A Profound Grasp of the Scientific System and Internal Logic of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building: The “Fourteen Persistences”

Theoretical Study Center Group of the Academic Affairs Committee of China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong

中国浦东干部学院院务委员会理论学习中心组

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has, centering on the major epochal question of what kind of long-term governing Marxist political party to build and how to build it, put forward a series of new concepts, new ideas, and new strategies for governing, rejuvenating, and strengthening the Party, thereby forming Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building. The “Fourteen Persistences” of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building profoundly grasp the internal connection between governing, rejuvenating, and strengthening the Party on the one hand and strengthening the country and achieving national rejuvenation on the other; they coordinate Party leadership and Party building, making the substance manifest and uniting substance and function [n]; they comprehensively and profoundly elucidate the highest principle, strategic policy, value pursuit, work layout, and methodological pathways of Party building in the New Era. To deeply comprehend and firmly grasp the rich connotation, internal logic, and practical requirements of this theoretical system is both an essential part of deepening the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building and an inherent requirement for perfecting the system for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and advancing the great new project of Party building in the New Era.

党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央围绕建设什么样的长期执政的马克思主义政党、怎样建设长期执政的马克思主义政党这一重大时代课题，提出一系列管党治党、兴党强党的新理念新思想新战略，形成习近平党建思想。习近平党建思想“十四个坚持”，深刻把握管党治党、兴党强党同强国复兴的内在联系，统筹党的领导和党的建设，明体达用、体用贯通，全面深刻阐明了新时代党的建设的最高原则、战略方针、价值追求、工作布局和方法路径。深刻领会和牢牢把握这一理论体系的丰富内涵、内在逻辑和实践要求，既是深化习近平党建思想体系化学理化研究阐释的应有之义，也是健全全面从严治党体系、推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程的内在要求。

Persisting in the Comprehensive Leadership of the Party and the Centralized, Unified Leadership of the Party Central Committee

坚持党的全面领导和党中央集中统一领导

Persisting in Party leadership is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and persisting in the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee; together, these two elucidate the highest principle of Party building in the New Era, profoundly answering the major questions of who leads and what political direction to uphold in governing, rejuvenating, and strengthening the Party, and in strengthening the country and achieving national rejuvenation. They occupy a commanding position among the “Fourteen Persistences” and constitute the political foundation of the entire content. The highest principle performs three functions. First, political orientation. Political attribute is the Party’s primary attribute; all measures for governing the Party must closely revolve around consolidating the Party’s comprehensive leadership and safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee. Deviating from this principle will lead to losing direction and even committing subversive mistakes. Second, laying a solid foundation. Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, adhering to the original aspiration and founding mission, and advancing the Party’s various building efforts are all premised on the Party’s comprehensive leadership. Third, overarching guidance. The strategic policy serves to consolidate the Party’s leadership position; the value pursuit manifests the Party’s nature and purpose; and the work layout and methodological pathways must all implement the requirements of the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee.

坚持党的领导是中国特色社会主义最本质的特征，坚持党中央集中统一领导，二者共同阐明了新时代党的建设最高原则，深刻回答了管党治党、兴党强党、强国复兴由谁领导、坚持什么样的政治方向的重大问题，在“十四个坚持”中居于统领地位，是全部内容的政治基础。最高原则承担3重功能。一是政治定向。政治属性是党第一位的属性，全部管党治党举措都要紧紧围绕巩固党的全面领导、维护党中央权威来展开，偏离这一原则，就会迷失方向，甚至犯颠覆性错误。二是筑牢根基。全面从严治党、坚守初心使命、推进党的各项建设，都建立在党的全面领导的前提之上。三是统摄引领。战略方针服务于巩固党的领导地位，价值追求彰显党的性质宗旨，工作布局与方法路径都必须贯彻党中央集中统一领导要求。

Persisting in the leadership of the proletarian political party is a basic principle of scientific socialism. Marx and Engels emphasized the proletarian party’s leadership over the workers’ movement; Lenin emphasized that the proletarian party must exercise general leadership over all work of the state. Over more than a century of Party history, it has been irrefutably proven that persisting in Party leadership is the fundamental guarantee for the continuous victory of the Party’s and the country’s undertakings. General Secretary Xi Jinping has pointed out: “Socialism with Chinese characteristics has many features and characteristics, but the most essential feature is persisting in the leadership of the Communist Party of China.” “China’s biggest national condition is the leadership of the Communist Party of China. What are Chinese characteristics? This is Chinese characteristics.” Writing the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics into the Party Constitution and enshrining it in the Constitution embodies the will of the entire Party and the will of the state, and represents the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people.

