Communiqué of the Fourth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (Adopted at the Fourth Plenary Session of the Eighteenth Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on October 23, 2014)

The Fourth Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was held in Beijing from October 20 to 23, 2014.
attending the plenary session were 199 members of the central committee and 164 alternate members of the central committee. Members of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and responsible comrades of relevant departments attended the meeting. Some grass-roots comrades and experts and scholars among the representatives of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China also attended the meeting.
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 session listened to and discussed Xi Jinping's work report entrusted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, and reviewed and approved the "Decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on Several Major Issues Concerning the Comprehensive Promotion of the Rule of Law." Xi Jinping made an explanation to the plenary session on the decision (discussion draft).
The plenum fully affirmed the work of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee since the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee. It is agreed that since the third Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, the international situation has been complicated and the task of domestic reform and development is extremely heavy. The political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee has fully implemented the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the first, second and third Plenary sessions of the 18th CPC Central Committee, held high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and thoroughly implemented the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping Theory, unite and lead the whole party, the whole army and the people of all ethnic groups in the country, coordinate the overall domestic and international situations, firmly grasp the general tone of the work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, maintain strategic determination, comprehensively deepen reforms and promote various tasks, and focus on ideological and institutional planning. Strategic, overall, and long-term issues involving reform, development and stability, internal affairs, foreign affairs and national defense, and governance of the party, the country and the army. The Political Bureau of the Central Committee adapts to the new normal of economic development, innovates macro-control ideas and methods, actively solves economic and social development problems, strives to ensure and improve people's livelihood, basically completes the party's mass line education and practice activities, unswervingly opposes corruption, and effectively responds to various risks Challenges, new results have been achieved in all aspects of work, and the development of the party and the country has opened up a new situation.
The plenary session spoke highly of the historic achievements made in my country's socialist rule of law construction for a long time, especially since the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and studied several major issues in comprehensively advancing the rule of law. Dream, comprehensively deepen reform, improve and develop the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and improve the party's ability and level of governance, we must comprehensively promote the rule of law.
The plenary session proposed that in the face of the new situation and new tasks, our party should better coordinate the overall domestic and international situations, better maintain and use the important strategic opportunity period for my country's development, better coordinate social forces, balance social interests, regulate social relations, and regulate Social behavior has made our society both vigorous and orderly in profound changes, and achieve economic development, political clarity, cultural prosperity, social justice, and good ecology, to achieve the strategic goal of China's peaceful development, we must give better play to the leading and normative role of the rule of law.
The plenary session stressed that to comprehensively promote the rule of law, we must implement the spirit of the 18th CPC National Congress and the third Plenary session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, and thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's series of important speeches under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, the important thought of "three represents" and the scientific concept of development. Adhere to the organic unity of party leadership, we will unswervingly follow the road of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, resolutely safeguard the authority of the Constitution and law, safeguard the rights and interests of the people in accordance with the law, safeguard social fairness and justice, and safeguard national security and stability, so as to provide strong legal guarantee for the realization of the "two centenary" goals and the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
The plenum proposed that the overall goal of comprehensively promoting the rule of law is to build a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist country ruled by law. This is, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, implement the theory of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, form a complete legal norm system, an efficient rule of law implementation system, a strict rule of law supervision system, and a strong rule of law guarantee system. Perfect the party's legal system, adhere to the rule of law, rule of law, and administration according to law, we will achieve scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice and law-abiding by the whole people, and promote the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. To achieve this general goal, we must adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the status of the people as the main body, adhere to the equality before the law, adhere to the combination of the rule of law and the rule of virtue, and adhere to the reality of China.
The plenary session emphasized that the leadership of the party is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the most fundamental guarantee of the socialist rule of law. It is a basic experience of China's socialist legal construction to implement the party's leadership in the whole process and all aspects of the rule of law. China's Constitution established the leadership of the Communist Party of China. Adhering to the leadership of the party is the fundamental requirement of the socialist rule of law, the fundamental and lifeline of the party and the country, the interests and happiness of the people of all ethnic groups in the country, and the proper meaning of comprehensively promoting the rule of law. The party's leadership and the socialist rule of law are consistent. The socialist rule of law must adhere to the party's leadership, and the party's leadership must rely on the socialist rule of law. Only under the leadership of the party can the people be the masters of the country and the rule of law can be fully realized, and the rule of law in the country and social life can be promoted in an orderly manner. Governing according to law not only requires the party to govern the country in accordance with the Constitution and laws, but also requires the party to govern the party in accordance with internal party regulations.
