Regulations of the Communist Party of China on Inspection Work

Chapter I General Provisions

Article 1 in order to implement the requirements of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, seriously the political life within the party, purify the political ecology within the party, strengthen the supervision within the party, and standardize the inspection work, these regulations are formulated in accordance with the constitution of the Communist Party of China.
　　

Article 2 The Party's Central Committee and the committees of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government implement an inspection system, establish full-time inspection agencies, and conduct comprehensive inspections of the party organizations of the localities, departments, enterprises and institutions under their management during a term of office.

The relevant ministries and commissions of the central government and the party groups (party committees) of the central government departments may implement an inspection system, set up inspection agencies, and conduct inspections and supervision of the party organizations under their management.

The party's city (prefecture, state, league) and county (city, district, banner) committees establish an inspection system and set up inspection agencies to inspect and supervise the party organizations under their management.

The party organization that carries out the inspection and inspection work bears the main responsibility of the inspection and inspection work.

Article 3 The inspection work is guided by Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "Three Represents", and the scientific development concept, and thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches and new ideas, new ideas and strategies for governance. Firmly establish political awareness, overall situation awareness, core awareness, and alignment awareness, and unswervingly maintain the authority and centralized leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core, promote the overall layout of the "five in one" and coordinate the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, implement the new development concept, strengthen confidence in the path, theory, system, and culture of socialism with Chinese characteristics, respect the party constitution, and govern the party in accordance with regulations, Implement the central inspection work policy, deepen political inspections, focus on adhering to the party's leadership, strengthening party building, and comprehensively and strictly governing the party, discover problems, form a deterrent, promote reform and development, and ensure that the Party remains the strong leading core of the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Article 4 The inspection work adheres to the unified leadership of the central government and hierarchical responsibility; adheres to seeking truth from facts and laws and regulations; adheres to the mass line and promotes democracy.

Chapter II Institutions and Personnel

Article 5 The Central Committee of the Party and the committees of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall set up leading groups for inspection work, which shall be responsible and report to the Party Central Committee and the Party committees of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government respectively.

The leader of the inspection work leading group is the secretary of the party's discipline inspection committee at the same level, and the deputy leader is generally the head of the organization department of the party committee at the same level. The leader of the inspection work leading group is the main person responsible for organizing the implementation of the inspection work.

The Central Leading Group for Inspection Work shall strengthen its leadership over the inspection work of the party committees of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, relevant ministries and commissions of the central government, and party groups (party committees) of central state organs.

Article 6 The duties of the inspection leading group are as follows:

(I) and implement the relevant resolutions and decisions of the Party Central Committee and Party committees at the same level;

(II) study and propose inspection work plans, annual plans and stage task arrangements;
 

(III) listen to the inspection report;

(IV) research the use of inspection results, classification and disposal, put forward relevant opinions and suggestions;

(V) report the inspection work to the party organization at the same level;

(VI) manage and supervise the inspection team;

(VII) study and handle other important matters in inspection work.

Article 7 The inspection work leading group shall have an office as its daily office.

the office of the central leading group for inspection work is set up in the central commission for discipline inspection.

The offices of the inspection work leading groups of the party committees of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government are the work departments of the party committees and are located in the party discipline inspection committees at the same level.

Article 8 The duties of the office of the leading group for inspection work are as follows:

(I) report the work to the inspection work leading group, and convey and implement the decision-making and deployment of the inspection work leading group;
 

(II) overall planning, coordination and guidance of the inspection team to carry out the work;
 

(III) undertake policy research, system construction and other work;

(IV) supervise the matters decided by the party organization and the inspection work leading group that dispatched the inspection team;

(V) cooperate with relevant departments to conduct training, assessment, supervision and management of inspection staff;

(VI) handle other matters assigned by the inspection leading group.

Article 9 The Party Central Committee and the committees of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall establish inspection teams to undertake inspection tasks. The inspection team shall be responsible for and report to the inspection leading group.

