党内贪污腐败的歪风邪气。邓小平面对改革开放后不正之风在群众身边的蔓延,大力加强廉洁政治建设,指出“我们要反对腐败,搞廉洁政治。不是搞一天两天、一月两月,整个改革开放过程都要反对腐败”,明确党要坚定不移惩治腐败、反对腐败,加强廉洁文化建设以推进治理的现代化。江泽民将加强党风廉政建设作为党执政兴国,开展国家治理和社会治理过程中的一项重大政治任务,指出“党风廉政建设和反腐败斗争关系党和国家的生死存亡”。胡锦涛高度重视党内作风建设,在加强作风建设的基础上丰富和发展了廉洁文化,要求各级领导干部在参与国家治理和社会治理的过程中,“真正做到一身正气、一尘不染,始终保持共产党人高尚品格和革命气节”。党的十八大以来,习近平总书记高度重视廉洁文化建设,多次强调廉洁文化在党的建设过程中的重要性,强调必须抓好基层治理现代化这项基础性工作。因此,在治理现代化视域下,将廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设吸取了中国几千年政治实践中廉洁文化的建设经验,必然有助于新时代加强党的建设和以全面从严治党推进国家治理现代化。

(III) Realistic Motivation: The Practical Need for the CPC to Solve the Unique Problems of a Large Party

(三)现实动因:中国共产党解决大党独有难题的现实需要

The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC clearly states, “As the largest Marxist governing party in the world, the CPC must always maintain sobriety and firmness in solving the unique problems of a large party to always win the people’s support and consolidate its long-term ruling position.”[16]16 The 20th National Congress of the CPC was held in October 2022. The quotation is from the congress report. Grassroots Party organizations, as the frontline for implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, are an effective channel for demonstrating the advanced nature and purity of the CPC to the people, and are a key link in solving the unique problems of the CPC as a large party through comprehensive and strict governance of the Party. The clean governance and integrity of grassroots Party organizations not only affect the overall image of the CPC but also affect the effectiveness of the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building helps grassroots Party organizations always maintain clean governance and integrity, manifest the Party’s clean image, always win the people’s support, and play a good role as a fighting fortress in the process of solving the unique problems of a large party.

党的二十大报告明确指出,“我们党作为世界上最大的马克思主义执政党,要始终赢得人民拥护、巩固长期执政地位,必须时刻保持解决大党独有难题的清醒和坚定”。基层党组织作为贯彻落实党中央决策部署的最前沿,是向人民群众展示中国共产党先进性、纯洁性的有效渠道,是当前通过全面从严治党解决中国共产党大党独有难题的关键一环。基层党组织的清正廉洁不仅影响着中国共产党的整体形象,也影响着国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的成效。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设,有助于基层党组织始终保持清正廉洁,彰显党的廉洁形象,始终赢得人民拥护,在解决大党独有难题的进程中发挥好战斗堡垒作用。

Grassroots Party organizations are the “nerve endings” through which the Party maintains close ties with the masses, and are the forward positions for uniting and rallying the masses. Only by building strong grassroots Party organizations and consolidating grassroots political power can the foundation of socialism with Chinese characteristics be stable. Integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building is an effective means of advancing the Party’s self-revolution and is one of the important answers to the question of how the CPC solves the unique problems of a large party. As the largest Marxist governing party in the world, the CPC has a huge organizational structure and numerous Party members and cadres, making the work of carrying out and strengthening Party building arduous to a certain extent. The CPC is also the governing party of a country with a population exceeding 1.4 billion. Whether the CPC can govern for a long time concerns the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the Chinese people, concerns the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, concerns the building of a modern socialist country, and concerns the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. At present, the international situation is volatile, risks and challenges from outside are coming one after another, and new changes have also occurred in the domestic social development situation. In the process of advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, new challenges are also being faced. The CPC must, on the basis of responding to new challenges and new changes, solve the unique problems of a large party, continuously win the support of the people, and always remain the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Against the backdrop of new challenges and new changes facing governance modernization in the New Era, solving the unique problems of a large party must start from the foundation of all the Party’s work and combat effectiveness—grassroots Party organizations—and regard the building of grassroots Party organizations as the top priority in the Party’s building work. In the process of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, corruption problems around the people can be gradually solved, unhealthy practices around the people can be eliminated, the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people can be effectively safeguarded and protected, and the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity can be accelerated. At the same time, persistently purifying the political ecosystem within the Party, providing a healthy and beneficial grassroots growth environment for the vast number of Party members and cadres, and consolidating the solid foundation of a clean and upright political ecosystem within the Party are of great practical significance for advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in depth. Integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building helps the CPC in the New Era, while forever maintaining its advanced nature and purity and strengthening its original aspiration and founding mission, to improve grassroots governance capacity and always maintain sobriety and firmness in solving the unique problems of a large party.

基层党组织是党密切联系群众的“神经末梢”,是团结凝聚群众的前沿阵地。只有把基层党组织建设强、把基层政权巩固好,中国特色社会主义的根基才能稳固。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设是当前推进党的自我革命的有效手段,是回答中国共产党如何解决大党独有难题的重要答案之一。中国共产党作为世界上最大的马克思主义执政党,有着庞大的组织架构和众多的党员干部,开展和加强党的建设具有一定的艰巨性。中国共产党还是一个人口规模超过十四亿的国家的执政党,中国共产党能否长期执政事关中国最广大人民的根本利益,事关国家治理体系和治理能力现代化,事关社会主义现代化强国建设,事关中华民族伟大复兴。当前,国际形势风云变幻,来自外部的风险挑战接踵而至,国内社会发展形势也产生了新变化,在推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的过程中也面临着新挑战。中国共产党必须要在应对新挑战和新变化的基础上,解决好大党独有难题,不断赢得人民群众拥护,始终成为中国特色社会主义事业的坚强领导核心。在新时代治理现代化面临新挑战、新变化的背景下,解决大党独有难题要从基层党组织这一党的全部工作和战斗力的基础做起,将基层党组织建设视为党的建设工作中的重中之重。在廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的过程中,可以逐步解决人民群众身边的腐败问题,肃清人民群众身边的不正之风,切实维护好、保障好最广大人民群众的根本利益,加快推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化。同时,持之以恒净化党内政治生态,为广大党员干部提供健康有益的基层成长环境,筑牢风清气正这一党内政治生态的坚实根基,对于全面从严治党向纵深推进具有重要的现实意义。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设有助于新时代中国共产党在永葆先进性和纯洁性本色、强化初心使命担当中提高基层治理能力,时刻保持解决大党独有难题的清醒和坚定。

