More than 1 million people have been given punishment for violating the discipline of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the government since the 18th CPC National Congress in 2012, a top official of the CPC discipline watchdog said.

Meanwhile, the discipline inspection and supervision departments across the country have filed more than 1 million cases, Wang Qishan, head of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, said during a speech at the 18th meeting of the 12th Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee on October 30, chinanews.com reported on Friday.

Wang noted that strict Party governance is necessary to ensure the leadership of the CPC and fulfill its new historic duties.

Problems such as the weakening of the CPC leadership, lack of Party building, negligence in Party governance and spread of unhealthy tendencies and graft have severely threatened the governing foundation of the CPC, Wang said.

"Some Party members do not have faith in Marxism-Leninism and Party organizations, but trust some gods, ghosts or 'masters.' When they were investigated, they still had incense ashes in their bags," Wang said, according to the Qiushi Journal.

At the sixth plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, a member of the CPC Central Committee and a member of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection were absent, because the departments that they were in charge of had institutional corruption, and the CPC central committee decided to hold them accountable, according to Wang.

The case shows the attitude and determination of the CPC to strengthen responsibility through accountability, Wang noted.

"People's support is the political foundation for a party to govern a country," Wang said Thursday while meeting former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in Beijing, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Friday.

Wang pledged stricter Party supervision to consolidate the foundation of governance in the country, according to Xinhua.