An All-Out Effort to Enforce Strict Party Discipline

Strict discipline has always been part of a great tradition of the CPC. While visiting Jiangsu Province in December 2014, Xi Jinping called for an all-out effort to enforce strict discipline, placing new emphasis on the importance of regulating the Party’s own conduct. An “all-out” effort is meant to cover the five cornerstones of Party development, namely theoretical development, organizational readjustment, work practices, anti-corruption campaigns, and institutional arrangements, and apply to every CPC organization and every CPC member. “Strict” discipline subjects CPC members to higher standards, i.e. standards more demanding than the general laws and regulations applicable to non-Party citizens. The focus is to provide restraints on Party members who hold official positions, and keep their activities under rigorous scrutiny. An unwavering attention to strengthening Party discipline represents a defining feature of the current central leadership. As one of the components of the Four-pronged Strategy, the move to enforce discipline helps ensure progress in the other three areas.

全面從嚴治黨

從嚴治黨是中國共產黨加強自身建設的一貫要求和優良傳統。2014年12月，習近平總書記在江蘇考察時，提出了“全面從嚴治黨”的新要 求，把管黨治黨提到前所未有的新高度。所謂 “全面”，從內容上來說，就是要覆蓋黨的思想建設、組織建設、作風建設、反腐倡廉建設和制度建設這五個方面；從主體上來說，就是要覆蓋到黨的每一級組織、每一個黨員。所謂“從嚴”，就是采用更嚴格的標準，對黨員的要求比對普通民眾的要求更嚴格，黨的紀律要比其他團體更嚴明，黨的規定要比一般法規更嚴格。它的重點在 于從嚴管理監督黨的干部。全面從嚴治黨，是新一屆中央領導集體治國理政的鮮明特征。它既是“四個全面”戰略布局的重要組成部分，又在其中處于關鍵地位，是其他“三個全面”順利推進的重要保證。