II. The Era Value of Integrating Clean Governance Culture into Grassroots Party Organization Building

二、廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的时代价值

At present, China is on a new journey of comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization. A key link in this is to, with a spirit of unremitting effort, persistently rectify conduct, enforce discipline, and combat corruption, give full play to the role of grassroots Party organizations as fighting fortresses, rectify unhealthy practices and corruption problems around the masses, and solidly advance the modernization of the governance system. Integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building helps to consolidate the foundation of ideals and convictions, promote the construction of a clean society, and inherit and develop clean governance culture, possessing rich political value, social value, and cultural value.

当前我国正处在以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、实现民族复兴伟业的新征程中,其中关键一环是以永不懈怠的精神状态,持之以恒正风肃纪反腐,发挥好基层党组织的战斗堡垒作用,整治群众身边不正之风和腐败问题,扎实推进治理体系现代化。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设有助于筑牢理想信念之基、推动建设廉洁社会、继承发展廉洁文化,具有丰富的政治价值、社会价值和文化价值。

(I) Political Value: Consolidating the Foundation of Ideals and Convictions, Strengthening the Party’s Governing Foundation

(一)政治价值:筑牢理想信念之基,巩固党的执政基础

Clean governance and integrity are important components of clean governance culture, the political essence that the CPC has always maintained and adhered to in its more than one hundred years of Party building, and an inevitable requirement for always practicing the original aspiration and founding mission of Chinese Communists. On the new journey of the New Era, as the governing party of a country with a huge population and a large economic scale, the CPC faces both opportunities and challenges in advancing governance modernization. Grassroots Party organizations are the foundation for all the work of the CPC. Strengthening the building of grassroots Party organizations and improving the level of grassroots governance in the New Era are crucial for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organizations is an implementation of the general requirements for Party building in the New Era, and also an extension and deepening of the great new project of Party building in depth. It is an important measure to advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity by improving the level of grassroots governance. It can consolidate the foundation of ideals and convictions for Communists in the New Era and supplement the “calcium” of ideals and convictions for Communists in the New Era, possessing its rich political value.

清正廉洁是廉洁文化的重要组成部分,是中国共产党建党一百多年来始终保持和坚守的政治底色,是始终践行中国共产党人初心使命的必然要求。在新时代新征程上,作为人口数量庞大和经济规模巨大国家的执政党,中国共产党在推进治理现代化的进程中面临着机遇与挑战。基层党组织作为中国共产党开展全部工作的基础,新时代加强基层党组织建设,提高基层治理水平,对于推动国家治理体系和治理能力现代化至关重要。廉洁文化融入基层党组织是对新时代党的建设总要求的贯彻落实,也是党的建设新的伟大工程在纵深上的拓展和深化,是通过提高基层治理水平推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的重要举措,可以筑牢新时代共产党人的理想信念之基,补足新时代共产党人的理想信念之钙,具有其丰富的政治价值。

Clean governance culture emphasizes selflessness for the public, restraining oneself and serving the public, and being honest in governance. The integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations can, through the enrichment and development of the connotation of clean governance culture in the New Era, actively guide grassroots Party cadres to establish a correct view of power and outlook on political performance, enabling grassroots Party cadres to consciously resist various real-life temptations and corrupt behaviors they face, to eliminate all kinds of evil winds and unhealthy tendencies, and to start from grassroots Party organizations to purify the political ecology within the Party. In the New Era, it is essential to always maintain the advanced nature and purity of the Communist Party of China, to consolidate the combat effectiveness of the Communist Party of China through advanced nature and purity, and to continuously improve the level of modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Strengthening the construction of clean governance culture provides spiritual support for breaking out of the "historical cycle of rise and fall." [17]17 "Historical cycle of rise and fall" (历史周期率) refers to the cyclical pattern of dynastic rise, peak, decline, and collapse in Chinese history, a concept famously discussed by Mao Zedong and Huang Yanpei in 1945 as a challenge for the CPC to overcome. The integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations can promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party to go deeper and more solid in the process of deepening development, enabling grassroots Party cadres to consciously and strictly abide by intra-Party regulations and political discipline, to maintain a clear mind at all times in the process of serving the people, to eliminate selfish distractions in the process of cultivating virtue, to always place the interests of the people in their hearts, and to improve grassroots governance in truly "thinking what the people think and being anxious about what the people are anxious about," promoting the modernization of social governance, so that grassroots Party cadres always maintain the political essence of honesty and integrity of Chinese Communists in terms of ideological concepts, behavioral norms, and value orientations, thereby consolidating the Party's ruling foundation in strengthening ideals and convictions.

廉洁文化强调公而忘私、克己奉公、为政清廉。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设可以通过廉洁文化内涵在新时代的丰富和发展,积极引导基层党员干部树立正确的权力观和政绩观,使基层党员干部自觉抵制生活中面临的各种现实诱惑与腐败行为,杜绝各种歪风邪气和不正之风,从基层党组织做起,净化党内政治生态。在新时代始终保持中国共产党的先进性和纯洁性,以先进性和纯洁性凝聚起中国共产党的战斗力,不断提高国家治理体系和治理能力现代化水平。加强廉洁文化建设为跳出“历史周期率”提供精神支撑。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设可以推进全面从严治党在向纵深发展的过程中进一步走深走实,使基层党员干部自觉严格遵守党内法规和政治纪律,在为人民服务的过程中时刻保持清醒头脑,在修身明德的过程中消除私心杂念,始终将人民的利益放在心中,在真正做到“想人民之所想、急人民之所急”中完善基层治理,推进社会治理的现代化,使基层党员干部在思想理念、行为规范、价值取向等方面始终保持中国共产党人清正廉洁的政治本色,进而在坚定理想信念中筑牢党的执政基础。

(II) Social Value: Promoting the Construction of a Clean Society and Fostering Good Social Customs