坚持无产阶级政党领导，是科学社会主义的基本原则。马克思、恩格斯强调无产阶级政党对工人运动的领导，列宁强调无产阶级政党要对国家各项工作实行总的领导。百余年党史雄辩证明，坚持党的领导是党和国家事业不断取得胜利的根本保证。习近平总书记指出：“中国特色社会主义有很多特点和特征，但最本质的特征是坚持中国共产党领导。”“中国最大的国情就是中国共产党的领导。什么是中国特色？这就是中国特色。”将中国特色社会主义最本质的特征写入党章、载入宪法，体现了全党意志和国家意志，代表了最广大人民根本利益。

Persisting in the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the highest principle of Party leadership, and its core essence is mainly reflected in three aspects. First, the Party is the highest political leadership force; the Party leads everything in all sectors—Party, government, military, civilian, scholarly, east, west, south, north. Second, the Party’s leadership system is our country’s fundamental leadership system; the People’s Congress, government, Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, supervisory organs, judicial organs, people’s armed forces, mass organizations, enterprises, and public institutions must all operate in coordination under the unified leadership of the Party, each performing its own functions, to ensure the smooth flow of government decrees. Third, the Party exercises overall leadership and coordinates all parties; the entire Party must deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments [n], strengthen the Four Consciousnesses [n], fortify the Four Confidences [n], achieve the Two Upholds [n], strictly implement democratic centralism, and promote the implementation and effectiveness of the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee.

坚持党中央集中统一领导是党的领导的最高原则，其核心要义主要体现在3个方面。第一，党是最高政治领导力量，党政军民学，东西南北中，党是领导一切的。第二，党的领导制度是我国根本领导制度，人大、政府、政协、监察机关、司法机关、人民军队、群团组织、企事业单位都要在党的统一领导下协同运行，各司其职，保障政令畅通。第三，坚持党总揽全局、协调各方，全党必须深刻领悟“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”，严格执行民主集中制，推动党中央决策部署落地见效。

Persistently Advancing Comprehensive and Strict Governance of the Party

持之以恒推进全面从严治党

Persisting in comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is the strategic policy for Party building in the New Era. It builds a bridge to transform political principles and institutional advantages into the practice of governing the Party and the effectiveness of state governance, responding to the major proposition of what approach to adopt for governing the Party under conditions of long-term governance.

坚持全面从严治党是新时代党的建设的战略方针，架设起将政治原则、制度优势转化为管党治党实践、治国理政效能的桥梁，回应了长期执政条件下以什么样的思路管党治党这一重大命题。

After a proletarian political party comes to power, how to forever maintain its advanced nature and purity and respond to risks such as political impurity, ideological laxity, organizational slackness, and corruption and degeneration is a major issue in Marxist party-building theory. Marx emphasized that the Party’s discipline must be absolutely maintained; Lenin proposed that the revolutionary cause requires iron discipline and organization. Our Party has always insisted that the Party must govern itself throughout its more than one hundred years of history, continuously exploring pathways for strict governance. Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is the distinctive theme of Party building in the New Era and an inevitable requirement for successfully embarking on the new journey of the examination [n]. The Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has incorporated comprehensive and strict governance of the Party into the Four-Pronged Comprehensive Strategy [n], applying strict standards and strict measures throughout the entire process and all aspects of governing the Party, promoting the Party’s self-purification, self-improvement, self-reform, and self-enhancement, and making it, after revolutionary tempering, stronger and more powerful.

无产阶级政党执政后，如何永葆先进性和纯洁性，应对政治不纯、思想松懈、组织涣散、腐化蜕变等风险，是马克思主义建党学说的重大课题。马克思强调必须绝对保持党的纪律，列宁提出革命事业需要铁的纪律和组织。我们党在百余年历程中始终坚持党要管党，不断探索从严治党路径。全面从严治党是新时代党的建设的鲜明主题，是走好新的赶考之路的必然要求。以习近平同志为核心的党中央将全面从严治党纳入“四个全面”战略布局，把严的标准、严的措施贯穿管党治党全过程和各方面，推动党实现自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高，经过革命性锻造变得更加坚强有力。

Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party performs an overarching function linking the upper and lower levels within the “Fourteen Persistences” of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building. This strategic policy is internally generated from the highest principle and runs through all fields, aspects, and the entire process of the work layout and methodological pathways of Party building in the New Era. On the one hand, the Party shoulders the mission of advancing Chinese-path modernization and achieving the strengthening of the country and national rejuvenation; to lead the great cause, the Party itself must first be strong. The Party’s leadership position is neither inherent nor permanent; only by persistently advancing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party can the Party’s core leadership position and long-term governing status be consolidated. On the other hand, the work layout and methodological pathways of Party building in the New Era must all embody and implement the requirements of “comprehensive,” “strict,” and “governance.” “Comprehensive” means governing the entire Party, covering all Party members and Party organizations at all levels, with a focus on the “key minority” [n]; “strict” means truly and strictly governing, daring to govern strictly, and maintaining long-term strict governance; “governance” means layer by layer consolidating the responsibility for governing the Party, uprooting “rotten trees,” treating “sick trees,” and straightening “crooked trees” [n], achieving both symptomatic and root-cause treatment.

全面从严治党在习近平党建思想“十四个坚持”中发挥上下贯通的总体功能。这一战略方针内生于最高原则，并贯穿于新时代党的建设工作布局和方法路径的各领域各方面全过程。一方面，党肩负着推进中国式现代化、实现强国复兴的使命，要领导伟大事业首先自身必须过硬。党的领导地位不是与生俱来的，也不是一劳永逸的，只有持之以恒推进全面从严治党，才能巩固党的领导核心地位和长期执政地位。另一方面，新时代党的建设工作布局和方法路径都要体现、落实“全面”“严”“治”的要求。全面，就是管全党、治全党，覆盖全体党员、各级党组织，重点紧盯“关键少数”；严，就是真管真严、敢管敢严、长管长严；治，就是层层压实管党治党责任，拔“烂树”、治“病树”、正“歪树”，实现标本兼治。

Consciously Practicing the People-Centered Development Philosophy and a Correct Outlook on Political Performance

自觉践行以人民为中心的发展思想和正确政绩观

Persisting in not forgetting the original aspiration and keeping the founding mission firmly in mind profoundly elucidates the value pursuit of Party building in the New Era, manifests the Party’s nature, purpose, and goal, and answers the question of stance: “For what purpose does one govern, rejuvenate, and strengthen the Party?” It is an important main thread running through Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, providing value guidance, a standard of stance, and a yardstick for evaluating effectiveness for Party building.

坚持不忘初心、牢记使命，深刻阐明了新时代党的建设的价值追求，彰显了党的性质宗旨和奋斗目标，回答了“管党治党、兴党强党为了什么”的立场问题，是贯穿习近平党建思想的一条重要主线，为党的建设提供了价值引领、立场准绳和成效评判标尺。

The Communist Manifesto elucidates that the proletarian movement is a movement for the interests of the vast majority. Seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation is the original aspiration and founding mission of Chinese Communists and the fundamental driving force for our Party’s continuous struggle. In January 2020, at the summing-up conference of the education campaign on “not forgetting the original aspiration and keeping the founding mission in mind” [n], General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “From the Shikumen to Tiananmen, from Xingye Road to Fuxing Road, all the efforts our Party has made, all the struggles it has waged, and all the sacrifices it has made over the past nearly one hundred years have been for the happiness of the people and the rejuvenation of the nation.” Not forgetting the original aspiration and keeping the founding mission in mind means that the entire Party must remember the fundamental question of what the Communist Party of China is and what it wants to do, and implement the original aspiration and founding mission in all the Party’s practical struggles.

《共产党宣言》阐明了无产阶级运动是为绝大多数人谋利益的运动。为中国人民谋幸福、为中华民族谋复兴，是中国共产党人的初心使命，是我们党接续奋斗的根本动力。2020年1月，习近平总书记在“不忘初心、牢记使命”主题教育总结大会上指出：“从石库门到天安门，从兴业路到复兴路，我们党近百年来所付出的一切努力、进行的一切斗争、作出的一切牺牲，都是为了人民幸福和民族复兴。”不忘初心、牢记使命，就是要全党牢记中国共产党是什么、要干什么这个根本问题，把初心使命落实到党的全部奋斗实践当中。

