Taking the Centralized and Unified Leadership of the Party Central Committee as the Fundamental Guarantee

At the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping systematically summarized the achievements in the practical exploration and theoretical reflection on comprehensive and strict governance of the Party since the 18th National Congress, and pointed out that nine issues need to be properly grasped in the practice of deepening the Party’s self-revolution. Among them, the first issue is taking the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee as the fundamental guarantee. The Party’s self-revolution is advanced under the Party’s leadership; centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the highest principle of Party leadership. Deepening the self-revolution must take the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee as the fundamental guarantee, and there must be no ambiguity or wavering at any time or under any circumstances.

习近平总书记在二十届中央纪委三次全会上，系统总结了党的十八大以来全面从严治党实践探索和理论思考的成就，指出在深入推进党的自我革命实践中需要把握好九个问题。其中，第一个问题是以坚持党中央集中统一领导为根本保证。党的自我革命是在党的领导下推进的，坚持党中央集中统一领导是党的领导的最高原则，深入推进自我革命必须以坚持党中央集中统一领导为根本保证，在任何时候任何情况下都不能有丝毫的含糊或动摇。

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Taking the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is necessary to guide the Party’s self-revolution along the correct direction. The Communist Party of China has over 98 million members and more than 5 million primary-level Party organizations, possessing strong leadership and governance capabilities. This is our advantage in accomplishing major tasks and building great undertakings, but at the same time we face special difficulties in governing the Party and the country. General

坚持党中央集中统一领导，是指引党的自我革命沿着正确方向前进的需要。中国共产党拥有超过9800多万名党员、500多万个基层党组织，具有强大的领导能力和执政能力，这是我们办大事、建伟业的优势，同时我们也面临治党治国的特殊难题。习近平总书记把治党治国面临的特殊难题概括为六个方面：如何始终不忘初心、牢记使命；如何始终统一思想、统一意志、统一行动；如何始终具备强大的执政能力和领导水平；如何始终保持干事创业精神状态；如何始终能够及时发现和解决自身存在的问题；如何始终保持风清气正的政治生态。怎样克服这些特殊难题，习近平总书记给出的答案是发扬彻底的自我革命精神，把党的伟大自我革命进行到底。中国共产党唯有不固步自封，刀刃向内，勇于清除侵蚀党的健康机体的病毒，不断增强党的机体的免疫力，永葆党的生机活力，才能解决大党独有难题，防止人亡政息，跳出治乱兴衰的历史周期率。党中央是党的大脑和中枢，是推进党的自我革命的领航员和指挥员。只有坚持党中央集中统一领导，才能做到“六个始终”，为党的自我革命沿着正确方向前进提供根本保证。

Upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is necessary to ensure that the Party’s self-revolution achieves its set goals and tasks. The Party’s self-revolution has grand and arduous missions and tasks: not only must it keep the Party advanced and pure, always stand at the forefront of the times, and always serve as the mainstay of the people, but it must also use the Party’s self-revolution to lead the social revolution, take the “road of the examination” [1]1 “Road of the examination” (赶考之路) is a metaphor used by Mao Zedong in 1949, comparing the CPC’s assumption of national governance to sitting for an imperial examination; in the New Era, and propel the great ship of socialism with Chinese characteristics to brave the wind and waves and sail steadily forward. The 20th National Congress of the CPC [2]2 The Two Establishments refers to establishing Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The Two Upholds refers to upholding Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and upholding the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. mapped out the missions and tasks of the Communist Party of China for the new journey of the New Era, as well as the development goals and tasks for China from the present period through to 2035. To realize the grand vision and strategic deployment established by the 20th National Congress on schedule, and to unite and lead the people in realizing the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation through Chinese-path modernization, it is essential to uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. This is an inevitable requirement for carrying the Party’s self-revolution and the great social revolution through to the end, and it is also an inevitable requirement for comprehensively building a modern socialist country and continuously writing an even more splendid chapter of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the New Era.