(二)社会价值:推动建设廉洁社会,弘扬良好社会风气

The Communist Party of China is the leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, the guide for national rejuvenation, and the backbone of hundreds of millions of people. The image of grassroots Party members in the hearts of the people represents the image of Communist Party of China members, and the image of grassroots Party organizations in the hearts of the people represents the image of Communist Party of China Party organizations. The ability of grassroots Party organizations to carry out grassroots governance reflects the level of modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Promoting the integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations helps to convey the political essence of honesty and integrity of Chinese Communists to the people at the grassroots frontline of social governance, and to establish in the hearts of the people the Communist Party of China's governing philosophy of "building the Party for the public and governing for the people." Through the integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations, the level of grassroots governance is continuously improved. Leveraging the unique advantage of grassroots Party organizations being close to the people, the value concept of "being an honest person and doing clean work" is conveyed to every member of the people through the daily work of grassroots governance, promoting the construction of a clean society.

中国共产党是中国特色社会主义事业的领导核心,是民族复兴的领路人,亿万人民的主心骨。基层党员在人民群众心中的形象代表了中国共产党党员的形象,基层党组织在人民群众心中的形象代表了中国共产党党组织的形象,基层党组织开展基层治理的能力体现了国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的水平。推进廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设,有助于在开展社会治理的基层一线,向人民群众传递中国共产党人清正廉洁的政治本色,在人民群众心中树立中国共产党“立党为公、执政为民”的执政理念。通过廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设,不断提高基层治理水平。发挥基层党组织贴近人民群众的独特优势,将“清清白白做人,干干净净做事”的价值观念通过基层治理的日常工作传递到每一位人民群众心中,推动建设廉洁社会。

The integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations must continuously cultivate the soil of clean governance culture of "honest governance and impartial use of power," guiding the majority of grassroots Party cadres to not seek personal gain or practice favoritism in grassroots governance, to truly achieve solid work and practical results, to consciously discard erroneous thoughts and stay away from erroneous behaviors, to continuously purify the Party's ecology, and to drive changes in social customs through changes in the Party's political ecology, thereby creating a clean and upright social environment. Under the guidance of clean governance culture, better leverage the role of grassroots Party organizations in strengthening grassroots governance and uniting and mobilizing the masses, promoting the modernization of grassroots governance, and improving the level of modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. In the process of promoting the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organizations, grassroots Party cadres must always play a vanguard and exemplary role, consciously learn and promote clean governance culture, take a clear stand on issues of major principle, remain steadfast in the face of various temptations, always abstain from greed and desire and cultivate integrity, act as pioneers and role models for the broad masses, guide the people to form a sense of integrity in social life, and promote social harmony and stability in grassroots governance. At the same time, being clean in family management and distinguishing between public and private are important components of clean governance culture in the New Era, and are also inevitable requirements for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Leading cadres, as the "key minority" among Party cadres, must play a "key role." The family traditions of grassroots Party cadres affect social customs. By strengthening the study of clean governance culture, grassroots Party cadres establish clean family traditions and family precepts, do not indulge family members in abusing power for personal gain, drive the construction of a clean society with good family traditions, promote good social customs, and thereby strengthen the construction of clean governance culture in the New Era, boosting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.

廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设要通过不断厚植“清廉从政、秉公用权”的廉洁文化土壤,引导广大基层党员干部在基层治理中不谋私利、不徇私情,真正做到真抓实干、务求实效,自觉摒弃错误思想、远离错误行为,不断净化党内生态,以党内政治生态的变革带动社会风气的变革,从而营造风清气正的社会环境。在廉洁文化的引领下,更好发挥基层党组织加强基层治理、团结动员广大群众的作用,推动基层治理向现代化迈进,提高国家治理体系和治理能力现代化水平。在推进廉洁文化融入基层党组织的过程中,基层党员干部要始终发挥先锋模范作用,要自觉学习和弘扬廉洁文化,旗帜鲜明地对待大是大非的问题,面对各种诱惑要立场坚定,始终做到戒贪止欲、廉洁修身,为广大人民群众当先锋、做表率,引导人民群众在社会生活中形成廉洁意识,在基层治理中推动社会和谐稳定。同时,廉洁齐家、公私分明是新时代廉洁文化的重要组成部分,也是推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的必然要求。领导干部作为党员干部中的“关键少数”,要发挥“关键作用”。基层党员干部的家风影响着社会风气。基层党员干部通过加强学习廉洁文化,树立廉洁家风家训,不纵容家属以权谋私,以良好家风带动廉洁社会建设,弘扬良好的社会风气,并以此加强新时代廉洁文化建设,助推国家治理体系和治理能力现代化建设。

(III) Cultural Value: Inheriting and Developing Clean Governance Culture, Strengthening and Enhancing Cultural Confidence

(三)文化价值:继承发展廉洁文化,坚定和增强文化自信

The integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations from the perspective of governance modernization, in the process of enhancing and strengthening the cohesion and combat effectiveness of grassroots Party organizations and improving grassroots governance, is further enriched and developed on the basis of inheriting and promoting fine traditional Chinese culture, red revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture, laying a cultural foundation for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. Clean governance culture is the essence of Chinese civilization, and the construction of clean governance culture is the continuation and value application of the clean governance gene by the Communist Party of China. The integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations helps guide grassroots Party cadres to understand and comprehend the profound clean governance culture and clean governance thought in fine traditional Chinese culture through in-depth study, and to consciously combine clean governance culture with grassroots governance practice. In the New Era, taking fine traditional Chinese culture as the foundation, continuously promoting the enrichment and development of clean governance culture can further enhance confidence in the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics. At the same time, the integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations helps grassroots Party cadres review the glorious years of the Communist Party of China leading the Chinese people in revolution, construction, and reform, understand and inherit the noble character of selfless dedication and honesty and integrity of revolutionary predecessors for the cause of the Party and the people, inherit, develop, and consciously practice clean governance culture in the process of carrying out grassroots governance, enhance confidence in the theory of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and always maintain lofty ideals and convictions.