Article 10 The inspection team shall have a group leader, a deputy group leader, an inspection commissioner and other positions. The inspection team shall implement the team leader responsibility system, and the deputy team leader shall assist the team leader in his work.
 

The inspection team leader shall be determined and authorized according to each inspection task.
 

Article 11 Patrol workers shall meet the following conditions:

(I) have firm ideals and convictions, are loyal to the party, and maintain a high degree of consistency with the party central committee in ideology, politics and action;

(II) adhere to principles, dare to take responsibility, act in accordance with the law, be fair and upright, and be honest and clean;

(III) abide by party discipline and strictly observe party secrets;

(IV) familiar with party work and related policies and regulations, with strong ability to find problems, communication and coordination, text synthesis, etc;

(V) in good health and able to meet the job requirements.

Article 12 The selection of inspection staff shall be strictly standard conditions, and those who are not suitable for inspection work shall be adjusted in a timely manner.

Patrol staff should be in accordance with the provisions of the rotation exchange.

Patrol staff to implement post avoidance, geographical avoidance, official avoidance.

Chapter III Inspection Scope and Contents

Article 13 The inspection objects and scope of the central inspection team are:
 

(I) the leading bodies and members of the party committees and standing committees of the people's congresses, governments and CPPCC party groups of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the principal responsible persons of the party groups of the higher people's courts and people's procuratorates of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the principal responsible persons of the party groups of the vice-provincial cities and standing committees of the people's congresses, governments and CPPCC;

(II) the leading groups and their members of the central ministries and commissions, the leading groups and their members of the party groups (party committees) of the ministries and commissions of the central state organs and people's organizations;

the leading bodies of the party committees (leading party groups) of key state-owned enterprises, financial enterprises, and public institutions under the (III) of the central authorities and their members;
 

(IV) the leading bodies of party organizations and their members of other units that the central authorities require to make inspection tours.

Article 14 The inspection objects and scope of the inspection teams of the party committees of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government are:

(I) the municipal (prefecture, state, league), county (city, district, banner) party committee and the standing committee of the people's congress, the government, the leading group of the CPPCC party group and its members, the city (prefecture, state, league) intermediate people's courts, people's procuratorates and counties (City, district, banner) people's courts, people's procuratorates main person in charge of the party group;

(II) the leadership team and its members of the party committee work departments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the leadership team and its members of the party group (party committee, party work committee) of government departments and people's organizations;

leading bodies of party committees (leading party groups) of state-owned enterprises and institutions under the (III) of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government and their members;

and the leading bodies of party organizations and their members of other units that the party committees of (IV) provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government request to inspect.

Article 15 the inspection team shall supervise the inspection objects in implementing the constitution of the Communist Party of China and other inner-party laws and regulations, abide by the party's discipline, and implement the main responsibility and supervision responsibility of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, and strive to find out the weakening of the party's leadership, the lack of party building, the ineffectiveness of comprehensively and strictly administering the party, the indifference of the party's concept, lax organization and lax discipline:

(I) violate political discipline and political rules, there are words and deeds that violate the party's line, principles and policies, there are orders that do not work, there are prohibitions, violations, party groups, gangs, and the implementation of the ideological work responsibility system is not in place, etc;

(II) violations of integrity and discipline, abuse of power for personal gain, corruption and bribery, and corruption;

(III) violations of organizational discipline, illegal employment, cronyism, running for office, buying and selling office, canvassing votes, and bribery, as well as arbitrary, weak, and serious disunity;

(IV) violations of mass discipline, work discipline, and life discipline, ineffective implementation of the eight central regulations, and formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance;

(V) other issues that the party organization that sent the inspection team requested to know.

Article 16 The party organization that dispatched the inspection team may, according to the needs of its work, carry out flexible special inspections for key people, key issues, key issues, or inspections and rectifications of the localities, departments, enterprises and institutions under its jurisdiction.