This value pursuit runs through all aspects of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building. First, it is embodied in the highest principle. Our Party has no special interests of its own; the Party comes from the people, takes root among the people, and serves the people; the Party’s foundation is in the people, its bloodline is in the people, and its strength is in the people; the Party’s comprehensive leadership inherently contains the value background of the original aspiration and founding mission. Second, it runs through the strategic policy. The starting point and ultimate goal of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party are to realize, safeguard, and develop the fundamental interests of the broadest majority of the people; unswervingly opposing corruption and rectifying work style issues are all responses to the expectations of the people and efforts to consolidate the Party’s popular foundation for governance. Third, it runs through the work layout. The tempering of Party spirit requires taking a firm stand with the people; the building of the cadre contingent aims at cultivating backbone cadres for national rejuvenation; consolidating the responsibility for governing the Party aims at properly using the power entrusted by the people; every Party building task carries a people-oriented orientation. The original aspiration and founding mission are also the fundamental yardstick for testing the effectiveness of Party building; in evaluating the effectiveness of Party building, the key is to see whether the original aspiration and founding mission are practiced and the people’s well-being is enhanced, and whether practical results are achieved that can stand the test of practice, the people, and history.

这一价值追求贯通习近平党建思想各个方面。其一，体现最高原则。我们党没有自身特殊利益，党来自人民、植根人民、服务人民，党的根基在人民、血脉在人民、力量在人民，党的全面领导内在蕴含初心使命的价值底色。其二，统贯战略方针。全面从严治党的出发点和落脚点就是实现好、维护好、发展好最广大人民根本利益，坚定不移反腐败、纠治作风问题，都是回应人民群众期盼、夯实党执政的民心根基。其三，贯穿工作布局。党性锤炼要求站稳人民立场，干部队伍建设着眼为民族复兴培育骨干，压实管党治党责任旨在用好人民赋予的权力，每一项党建任务都承载着为民导向。初心使命也是检验党建成效的根本标尺，评判党建成效，关键看是否践行初心使命、增进人民福祉，是否创造出经得起实践、人民、历史检验的实绩。

Taking political Party building as the guide to comprehensively advance all aspects of Party building

以党的政治建设为统领全面推进党的各方面建设

Under the orientation of the supreme principle, the command of the strategic policy, and the guidance of the value pursuit, the latter ten aspects of the “Fourteen Persistences” constitute a complete work layout: persisting in taking political Party building as the guide, persisting in using the Party’s innovative theory to consolidate the soul, persisting in tempering strong Party spirit, persisting in improving the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and effective in execution, persisting in building a high-quality cadre contingent capable of shouldering the heavy task of national rejuvenation, persisting in promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction, persisting in governing the entire Party with strict discipline, persisting in advancing the integrated approach of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, persisting in governing the Party with institutions and in accordance with intra-Party regulations, and persisting in implementing the political responsibility for governing the Party and managing the Party. This clarifies the key tasks and practical paths for governing the Party and managing the Party, providing a clear direction for “what to do” and “how to do it.”

在最高原则定向、战略方针统领、价值追求引领之下，“十四个坚持”后十个方面构成完整工作布局：坚持以党的政治建设为统领，坚持用党的创新理论凝心铸魂，坚持锤炼坚强党性，坚持健全上下贯通、执行有力的组织体系，坚持建设堪当民族复兴重任的高素质干部队伍，坚持推进作风建设常态化长效化，坚持用严明的纪律管全党治全党，坚持一体推进不敢腐不能腐不想腐，坚持制度治党、依规治党，坚持落实管党治党政治责任。这明确了管党治党的重点任务和实践路径，使“干什么”“怎么干”有了清晰指向。

Persisting in taking political Party building as the guide, grasping the fundamental construction of the Party; persisting in using the Party’s innovative theory to consolidate the soul, consolidating the foundational construction of ideological building; persisting in tempering strong Party spirit, fortifying the cornerstone for Party members and cadres to establish themselves, pursue their careers, and cultivate their moral character; persisting in improving the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and effective in execution, leveraging the advantages of a Marxist party’s tight organizational system; persisting in building a high-quality cadre contingent capable of shouldering the heavy task of national rejuvenation, focusing on the fact that the key to strengthening the country and rejuvenating the nation lies in the Party and in people; persisting in promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction, anchoring the key goal of maintaining the Party’s flesh-and-blood ties with the masses; persisting in governing the entire Party with strict discipline, making good use of strengthening discipline construction as the fundamental strategy for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party; persisting in advancing the integrated approach of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, specifying the basic strategy for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and the basic policy for the anti-corruption struggle; persisting in governing the Party with institutions and in accordance with intra-Party regulations, grasping the long-term and fundamental measures for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party; persisting in implementing the political responsibility for governing the Party and managing the Party, seizing the “ox nose” [n10] of the responsibility system. These ten aspects are interlinked, running through the various links of politics, ideology, Party spirit, organization, cadres, work style, discipline, anti-corruption, institutions, and responsibility, forming a complete and systematic task system for Party building.