廉洁文化在治理现代化视域下融入基层党组织建设,在提升和加强基层党组织的凝聚力和战斗力,以及完善基层治理的过程中,在传承弘扬中华优秀传统文化、红色革命文化和社会主义先进文化的基础上,得到进一步的丰富与发展,为推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化建设厚植文化根基。廉洁文化是中华民族文明的精粹,廉洁文化建设则是中国共产党对廉洁基因的传承延续与价值运用。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设有助于引导基层党员干部,在深入学习中了解和领悟中华优秀传统文化中博大精深的廉洁文化和廉洁思想,自觉将廉洁文化与基层治理实践相结合。在新时代以中华优秀传统文化为底蕴,不断推进廉洁文化的丰富和发展,可以进一步增强中国特色社会主义文化自信。同时,廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设有助于帮助基层党员干部,回顾中国共产党带领中国人民开展革命、建设、改革过程中的峥嵘岁月,了解和传承革命先辈为了党和人民事业无私奉献、清正廉洁的高尚品格,在开展基层治理的过程中继承发展和自觉践行廉洁文化,增强中国特色社会主义文化自信,始终保持崇高的理想信念。

In the process of integrating clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations and promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity through grassroots governance, clean governance culture is innovated and developed in combination with the clean governance genes of fine traditional Chinese culture, red revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture. Through the inheritance and development of clean governance culture in the practice of governance modernization in the New Era, the correct view of power, view of interests, and outlook on political performance of grassroots Party cadres will be further deepened, and the cohesion within the Communist Party of China will be unprecedentedly strengthened. In the process of clean governance culture promoting the construction of grassroots Party organizations, grassroots Party cadres will devote themselves with fuller enthusiasm and higher morale to the great practice of promoting Chinese-path modernization to advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, play their vanguard and exemplary role as role models for the people, continuously promote the inheritance and development of clean governance culture in the New Era, promote cultural confidence and self-strengthening, and forge new brilliance in socialist culture.

在廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设、以基层治理推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的过程中,廉洁文化在与中华优秀传统文化、红色革命文化、社会主义先进文化的廉洁基因相结合的过程中得到创新和发展。通过在新时代治理现代化实践中对廉洁文化的继承发展,基层党员干部正确的权力观、利益观、政绩观也将得到进一步深化,中国共产党党内凝聚力将得到空前加强。在廉洁文化推动基层党组织建设过程中,基层党员干部将以更饱满的热情和更昂扬的斗志投身到以中国式现代化推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的伟大实践中去,发挥自身的先锋模范作用为人民群众做好榜样表率,在新时代持续推动廉洁文化的继承和发展,推进文化自信自强,铸就社会主义文化新辉煌。

III. Practical Paths for Integrating Clean Governance Culture into the Construction of Grassroots Party Organizations

三、廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的实践路径

The integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations is an important component of the current promotion of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, an important measure for adhering to the Party's self-revolution to lead social revolution, and an important lever for promoting comprehensive deepening of reform and advancing Chinese-path modernization. From the perspective of governance modernization, the integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations must, in the process of strengthening clean governance education, improving institutional construction, innovating propaganda methods, and reinforcing the leading role of Party building, continuously promote the new great project of Party building in the New Era to develop in depth.

廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设是当前推进全面从严治党的重要组成部分,是坚持以党的自我革命引领社会革命的重要举措,是推进全面深化改革、推进中国式现代化的重要抓手。在治理现代化视域下,廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设,要在加强廉洁教育、完善制度建设、创新宣传方式、强化党建引领作用的过程中,不断推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程向纵深发展。

(I) Strengthening Clean Governance Education, Enhancing the Clean Governance Awareness of Grassroots Party Cadres

(一)加强廉洁教育,提升基层党员干部的廉洁意识

Clean governance culture is essentially a holistic manifestation of value concepts, ways of thinking, and behavioral norms concerning clean governance, and plays a value-guiding role in promoting the modernization of grassroots governance and serving the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The integration of clean governance culture into the construction of grassroots Party organizations must make good use of existing educational resources and update educational methods, help grassroots Party cadres thoroughly understand clean governance culture by presenting facts and reasoning, guide grassroots Party cadres to form a strong consensus on clean governance culture, enhance the clean governance awareness of Party cadres, and promote the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots governance.

廉洁文化在本质上是关于廉洁的价值理念、思维方式和行为规范的总体性体现,在推动基层治理现代化、服务国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的过程中具有价值引领作用。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设要用好现有教育资源、更新好教育手段,通过摆事实、讲道理,帮助基层党员干部学懂弄通廉洁文化,引导基层党员干部对廉洁文化形成强烈共识,提高党员干部的廉洁意识,推动廉洁文化融入基层治理。

On the one hand, in the process of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, it is necessary to enhance the clean governance awareness of Party members and cadres through strengthening clean governance education, actively leverage the role of ideological and political work in advancing the modernization of grassroots governance, and better integrate clean governance culture into grassroots governance. At present, the internet has become the main front, main battlefield, and forefront of ideological struggle. When carrying out the construction of clean governance culture, it is essential to help grassroots Party members and cadres closely integrate with the new practice of Chinese-path modernization in the New Era, guide them with clean governance culture to establish a correct outlook on power, outlook on political performance, and values, enhance their awareness of clean governance culture, and provide an inexhaustible spiritual driving force for advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in depth and to the grassroots level, as well as for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. In clean governance culture education, the advanced nature and purity of grassroots Party members and cadres themselves should be used to effectively eradicate the soil and conditions that breed corruption, enabling grassroots Party members and cadres to continuously advance governance modernization through proactive assumption of responsibility and action.