Chapter IV Working Methods and Authority
 

Article 17 An inspection team may carry out its work in the following ways:

(I) listening to the work reports of the party organizations being inspected and the special reports of relevant departments;
 

(II) have individual conversations with members of the leading bodies of the inspected party organizations and other cadres and masses;

(III) accept letters, calls, visits, etc. that reflect the problems of the inspected party organization leadership team and its members and the main person in charge of the next-level party organization leadership team;

(IV) spot checks to verify the situation of leading cadres reporting personal-related matters;

(V) to ask the relevant insiders about the situation;

(VI) access and copy relevant documents, archives, meeting records and other materials;

(VII) holding of symposiums;

(VIII) attend relevant meetings of the inspected areas (units);

(IX) democratic assessment, questionnaire survey;

(X) go to the subordinate places, units or departments of the inspected area (unit) to find out the situation in an appropriate way;

(11) carrying out special inspection;

(12) to request assistance from relevant units;

(13) Other methods approved by the party organization sending the inspection team.
 

Article 18 The inspection team relies on the inspected party organization to carry out its work, does not interfere with the normal work of the inspected area (unit), and does not perform the duty of disciplinary review.

Article 19 The inspection team shall strictly implement the request and report system, and promptly request instructions and reports to the inspection work leading group on important situations and major issues in the inspection work.

Under special circumstances, the central inspection team may report directly to the leader of the central inspection leading group, and the inspection team of the party committee of the province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government may report directly to the secretary of the party committee of the province, autonomous region, and municipality directly under the Central Government.

Article 20 During the inspection period, with the approval of the inspection work leading group, the inspection group may hand over the clues of specific problems of suspected violations of discipline and law by the cadres managed by the inspected party organization to the relevant discipline inspection organs or political and legal organs for handling; for problems that are strongly reflected by the masses, obviously violate the regulations and can be solved in a timely manner, put forward suggestions to the inspected party organization.

Chapter V Working Procedures

Article 21 before carrying out inspection, the inspection team shall learn about the leading group and its members of the inspected party organization from the discipline inspection and supervision organs, political and legal organs and organizations, audit, letters and visits and other departments and units at the same level.

Article 22 After the inspection team is stationed in the inspected area (unit), it shall notify the inspected party organization of the inspection tasks, and carry out inspection and understanding work in accordance with the prescribed working methods and powers.

The inspection team can have an in-depth understanding of the important issues and clues that reflect the leadership of the inspected party organization and its members.

Article 23 After the inspection and understanding work is completed, the inspection team shall form an inspection report, truthfully report the important situations and problems learned, and put forward suggestions for handling.

With regard to the universality, tendency and other major problems existing in the building of the party's work style and clean government, a special report should be formed to analyze the causes and put forward suggestions.

Article 24 The inspection work leading group shall promptly listen to the inspection report of the inspection team, study and put forward handling opinions, and report to the party organization that dispatched the inspection team for decision.
 

Article 25 The party organization that dispatched the inspection team shall promptly listen to the report of the inspection work leading group, study and decide on the application of the inspection results.

Article 26 with the consent of the party organization sending the inspection team, the inspection team shall promptly feed back the relevant inspection situation to the leading group of the inspected party organization and its main responsible person, point out the problems, and put forward suggestions for rectification and reform in a targeted manner.

According to the requirements of the inspection work leading group, the inspection team will report the relevant information of the inspection to the party committee and government leaders at the same level and their functional departments.

Article 27 after receiving the feedback from the inspection team, the inspected party organization shall conscientiously implement the rectification and reform, and submit the rectification report and the report on the organization and implementation of the principal responsible person to the office of the inspection leading group within two months.

The main person in charge of the inspected party organization is the first person responsible for the implementation of the rectification work.

Article 28 After the party organization that dispatched the inspection team has made a decision to classify and dispose of the problems and clues found during the inspection, the transfer shall be carried out in accordance with the cadre management authority and division of responsibilities in accordance with the following channels:

(I) the clues and outstanding problems in the work style of leading cadres suspected of violating discipline are handed over to the relevant discipline inspection organs;

(II) transfer problems in the implementation of democratic centralism and the selection and appointment of cadres to the relevant organizational departments;

(III) other issues are transferred to the relevant units.