坚持党中央集中统一领导，是保证党的自我革命实现既定目标任务的需要。党的自我革命有着宏伟而艰巨的使命任务，不仅要使党始终保持自身先进性和纯洁性，始终站在时代发展前列，始终成为人民群众的主心骨，而且要以党的自我革命引领社会革命，走好新时代“赶考”之路，推动中国特色社会主义巍巍巨轮乘风破浪、行稳致远。党的二十大擘画了新时代新征程中国共产党的使命任务以及今后一段时期到2035年我国发展的目标任务。要如期实现党的二十大确立的宏伟构想和战略部署，团结带领人民以中国式现代化实现强国建设、民族复兴伟业，就必须坚持党中央集中统一领导。这是将党的自我革命和伟大社会革命进行到底的必然要求，也是全面建设社会主义现代化国家、不断谱写新时代中国特色社会主义更加绚丽华章的必然要求。

Upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is a basic experience gained from the great achievements of the Party’s self-revolution. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC [3]3 “Four beams and eight pillars” (四梁八柱) is a Chinese architectural metaphor for the main supporting framework of a structure, used here to describe the fundamental, basic, and important institutions of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics., the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core, in the great practice of strengthening the Party’s overall leadership and exercising comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, has placed greater emphasis on the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, attached greater importance to upholding the authority of the Party Central Committee, and continuously improved the system of Party leadership institutions. The 2016 “Norms for Political Life Within the Party Under the New Situation” [4] stressed that upholding the Party’s leadership first of all means upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and required the entire Party to uphold the authority of the Party Central Committee and consciously maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in thought, politics, and action. The 2019 “Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Strengthening the Party’s Political Construction” [5] further stressed that the most important aspect of upholding and strengthening the Party’s overall leadership is to resolutely uphold the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, and the most crucial aspect of resolutely upholding the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is to resolutely uphold Comrade Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the entire Party. The 2021 “Resolution of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the Major Achievements and Historical Experience of the Party over the Past Century” [6] profoundly expounded the decisive significance of the Two Establishments [7], and required the entire Party to strengthen the Four Consciousnesses [8], fortify the Four Confidences [9], and achieve the Two Upholds [10]. The report of the 20th National Congress of the CPC pointed out that upholding the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the highest political principle and the primary task for implementing the general requirements for Party building in the New Era. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the Party’s self-revolution has been advanced in depth, comprehensive and strict governance of the Party has achieved major results, the fight against corruption has achieved an overwhelming victory and has been comprehensively consolidated, the system of intra-Party regulations has been continuously improved, the system of power supervision and checks has been continuously perfected, the Party’s capacity for self-purification, self-improvement, self-renovation, and self-enhancement has been significantly increased, and the Party’s cohesion, leadership, and combat effectiveness have been significantly strengthened. The practical exploration and theoretical reflection on comprehensive and strict governance of the Party in the New Era have continuously deepened the understanding of the Party’s self-revolution, systematically answering major questions such as why our Party must engage in self-revolution, why it can engage in self-revolution, and how to advance self-revolution. History and reality fully demonstrate that upholding and strengthening the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee and firmly upholding the authority of the Party Central Committee are the fundamental guarantees for overcoming all difficulties and obstacles on the path forward, and must be firmly grasped and always followed at any time and under any circumstances.

坚持党中央集中统一领导，是党的自我革命取得伟大成就的一条基本经验。党的十八大以来，以习近平同志为核心的党中央在加强党的全面领导和全面从严治党的伟大实践中，更加强调党中央集中统一领导，更加重视维护党中央权威，不断健全党的领导制度体系。2016年《关于新形势下党内政治生活的若干准则》强调，坚持党的领导首先是坚持党中央的集中统一领导，要求全党要维护党中央权威，自觉在思想上政治上行动上同党中央保持高度一致。2019 年《中共中央关于加强党的政治建设的意见》进一步强调，坚持和加强党的全面领导最重要的是坚决维护党中央权威和集中统一领导，坚决维护党中央权威和集中统一领导最关键的是坚决维护习近平总书记党中央的核心、全党的核心地位。2021年《中共中央关于党的百年奋斗重大成就和历史经验的决议》深刻阐释了“两个确立”的决定性意义，要求全党增强“四个意识”，坚定“四个自信”，做到“两个维护”。党的二十大报告指出，坚持党中央集中统一领导是最高政治原则，是落实新时代党的建设总要求的首要任务。在习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想指引下，党的自我革命深入推进，全面从严治党取得重大成果，反腐败斗争取得压倒性胜利并全面巩固，党内法规制度不断健全，权力监督与制约体系不断完善，党的自我净化、自我完善、自我革新、自我提高能力显著提高，党的凝聚力、引领力、战斗力显著增强。新时代全面从严治党的实践探索和理论思考，不断深化了对党的自我革命的认识，系统回答了我们党为什么要自我革命、为什么能自我革命、怎样推进自我革命等重大问题。历史和现实充分说明，坚持和加强党中央集中统一领导，坚定维护党中央权威，是克服前进道路上一切艰难险阻的根本保证，任何时候任何情况下都必须牢牢把握、始终遵循。