一方面,在以廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的过程中,要在加强廉洁教育中提高党员干部的廉洁意识,积极发挥思想政治工作在推进基层治理现代化中的作用,将廉洁文化更好地融入基层治理。当前,互联网已成为意识形态斗争的主阵地、主战场、最前沿。在开展廉洁文化建设时,要帮助基层党员干部密切结合新时代中国式现代化新实践,以廉洁文化引导基层党员干部树立正确的权力观、政绩观和价值观,提高基层党员干部的廉洁文化意识,为推进全面从严治党向纵深发展、向基层发展,为推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化提供不竭精神动力。在廉洁文化教育中,以基层党员干部自身的先进性和纯洁性,有力铲除腐败滋生的土壤和条件,使基层党员干部在主动担当作为中不断推进治理现代化。

On the other hand, clean governance culture should be integrated into the daily work of grassroots governance by grassroots Party organizations, and grassroots Party members and cadres should be shaped into steadfast advocates and conscious practitioners of clean governance culture. At the same time, in the daily work of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, it is necessary to combine the unique clean governance cultural resources of various localities, helping grassroots Party members and cadres enhance their sense of identification with clean governance culture and their sense of mission to consciously practice it in a subtle and imperceptible manner. Grassroots Party organizations must focus on ideological construction, promote the deep internalization of clean governance culture in the minds and hearts of grassroots Party members and cadres, guide them to always internalize clean governance culture in their hearts and externalize it in their actions in the daily work of grassroots governance, and advance the integrated effort to ensure that grassroots Party members and cadres dare not, cannot, and do not want to engage in corruption within grassroots governance, thereby fostering a clean and upright grassroots governance environment and using grassroots governance modernization to boost the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. In the daily work of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots governance, starting from the smallest grassroots Party branches within the organizational structure of the Communist Party of China, the comprehensive integration of clean governance culture into all links, elements, and fields of grassroots governance should be promoted, adhering to a combination of treating both symptoms and root causes, and using clean governance culture to advance grassroots clean governance building in depth and substance.

另一方面,要将廉洁文化融入基层党组织的基层治理日常工作中,要将基层党员干部塑造成为廉洁文化的坚定倡导者和自觉践行者。同时,廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的日常工作中,要结合各地独具特色的廉洁文化资源,在润物无声中帮助基层党员干部增强对廉洁文化的认同感和自觉践行的使命感。基层党组织要抓好思想建设,推动廉洁文化在基层党员干部中入脑入心,引导基层党员干部在进行基层治理的日常工作中时刻将廉洁文化内化于心、外化于行,在基层治理中一体推进基层党员干部不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐,形成风清气正的基层治理环境,以基层治理现代化助推国家治理体系和治理能力现代化。廉洁文化融入基层治理的日常工作中,从中国共产党党组织中最微小的基层党支部做起,推动廉洁文化全面融入基层治理各环节、各要素和各领域之中,坚持标本兼治,以廉洁文化推动基层清廉建设走深走实。

(II) Improving Institutional Building, Enhancing Grassroots Governance Effectiveness through Clean Governance Culture Building

(二)完善制度建设,以廉洁文化建设提升基层治理效能

Institutions are the solid guarantee and important support for advancing comprehensive deepening of reform and Chinese-path modernization. Institutional building is a key support for enhancing governance effectiveness and a crucial element in promoting the modernization of the governance system. Improving the institutional building for integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organizations and using clean governance culture to enhance grassroots governance effectiveness is an important driving force for promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and it helps to gradually improve grassroots governance effectiveness.

制度是推进全面深化改革和中国式现代化的坚实保障和重要支撑,制度建设是提升治理效能的重要支撑和推动治理体系现代化的关键。完善廉洁文化融入基层党组织的制度建设,以廉洁文化提升基层治理效能,是推动国家治理体系和治理能力现代化的重要动力,有助于逐步提升基层治理效能。

At present, the anti-corruption struggle has formed an overwhelming momentum, and the clean and upright political ecosystem is being continuously consolidated and developed. By improving the institutional building for integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organizations, a long-term mechanism for clean governance culture to act on grassroots Party organizations can be gradually formed, resolutely winning the tough and protracted battle against corruption, advancing the integrated building of rectifying conduct and fighting corruption, and enhancing the effectiveness of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots governance. On the one hand, integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building is a systematic and long-term project, which must form corresponding long-term institutions, leveraging institutional advantages to fully exert the long-term effects of clean governance culture, gradually advancing the institutionalization of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, and ensuring the orderly conduct of related work. Necessary clean governance culture education activities should be regularly carried out in grassroots Party organizations. While fully utilizing traditional propaganda media such as newspapers, magazines, and display boards, it is also necessary to actively employ emerging communication channels such as the internet to regularly propagate the correct values of clean governance in official conduct and folk customs, building an online and offline concentric circle, and gradually forming an institutionalized, standardized, and procedural long-term mechanism for clean governance culture education. At the same time, it is also necessary to promote the institutionalization of supervision over the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, strengthen supervision and discipline enforcement, and ensure the effective implementation of institutions. Intra-Party supervision must be strengthened, and social supervision must be well utilized, so that the process of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building is subject to the supervision of the people, truly combining clean governance culture education with grassroots Party organization building, fully leveraging the advantages of the socialist democratic supervision system, using clean governance culture to enhance grassroots governance effectiveness, and serving the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. On the other hand, it is necessary to improve the public opinion guidance mechanism for integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, guiding grassroots Party members and cadres as well as the broad masses of the people to consciously learn and practice clean governance culture, thereby providing a favorable public opinion environment for clean governance culture to boost grassroots governance effectiveness. Various propaganda positions should be correctly and reasonably utilized, actively using public opinion to disseminate the latest developments in integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, organizing interactive communication between grassroots Party members and cadres and the people, and promoting the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building through their interaction. Through correct public opinion guidance on integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, a good atmosphere for the whole society to learn and comprehend clean governance culture can be created, effectively curbing the spread of unhealthy practices, enhancing the leading power and appeal of clean governance culture, improving the effectiveness of clean governance culture in serving grassroots governance modernization, and better advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.