Article 29 after receiving the problems or clues of inspection and transfer, the relevant discipline inspection organs and organizational departments shall promptly study and put forward opinions such as conversation and correspondence, preliminary examination, filing a case or organizing handling, and feed back the handling situation to the office of the inspection leading group within three months.
 

Article 30 The party organization and its organizational department that dispatched the inspection team shall use the inspection results as an important basis for the assessment, evaluation, selection and appointment of cadres.

Article 31 The office of the inspection work leading group shall, in conjunction with the inspection team, adopt appropriate methods to understand and supervise the rectification and implementation of the inspected area (unit) and report to the inspection work leading group.

The inspection work leading group can directly listen to the report on the rectification of the inspected party organization.

Article 32 The situation of inspection and stationing, feedback, rectification, etc. shall be made public in an appropriate manner and subject to the supervision of party members, cadres and the people.

Chapter 6 Discipline and Responsibility

Article 33 The party organization and the inspection work leading group that dispatched the inspection team shall strengthen the leadership of the inspection work. If the leader's inspection work is ineffective and serious problems occur, the relevant responsible personnel shall be held accountable in accordance with relevant regulations.

Article 34: Discipline inspection and supervision agencies, audit agencies, political and legal agencies, organizations, letters and visits, and other relevant units shall support and cooperate with inspection work. If the violation of the regulations does not support the inspection work and causes serious consequences, the relevant responsible personnel shall be investigated for responsibility in accordance with the relevant provisions.
 

35th inspection staff should strictly abide by the inspection discipline. If the inspection staff have one of the following circumstances, they shall be given criticism, education, organization or disciplinary sanctions according to the seriousness of the circumstances; if they are suspected of committing a crime, they shall be transferred to the judicial organ for handling according to law:

(I) fail to discover the important problems that should be discovered;

(II) fail to truthfully report the inspection situation, conceal, distort or fabricate facts;

(III) divulging the secrets of patrol work;

Exceeding authority in (IV) work, resulting in adverse consequences;

(V) taking advantage of the convenience of inspection work to seek personal gains or to seek illegitimate gains for others;

(VI) other acts in violation of inspection discipline.

Article 36 The leading group of the inspected party organization and its members shall consciously accept inspection supervision and actively cooperate with the inspection team to carry out its work.

Party members have the obligation to truthfully report the situation to the inspection team.

Article 37: Where the inspected area (unit) and its staff have one of the following circumstances, depending on the severity of the circumstances, the main person in charge of the leadership team of the area (unit) or other relevant responsible personnel shall be criticized, educated, organized or Disciplinary sanctions; if a crime is suspected, it shall be transferred to the judicial organ for handling according to law:

(I) concealing information or intentionally providing false information to the inspection team;

(II) refuses or fails to provide relevant documents to the inspection team as required;

(III) instigating or forcing relevant units or personnel to interfere with or obstruct inspection work, or falsely accuse or frame others;

The (IV) refuses to correct the existing problems without justifiable reasons or does not make rectification as required;
 

(V) strike at, retaliate against, or frame up the cadres and masses who have reported the problem;

(VI) other circumstances that interfere with inspection work.

Article 38 if the cadres and masses of the inspected areas (units) find that the inspection staff have committed any of the acts listed in Article 35 of these regulations, they may report to the inspection leading group or the office of the inspection leading group, or directly to the relevant departments and organizations in accordance with the provisions.

Chapter VII Supplementary Provisions

Article 39 The party committees of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government may formulate implementation measures in accordance with these regulations and in the light of their actual conditions.
 

Article 40 The regulations on the implementation of the inspection system by the party organizations of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Chinese People's Armed Police Force shall be formulated by the Central Military Commission with reference to these regulations.

Article 41 These Regulations shall be interpreted by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in conjunction with the Central Organization Department.

Article 42 These Regulations shall come into force on August 3, 2015. The Regulations on Inspection Work of the Communist Party of China (for Trial Implementation) issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on July 2, 2009 shall be repealed simultaneously.