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The prerequisite for the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is that it must have authority. Engels once pointed out that authority, premised on obedience, is an objective phenomenon universally existing in human society; it is widely present in people’s production and life, and also widely present in the revolutionary practice of the proletariat against the bourgeoisie. Without authority, there can be no unified action of any kind. In leading the Russian revolutionary practice, Lenin placed greater emphasis on making “the Party’s central organs become authoritative institutions with extensive powers and enjoying the universal trust of Party members,” and stressed more strongly the decisive role of “creating a group of Party leaders with experience and extremely high prestige” for “the dictatorship of the proletariat, the ‘unity of will’ of the proletariat.” Comrade Mao Zedong repeatedly stressed the great significance of upholding the “four obediences” [11], especially the obedience of the entire Party to the Central Committee, for the unity and unified leadership of the Party. He stated in plain terms: “The Party is a union of the finest elements among the people; everyone consciously and willingly accepts discipline, that is, they recognize the Party’s program and constitution, obey the Party’s resolutions, and are willing to make self-sacrifice. That is why some people cannot join our Party; they cannot accept being transferred, they want to do this job or that job, go east or go west, all according to their own wishes. But Party members must obey the organization and obey the Party’s resolutions.” After reform and opening up, Comrade Deng Xiaoping stressed: “The Central Committee must have authority”; “the authority of the Party Central Committee must be strengthened”; “with this authority, great things can be accomplished even in difficult times”; “without this, there will be chaos, everyone will go their own way—how can that work?” In his important speech at the Central Economic Work Conference on December 16, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping further profoundly expounded the great significance of establishing the authority of the Party Central Committee. He pointed out: “The authority of the Party Central Committee is the fundamental reliance of the entire Party, the entire military, and the people of all ethnic groups across the country in rising to challenges in times of crisis. The socialist system with Chinese characteristics and China’s basic national conditions determine that to achieve our goals and objectives and to weather the storms on the path forward, we must uphold the centralized and unified leadership of the Party and must uphold the authority of the Party Central Committee. Practice has once again proven that at critical historical junctures and in the face of severe tests, leadership is the most crucial condition, and the judgment, decision-making, and action capabilities of the Party Central Committee play a decisive role. As long as we unswervingly uphold the Party’s leadership and unswervingly uphold the authority of the Party Central Committee, and closely unite the entire people around the Party, we will certainly be able to overcome all difficulties and obstacles, brave the wind and waves, and forge ahead courageously.”

党中央集中统一领导的前提，是要有权威。恩格斯曾指出，以服从为前提的权威是人类社会普遍存在的客观现象，它广泛存在于人们的生产生活中，也广泛存在于无产阶级反对资产阶级的革命实践中。没有权威，就不可能有任何的一致行动。列宁在领导俄国革命实践中更加重视使“党的中央机关成为拥有广泛的权力、得到党员普遍信任的权威性机构”，更加强调“造就一批有经验、有极高威望的党的领袖”对于“无产阶级专政、无产阶级的‘意志统一’”的决定性作用。毛泽东同志则反复强调坚持“四个服从”特别是全党服从中央对于党的团结和统一领导的重大意义，他通俗地指出：“党是人民中优秀分子的结合，大家是自觉地愿意受约束，就是承认党纲、党章，服从党的决议案，愿意自我牺牲。所以有些人就不能加入我们的党，他不受调动，他干这样工作也好，干那样工作也好，往东也好，往西也好，都得由他，而党员就要服从组织，服从党的决议。”改革开放后，邓小平同志强调：“中央要有权威”，“党中央的权威必须加强”；“有了这个权威，困难时也能做大事”，“没有这一条，就是乱哄哄，各行其是，怎么行呢？”在2020年12月16日中央经济工作会议上的重要讲话中，习近平总书记进一步深刻地阐释了树立党中央权威的重大意义。他指出：“党中央权威是危难时刻全党全国各族人民迎难而上的根本依靠。中国特色社会主义制度，我国基本国情，决定了实现我们的奋斗目标、应对前进道路上的惊涛骇浪，必须坚持党的集中统一领导，必须维护党中央权威。实践再次证明，重大历史关头，重大考验面前，领导力是最关键的条件，党中央的判断力、决策力、行动力具有决定性作用。只要毫不动摇坚持党的领导、毫不动摇维护党中央权威，把全体人民紧紧团结在党的周围，我们就一定能够战胜一切艰难险阻，乘风破浪，勇往直前。”

