Communiqué of the Third Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

The Third Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from February 26 to 28, 2018. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee, made an important speech. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ju Peng

The Third Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from February 26 to 28, 2018. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee presided over the meeting. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yao Dawei

xinhua news agency, beijing, February 28th

Communiqué of the Third Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

(Adoption at the Third Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on February 28, 2018)

The Third Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from February 26 to 28, 2018. attending the plenary session were 202 members of the central committee and 171 alternate members of the central committee. deputy secretaries of the central commission for discipline inspection and responsible comrades of relevant departments attended the meeting as nonvoting delegates. The plenary session was presided over by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee, made an important speech.

The plenary heard and discussed the work report of Xi Jinping entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee. The plenary session deliberated and approved the proposed list of candidates for leaders of state institutions to be recommend to the first session of the 13th National People's Congress and the proposed list of candidates for leaders of the CPPCC National Committee to be recommend to the first session of the 13th CPPCC National Committee on the basis of extensive solicitation of opinions inside and outside the party and repeated deliberation and consultation, It was decided to recommend the two proposed lists to the presidium of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress and the first session of the CPPCC National Committee. The plenum examined and adopted the decision of the CPC Central Committee on deepening the Reform of Party and State institutions and the Plan for deepening the Reform of Party and State institutions, and agreed to submit part of the Plan for deepening the Reform of Party and State institutions to the first session of the 13th National people's Congress for deliberation in accordance with legal procedures.

The plenum fully affirmed the work of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee since the First Plenary Session of the 19th CPC Central Committee. It is agreed that in the face of the complex and changeable international situation and the arduous and arduous task of domestic reform, development and stability, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has fully implemented the spirit of the 19th CPC National Congress and the first and second plenary sessions of the 19th CPC Central Committee, held high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and adhered to the guidance of Marxism Leninism, Mao Zedong thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "Three Represents", Scientific Outlook on Development and Xi Jinping, don't forget the original intention, keep the mission in mind, comprehensively strengthen the party's leadership over all work, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, be brave in innovation, work hard, coordinate the promotion of the "five in one" overall layout, and coordinate the promotion of the "four comprehensive" strategic layout, Unite and lead the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, strengthen confidence, unite, seize the day and work, and work hard, efforts should be made to comprehensively govern the country according to law, promote the construction of a socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, spare no effort to prevent and resolve major risks, accurately get rid of poverty, and prevent and control pollution. Efforts should be made to comprehensively and strictly govern the party, effectively change the work style, and comprehensively promote socialist economic construction, political construction, cultural construction, social construction, ecological civilization construction and Party building, we will take new steps on the new journey of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and starting a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and promote new achievements in various undertakings of the party and the state.

The plenary session held that the first session of the 13th National People's Congress and the first session of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference are of great significance to mobilize the whole Party and the people of all ethnic groups to strive for a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and winning the great victory of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.

The plenary session pointed out that deepening the reform of the party and state institutions is a profound change to promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The functional system of the party and state institutions is an important part of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics and an important guarantee for our party to govern the country. After the founding of New China, under the leadership of our party, our country established the basic socialist system and gradually established a functional system of party and state institutions with our country's characteristics. In the process of socialist construction and reform and opening up, our party has actively promoted the reform of party and state institutions, and the functions of various institutions have been continuously optimized and gradually standardized. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at its core has focused on the overall goal of improving and developing the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, advancing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, comprehensively deepening reforms, strengthening party leadership, and adhering to problem orientation., Highlight key areas, deepen the reform of party and state institutions, and make significant progress in some important areas and key links, it has provided a strong guarantee for the historic achievements and changes in the cause of the party and the state.

The plenary session stressed that in the face of the new requirements put forward by the new tasks in the new era, the institutional setup and functional allocation of the party and the state are not fully adapted to the requirements of promoting the overall layout of the "five in one" and the strategic layout of the "four comprehensive" in a coordinated manner, and are not fully adapted to the requirements of realizing the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The whole party must unify its thinking, strengthen its confidence, seize the opportunity, and in the process of comprehensively deepening reform, be determined to solve the obstacles and shortcomings in the functional system of the party and state institutions, accelerate the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and give better play to the superiority of China's socialist system.

The plenary session emphasized that the guiding ideology for deepening the reform of the party and state institutions is to fully implement the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Party, adhere to Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thinking of the "Three Represents", the scientific development concept, and Xi Jinping's new era. Guided by the thought of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, adhere to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, and adhere to the correct reform direction, adhere to the people as the center, adhere to the comprehensive rule of law, take the strengthening of the party's overall leadership as the command, take the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities as the guide, and focus on promoting the optimization and efficiency of the functions of the party and state institutions, reform institutional settings, and optimize functions Configuration, deepen the transfer of functions, methods, and styles, and improve efficiency and effectiveness, to provide a strong institutional guarantee for the decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, starting a new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way, and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. To deepen the reform of the party and state institutions, we must implement the principles of adhering to the party's overall leadership, adhering to the people as the center, adhering to the principle of optimization, coordination and efficiency, and comprehensively governing the country according to law.