当前,反腐败斗争已经形成压倒性态势,正不断巩固发展风清气正的政治生态。通过完善廉洁文化融入基层党组织的制度建设,逐步形成廉洁文化作用于基层党组织的长效机制,坚决打赢反腐败斗争攻坚战持久战,推进正风反腐一体化建设,提升廉洁文化融入基层治理的效能。一方面,廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设是一项系统性、长期性工程,必须形成相应的长效制度,以制度优势使廉洁文化的长效作用得到充分发挥,逐步推进廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设制度化,确保相关工作有序开展。定期在基层党组织开展必要的廉洁文化教育活动,既要充分利用原有的报刊、杂志、展板等传统的宣传媒介,也要积极运用互联网等新兴传播渠道,定期宣传为政清廉、民风清廉的正确价值观,构建网上网下同心圆,逐步形成制度化、规范化、程序化的廉洁文化教育长效机制。同时,也要推动廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的监督制度化,加强监督执纪,确保制度得到有效执行。要加强党内监督,用好社会监督,使廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设进程之中受到人民群众监督,真正将廉洁文化教育与基层党组织建设相结合,充分发挥社会主义民主监督体系的优势,以廉洁文化提升基层治理效能,服务国家治理体系和治理能力现代化建设。另一方面,要完善廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的舆论导向机制,引导基层党员干部和广大人民群众自觉学习和践行廉洁文化,为廉洁文化助推提高基层治理效能提供良好的舆论环境。要正确合理利用好各类宣传阵地,积极利用社会舆论传播廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设最新动态,组织基层党员干部与人民群众之间开展交互式沟通,在二者互动中推动廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设。通过对廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设进行正确的舆论引导,营造全社会学习领悟廉洁文化的良好氛围,有效遏制不正之风的蔓延,增强廉洁文化的引领力和感召力,提高廉洁文化服务基层治理现代化的效能,更好推进国家治理体系和治理能力现代化。

(III) Innovating Propaganda Methods, Promoting the Deep Integration of Clean Governance Culture Building into Grassroots Governance

(三)创新宣传方式,推动廉洁文化建设深入基层治理

Cultural innovation is an inexhaustible source of driving force for social development and progress. In the process of promoting the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, the innovative development of propaganda methods for clean governance culture is an important pathway for advancing clean governance culture deep into grassroots governance. To promote the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building and thereby enable it to play a role in the process of grassroots governance modernization, it is necessary to timely innovate propaganda methods, promoting the clean governance culture within fine traditional Chinese culture, red revolutionary culture, and advanced socialist culture to reach the grassroots level through novel propaganda methods, so that clean governance culture is deeply integrated into grassroots governance.

文化创新是社会发展进步的不竭动力源泉。在推动廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的过程中,廉洁文化宣传方式的创新发展是推进廉洁文化深入基层治理的重要途径。推动廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设,进而在基层治理现代化进程中发挥作用,要及时创新宣传方式,推动中华优秀传统廉洁文化、红色革命文化以及社会主义先进文化中的廉洁文化,以新颖的宣传方式深入基层,使廉洁文化深度融入基层治理。

Clean governance culture has been continuously formed, developed, and gradually perfected in China's political practice over several millennia; it inherently possesses a continuity and innovativeness that is both consistent through the ages and advances with the times. Innovating the propaganda methods for integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building meets the need for clean governance culture to innovate while inheriting. On the one hand, the internet, this greatest variable, must be turned into the greatest increment, enriching the modes of disseminating clean governance culture, promoting the full coverage of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, and enhancing the degree of alignment between clean governance culture and grassroots governance. In the process of integrating clean governance culture, grassroots Party organizations can, by establishing a matrix of new media accounts with distinctive features and high recognizability, achieve the integration of multimedia propaganda methods, promptly update and share activities related to the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, regularly optimize the content of clean governance culture propaganda, and guide the broad masses of the people to engage in interactive participation. In this process, not only are grassroots Party members and cadres urged to actively and earnestly carry out relevant activities, but the people can also learn about the innovative achievements of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, allowing grassroots Party members, cadres, and the broad masses of the people to understand the relevant content of clean governance culture through new media platforms in their daily lives, learning and practicing clean governance culture through subtle influence, thereby deeply integrating clean governance culture into grassroots governance. On the other hand, it is necessary to carry out a variety of rich and colorful propaganda activities for clean governance culture, enhancing its appeal and inspirational power, and improving the effectiveness of clean governance culture in promoting grassroots governance. In the process of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, it is essential to combine diverse forms of propaganda for clean governance culture. Within grassroots Party organizations, various forms of propaganda activities such as digital experiences of clean governance culture, story-based dissemination, and gamified learning can be promoted, calling on grassroots Party members, cadres, and the broad masses of the people to actively participate, personally experience and comprehend the rich connotations of clean governance culture, and actively practice clean governance culture in their daily lives, thereby fostering a clean and upright grassroots political ecosystem and raising the level of grassroots governance modernization. At the same time, in the process of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organizations, it is necessary to focus on upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground [20]20 守正创新 (shǒuzhèng chuàngxīn) — a Party slogan meaning "uphold fundamental principles and break new ground," i.e., maintain core socialist values and Party leadership while innovating in methods and practices.; one must always remember that clean governance culture in the New Era is an attribute of advanced socialist culture, upholding the fundamental principles of advanced socialist culture and breaking new ground in the propaganda methods of clean governance culture. In this process, it is imperative to firmly grasp the main thread of culture with Chinese characteristics, innovate the modes of disseminating clean governance culture under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, combine clean governance culture with the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the lofty ideal of communism, and further enrich and expand the ideological connotations and contemporary value of clean governance culture.

廉洁文化是在中国几千年来的政治实践中不断形成、发展并逐步完善的,其本身就具有一脉相承、与时俱进的传承性和创新性。创新廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的宣传方式符合廉洁文化在传承中创新的需要。一方面,要把互联网这个最大变量变成最大增量,丰富廉洁文化传播方式,推动廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的全覆盖,提高廉洁文化与基层治理的契合度。基层党组织在融入廉洁文化的过程中,可以通过开设特色鲜明、辨识度高的新媒体账号矩阵的方式,进行多媒体宣传方式的融合,及时更新分享廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的相关活动,定期对廉洁文化宣传内容进行优化,引导广大人民群众进行互动式参与。在此过程中,不仅督促基层党员干部积极认真开展相关活动,也可以使人民群众了解到廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的创新成果,让基层党员干部和广大人民群众在日常生活中通过新媒体平台便可以了解到廉洁文化的相关内容,在潜移默化中学习并践行廉洁文化,使廉洁文化深度融入基层治理。另一方面,要开展丰富多彩的廉洁文化宣传活动,增强廉洁文化的吸引力和感召力,提高廉洁文化推动基层治理的效能。在廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的过程中,要结合廉洁文化多样化的宣传形式,可以在基层党组织中推动廉洁文化数字化体验、故事化传播、趣味化学习等多种形式的宣传活动,号召基层党员干部和人民群众积极参与其中,亲身体会领悟廉洁文化的丰富内涵,并在日常生活中积极践行廉洁文化,推动形成风清气正的基层政治生态,提高基层治理现代化水平。同时,在廉洁文化融入基层党组织的过程中要注重守正创新,要时刻牢记新时代廉洁文化是社会主义先进文化的属性,守社会主义先进文化之正,创廉洁文化宣传方式之新。在此过程中必须要牢牢把握中国特色社会主义文化这条主线,在坚持中国共产党的领导下创新廉洁文化传播方式,将廉洁文化与中国特色社会主义共同理想和共产主义远大理想相结合,进一步丰富拓展廉洁文化的思想内涵及时代价值。