坚持以党的政治建设为统领，抓住党的根本性建设；坚持用党的创新理论凝心铸魂，夯实思想建设这一基础性建设；坚持锤炼坚强党性，筑牢党员干部立身立业立言立德的基石；坚持健全上下贯通、执行有力的组织体系，发挥马克思主义政党严密组织体系的优势；坚持建设堪当民族复兴重任的高素质干部队伍，聚焦强国复兴关键在党、关键在人；坚持推进作风建设常态化长效化，锚定保持党同人民群众血肉联系这一关键目标；坚持用严明的纪律管全党治全党，用好加强纪律建设这个全面从严治党的治本之策；坚持一体推进不敢腐不能腐不想腐，指明全面从严治党的基本方略和反腐败斗争的基本方针；坚持制度治党、依规治党，把握全面从严治党长远之策、根本之策；坚持落实管党治党政治责任，牵住责任制这个“牛鼻子”。10个方面环环相扣，贯通政治、思想、党性、组织、干部、作风、纪律、反腐、制度、责任各环节，形成系统完备的党建任务体系。

Making Party building more scientific, more rigorous, and more effective

把党的建设抓得更加科学、更加严密、更加有效

Each aspect of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, the “Fourteen Persistences,” contains both theoretical exposition and practical requirements; it both deploys the task of “crossing the river” and provides the working method of “bridges or boats.” It embodies the unity of leadership methods, ideological methods, and working methods, providing action guidelines for making Party building in the New Era more scientific, more rigorous, and more effective.

习近平党建思想“十四个坚持”的每个方面，既有理论阐述又有实践要求；既部署“过河”任务，又提供“桥或船”的工作方法，蕴含领导方法、思想方法、工作方法，实现了认识论与方法论相统一，为新时代党的建设更加科学、更加严密、更加有效提供了行动遵循。

Persisting in the Party’s leadership as the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics requires that Party leadership be implemented in all areas, aspects, and links of governing the Party and managing the Party, and governing the country and managing state affairs. Persisting in the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee requires safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee as the sole arbiter and final decision-maker [n11], ensuring that Party organizations at all levels and Party members and cadres always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee, deeply comprehending the decisive significance of the Two Establishments [n12], and resolutely achieving the Two Upholds [n13]. Persisting in comprehensive and strict governance of the Party requires improving the system for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, advancing the Party’s self-purification, self-improvement, self-reform, and self-enhancement, achieving full coverage in content, full coverage in targets, a complete chain of responsibilities, and full integration of institutions. Persisting in remaining true to our original aspiration and founding mission requires keeping in mind that the country is the people and the people are the country [n14], consciously practicing the people-centered development philosophy and the correct outlook on political performance, and following the Party’s mass line in the New Era. Persisting in taking political Party building as the guide requires always regarding the Two Upholds as the highest political principle and fundamental political rule, continuously improving political judgment, political understanding, and political execution. Persisting in using the Party’s innovative theory to consolidate the soul requires promoting the integration of learning, thinking, and application, and the unity of knowledge, belief, and action; reading original works, studying original texts, and comprehending principles; transforming learning outcomes into a powerful force for strengthening ideals, tempering Party spirit, guiding practice, and advancing work. Persisting in tempering strong Party spirit requires placing political cultivation first, strictly implementing the norms of political life within the Party, and enhancing the political nature, contemporaneity, principle, and combativeness of political life within the Party. Persisting in improving the organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and effective in execution requires making efforts to solve the problems of “roadblocks,” “mid-level obstructions,” and “dead-end roads” in policy implementation, establishing a clear orientation of focusing on the grassroots, and realizing the Party’s leadership as if the body commands the arms and the arms command the fingers [n15]. Persisting in building a high-quality cadre contingent capable of shouldering the heavy task of national rejuvenation requires adhering to the principle of the Party managing cadres, adhering to the standards for good cadres in the New Era, combining strict management with care, placing political standards first, and tempering cadres in major struggles. Persisting in promoting the normalization and long-term effectiveness of work style construction requires persistently implementing the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulations, continuously correcting the “Four Forms of Decadence” [n16] and fostering new practices, vigorously promoting the practice of investigation and research, and striving for practical results. Persisting in governing the entire Party with strict discipline requires insisting that discipline is stricter than the law and that discipline precedes the law, making good use of the “Four Forms” [n17] of supervision and discipline enforcement, and comprehensively leveraging the educational, constraining, safeguarding, and incentivizing roles of Party discipline. Persisting in advancing the integrated approach of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt requires promoting the simultaneous, comprehensive, and integrated exertion of punishment and deterrence, institutional constraints, and enhanced awareness, winning the tough and protracted battle against corruption. Persisting in governing the Party with institutions and in accordance with intra-Party regulations requires adhering to the Party Constitution as the foundation and democratic centralism as the core, improving the system of intra-Party regulations and rules, and promoting the organic unity of law-based governance and governance of the Party in accordance with regulations. Persisting in implementing the political responsibility for governing the Party and managing the Party requires improving the complete chain of responsibilities composed of the main responsibility of Party committees (Party groups), the supervisory responsibility of discipline inspection commissions, the first responsibility of Party organization secretaries, the “one post with two responsibilities” [n18] of leading Party members, and the specific responsibilities of Party members and cadres; constructing a closed loop of clarifying responsibilities, fulfilling responsibilities, assessing responsibilities, and holding accountable; insisting that dereliction of duty must be investigated and accountability must be strict; and using accountability to force the implementation of responsibilities.