What is the authority of the Party Central Committee? Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed the need to uphold the authority of the Party Central Committee as the sole arbiter with the final say. For instance, at the Sixth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee in October 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “We must guide the entire Party to strengthen the ‘Four Consciousnesses’[1]1 “Road of the examination” (赶考之路) is a metaphor used by Mao Zedong in 1949, comparing the CPC’s assumption of national governance to sitting for an imperial examination;, consciously maintain a high degree of unity with the Party Central Committee in thought, politics, and action, and ensure the authority of the Party Central Committee as the sole arbiter with the final say.” Another example: at the National Conference on Organizational Work in July 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: “The Party Central Committee is the brain

党中央的权威是什么？党的十八大以来，习近平总书记多次强调，要维护党中央定于一尊、一锤定音的权威。比如，在2016年10月十八届六中全会上习近平总书记指出：“要引导全党增强‘四个意识’，自觉在思想上政治上行动上同党中央保持高度一致，确保党中央一锤定音、定于一尊的权威。”还比如，在2018年7月全国组织工作会议上习近平总书记指出：“党中央是大脑和中枢，党中央必须有定于一尊、一锤定音的权威。”“定于一尊”是指党中央拥有最高权威，“一锤定音”是指党中央的决定是最后决定。党中央拥有定于一尊、一锤定音的权威，要求全党服从中央，党的各级组织和全体党员必须把思想和行动统一到党中央决策部署上来，这是统一全党的思想、意志、行动，贯彻党的路线方针政策的根本保证。我们这么大一个党、这么大一个国家，如果没有党中央定于一尊的权威，党中央决定了的事都不去照办，还是各说各的话、各做各的事，那就什么事情也办不成了。在充分发扬民主的基础上进行集中，坚持党中央权威和集中统一领导，集中全党智慧，体现全党共同意志，是我们党的一大创举。

Upholding the Party Central Committee’s unified, centralized leadership is the highest principle of Party leadership, and it possesses a rich and profound scientific connotation. On the one hand, Party leadership is comprehensive; the Party leads everything. On the other hand, Party leadership is also centralized and unified; it is a systematic, complete whole. The Communist Party of China was established in accordance with Marxist principles of Party building, and it has a strict organizational system that runs from top to bottom. The Party Central Committee is situated at the apex of this vertical system; it is the brain and the central hub of the entire Party, possessing the authority to set the final word and make the decisive call [n2], and it is responsible for setting the direction, planning the overall situation, formulating policies, and promoting reform. The fundamental task of local Party organizations is to ensure that the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee are implemented in their respective regions, carrying out orders and prohibiting what is forbidden. Party groups (党组) must implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and higher-level Party organizations, and play the important role of setting the direction, managing the overall situation, and ensuring implementation. Primary-level Party organizations are responsible for implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and higher-level Party organizations at the grassroots level, and for maintaining close ties with the masses. This organizational system, which is connected from top to bottom and is centralized and unified, enables the major policies, principles, and decisions of the Party Central Committee to be implemented in a timely and uncompromising manner. General Secretary Xi Jinping uses the phrase “like the body directing the arm, and the arm directing the finger” [n3] to describe the operation and power of Party leadership within the Party’s organizational system, emphasizing that a strict organizational system that is connected from top to bottom and has strong execution is the organizational source of the Party’s strength, and is “a powerful advantage that no other political party in the world possesses.”

坚持党中央集中统一领导是党的领导的最高原则，有着丰富而深刻的科学内涵。一方面，党的领导是全面的，党领导一切；另一方面，党的领导又是集中统一的，是系统的、完整的一个整体。中国共产党是按照马克思主义建党原则建立起来的，有一个自上而下的严密组织体系。党中央处在垂直体系的顶端，是全党的大脑和中枢，具有定于一尊、一锤定音的权威，负责把方向、谋大局、定政策、促改革。党的地方组织的根本任务是确保党中央决策部署在本地区贯彻落实，有令即行、有禁即止。党组要贯彻落实党中央和上级党组织决策部署，发挥好把方向、管大局、保落实的重要作用。党的基层组织负责把党中央和上级党组织的决策部署贯彻落实到基层，密切联系群众。这种上下贯通、集中统一的组织体系，使党中央的大政方针和决策部署及时地、不折不扣地得到贯彻落实。习近平总书记用“如身使臂，如臂使指”来形容党的领导在党的组织体系中的运行和威力，强调上下贯通、执行有力的严密组织体系是党的力量的组织来源，是“世界上任何其他政党都不具有的强大优势”。