(IV) Strengthen the Guiding Role of Party Building, Elevate the Level of Grassroots Governance Modernization

(四)强化党建引领作用,提升基层治理现代化水平

General Secretary Xi Jinping clearly pointed out in the report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC, "Adhere to the clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, strengthen Party building to promote rural revitalization, enhance urban community Party building work, and advance grassroots governance led by Party building." [21]21 Quotation from Xi Jinping's report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC (October 2022), emphasizing the Party's focus on grassroots organization and leadership. This important exposition provides crucial guidance for integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, thereby advancing governance modernization. In the process of promoting the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, it is necessary to strengthen the guiding role of Party building, leverage the role of grassroots Party organizations as battle fortresses and the vanguard and exemplary role of Party members, resolutely implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee at the grassroots level, elevate the level of grassroots governance modernization, and use grassroots governance modernization to advance the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity.

习近平总书记在党的二十大报告中明确指出,“坚持大抓基层的鲜明导向,抓党建促乡村振兴,加强城市社区党建工作,推进以党建引领基层治理”。这一重要论述为以廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设,进而推进治理现代化提供了重要指引。在推进廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的过程中,要强化党建引领作用,发挥基层党组织的战斗堡垒作用和党员先锋模范作用,在基层坚决贯彻落实党中央的决策部署,提升基层治理现代化水平,以基层治理现代化推进国家治理体系和治理能力的现代化。

Grassroots governance is the foundational task for advancing the modernization of national governance. Strengthening the guiding role of Party building in the process of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building helps to elevate the level of the Party's grassroots governance modernization and transform the Party's organizational advantages into grassroots governance effectiveness. On the one hand, it is necessary to deeply promote the close integration of clean governance culture building and grassroots Party organization building, forming a joint force for advancing grassroots governance modernization. In the process of integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, combined with the actual conditions of clean governance culture building, Party building resources should be sunk to the grassroots level, promoting stricter education and management of Party members, more serious intra-Party political life, tighter Party organizational systems, and more steadfast political beliefs among grassroots Party members and cadres, thereby continuously deepening grassroots Party organization building. In the process of using clean governance culture to unify thought, unify will, and unify action, grassroots governance should be firmly grasped to elevate the level of grassroots governance modernization. On the other hand, grassroots Party organizations should be encouraged to independently carry out innovative practices, explore new models of clean governance culture building, and empower the development of grassroots governance and the elevation of grassroots governance modernization levels. In the process of carrying out the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building, the principal role of grassroots Party organizations should be actively leveraged. Combining with the "smart Party building" platform, clean governance culture building should be carried out with the spirit of the nail [22]22 钉钉子精神 (dīng dīngzi jīngshén) — "spirit of the nail," a metaphor popularized by Xi Jinping for persistent, focused, and thorough implementation of tasks., clarifying that Party organizations at all levels are the political responsibility subjects for clean governance culture building, encouraging grassroots Party organizations to independently explore the establishment of more scientific and effective evaluation mechanisms that better meet the requirements of grassroots governance work and are more conducive to advancing grassroots governance modernization, avoiding problems such as "excessive record-keeping" and "unclear powers and responsibilities" in the process of integrating clean governance culture and grassroots Party organization building. In the process of promoting the close integration of clean governance culture building and grassroots Party organization building, the grassroots governance methods from the New Era "Fengqiao Experience" [23]23 枫桥经验 (Fēngqiáo jīngyàn) — "Fengqiao Experience," a grassroots governance model originating in Fengqiao, Zhejiang Province in the 1960s, emphasizing mass-line methods for conflict resolution and social stability, revived and promoted in the New Era. can be actively drawn upon, closely centering on relying on the masses to tell clean governance stories well, placing greater emphasis on a problem-oriented approach, carrying out self-inspection and self-correction by grassroots Party members and cadres, preventing negative corruption issues in grassroots governance carried out by grassroots Party organizations, enhancing the consciousness of grassroots Party members and cadres in serving the people in grassroots governance, and striving to elevate the level of grassroots governance modernization.

基层治理是推进国家治理现代化的基础任务,在廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的过程中强化党建引领作用,有助于提升党的基层治理现代化水平,把党的组织优势转化为基层治理效能。一方面,要深入推进廉洁文化建设与基层党组织建设二者紧密结合,形成推进基层治理现代化的合力。在廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的过程中,结合廉洁文化建设的实际,将党的建设资源下沉到基层,推进党员教育管理更加严格,党内政治生活更加严肃,党的组织体系更加严密,基层党员干部政治信仰更加坚定,使基层党组织建设不断深化。在以廉洁文化统一思想、统一意志、统一行动的过程中紧抓基层治理,提升基层治理现代化水平。另一方面,鼓励基层党组织自主开展创新实践,探索廉洁文化建设的新模式,为开展基层治理和提升基层治理现代化水平赋能。在开展廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设的过程中,要积极发挥基层党组织的主体作用,结合“智慧党建”平台,以钉钉子精神开展廉洁文化建设,明确各级党组织作为廉洁文化建设的政治责任主体,鼓励基层党组织自主探索建立更加科学有效、更加符合基层治理工作要求、更加有利于推进基层治理的现代化评估机制,避免在廉洁文化与基层党组织建设二者融合过程中出现“过度留痕”“权责不明”等问题。在推进廉洁文化建设与基层党组织建设紧密结合的过程中,可以积极借鉴新时代“枫桥经验”中的基层治理方式,紧密围绕依靠群众讲好清廉故事,更加注重问题导向,开展基层党员干部自纠自查,预防基层党组织开展基层治理中出现消极腐败问题,增强基层党员干部在基层治理中为人民服务的自觉性,努力提升基层治理现代化水平。