The plenary session clarified the major tasks of comprehensively advancing the rule of law, which are: improving the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the constitution as the core, strengthening the implementation of the constitution; deepening the administration of law and accelerating the construction of a government under the rule of law; ensuring fair justice and improving judicial credibility; strengthening The concept of the rule of law among the whole people promotes the construction of a society ruled by law; strengthen and improve the party's leadership in comprehensively promoting the rule of law.
The Plenum proposed that the law is the most important weapon for governing the country, and good law is the pretext for good governance. To build a socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics, we must insist on legislation first, give full play to the leading and promoting role of legislation, and grasp the key to improving the quality of legislation. We must abide by the people-oriented and legislative concepts for the people, implement the core socialist values, and make every legislation conform to the spirit of the constitution, reflect the will of the people, and be supported by the people. It is necessary to integrate the principles of justice, fairness, and openness throughout the entire legislative process, improve the legislative system and mechanism, adhere to the simultaneous implementation of legislation, reform, abolition, and interpretation, and enhance the timeliness, systematicness, pertinence, and effectiveness of laws and regulations. To adhere to the rule of law, we must first adhere to the rule of law, and to adhere to the rule of law, we must first adhere to the rule of law. Improve the constitutional implementation and supervision system, improve the constitutional supervision system of the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee, and improve the constitutional interpretation procedure mechanism. We should improve the legislative system, strengthen the party's leadership over legislative work, improve the party's decision-making procedures on major issues in legislative work, improve the system and mechanism for people's congresses with legislative power to lead legislative work, and give local legislative power to cities divided into districts according to law. We will further promote scientific and democratic legislation, improve the system of soliciting and demonstrating legislative items, improve the ways and means for the legislature to lead and all parties in society to participate in legislation in an orderly manner, and broaden the ways for citizens to participate in legislation in an orderly manner. Strengthen legislation in key areas, accelerate the improvement of the legal system that reflects fair rights, fair opportunities, and fair rules, protect citizens' personal rights, property rights, basic political rights and other rights from infringement, and ensure that citizens' economic, cultural, and social rights are implemented. Realize the convergence of legislation and reform decision-making, so that major reforms are based on law, and legislation actively adapts to the needs of reform and economic and social development.
The plenum proposed that the vitality of the law lies in its implementation, and the authority of the law also lies in its implementation. Governments at all levels must persist in carrying out their work under the leadership of the party and on the track of the rule of law, and speed up the construction of a government ruled by law with scientific functions, statutory powers and responsibilities, strict law enforcement, openness and fairness, honesty and efficiency, and law-abiding integrity. Fully perform government functions in accordance with the law, promote the legalization of institutions, functions, powers, procedures, and responsibilities, and implement a government power list system. We will improve the decision-making mechanism in accordance with the law, identify public participation, expert argumentation, risk assessment, legality review, and collective discussion decisions as legal procedures for major administrative decisions, and establish a mechanism for reviewing the legality of major decisions within administrative organs. we will establish a lifelong accountability system for major decisions and a reverse accountability mechanism for major decisions. We will deepen the reform of the administrative law enforcement system and improve the mechanism for linking administrative law enforcement and criminal justice. We will adhere to strict, fair and civilized law enforcement, punish all kinds of illegal acts in accordance with the law, strengthen law enforcement in key areas related to the vital interests of the masses, establish and improve the benchmark system of administrative discretion, and fully implement the responsibility system for administrative law enforcement. Strengthen the restriction and supervision of administrative power and improve the accountability mechanism for error correction. We will comprehensively promote the openness of government affairs, adhere to the principle of openness as the norm and non-openness as the exception, and promote the openness of decision-making, implementation, management, service and results.