For a ruling party like the Communist Party of China, which has a long history, a large membership, and a vast scale, it is necessary to uphold the Party Central Committee’s unified, centralized leadership and consciously safeguard the authority of the Party Central Committee. This is the guarantee for unifying the Party’s thought, will, and action, and it is also the guarantee for implementing the Party Central Committee’s line, principles, and policies. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “A slack and disorganized organization cannot do

像中国共产党这样一个历史久、人数多、规模大的执政党，必须坚持党中央集中统一领导，自觉维护党中央权威。这是全党统一思想、意志和行动的保证，也是贯彻执行党中央路线方针政策的保证。习近平总书记指出：“一个松松垮垮、稀稀拉拉的组织是不能干事、也干不成事的。如果党组织像个大车店、大卖场一样，想来就来，想走就走，那还能有什么核心力量？还能把广大人民群众团结在党的周围吗？”只有坚持个人服从组织、少数服从多数、下级服从上级、全党服从中央，不断增强“四个意识”、坚定“四个自信”、做到“两个维护”，坚定不移贯彻落实党中央方针政策和决策部署，党的团结和党中央权威才能落到实处、有可靠保障，才能避免分散主义、宗派主义、山头主义、自由主义等一切不良习气和消极因素对党的健康机体的侵害。

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Upholding the Party Central Committee’s unified, centralized leadership and safeguarding the Party Central Committee’s authority are the fundamental guarantee for deepening the Party’s self-revolution. In advancing the great new project of Party building in the New Era, the first priority is to strengthen the Party’s political construction, deeply comprehend the decisive significance of the Two Establishments, and resolutely achieve the Two Upholds. [2]2 The Two Establishments refers to establishing Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and establishing the guiding role of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The Two Upholds refers to upholding Xi Jinping’s core position on the Party Central Committee and in the Party as a whole, and upholding the authority and centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee. The Two Establishments are the most important political achievement since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, and the Two Upholds are the inevitable requirement of the Two Establishments. Deeply comprehending the decisive significance of the Two Establishments and achieving the Two Upholds means, fundamentally, achieving absolute loyalty to the Party, resolutely safeguarding the Party Central Committee’s decisions politically, identifying with them highly ideologically, obeying them consciously organizationally, and following them closely in action; consciously maintaining a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee in thought, politics, and action; and earnestly achieving resolute response to what the Party Central Committee advocates, resolute implementation of what the Party Central Committee decides, and resolute refusal of what the Party Central Committee prohibits, working together with one heart and one mind to strive unremittingly for the goals and tasks set by the Party Central Committee.

坚持党中央集中统一领导，维护党中央权威，是深入推进党的自我革命根本保证。在深入推进新时代党的建设新的伟大工程中，首先要加强党的政治建设，深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义，坚决做到“两个维护”。“两个确立”是党的十八大以来最重要的政治成果，“两个维护”是“两个确立”的必然要求。深刻领悟“两个确立”的决定性意义、做到“两个维护”，从根本上讲就是做到对党绝对忠诚，对党中央的决策政治上坚决维护、思想上高度认同、组织上自觉服从、行动上紧紧跟随，自觉在思想上政治上行动上同党中央保持高度一致，切实做到党中央提倡的坚决响应，党中央决定的坚决执行，党中央禁止的坚决不做，齐心协力为实现党中央确立的目标任务不懈奋斗。

