Plenum of CPC Central Discipline Inspection Commission Issues CommuniqueThe Sixth Plenum of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission for Discipline Inspection passed a communique Thursday, hailing the conclusion of the Sixth Plenum of the 15th CPC Central Committee.The commission's standing committee presided over the commission's plenum, at which the participants studied and implemented the essence of the CPC Central Committee's plenum. They studied how to strengthen and improve the style of the CPC, by implementing the "CPC Central Committee's Decision on Strengthening and Improving the Building of the Party Style" passed by the CPC Central Committee's plenum under the guidance of Jiang Zemin's important speech at the grand gathering to mark the 80th founding anniversary of the CPC and the important thought of the "Three Represent's". The commission's plenum discussed and approved a working report made by Wei Jianxing, secretary of the commission, on behalf of its standing committee. The commission's plenum concluded that the CPC Central Committee's plenum is an important one held at a time when China is entering a new stage of development featuring an overall building of a well-off society and accelerating the pace of promoting the socialist modernization drive. The style of the CPC is an important symbol of the party's nature, principles, creed and line, the meeting said. It urged all the CPC members to have a profound understanding of the extreme importance and urgency of strengthening and improving the style of the CPC, with consideration for the life and death of the party. The commission's plenum pointed out that implementing the "CPC Central Committee's Decision on Strengthening and Improving the Building of the Party Style" is a major issue. CPC committees at various levels should adopt a high sense of political responsibility, strengthen the leadership, reinforce the supervision, tighten the discipline, and ensure the implementation of the decision. It stressed that political discipline is the most important discipline of the CPC. The deeper the reform and opening drive goes and the faster the socialist market economy develops, the stricter the party's discipline should be, the commission's plenum emphasized. It called for firmly safeguarding the authority of the CPC Central Committee with Jiang Zemin at the core and ensuring the smooth implementation of the party's decrees. CPC members and cadres who are involved in speeches and activities that have damaged the party's and state's image and are illegal must be severely dealt with, it stressed. It is necessary to build up a sound and perfect system for building the style of the CPC well, it added. Party committees and its discipline inspection committees at various levels should promote the work of fighting corruption and advocating a clean government, by making the "CPC Central Committee's Decision on Strengthening and Improving the Building of the Party Style" as a turning point and driving force, according to the communique. Substantial efforts must be made to strengthen the internal supervision within the party, explore democratic channels, and depend on the masses, so as to bring the operation of the powers under effective supervision, it said. It pledged to be firm in dealing with and punishing cases involving the use of power for personal gain, major cases in particular, and severely punishing corrupt officials. It called for winning the trust of the people with practical achievements in building the style of the CPC and a clean government and fighting corruption. |
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