From the perspective of governance modernization, promoting the integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building is continuously driven by three developmental dynamics: the clean governance culture thought of classical Marxist writers, the experience of clean governance culture building in China's political practice, and the practical need for the Communist Party of China to solve the unique problems of a large party [24]24 大党独有难题 (dà dǎng dú yǒu nántí) — "unique problems of a large party,". It also possesses the distinct contemporary value of solidifying the foundation of ideals and convictions, promoting the building of a clean society, and inheriting and developing clean governance culture. The integration of clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building must continuously explore new methods, new paths, and new models in the practice of adhering to strengthening clean governance education, perfecting institutional building, innovating propaganda methods, and strengthening the guiding role of Party building, promoting the formation of normalized and long-term institutional mechanisms for integrating clean governance culture into grassroots Party organization building to serve grassroots governance modernization, making clean governance culture a spontaneous spiritual pursuit and action guide for grassroots Party members and cadres, and providing an inexhaustible spiritual driving force for unswervingly advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party on the new journey.

在治理现代化视域下,推进廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设是由马克思主义经典作家的廉洁文化思想、中国政治实践中廉洁文化建设经验以及中国共产党解决大党独有难题的现实需要三重发展动因不断推动的,也具有筑牢理想信念之基、推动建设廉洁社会以及继承发展廉洁文化的鲜明时代价值。廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设要在坚持加强廉洁教育、完善制度建设、创新宣传方式、强化党建引领作用的实践中不断探索新方式、新路径和新模式,推动形成廉洁文化融入基层党组织建设服务基层治理现代化的常态化和长效化体制机制,使廉洁文化成为基层党员干部自发的精神追求和行动指南,为在新征程上坚定不移推进全面从严治党提供不竭精神动力。

(Author Biographies: Zhang Zhiyuan, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Marxism, Northeastern University; Wang Yitong, Master's Student, School of Marxism, Northeastern University)

(作者简介:张志元,东北大学马克思主义学院教授,博士生导师;王一桐,东北大学马克思主义学院硕士研究生)

Online Editor: Jing Mu

网络编辑:静穆

Notes

  1. This refers to a document issued by the Central Committee of the CPC and the State Council in 2021, formally titled "Opinions on Strengthening the Modernization of the Primary-Level Governance System and Governance Capacity." ↩
  2. The "three non-corruptions" (三不腐) is a standard formulation in CPC anti-corruption discourse: "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt." ↩
  3. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the CPC was held in July 2024. ↩
  4. The "three non-corruptions" (三不腐) is a standard formulation in CPC anti-corruption discourse: "not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt." ↩
  5. "The unique problems of a large party" (大党独有难题) is a term used by Xi Jinping to refer to the specific challenges faced by a ↩
  6. Yanzi (c. 578–500 BCE), a famous statesman and thinker of the State of Qi during the Spring and Autumn period. The quotation is from the *Yanzi Chunqiu* (Annals of Master Yan). ↩
  7. Li Shimin (598–649 CE), the second emperor of the Tang dynasty, known as Emperor Taizong. The quotation is from the *Zhenguan Zhengyao* (Essentials of Government in the Zhenguan Era). ↩
  8. The Sage Ancestor (Shengzu) is the temple name of the Kangxi Emperor (1654–1722 CE), the fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty. ↩
  9. The quotation is from the *Kangxi Emperor’s Instructions on Governance*. ↩
  10. Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925), the founding father of the Republic of China. The quotation is from his speech at the founding ceremony of the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924. ↩
  11. Mao Zedong (1893–1976), the founding leader of the People’s Republic of China. The quotation is from his instruction on the “Three-Anti” campaign in 1951. ↩
  12. The “Three-Anti” campaign (1951–1952) targeted corruption, waste, and bureaucracy within the Party and government. The “Five-Anti” campaign (1952) targeted bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cheating on government contracts, and stealing state economic information among private businesses. ↩
  13. Deng Xiaoping (1904–1997), the chief architect of China’s reform and opening up. The quotation is from his speech in 1989. ↩
  14. Jiang Zemin (1926–2022), General Secretary of the CPC from 1989 to 2002. The quotation is from his speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 15th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in 2000. ↩
  15. Hu Jintao (b. 1942), General Secretary of the CPC from 2002 to 2012. The quotation is from his speech at the 17th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in 2007. ↩
  16. The 20th National Congress of the CPC was held in October 2022. The quotation is from the congress report. ↩
  17. "Historical cycle of rise and fall" (历史周期率) refers to the cyclical pattern of dynastic rise, peak, decline, and collapse in Chinese history, a concept famously discussed by Mao Zedong and Huang Yanpei in 1945 as a challenge for the CPC to overcome. ↩
  18. The term "outlook on political performance" (政绩观) refers to the perspective of Party officials on what constitutes meaningful political achievement, often emphasizing long-term, people-centered development over short-term, superficial results.
  19. "Red revolutionary culture" (红色革命文化) refers to the cultural heritage and revolutionary spirit cultivated by the CPC during the periods of revolutionary struggle, such as the Jinggangshan spirit, the Yan'an spirit, and the spirit of the Long March.
  20. 守正创新 (shǒuzhèng chuàngxīn) — a Party slogan meaning "uphold fundamental principles and break new ground," i.e., maintain core socialist values and Party leadership while innovating in methods and practices. ↩
  21. Quotation from Xi Jinping's report to the 20th National Congress of the CPC (October 2022), emphasizing the Party's focus on grassroots organization and leadership. ↩
  22. 钉钉子精神 (dīng dīngzi jīngshén) — "spirit of the nail," a metaphor popularized by Xi Jinping for persistent, focused, and thorough implementation of tasks. ↩
  23. 枫桥经验 (Fēngqiáo jīngyàn) — "Fengqiao Experience," a grassroots governance model originating in Fengqiao, Zhejiang Province in the 1960s, emphasizing mass-line methods for conflict resolution and social stability, revived and promoted in the New Era. ↩
  24. 大党独有难题 (dà dǎng dú yǒu nántí) — "unique problems of a large party," ↩