坚持党的领导是中国特色社会主义最本质的特征，就要把党的领导贯穿管党治党、治国理政各领域各方面各环节。坚持党中央集中统一领导，就要维护党中央定于一尊、一锤定音的权威，确保各级党组织和党员干部始终同党中央保持高度一致，深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义，坚决做到“两个维护”。坚持全面从严治党，就要健全全面从严治党体系，推进党的自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高，做到内容上全涵盖、对象上全覆盖、责任上全链条、制度上全贯通。坚持不忘初心、牢记使命，就要牢记江山就是人民、人民就是江山，自觉践行以人民为中心的发展思想和正确政绩观，走好新时代党的群众路线。坚持以党的政治建设为统领，就要始终把“两个维护”作为最高政治原则和根本政治规矩，不断提高政治判断力、政治领悟力、政治执行力。坚持用党的创新理论凝心铸魂，就要推动学思用贯通、知信行统一，读原著、学原文、悟原理，把学习成效转化为坚定理想、锤炼党性、指导实践、推动工作的强大力量。坚持锤炼坚强党性，就要把政治修养摆在首位，严格执行党内政治生活准则，增强党内政治生活政治性、时代性、原则性、战斗性。坚持健全上下贯通、执行有力的组织体系，就要着力破解政策落实中的“拦路虎”“中梗阻”“断头路”问题，树立大抓基层的鲜明导向，实现党的领导如身使臂、如臂使指。坚持建设堪当民族复兴重任的高素质干部队伍，就要坚持党管干部原则，坚持新时代好干部标准，坚持严管厚爱结合，把政治标准放在首位，在重大斗争中磨砺干部。坚持推进作风建设常态化长效化，就要锲而不舍落实中央八项规定精神，持续纠“四风”树新风，大兴调查研究之风，务求实干实效。坚持用严明的纪律管全党治全党，就要坚持纪严于法、纪在法前，用好监督执纪“四种形态”，综合发挥党的纪律教育约束和保障激励作用。坚持一体推进不敢腐不能腐不想腐，就要推动惩治震慑、制度约束、提高觉悟同向发力、综合发力、一体发力，打赢反腐败斗争攻坚战、持久战。坚持制度治党、依规治党，就要坚持以党章为根本、以民主集中制为核心，完善党内法规制度体系，推动依法治国和依规治党有机统一。坚持落实管党治党政治责任，就要健全党委（党组）主体责任、纪委监督责任、党组织书记第一责任人责任、班子成员“一岗双责”、党员干部具体责任等构成的完整责任链条，构建明责、履责、考责、问责闭环，坚持失责必问、问责必严，以问责倒逼责任落实。

Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building comprehensively and profoundly elucidates the supreme principle, strategic policy, value pursuit, work layout, and method path of Party building in the New Era. These are not in a simple linear progressive relationship but form a dialectically unified whole, running through the entire practice of governing the Party, managing the Party, revitalizing the Party, and strengthening the Party. Its internal logic can be grasped from five relational dimensions. First, command and service. The supreme principle occupies the apex of the theoretical system; the strategic policy, value pursuit, and work layout all obey and serve the upholding of the Party’s overall leadership and the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee; all practices of governing the Party and managing the Party are aimed at consolidating the Party’s leading position. Second, internal requirement and connection. Comprehensive and strict governance of the Party is an inherent requirement for strengthening the Party’s overall leadership, closely linking macro-political principles with specific Party building work. Third, penetration and integration. Remaining true to our original aspiration and founding mission runs through all levels of Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, profoundly revealing that governing the Party and managing the Party must always adhere to the people’s standpoint, integrating into the Party’s comprehensive practice of working for the people’s well-being, insisting on development for the people, development relying on the people, and development achievements shared by the people, doing good and practical things that touch the hearts of the masses. Fourth, task and method. The work layout specifies key tasks, and the method path provides practical handles. Tasks rely on methods to be implemented, and methods rely on tasks to play their role; the two are unified in the practice of the great new project of Party building in the New Era. Fifth, feedback and improvement. The effectiveness of governing the Party and managing the Party consolidates the Party’s leading position, tests the effectiveness of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, and verifies the practice of the original aspiration and founding mission; shortcomings exposed in practice, in turn, drive the improvement of institutions and the optimization of measures, forming a dynamic process of “theory guiding practice—practice testing theory—theory continuously improving,” fully embodying Marxist epistemology and dialectics, achieving the unity of the criterion of truth and the criterion of value.

习近平党建思想全面深刻阐明的新时代党的建设的最高原则、战略方针、价值追求、工作布局和方法路径，并非简单线性递进关系，而是辩证统一的整体，贯穿管党治党、兴党强党全部实践。其内在逻辑可从五个关系维度把握。一是统领与服务。最高原则居于理论体系顶端，战略方针、价值追求、工作布局，都服从服务于坚持党的全面领导和党中央集中统一领导，全部管党治党实践都着眼于巩固党的领导地位。二是内生与联结。全面从严治党是加强党的全面领导的内在要求，将宏观政治原则与具体党建工作紧密联系起来。三是贯穿与融汇。不忘初心、牢记使命贯穿于习近平党建思想的各个层面，深刻揭示管党治党必须始终坚守人民立场，融汇于我们党为民造福的全面实践，坚持发展为了人民、发展依靠人民、发展成果由人民共享，把好事实事做到群众心坎上。四是任务与方法。工作布局明确重点任务，方法路径提供实践抓手。任务依托方法落地，方法依托任务发挥作用，二者统一于新时代党的建设新的伟大工程实践之中。五是反馈与完善。管党治党成效夯实党的领导地位，检验全面从严治党成效，印证初心使命践行情况；实践中暴露的短板反过来推动完善制度、优化举措，形成“理论引领实践—实践检验理论—理论持续完善”的动态过程，充分体现马克思主义认识论和辩证法，实现真理尺度和价值尺度的统一。

Comprehensively building a great modern socialist country and realizing the second centenary goal [n19] place new and higher demands on the Party’s own construction. On the new journey, we must comprehensively implement Xi Jinping’s Thought on Party Building, deeply grasp the scientific system and internal logic of the “Fourteen Persistences,” achieve the integration of learning, thinking, and application, and the unity of knowledge, belief, and action, promote the transformation of scientific theory into the practical force for improving the system of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, continuously enhance the Party’s political leadership, ideological guidance, mass organization, and social appeal, ensure that the Party always remains a strong leading core, and provide the fundamental political guarantee for comprehensively advancing the building of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation through Chinese-path modernization.

全面建成社会主义现代化强国、实现第二个百年奋斗目标，对党的自身建设提出了新的更高要求。新征程上，我们要全面贯彻习近平党建思想，深刻把握“十四个坚持”的科学体系与内在逻辑，做到学思用贯通、知信行统一，推动科学理论转化为健全全面从严治党体系的实践力量，持续增强党的政治领导力、思想引领力、群众组织力、社会号召力，确保党始终成为坚强领导核心，为以中国式现代化全面推进强国建设、民族复兴伟业提供根本政治保证。