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CPC Central Committee Calls for Democratic Centralism
The "CPC Central Committee's Decision on Strengthening and Improving the Building of the Party Style" released Sunday stresses the need to further educate all Party members, especially leading cadres, with democratic centralism.
No leading cadres, whatever positions they hold, are allowed to place themselves above Party organizations and act arbitrarily, the decision says.
Uncompromising measures, the decision says, should be taken to prevent such weak and incompetent practices as discussions without decision and decision making without implementation.
The decision, passed by the Sixth Plenum of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) on September 26, 2001, makes it clear that democratic centralism is the fundamental organizational and leadership system of the Party, saying that the key to strengthening and improving the building of Party style lies in fully promoting democracy while safeguarding centralism.
The decision says that it is a must to establish and improve various concrete systems under democratic centralism, noting that centralism must be based on democracy while democracy must be guided by centralism.
The decision calls for greater efforts to safeguard the democratic rights of Party members and widen democratic channels within the Party, so as to have Party members know more about and take a greater part in Party affairs.
Party organizations should do their best to solicit the opinions of Party members on major issues in the Party's work, the decision says, adding that effective systems are to be established to ensure that the opinions of Party members at the grassroots level and subordinate organizations be passed on to superior organizations.
Party congresses and committees should be brought into full play, according to the decision, and major issues should be discussed by the standing committees of Party committees, and issues concerning the general situation and having a far-reaching influence must be discussed by the plenums of Party committees.
The decision says that Party committees should integrate the leadership of the Party with the promotion of democracy, the rule of law, and respect to objective laws.
The decision calls for adherence to and improvement of the system of people's congresses and that of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC.
The decision stresses that measures should be taken to resist the influence of such political patterns as the Western multi- party system.
The unity of the Party and the state should be maintained firmly because it is in the fundamental interests of the people of all ethnic groups, the decision says.
The individual must submit to the organization, the minority to the majority, a lower-level organization to a higher-level organization, and the whole Party to the National Congress of the Party and the Party Central Committee, the decision says. That the whole Party must submit to the Party Central Committee is of the greatest importance, the decision says.
Profound changes in the international environment, and the progress of the reform, opening up and the socialist market economy, the decision says, have made new requirements for maintaining the unity of the Party and the state.
The decision emphasizes the unity of the Party and the state in guidelines, goals of struggle, policies, laws and regulations, and plans.
No local and departmental protectionism is allowed and no regulations are to go against central policies and state laws and regulations, the decision stresses.
Any person and any organization at any level would be seriously criticized and dealt with if they violate and undermine democratic centralism, the decision says.
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