The plenum proposed that justice is the lifeline of the rule of law. Judicial justice plays an important leading role in social justice, and judicial injustice has a fatal destructive effect on social justice. We must improve the judicial management system and the operation mechanism of judicial power, standardize judicial behavior, strengthen supervision of judicial activities, and strive to make the people feel fair and just in every judicial case. We will improve the system for ensuring the independent and fair exercise of judicial and procuratorial powers in accordance with the law, establish a system for recording, reporting and accountability of leading cadres to interfere in judicial activities and intervene in the handling of specific cases, and establish and improve the protection mechanism for judicial personnel to perform their legal duties. We will optimize the allocation of judicial functions and powers, promote the pilot reform of the system that separates judicial power from executive power, set up circuit courts in the Supreme people's Court, explore the establishment of people's courts and people's procuratorates across administrative divisions, and explore the establishment of a system for procuratorial organs to initiate public interest litigation. Promote strict justice, adhere to the facts as the basis and the law as the criterion, promote the reform of the trial-centered litigation system, and implement a life-long responsibility system for the quality of case handling and an accountability system for the responsibility of misjudged cases. Ensure the people's participation in justice, ensure the people's participation in judicial activities such as judicial mediation, judicial hearings, and litigation-related letters and visits, improve the people's jury system, and build an open, dynamic, transparent, and convenient sunny judicial mechanism. Strengthening judicial protection of human rights. We should strengthen the supervision of judicial activities, improve the legal system for procuratorial organs to exercise the power of supervision, strengthen the legal supervision of criminal, civil and administrative litigation, improve the system of people's supervisors, and never allow extrajudicial kindness, relationship cases, human relations cases and money cases.
The Plenum proposed that the authority of the law comes from the people's inner support and sincere belief. The rights and interests of the people must be guaranteed by law, and the authority of the law must be safeguarded by the people. We must carry forward the socialist spirit of the rule of law, build a socialist culture of the rule of law, enhance the enthusiasm and initiative of the whole society to enforce the rule of law, and form a social atmosphere in which it is glorious to abide by the law and shameful to break the law. so that all people will become loyal advocates, conscious abides and firm defenders of the socialist rule of law. We will promote the whole society to establish a sense of the rule of law, carry out in-depth publicity and education on the rule of law, and incorporate it into the national education system and the creation of spiritual civilization. Promote multi-level and multi-field governance in accordance with the law, adhere to systematic governance, governance in accordance with the law, comprehensive governance, and source governance, deepen the governance of grassroots organizations, departments, and industries in accordance with the law, support the self-restraint and self-management of various social entities, and give full play to citizen conventions, township regulations, and regulations. Social norms such as industry regulations and group regulations play an active role in social governance. Build a complete legal service system, promote the construction of a public legal service system covering urban and rural residents, improve the legal aid system, and improve the judicial assistance system. We will improve the mechanism for safeguarding rights and resolving disputes in accordance with the law, establish and improve the early warning mechanism for social contradictions, the mechanism for expressing interests, the mechanism for consultation and communication, and the mechanism for relief and assistance, and smooth the legal channels for the coordination of the interests of the masses and the protection of rights and interests. Improve the three-dimensional social security prevention and control system to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.
The plenary session proposed that to comprehensively promote the rule of law, we must vigorously improve the ideological and political quality, professional work ability, and professional ethics of the rule of law work team, and strive to build a socialist rule of law work team that is loyal to the party, the country, the people, and the law. Build a high-quality legal professional team, put ideological and political construction in the first place, strengthen the construction of the legislative team, administrative law enforcement team, and judicial team, and unblock the legislative, law enforcement, judicial department cadres and talents with each other and with other departments Qualified cadres and talents exchange channels, promote the regularization, specialization, and professionalization of the legal professional team, and improve the legal professional access system, establish a system for recruiting legislators, judges, and prosecutors from qualified lawyers and legal experts, improve the standardized and convenient mechanism for recruiting talents from political and legal graduates, and improve the professional security system. We should strengthen the construction of legal service team, enhance the consciousness and firmness of lawyers to take the road of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, and build a team of lawyers with complementary advantages and reasonable structure, such as social lawyers, public lawyers and corporate lawyers. We should innovate the training mechanism of legal talents, form a perfect theoretical system, discipline system and curriculum system of socialist law with Chinese characteristics, promote the theory of socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics into teaching materials and into the classroom, and cultivate legal talents and reserve forces who are familiar with and adhere to the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics.