Strengthen the Party’s ideological construction, using the Party’s innovative theory to unify thought, unify will, and unify action. Ideological unity is the foundation of political unity and unity in action. To maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee politically and in action, one must first maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee ideologically. Using Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to unify thought, unify will, and unify action is the fundamental task of the Party’s ideological construction and also the ideological foundation for strengthening the Party Central Committee’s unified, centralized leadership and deepening the Party’s self-revolution. We must persist in building the Party ideologically and strengthening the Party theoretically, continuously integrating ideological and theoretical arming throughout the entire process of Party building, forever preserving the Party’s purity, advanced nature, and timeliness. We must guide all Party members and cadres, especially senior cadres, to fortify the foundation of faith, replenish the calcium of spirit, and steady the helm of thought; to solve the “master switch” problem of worldview, outlook on life, and values; to heighten Party consciousness, Party member consciousness, and purpose consciousness; to adhere to truth, adhere to the right path, adhere to principle, and adhere to rules; and to establish themselves through conviction, character, and practical work. We must arm the entire Party, guide practice, and advance work with Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, achieving thorough integration in grasping the scientific system, core essence, and practical requirements; transforming the Party’s innovative theory into the vivid practice of the entire Party adhering to its original aspiration and founding mission and advancing the cause of development, and into the mighty force of the Party leading the people to forge ahead with high spirits and overcome difficulties.

加强党的思想建设，用党的创新理论统一思想、统一意志、统一行动。思想统一是政治统一、行动统一的基础。在政治上行动上同党中央保持高度一致，首先要在思想上同党中央保持高度一致。用习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想统一思想、统一意志、统一行动，是党的思想建设的根本任务，也是加强党中央集中统一领导、深入推进党的自我革命的思想基础。要坚持思想建党、理论强党，持续把思想理论武装贯穿于党的建设全过程，永葆党的纯洁性、先进性、时代性。要引导全体党员、干部特别是高级干部筑牢信仰之基、补足精神之钙、把稳思想之舵，解决好世界观、人生观、价值观这个“总开关”问题，提高党的意识、党员意识、宗旨意识，坚守真理、坚守正道、坚守原则、坚守规矩，做到以信念、人格、实干立身。要以习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想武装全党、指导实践、推动工作，在把握科学体系、核心要义、实践要求上融会贯通，把党的创新理论转化为全党坚守初心使命、推动事业发展的生动实践，转化为党领导人民昂扬奋进、攻坚克难的磅礴力量。

Strengthen Party discipline building, strictly enforce Party discipline and rules, and forge the Party into “a piece of solid steel.” Strictly enforcing Party discipline and rules is the fundamental strategy for maintaining the unified, centralized leadership of the Party Central Committee. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “For a political party as large as ours, what can we rely on to manage our own ranks? What can we rely on to overcome risks and challenges? Apart from correct theory, line, principles, and policies, we must rely on strict norms and discipline.” Iron discipline and rules are necessary conditions for凝聚 the wisdom and creativity of the entire Party, ensuring the unity of the Party’s will and action, and are also an inevitable requirement for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and for deepening the Party’s self-revolution. In strictly enforcing Party discipline and rules, the primary task is to strictly enforce political discipline and political rules. Party members, cadres, and especially leading cadres must adhere to the correct political stance and political direction, enhance political acuity and political discernment, remain clear-headed and take a clear stand on major issues, and withstand tests at critical moments and in major events; they must strictly follow organizational procedures, submit to organizational arrangements, take a clear stand in struggling against words and deeds that violate political discipline, consciously uphold the Party’s image, and never act on their own authority, go their own way, engage in non-organizational activities, or become “fence-sitters” or “two-faced persons.” The actions of leading cadres have a weathervane effect on the entire Party and the whole society. The Party’s leadership of the people in governing the country is mainly embodied and realized through the specific actions and work of leading cadres at all levels, so it is necessary to grasp the “key minority” of leading cadres. Leading cadres, especially senior cadres, must model compliance with Party discipline and rules, firmly establish a correct outlook on political performance, power, status, and interests, set an example in studying and abiding by the Party Constitution, courageously engage in criticism and self-criticism, take the lead in promoting healthy tendencies and resisting unhealthy practices; they must firmly establish a concept of the rule of law, take the lead in abiding by the law and handling affairs according to law, ensuring that before the law they are not disturbed by selfish motives, not trapped by personal connections, not burdened by relationships, and not tempted by interests, and resolutely put an end to substituting personal words for law, overriding law with power, and bending the law for personal gain; they must model compliance with social ethics, promote family virtues, cultivate personal morality, be open and aboveboard, adhere to the right path, promote healthy tendencies, and never engage in duplicity, fraud, or hypocrisy.

