On January 6, General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection was far-sighted, profound in thought, facing problems directly, and deafening.

(I) "No stopping at one step, no compromise"

You can only see the situation clearly and get the right direction.

Since the new era, the efforts to promote comprehensive and strict governance of the Party and fight against corruption have been unprecedented, and the results are obvious to all. The fight against corruption has achieved an overwhelming victory and has been consolidated in full, but the situation remains "severe and complex".

At the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly pointed out: "The stock of corruption has not been cleared yet, and the increase is still happening. The task of eradicating the breeding soil and conditions of corruption is still arduous and heavy."

General Secretary Xi Jinping made the final decision: "Don't stop at one step and do not give in at a single step."

This is a consistent and clear attitude. From "fighting tigers", "swatting flies" and "hunting foxes", to rectifying the practices and corruption, and investigating the corruption together... The unprecedented anti-corruption struggle in the new era has proved that no matter how high the position or how much contribution it is, as long as corruption is carried out, there is no "elixir voucher" to exempt the crime, no "iron hat king", and no so-called "safe box".

(2) "Resolutely fight this tough battle, protracted war, and overall war"

Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized "win the tough battle and protracted war against corruption."

In June 2022, the Political Bureau of the 19th CPC Central Committee held its 40th collective study on the integrated promotion of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the anti-corruption struggle must be integrated and coordinated with the Party’s political construction, ideological construction, organizational construction, style construction, discipline construction and system construction, and give full play to the important role of political supervision, ideological education, organizational management, style rectification, discipline implementation, and system improvement in preventing and controlling corruption, and fight the overall war.

At the plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, focusing on the fight against corruption, General Secretary Xi Jinping put the "total war" and "protracted war" and clearly proposed to "resolutely fight this tough battle, protracted war, and overall war."

This fully reflects our party's further deepening of understanding of the severe situation in the anti-corruption struggle and further expanding its means and thinking on the governance of corruption.

The overall war reflects systematic thinking and overall concept, which is in line with the "improvement of the comprehensive and strict governance system" that General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly emphasized since the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Recalling the development path of comprehensive and strict governance of the Party since the new era, we can see that from systematic theoretical guidance, to perfect task layout, to sound institutional design and supporting work tools, the "four beams and eight pillars" of governing the Party are becoming increasingly perfect, and all forces are integrated and integrated, laying a solid foundation for fighting the "total war" of the anti-corruption struggle.

At the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping profoundly elaborated on the important thoughts of the Party’s self-revolution. One particularly important aspect is to answer the major questions about how to promote self-revolution. The General Secretary clearly put forward the practical requirements of the "nine methods", which are both epistemological and methodological, providing powerful ideological weapons and scientific action guides for continuing to advance the Party's self-revolution on the new journey and fighting the protracted war against corruption.

(III) "Adhere to the use of reform spirit and strict standards to manage and govern the Party"

The "Decision" of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party clearly proposes to maintain a high degree of awareness of leading the social revolution with the Party's self-revolution, and to insist on governing the Party with reform spirit and strict standards.

At this plenary session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: "In the new era and new journey, we must insist on governing the Party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, and strive to achieve greater results."

The goal is clear: to ensure the implementation of the deployment of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee, to ensure that the Party always becomes the strong leadership core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and to promote the steady and long-term development of Chinese-style modernization.

The path is clear: promote the concretization, precision and normalization of political supervision; guide party members and cadres to transform external discipline into self-discipline and internalize it into daily use without realizing the principles of words and deeds; deepen the investigation and governance of the style and corruption; strengthen the main responsibility and supervision responsibility of comprehensive and strict governance of the party; continue to promote the extension of comprehensive and strict governance of the party to the grassroots level...

At present, the internal and external environment of China's development is undergoing profound and complex changes. Looking at itself, the "four major tests" and "four dangers" faced by the Party will exist for a long time, the prominent problems of the "four impurities" within the Party still exist, and the soil and conditions for the emergence of corruption have not yet been completely eradicated.

The important tasks of history and the test of the times all determine that our party must manage and govern the party with the spirit of reform and strict standards, further strengthen its own construction, solve the unique problems of the big party, and lead the giant ship of China to ride the wind and waves and move forward steadily.

Planning: Zhang Xiaosong

Chief writer: Sun Shaolong

Visual: Zhu Siming, Hu Liaoran

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