Persist in fighting corruption and punishing evil with the momentum of thunder and fight a protracted battle of self-revolution

Corruption is the biggest cancer that endangers the party's vitality and combat effectiveness, and anti-corruption is the most thorough self-revolution. General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed: "we must persist in fighting corruption and punishing evil with the momentum of thunder, and do a good job in the battle of self-revolution and protracted war". At the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping focused on unswervingly and comprehensively administering the party strictly, and pointed out that "the party's self-revolution is always on the road, and there must be no relaxation, fatigue and war-weariness". At the Second Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping further emphasized "carry forward the spirit of thorough self-revolution and always blow the charge". Centering on "persisting in fighting corruption and punishing evil with the momentum of thunder, and fighting a tough and protracted war of self-revolution," the China discipline Inspection and Supervision Daily and the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for discipline Inspection interviewed Zhang Runzhi, dean of the School of Marxism of Beijing normal University.
Reporter: How to understand the theoretical logic and practical logic behind the requirement of "persisting in fighting corruption and punishing evil with the momentum of thunder?
Zhang Runzhi: From the perspective of the nature of the party, the Communist Party of China is an advanced party armed with Marxist-Leninist scientific theories and serving the people wholeheartedly as its fundamental purpose. It is incompatible with corruption. General Secretary Xi Jinping has repeatedly stressed that "corruption is the biggest threat to our party" and "what is the purpose of our strong anti-corruption and zero tolerance for corruption? It is to win the hearts and minds of the party and the people". The Communist Party of China is fighting and guarding the hearts of the people. The masses of the people hate all kinds of negative corruption and privilege most. These phenomena are the most lethal to the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the masses of the people and must be solved with the greatest efforts. This is an inevitable requirement for maintaining the flesh-and-blood ties between the party and the masses of the people. It is also an inevitable requirement for consolidating the party's ruling foundation and ruling position.
In practice, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has launched an unprecedented anti-corruption struggle. With the mission of "offending thousands of people and not -1.4 billion", the anti-corruption struggle has achieved overwhelming results. Victory and comprehensive consolidation have stopped some unhealthy trends that have not been stopped for many years, and solved many chronic diseases that have not been resolved for a long time, the loose and soft situation of party management has been fundamentally reversed, and the party has become stronger in the revolutionary forging, coruscating new strong vitality, and providing a strong political guarantee for the development of the party and the country.
Reporter: How to understand the profound connotation of "the party's self-revolution is always on the road, and there must be no mood of relaxation, fatigue and war weariness?
Zhang Runzhi: The courage to self-revolution is a distinctive sign that distinguishes the Communist Party of China from other political parties. Focusing on the major proposition of the party's self-revolution, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out: "Self-revolution is to supplement calcium and strengthen bones, detoxify and sterilize, break the wrist of a strong man, and remove the muscle from corruption, continuously remove the virus that erodes the party's healthy body, and continuously improve its own immunity. Prevent people from dying." The purpose of carrying out the self-revolution to the end is to comprehensively enhance the party's ability of self-purification, self-improvement, self-innovation, and self-improvement, to ensure that the party does not deteriorate, change color, and remain unchanged, and to continuously consolidate the party's long-term ruling position. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has used a high sense of mission of "I will have no self and live up to the people" to play a set of self-revolutionary "combined punches", and comprehensively and strictly governing the party has become a new era. The great practice of the party's self-revolution has opened up a new realm of self-revolution for a century.
The report of the Twenty National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that "China's development has entered a period of strategic opportunities and risks and challenges, as well as an increase in uncertainties and unpredictable factors, and that various 'black swan' and 'gray rhinoceron' incidents may occur at any time. We must enhance our awareness of hardship, adhere to bottom-line thinking, be prepared for danger in times of peace and danger, and be prepared to withstand the major tests of high winds and even stormy waves". As the leading force of Chinese-style modernization, how to face the "question of China", "question of the world", "question of the people" and "question of the times", how to effectively prevent and control corruption, oppose the idea of privilege and the phenomenon of privilege, and then jump out of the historical cycle, How to build a big party that can lead the people to deal with more complex situations has become an unavoidable topic on the road to the new era and new journey.