加强党的纪律建设，严明党的纪律和规矩，把党锻造成“一块坚硬的钢铁”。 严明党的纪律和规矩是维护党中央集中统一领导的治本之策。习近平总书记指出：“我们这么大一个政党，靠什么来管好自己的队伍？靠什么来战胜风险挑战？除了正确理论和路线方针政策外，必须靠严明规范和纪律。”铁的纪律和规矩是凝聚全党智慧和创造力、保证全党意志和行动统一的必要条件，也是全面从严治党、深入推进党的自我革命的必然要求。严明党的纪律和规矩，首要的是严明党的政治纪律和政治规矩。党员、干部特别是领导干部必须坚持正确政治立场和政治方向，提高政治敏锐性和政治鉴别力，在重大问题上头脑清醒、旗帜鲜明，在关键时刻和重大事件中经得起考验；必须严格遵循组织程序，服从组织安排，旗帜鲜明与违反政治纪律的言论和行为作斗争，自觉维护党的形象，决不擅作主张、我行我素，决不搞非组织活动，决不当“骑墙派”“两面人”。领导干部的所作所为对全党全社会都具有风向标作用，党领导人民治国理政主要是通过各级领导干部的具体行动和工作来体现、来实现，要抓住领导干部这个“关键少数”。领导干部特别是高级干部要模范遵守党的纪律和规矩，牢固树立正确政绩观、权力观、地位观、利益观，做学习党章、遵守党章的表率，勇于开展批评和自我批评，带头弘扬正气、抵制歪风邪气；要牢固树立法治观念，带头遵守法律、依法办事，做到法律面前不为私心所扰、不为人情所困、不为关系所累、不为利益所惑，坚决杜绝以言代法、以权压法、徇私枉法；要模范遵守社会公德，弘扬家庭美德，涵养个人品德，做到襟怀坦白、光明磊落，坚守正道、弘扬正气，决不搞阳奉阴违、弄虚作假、口是心非那一套。

Strengthen the Party Central Committee’s own building, improve the Party Central Committee’s decision-making, deliberation, and coordination institutions, and strengthen the Party Central Committee’s unified, centralized leadership over major work. The Party Central Committee shoulders the heavy responsibility of leading hundreds of millions of people in comprehensively building a modernized country, realizing the dream of a strong nation and national rejuvenation. Doing a good job of the Party Central Committee’s own building and improving the Party Central Committee’s ability and level of unified, centralized leadership are of great significance. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has first started with the Party Central Committee in governing and managing the Party and in practicing comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, grasping the building of the Central Committee, the Political Bureau, and its Standing Committee, requiring leading comrades of the central authorities to set benchmarks and serve as role models for all Party comrades in observing discipline and rules and fulfilling the political responsibility of governing and managing the Party, and requiring central and state organs to take the lead in earnestly implementing the Party Central Committee’s decisions and deployments, becoming model organs that are politically conscious, disciplined, responsible, and efficient. The Party Central Committee taking the lead in doing a good job of its own building is the fundamental guarantee for the success of the Party’s self-revolution and the key to ensuring that the Party’s self-revolution does not deviate or change its nature. The role of the Party Central Committee’s decision-making, deliberation, and coordination institutions must be fully utilized. Since the New Era, the Party Central Committee has strengthened the reform and building of decision-making, deliberation, and coordination institutions, forming a relatively complete set of such institutions at the level of the Party Central Committee. These institutions work under the leadership of the Political Bureau and its Standing Committee, responsible for the top-level design, overall layout, overall coordination, overall advancement, and supervision and implementation of the functional system building of the Party and state institutions. They have played a vital role in strengthening the Party Central Committee’s unified, centralized leadership over work that concerns the overall situation of the Party and state, improving the leadership system and mechanism for the Party’s major work, and strengthening decision-making and overall coordination. On the new journey, it is necessary to continue deepening the reform of the Party Central Committee’s decision-making, deliberation, and coordination institutions according to the needs of economic and social development and comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, strengthen ideological guidance, political building, and institutional guarantees, and better serve the Party Central Committee’s unified, centralized leadership over major work.

