Party to meet in October on rules
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CHINA’S ruling Communist Party will hold a crucial meeting in October to map out and revise rules for internal Party discipline, the Political Bureau of the Party’s Central Committee announced yesterday.
“In the new situation, generally intra-Party political life is good, but for some time now there have appeared some outstanding issues,” it said.
The meeting, known as the Sixth Plenum, will focus on “the comprehensive and strict management of the Party,” addressing the increasingly uncompromising set of rules that manage the membership and behavior of the Party’s more than 88 million members.
The plenum in Beijing will include the delivery of a work report to the Party’s Central Committee by the Political Bureau, review of key issues concerning the comprehensive and strict management of the Party, writing the norms of intra-Party political life under the new situation; and a revision to an intra-Party supervision regulation, according to a statement released after yesterday’s meeting, which was presided over by President Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the Party.
Attendees agreed that self-management and strict governance “must all begin from the intra-Party political life.”
A serious and meticulous approach to political life has been a fine tradition and political advantage of the Party, the statement said. Over the years, the Party has formulated basic norms of intra-Party political life, featuring principles such as “seeking truth from facts,” linking theory with realities, maintaining close links to the masses, among others.
Although the political life in the Party has been good in general terms, there has also been outstanding problems, hence there is the need for writing a set of norms for political life in the Party under the new circumstances, the statement said. When improving and regulating intra-Party political life under the new circumstances, the statement said, attention will be focused on government agencies and officials at all levels, particularly senior officials.
Senior officials, particularly members of the central leadership, must lead by example, follow the Party Constitution and rules, conform to the Party’s political norms and disciplines, always remember the Party’s mission and set a good example for Party members, the statement said.
“Intra-Party supervision is the basic and primary form of supervision, and only by pushing forward other forms of supervision alongside intra-Party supervision can we guarantee the comprehensive and strict management of the Party,” it said.
The current intra-Party supervision regulation, promulgated in 2003, has supported the management of the Party, by safeguarding Party unity and ensuring that the Party exists for the public and governs for the people. However, it noted that the regulation has become “incompatible with new practices and demands,” adding that the experience gained in recent years laid the starting blocks for its revision.
“Now is the time to revise the regulation, and we should grasp this opportunity,” the statement said.
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