The plenary session proposed that the goal of deepening the reform of the party and state institutions is to build a complete, scientific, standardized, and efficient functional system of the party and state institutions, form a party leadership system that oversees the overall situation and coordinates all parties, and a government with clear responsibilities and administration according to law. Governance system, world-class armed forces system with Chinese characteristics, and a group work system that has extensive contacts and serves the masses, we will promote the people's Congress, the government, the CPPCC, supervisory organs, judicial organs, procuratorial organs, people's organizations, enterprises and institutions, and social organizations to coordinate their actions and enhance their joint efforts under the unified leadership of the party, so as to comprehensively improve the national governance capacity and level. We should not only focus on achieving the first centenary goal, focus on highlighting contradictions, focus on key points, make up for weaknesses, strengths and weaknesses, and prevent risks, so as to provide guarantee for the decisive victory and building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way from the functions of the party and state institutions; we should also focus on the realization of the second centenary goal, pay attention to solving long-term institutional and institutional problems, and lay the foundation, pillar and structure, To create favorable conditions for the formation of a more perfect socialist system with Chinese characteristics.

The plenary session proposed that the primary task of deepening the reform of the party and state institutions is to improve the system of upholding the party's overall leadership, strengthen the party's leadership in all fields and all aspects of work, ensure that the party's leadership is fully covered, and ensure that the party's leadership is stronger. It is necessary to establish and improve the party's leadership system and mechanism for major work, strengthen the leading position of party organizations in organizations at the same level, give better play to the role of the party's functional departments, set up party and government institutions as a whole, and promote the reform of the party's discipline inspection system and the state supervision system.

The plenum proposed that transforming government functions and optimizing the establishment and allocation of government institutions is an important task for deepening the reform of party and state institutions. We must resolutely eliminate the shortcomings of the system and mechanism that restrict the market to play a decisive role in the allocation of resources and better play the role of the government, focus on promoting high-quality development, build a modern economic system, adjust and optimize the functions of government agencies, rationally allocate the functions of macro management departments, and further promote Simplify administration and delegate power, improve the market supervision and law enforcement system, reform the natural resources and ecological environment management system, improve the public service management system, strengthen supervision during and improve administrative efficiency, improve government efficiency in an all-round way and build a service-oriented government to the satisfaction of the people.

The plenary session proposed that coordinating the reform of the party, government, military and mass organizations is an inevitable requirement for strengthening the party's centralized and unified leadership and realizing the optimization, coordination and efficiency of institutional functions. It is necessary to coordinate the establishment of relevant institutions and allocate similar functions, rationalize and optimize the responsibilities of party departments, state agencies, group organizations, and public institutions, improve the layout of party and government institutions, deepen the reform of the people's congress, the CPPCC and judicial institutions, and deepen the reform of group organizations, Promote the reform of social organizations, accelerate the reform of public institutions, deepen cross-military reforms, strengthen the party's leadership, improve government execution, and stimulate the vitality of mass organizations and social organizations, enhance the combat effectiveness of the people's army and enable various institutions to organically link up and coordinate with each other.

The plenary session proposed that in order to govern a big country like ours, we should straighten out the relationship between the responsibilities of the central and local governments and give better play to the enthusiasm of the central and local governments. It is necessary to coordinate and optimize the establishment of local institutions and the allocation of functions, build a work system that runs smoothly, is full of vitality, and orders and prohibitions from the central to the local level. The central government strengthens the management of macro affairs, and the local government manages the affairs of the region under the premise of ensuring the prohibition of the Party Central Committee, and gives the provincial level and Below institutions have more autonomy, rationally set up and configure institutions and their functions at all levels, enhance local governance capabilities, build a simple and efficient grass-roots management system.

The Plenum proposed that the legalization of institutional establishment is an important guarantee for deepening the reform of the Party and State institutions. It is necessary to improve the laws and regulations of the party and state institutions, manage various organizations in accordance with the law, accelerate the legalization of institutions, functions, powers, procedures, and responsibilities, fully implement the system of government departments' rights and responsibilities, standardize and restrict the performance of duties, and let power in the sun Run, strengthen rigid constraints on the management of institutional establishment, and increase the investigation and punishment of violations of discipline and law in institutional establishment.

The plenary session emphasized that deepening the reform of the party and state institutions is a systematic project. Party committees and governments at all levels must unify their thoughts and actions into the Party Central Committee's decision-making and deployment on deepening the reform of the party and state institutions, strengthen the "four consciousnesses" and strengthen the "Four Confidence", resolutely maintain the authority and centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, grasp the relationship between reform, development and stability, and implementation, guarantee reforms in accordance with laws and regulations, enhance the systematicness, integrity, and coordination of reforms, and strengthen the cooperation of various institutional reforms of the party, government, and military groups, so that various reforms can promote and complement each other, and form an overall effect.

The plenary session called on the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups to closely unite around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, unify thinking, unify actions, and be determined to reform, ensure the completion of various tasks of deepening the reform of the party and state institutions, and continue to build a complete system, Scientific, standardized, and efficient functional system of party and state institutions, strive for a decisive victory in building a well-off society in an all-round way, accelerating socialist modernization, and realizing the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! (Responsible Editor: Wang Gaolin)

March 1, 2018 Source: People's Network