加强党中央的自身建设，完善党中央决策议事协调机构，强化党中央对重大工作的集中统一领导。党中央肩负着领导亿万人民全面建设现代化国家、实现强国梦想和民族复兴重任，搞好党中央自身建设，提高党中央集中统一领导能力和水平意义重大。党的十八大以来，习近平总书记管党治党、全面从严治党首先从党中央做起，抓中央委员会、中央政治局及其常委会的建设，要求中央领导同志在守纪律讲规矩、履行管党治党政治责任等方面为全党同志立标杆、作表率，要求中央和国家机关率先认真贯彻落实党中央决策部署，成为讲政治、守纪律、负责任、有效率的模范机关。党中央率先垂范搞好自身建设，是党的自我革命取得成功的根本保证，是确保党的自我革命不走样、不变味的关键所在。要充分发挥党中央决策议事协调机构的作用。新时代以来，党中央加强了决策议事协调机构的改革与建设，在党中央层面形成了较为完备的决策议事协调机构。这些机构在中央政治局及其常委会的领导下开展工作，负责党和国家机构职能体系建设的顶层设计、总体布局、统筹协调、整体推进和督促落实，对加强党中央对关系党和国家事业全局工作的集中统一领导，完善党对重大工作的领导体制机制，强化决策和统筹协调等发挥了至关重要的作用。新征程上，要根据经济社会发展和全面从严治党的需要，继续深化党中央决策议事协调机构改革，强化思想引领、政治建设、制度保障，更好服务党中央对重大工作的集中统一领导。

Strengthen institutional governance of the Party and governance of the Party according to regulations, and establish and improve the leadership system of the Party that commands the overall situation and coordinates all parties. To adhere to the Party Central Committee’s unified, centralized leadership, it is necessary to establish and improve the leadership system of the Party that commands the overall situation and coordinates all parties. General Secretary Xi Jinping points out: “The system of socialism with Chinese characteristics is a rigorous and complete scientific system of institutions. The institutions that serve as the ‘four beams and eight pillars’ [n] are the fundamental institutions, basic institutions, and important institutions, among which the leadership system of the Party holds a commanding position. The leadership system of the Party is China’s fundamental leadership system.” Clarifying that the leadership system of the Party is China’s fundamental leadership system is conducive to ensuring the authority of the Party Central Committee as the sole decision-maker with the final say, conducive to implementing the Party Central Committee’s major decisions and deployments, and conducive to the people of the whole country uniting their hearts and minds and striving together. It is necessary to follow the general requirements for Party building in the New Era, make efforts to improve the leadership system of the Party and perfect the implementation mechanisms, focus on improving the Party’s governance capacity and governance level, reform and innovate the systems and mechanisms in various fields and the work systems in all aspects, and strive to overcome problems such as the weakening, hollowing out, and dilution of Party leadership, so as to make the Party’s governance foundation more solid and its governance position more secure. It is necessary to adhere to the Party Constitution as the foundation, democratic centralism as the core, and the norms, regulations, and other central intra-Party regulations as the backbone, and strengthen the institutional guarantees for the Party’s self-revolution. Continue to improve the responsibility system for comprehensive and strict governance of the Party, build a system and mechanism for the integrated advancement of ensuring that officials dare not, cannot, and do not want to engage in corruption, implement the normalization mechanism for the Eight-Point Regulations, the scientific, institutionalized, and standardized mechanism for governing the Party according to regulations, the Party and state supervision system, promote the concretization, precision, and normalization of political supervision, give play to the role of political inspections as a sharp sword, and provide solid institutional guarantees for building a healthy and upright political ecosystem within the Party.

加强制度治党、依规治党，建立健全党总揽全局、协调各方的领导制度体系。坚持党中央集中统一领导，必须建立健全党总揽全局、协调各方的领导制度体系。习近平总书记指出：“中国特色社会主义制度是一个严密完整的科学制度体系，起四梁八柱作用的是根本制度、基本制度、重要制度，其中具有统领地位的是党的领导制度。党的领导制度是我国的根本领导制度。”明确党的领导制度是我国的根本领导制度，有利于确保党中央定于一尊、一锤定音的权威，有利于贯彻落实党中央重大决策部署，有利于全国人民凝心聚力、团结奋斗。要按照新时代党的建设总要求，在健全党的领导制度体系、完善落实机制上下功夫，以提高党的执政能力和执政水平为重点，改革创新各领域体制机制和各方面工作制度，着力克服党的领导弱化、虚化、淡化等问题，使党的执政基础更加稳固、执政地位更加牢靠。要坚持以党章为根本，以民主集中制为核心，以准则、条例等中央党内法规为主干，强化党的自我革命制度保障。继续完善全面从严治党的责任制度，构建不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐一体推进的体制机制，落实中央八项规定精神常态化机制，依规治党的科学化制度化规范化机制，党和国家监督体系，推进政治监督具体化、精准化、常态化，发挥政治巡视利剑作用，为构建风清气正的党内政治生态提供坚实的制度保障。

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