BEIJING -- At its pivotal 20th national congress, the Communist Party of China (CPC), the world's largest Marxist governing party, highlighted self-reform as the key to consolidating its position as the long-term governing party.
Through full and rigorous self-governance, the Party has boosted its ability to purify, improve, renew and excel itself, maintaining the people's support in a country with 1.4 billion people.
As it leads efforts to build China into a great modern socialist country, the CPC has pledged to continue full and rigorous self-governance and to steer broader social transformation through its self-reform.
STRENGTHENING OVERSIGHT
The Party congress in October emphasized that the CPC is the highest force of political leadership and that upholding the centralized, unified leadership of the Party Central Committee is the highest political principle.
It also underlined the importance of concrete, targeted and regular political oversight.
This aims to ensure that the central leadership's key plans and arrangements spanning economic, political, cultural, social, and ecological spheres, among others, are fully and precisely implemented by its 4.9 million grassroots-level organizations and over 96 million members.
In the country's unprecedented fight against poverty over the past decade, these closely-knit organizations have played a key role in helping nearly 100 million rural residents shake off poverty.
In the tourist city of Guilin in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, political inspections have served as a powerful tool in the conservation of the picturesque landscape. A task force has been established to supervise the protection of the Lijiang River, which flows through the city.
Accountability mechanisms have real teeth in Guilin. During the first nine months of 2022, the city's discipline watchdog investigated 53 cases of corruption and misconduct in environmental protection work, and initiated disciplinary action against 80 individuals.
In Zhejiang Province's Huzhou City, issues that are important to people's lives are overseen to ensure that people's basic needs are fulfilled.
Supervisors have been targeting project construction and the use of funds related to rural old-age care and child care services to ensure that the residents can enjoy quality services as the city strives for common prosperity, said Wang Yong, deputy secretary of the Huzhou Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC.
FIGHTING CORRUPTION
The Party considers corruption a tumor threatening its very health. It has vowed to unswervingly continue its anti-corruption efforts as long as the breeding grounds and conditions for such illegal practices exist.
Amid a sweeping anti-corruption battle since 2012, a total of 553 officials registered at and supervised by the CPC Central Committee have been investigated, along with more than 25,000 officials at the department and bureau level and over 182,000 at the county and division level.