BEIJING, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The General Office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee has released a regulation to ensure full and strict governance over the Party.

As an important measure taken by the CPC Central Committee, the promulgation of the regulation aims to improve the responsibility system of exercising strict Party self-governance, the office said.

All localities and departments were asked to study and implement the regulation, enhancing political awareness and improving their abilities to perform duties and overcome risks and challenges, so as to advance the modernization of China's system and capacity for governance, said the office.

It also urged Party committees or leading Party members groups at various levels to assume the primary responsibilities in exercising full and rigorous governance over the Party.