The plenum stressed that the party's leadership is the most fundamental guarantee for comprehensively promoting the rule of law and accelerating the construction of a socialist country ruled by law. We must strengthen and improve the party's leadership over the rule of law and implement the party's leadership in the whole process of comprehensively promoting the rule of law. To persist in being in power according to law, leading cadres at all levels should take the lead in abiding by the law, take the lead in handling affairs in accordance with the law, and must not exercise power in violation of the law, let alone substitute words for the law, oppress the law with power, or bend the law for personal gain. We will improve the system and working mechanism of the party's leadership in governing the country according to law, improve the working mechanism and procedures to ensure that the party determines the principles and policies of governing the country according to law, and strengthen unified leadership, unified deployment, overall coordination and improvement of the party committee's decision-making mechanism according to law. The party organizations of people's congresses, governments, CPPCC, judicial organs, and procuratorial organs at all levels should lead and supervise their units in exemplary compliance with the Constitution and laws, and resolutely investigate and deal with violations of law enforcement and illegal use of power. Strengthen the construction of internal party laws and regulations, improve the internal party laws and regulations formulation system and mechanism, form a complete internal party laws and regulations system, use internal party laws and regulations to implement the party's management of the party and strict governance of the party, and promote party members and cadres to take the lead in complying with national laws and regulations. We should improve the thinking of party members and cadres on the rule of law and their ability to handle affairs in accordance with the law, regard the effectiveness of the construction of the rule of law as an important part of measuring the actual performance of leading bodies and leading cadres at all levels, and incorporate it into the index system of political performance evaluation, and regard whether they can abide by the law and act in accordance with the law as an important part of the inspection of cadres. We should promote the legalization of grass-roots governance, give full play to the role of grass-roots party organizations as a fighting fortress in comprehensively promoting the rule of law, and establish a working mechanism of the rule of law with the center of gravity shifting and the strength sinking. We will further promote the rule of law and strict management of the army, closely centering on the party's goal of strengthening the army under the new situation, build a sound military rule of law system with Chinese characteristics, and improve the level of the rule of law in national defense and army building. We will safeguard the practice of "one country, two systems" and promote the reunification of the motherland in accordance with the law, maintain the long-term prosperity and stability of Hong Kong and Macao, promote the peaceful reunification of the motherland, and protect the rights and interests of compatriots in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan in accordance with the law. Strengthen foreign-related legal work, use legal means to safeguard my country's sovereignty, security, and development interests, and safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens and legal persons overseas and foreign citizens and legal persons in my country.
The plenary session analyzed the current situation and tasks, and emphasized that all comrades in the party must unify their thoughts and actions with the central government's major decisions and deployments on comprehensively deepening reforms and comprehensively advancing the rule of law. The strategic determination to promote reform and development must also be keenly grasp the changes in the domestic and foreign environment, and continue to do a good job in maintaining sustained and healthy economic development with the spirit of nailing nails, we will continue to do a good job in improving and protecting people's livelihood, especially helping people in need, continue to do a good job in rectifying work style, continue to do a good job in administering the party strictly, and continue to do a good job in maintaining social harmony and stability, so as to lay a good foundation for the start of next year.
In accordance with the provisions of the Party Constitution, the plenary session decided to replace Ma Jiantang, Wang Zuoan and Mao Wanchun, alternate members of the Central Committee, as members of the Central Committee.
The plenum examined and adopted the report of the CPC Central Commission for discipline Inspection on serious violations of discipline by Li Dongsheng, Jiang Jiemin, Wang Yongchun, Li Chuncheng, and Wan Qingliang, and the report of the Commission for discipline Inspection of the CPC Central military Commission on serious violations of discipline by Yang Jinshan, confirming that Li Dongsheng, Jiang Jiemin, Yang Jinshan, Wang Yongchun, Li Chuncheng, and Wan Qingliang were expelled from the party.
The plenary session called on the comrades of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to closely unite around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the general secretary, hold high the great banner of socialism with Chinese characteristics, actively participate in the great practice of comprehensively promoting the rule of law, forge ahead, and work hard to build China under the rule of law!

Source: People's Daily-People's Daily