General Secretary Xi Jinping put forward the major proposition that "we must always be sober and firm in solving the unique problems of the big party", repeatedly emphasizing "two long-term existence", "two forever on the road", "two great revolutions", etc., and warned the whole party, "There must be no relaxation, fatigue and war-weariness. We must persevere in advancing the comprehensive and strict governance of the party and in-depth advancement of the new great project of party building in the new era, leading the social revolution with the party's self-revolution" fully demonstrates that the Communist Party of China always maintains a sober mind of those who travel a hundred miles, and is full of a strong sense of anxiety and strategic consciousness.
Reporter: In the new era and new journey, we must persist in fighting corruption and punishing evil with the momentum of thunder, and fight the tough battle and protracted war of self-revolution. What aspects should we continue to make efforts?
Zhang Runzhi: fundamentally speaking, it is inseparable from the strong leadership of the party to persist in fighting corruption and punishing evil with the momentum of thunder, and to fight a tough and protracted war of self-revolution. History and practice have fully proved that the leadership of the party is the fundamental and lifeline of the party and the country, and the fundamental guarantee for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. We must adhere to the party's overall leadership, lead the great social revolution with the party's self-revolution, and win the advantage, the initiative, and the future in the new era and new journey.
General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out, "How many ruling parties in the world dare to fight corruption on such a large scale, with great efforts and with perseverance as our Party? Some people tout the Western multi-party system of taking turns in power and 'three powers', and do not believe that our Party can knife inward and gouge out its own rotten flesh. The practice of the Chinese Communist Party's courage in self-revolution has given them a resounding and powerful answer." The Communist Party of China has always been determined to never give up until it reaches its goal, and has continuously pushed the party's self-revolution in depth.
At present, to persist in fighting corruption and punishing evil with the momentum of thunder, and to fight the battle of self-revolution and protracted war, we must deepen the treatment of both symptoms and root causes, systematic governance, and effectively link up the three forces at the same time, in the same direction, and in a comprehensive manner, so that severe punishment, standardization of power, education and guidance are closely integrated, coordinated and linked, and more institutional results and greater governance efficiency are continuously achieved.
We must adhere to zero tolerance and continue to strengthen deterrence and improve the ability of self-revolution. We will resolutely punish those who do not stop and act recklessly, focus on key areas and key links, resolutely investigate and deal with corruption intertwined with political and economic problems, form a high-pressure situation of punishing corruption, constantly reduce the breeding space for corruption, and eradicate the breeding ground for corruption.
It is necessary to rely on laws and regulations to build a "cage" of a dense system and maintain the spirit of self-revolution. The legal system is fundamental, overall, stable, and long-term. To eradicate the soil for the breeding and spread of unhealthy styles and corruption, it is fundamentally dependent on the legal system. It is necessary to use the party constitution, party rules and party discipline as the yardstick, deepen source governance, strengthen the reform of supervision mechanisms and system construction in key areas, and improve the system and mechanism for preventing and controlling the spread of corruption.
We should rely on party spirit education to achieve ideological tempering and give full play to the advantages of self-revolution. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee has insisted on using strict education to control the majority. All previous centralized education within the party has started with ideological education, focusing on solving the problems of insufficient learning, inconsistent thinking, and inability to keep up with actions. It is necessary to guide the broad masses of party members and cadres to correct their ideological roots, consolidate their roots, build a solid foundation of faith, replenish the calcium of spirit, stabilize the rudder of thought, and enhance their ideological, political, and action consciousness of abiding by rules and discipline, resisting corruption and preventing degeneration.

(China Discipline Inspection and Supervision News reporter Wei Guofeng Wang Qi)